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Category Archives: amazon
No April Fools’ joke apparently: The REAL Cheryl Kaye Tardiff warned against Amazon zapping book reviews
I’ve just gotten a Tweet from Canadian suspense writer Cheryl Kaye Tardiff. She thanks me for my TeleRead post about Amazon’s war against authors—the evil souls donating free reviews of other writers’ books in return for a little publicity.
Via Twitter, the note came from a cherylktardif account listed with 709 followers. So I’m [...] Continue reading
Kindling interest in the American short story
Could the Kindle and similar e-readers revive interest in the American short story? That’s the question raised in a New York Times item, by A.O. Scott.
"The new, post-print literary media are certainly amenable to brevity, a genuine advantage for reading off a screen," Scott writes. "The blog post and the tweet may be ephemeral [...] Continue reading
True or April Fools’ joke? Amazon said to be deleting book reviews that authors write with promo in mind
I’ve just established an outpost on Amazon for promoting The Solomon Scandals.
The standard advice from book-marketing gurus, furthermore, is to review other writers’ titles on Amazon and along the way mention your own book in your signature line. I might do that.
But wait! Has Amazon started deleting reviews with such .sig lines, as [...] Continue reading
Boicot a los ebooks caros
Un grupo de propietarios de Kindle comienza un boicot contra los ebooks de más de 9,99 dólares.
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Why Print-Disabled People Should THANK the Authors Guild, Not Picket It
Editor’s Note: The following post from The Center for Accessible Publishing has been reprinted in full with the author’s permission. Paul
When Amazon revealed that the Kindle 2 included text-to-speech, it created a ripple of interest in the disability community. I remember thinking, it’s cool that they added that, not a bad first step. My next [...] Continue reading
Easier ePub and PDF conversion for Kindle owners: Open source program runs natively on K machine
"Savory is an open source epub and PDF converter that actually runs natively on the Kindle. While it doesn’t add anything that you couldn’t do from a desktop, it streamlines the process, allowing you copy epubs and PDFs to your Kindle over USB or download them from the Web, and immediately read them offline." [...] Continue reading
All Kindled up, Rupert Murdoch might invest in K-rival—ideally with a color screen
Back in 2007 Theresa Horner—then the senior director of eBooks at HarperCollins, Rupert Murdoch’s book publisher—put in a good word for e-readers as displaying newspapers as well as books and other items. I’d said the same thing, too. In fact, Jon Noring and I had tried to interest the Washington Post in developing OpenReader.
But [...] Continue reading
E-walkin’: More tips from Laura Dawson
Kindle owner Laura Dawson, just back from ePub camp, offers more tips on e-walking—which I myself will be doing in a few minutes to keep up with the Kaiser.
Look up when your gut tells you to—it will. Read lightly, so you are aware of your surroundings. Don’t read in the rain. Don’t flinch if [...] Continue reading
More connected e-book readers on the way
This is very exciting news. However, it isn’t so simple to put into place the infrastructure that will allow the reader to locate books to download. This is what Sony is working on, according to the press conference I attended last year. From Yahoo Tech:
Tony Lewis, who heads an initiative within Verizon [...] Continue reading
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Cory Doctorow: Authors Guild worrying about wrong thing
In a new column he has penned for the Guardian, Cory Doctorow suggests that the Authors Guild has “lost the plot” in their fight against the Kindle’s text-to-speech function.
After laying out why that function is not an infringement, or even if it is Amazon is the wrong one to complain about, Doctorow explains that [...] Continue reading