tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52804914800840205112024-09-12T18:53:25.457-07:00Kindle News updated dailyCalvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-62636019435970827442011-02-23T12:32:00.000-08:002011-02-23T12:32:00.186-08:00 Kindle reading users love. But let's face it — nothing compares to the feeling of a book in your hands.<br /><P>Sure, Amazon's Kindle makes it possible to read more books, cleans a large amount of shelf space, fits comfortably in the baggage of anyone and could actually be cheaper. But each reading feels the same. The only difference is that the words you read and your reaction to them. You start losing this feeling sometimes rough of a hardcover book, along with the project smooth, almost slippery a brochure. Each book seems to have a smell of her own, something unique. And getting your hands dirty with paint finely written words was half the journey.</P><br /><P>The Kindle erases the part of your reading experience. He feels the same, smells it, and still looks the same. Instead of turning pages, which is of different sizes, colors and thicknesses from book to book, is pressing the same button repeatedly. Somehow, reading a classic on your Kindle really devalues your adventure. But the eBook reader is convenient, virtually weightless and serves up immediate consumption of literature.</P><br /><P>Where is the commitment?</P><br /><P>Well, you can have the best of both worlds — sort of ...</P><br /><P>ebonical was crafted in the case of Kindle perfect — a hardcover book. Kindle cases can be expensive, so do a cover of Kindle homemade is the perfect weekend. And chances are that you already have the perfect book for your Kindle collects dust on your <A href="http://a1d96sohp5vimo5ppdi-wfoc7x.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AUTOBLOG">bookshelf</A>. If not, you'll have to buy the local bookstores.</P><br /><P>"Decided to carve the pages of a book printed and thus complete the poetic circle of readers of the book digital destroying the printed word.</P><br /><P>"Get the right book turned out to be harder than I thought than most hardcover books are designed to be a specific size and variance is light. Very small and the edges would be fragile. Very big and it just become an annoyance and ruin the point of having the small digital reader first. With some time cleaning thrift stores and stalls of second-hand book, with any luck I managed to find what seemed to be the book right. "</P><br /><P>So, then how do you actually make the cover of the book Kindle?</P>Step 1 gather the glue PVA hardcover bookHobby materials of your perfect size (polyvinyl acetate) or white gluePaintbrushScalpel of Elmer, box cutter or other sharp utility knifeRulerPencilMore books (to use as weights) step 2 prepare your Kindle case<br /><P>Getting your book ready for the Kindle is an easy process, despite a long.</P><br /><P>Start choosing where you want your hole to start. After having chosen your seat, you use the brush to spread the glue to the edges of the pages where the hole will cut. Use your extra books for weighing during the drying process.</P><br /><P>When dry, open the book back up to your chosen starting point. Use the ruler and pencil to mark his hole the size of the Kindle. Once marked, use your knife to start cutting the contour. It's probably best to use your ruler as a straight edge to help guide the blade for cutting straight, better. This is the longest step, because you have a lot to cut. The time will vary depending on how deep is your book. I wouldn't recommend war and peace.</P><br /><P>Once you have reached the rear cover, the rest is easy. Only clean the edges of their cuts as best you can and uses his brush again to spread some glue along the edges clipped.</P>Tip When choosing your first page cut, it's nice to actually save it for later. Don't cut it with the rest of them. When you have your hole completely cut open and applied the glue, apply another thin line at the top edge of its actual first page cut (essentially, the second page).  Then close the workbook and add weights to the top and let dry. Save the first page helps reduce the chance of unwanted pages you accidentally collage to cut, causing you to have to cut the pages that you don't want to hack to open the hole. Save your first page makes premeditated.<br /><P>After fully dry, open it and cutting end page (first page) to open the hole up. Then you will need to let it dry again, with the open book. Once dry, that's it. You're done!</P><br /><P>For a more detailed article with step-by-step instructions and more photos, check out the article "how to make a hollow Book" in WonderHowTo. To learn more about how ebonical made her, check out their website, which also includes a video showing its Kindle book cover in action.</P><br /><P>Through how to do a Cover of Kindle Book Hardcover outside excavated at WonderHowTo.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG5bixOGDhrzsh35_i-CiCxi2XDHA&url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-make-a-kindle-cover-from-a-hollowed-out-hardback-book-2011-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-78998460188741130142011-02-22T23:38:00.000-08:002011-02-22T23:38:00.447-08:00<P>After issuing beforehand a fantastic and complimentary analysis of M-Edge New Yorker covers, we came recently in possession of one of the most beautiful and fancy skins e-reader on the market. They received acclaim from those who own one of your products and I'm about to do pretty much the same thing. Oberon Design, genuine leather manufacturer e-reader copper, was kind enough to send one of your Kindle 2 covers for reviewing and boy was it worth it.</P><br /><P>Oberon Design is a small firm specializing in brand ritziest copper for e-readers, iPads, and cell phones. They also manufacture belts and Buckles, moleskin skins and even money clips. Yes, money clips. If there is anything that you need a high-class cover for, Oberon is the company who will have what you want available. Don't beat around the bush either. Half your site is not made of shields or screen savers. is only composed of tampa after tampa after cover, each more beautiful than the last.</P><br /><P>We received a cover for Kindle 2 representing the sky of Van Gogh. The picture that most of us would recognize is carved in leather apparently very caring. The company, as previously mentioned, is too small for exactly it wouldn't be surprising if a huge amount of care was put into a sterile as opposed to drawings from Amazon. Are bench crafted and include a screensaver wool coat inside cover. There is proof that Oberon just aren't doing it to sell you as many goods as possible; they could easily sell two apart and make a killing, but everything comes in a package.</P><br /><P>This skin also seems to be more solid than most of the competition due to built in screen protector as well as the material that the coverage is made of. The leather is hard enough to protect the Kindle but still flexible enough to allow for easy manoeuvring of the device and the ability to keep the jacket opened on their own. The only thing I worry about when it comes to design is that, unlike M-Edge where the Kindle actually fits in, Oberon jacket just holds on with the help of elastic bungee cords.</P><br /><P>There is also a button corresponding abroad that keeps the lid closed when not in use by having a bungee cord wrap around it. Your hand conversion of pewter and classes up the lid to a huge degree. While the design is what immediately draws attention, if the hand conversion button that will make you realize how much care and effort was shed this cover of e-reader. A similar charm key design is also included, displaying the atmosphere even more care. Supposedly gives you good luck.</P><br /><P>Oberon also has a lot of time to map out any problems that may have your Kindle with your chosen cover specific. They include an insert describing which buttons the bungee cord may overlap with certain models of Kindle. For example, while the Kindle 2 has buttons not covered, this jacket was designed specifically for your use, the Kindle may have one or two obscured. Previously have realized this and made sure that you know about it goes. Smart move from Oberon.</P><br /><P>The only downside is that the very exorbitant price of $ 72 compared to about half that for M-Edge products that don't look as good or catch the eye as well but has a similar capability to protect your device. However, as a screen saver is included in the <A href="http://2663awoux61hjo79pnsvvxl380.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=HOTLINKEARNBUSINESS">business</A> and you're getting an item that has had a lot of care and attention put into it more than makes up for the price. The price a little high it is certainly worthwhile.</P><br /><P>Oberon e-reader copper presents a style that doesn't have like no other. Lifted from art and famous images, your Kindle can go looking for a white or black Brando sterile artistic in seconds. These covers are beautiful and it's hard to imagine that there are better models in the market.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGCMdqqaqdvjoYXUCFF_gumsF2ThQ&url=http://www.pnosker.com/reviews/gadget-reviews/889-oberson-design-kindle-2-cover-review" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-49758113972037259622011-02-22T07:50:00.000-08:002011-02-22T07:50:00.549-08:00 <p><img class="right" height="197" alt="" src="/original.jpg" width="300">Amazon upcoming Android app store is taking a page from your Kindle <a href="http://2663awoux61hjo79pnsvvxl380.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=HOTLINKEARNBUSINESS">business</a> and won't require users to actually have an Android device to buy apps for one.</p><p>Engadget is reporting that argues that the impending release of the Amazon app store will include the feature, letting users ' purchases in the cloud for download later. The idea, much like the Android Market, Google is that users will not be limited to a single device for your purchases.</p><p>Amazon's customers also have the ability to buy apps in anticipation of getting an Android device, supplementary prior your application so that when they bring their device, they can quickly sync everything they want everything at once. Is part of the great Amazon marketing boost that will include announcements for developers participating whole Amazon.com, according to all things m.</p><p>There is already a lot of cross-promotion at Amazon. When viewing an item, for example, the site includes a section to mention what other customers have purchased, finally, after viewing the item on which the user is currently looking for. With the proliferation of applications in the Amazon, is more than likely what apps will start appearing in these points, particularly when customers look for Android-related products such as pills.</p><p>Developers also can send their applications to the entire site, in the lists of bestselling and in search results, said Amazon. It not much of a leap to assume that Amazon will also work best and apps on purchases that applications for the different products will show recommendations, when displaying physical items. For example, imagine checking out a book of recipes from Food Network on Amazon and have the site recommend on food network's kitchen: recipes, Chefs Android app on the same page with a link to download immediately.</p><p>What kind of cross-promotion-capturing customers in multiple markets, offering them other things that might be interested in--will be powerful force if Amazon carries it properly. With the ability to zero in customer buying habits and suggest apps to complement already items customers are buying, Amazon could have a big advantage while driving customers to your new store.</p><p>Google, on the other hand, could be a serious disadvantage. Amazon has a large customer base, with some skillful implementation, it could turn into app store customers almost immediately, even if they do not already have a compatible device.</p><p>But Google has an edge of its own. Amazon store not out yet (it is still in "short"), but we know that developers will give up some freedom to produce, with Amazon still require that prices of apps will be. That's not exactly an inviting environment and gives a chance to compensate for the big draw that all leads will bring for application developers of Google.</p><p>May not be something that Google can address until after Amazon's store is live, but while Amazon offering can bring a piece of the revenue, Google Android market will be in a position to respond to what developers do not like about the Amazon model. The restrictions are required to have an effect on morale and create an environment that at least some developers aren't fond of--if Google is waiting for your concerns, could help make the Android market a place even more desirable to sell apps.</p><p>That may not be enough to battle with retail powerhouse Amazon represents, but is a step that will help the Android market remain the place that developers and users go to first when they want the freedom to get exactly what they want, without a third dictating (how many) rules.</p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGTOzWXDp89l-omDYaV-dXXKHfPdA&url=http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/6813-amazon-app-store-won-t-require-a-device" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-58371841473748526692011-02-21T16:30:00.001-08:002011-02-21T16:30:49.422-08:00 <p>As mentioned in a previous post, Cowboys player personnel director Eric DeCosta was in "Norris & Davis" this morning to discuss the NFL draft. He was also asked about Sergio Kindle and Terrence Cody--top two projects team picks up in April-and quarterback Joe Flacco.</p><p>DeCosta has made some interesting comments about Flacco in his interview with 105.7 The Fan Ed Norris and Steve Davis. But I was curious to see what he had to say about the Kindle and Cody, two players drafted GM Ozzie Newsome DeCosta were labeled as busts before the season even started last summer.</p><p>Kindle is a player who many are wondering about why he doesn't play at all last season after he fell down a flight of stairs the week before training camp. Then in December, he was charged with a DUI, a prison that put your career in jeopardy, but Ravens are giving you another chance to prove it.</p><p>DeCosta said he isn't sure if Cardinals will get anything from Kindle after the choice of second-rounder suffered a severe head injury during his July accident, but he thinks the linebacker is talented and "very hungry".</p><p>"Obviously, we had high expectations for it and we are very disappointed as things transpired," said DeCosta. "I'll tell you this: he has made progress. I had the chance to see him really work out in our facilities and it is getting better. And don't know what that means for the future. I am not a doctor and can't speak for our coaches and doctors, but know that Sergio is very hungry. He is obviously a very talented kid with a lot of ability to play the game of football. And if we somehow can take you out there that help our team much ".</p><p>When discussing how to spend time talent evaluators in the Scouting combine staring at perspectives in their underwear, subject of course changed to Cody, that doesn't look exactly like Adonis with his shirt off.</p><p>"Play [nose tackle] position, you have to be built a certain way," said DeCosta, referencing former Titans defensive quarterbacks Tony Siragusa and Sam Adams. "Gravity takes its toll, let's say. It helps to play down to the ground. Gravity type of collector you down and things are starting to sag and droop slightly.</p><p>Yes, just a bit.</p><p>DeCosta went on saying that Cody is a player that Bills are "very high".</p><p>"He ended the season very strong for us and made some large parts, especially in the game heads and we are very excited to see what he can do next year," he said.</p><p>Later, DeCosta was asked about Flacco, which was supported by John Harbaugh on "Norris & Davis" last week.</p><p>"I think he's probably one of the top 10 quarterbacks in League," said DeCosta. "I think it needs improving? Sure. But I do. Then get our coaches and our Scouts and people selling suites. Everybody does. He can play? Sure. We would like it to play better? Sure. But looking back on it, he is one of the best quarterbacks in the League. He is one of the elite guys? Probably not. It is Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? No.</p><p>"I saw Matt Cassel play against the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs. He was a Pro Bowl quarterback. And who would you rather have: Joe Flacco or Matt Cassel? Cassel is making $ 60 million this year. "</p><p>I don't know about you, but I'm talking Flacco, even if money is equal.</p><p>DeCosta said that while Flacco is "going to get better and better and better," the Ravens surround him with more talent, if they want to win another Lombardi Trophy.</p><p>"Not all our picks have criticized project, by right," said DeCosta. "And we need better players and when we have the best players around Joe Flacco, I think you'll see a quarterback better and you will see a time better and you will see a team that is able to go and beat Pittsburgh when we need to beat Pittsburgh and challenge for the Super Bowl.</p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGMeODNGkakoXTPbQpxZRdlI6t8-A&url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baltimore-sports-blog/bal-sportsblitz-decosta-discusses-ravens0221,0,3612381.story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-90720769580777100702011-02-04T17:58:00.000-08:002011-02-04T17:58:00.276-08:00 <p><img class="alignleft" height="378" alt="Kindle" src="/big-viewer-3G-01-lrgV188696038.jpg" width="270">How many times have you read free e-books on your Kindle? Always? Most of the time? Sometimes? Rarely? Does the fact that the book is free, make reading more enjoyable? Yes? Not? Maybe?</p><p>As I'm looking for different sources of grace libraries of e-books, I conclude that each single source for e-books free does have some drawbacks. In addition to Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks.net (the majority of its books from Gutenberg), all libraries of free e-book are highly marketed. It really depends on how a site owner decides to go – whether infest a catalogue book pages with ads. create membership fees highly damaging choices of free membership; or even insert ad pages in "free" e-books.</p><p>Of course, is understandable. There's absolutely no profit for owners of those sites you invest your time in the production of high quality e-books free of charge. Thus, the theme of free e-books is just a way for many lead users to the site. And the ads are their real products. I see so many fake free e-book sites without real content – it is starting to get on my nerves. It seems that all domain names with "free e-books" are taken for these exact purposes. To find a site with ads, but containing real e-books, I go through ten fake.</p><p>I mean, really, huge Kudos to Gutenberg to do what they are doing. And if you're feeling generous, I invite you to make a donation to Project Gutenberg to keep them alive. Is tax-deductible.</p><p>Another problem with the free e-books is that, of course, they are poorly edited. Even Amazon content undergoes quality freebies: how some people noticed that most books Amazon Kindle free editing errors (such as missing passages). In addition, my beloved Gutenberg e-books are not all perfectly formatted.</p><p>You realize when a book is edited evil? He bothers you?</p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHoC4O3HjkIbid4flmUhmvZv2jjIg&url=http://blogkindle.com/2011/01/some-thoughts-on-free-e-books/comment-page-1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-64839983737790891242011-02-03T23:49:00.000-08:002011-02-03T23:49:00.499-08:00<P>Amazon released the Kindle Singles off pieces of non-fiction and journalism that are usually much shorter than a novel, but more than a magazine article. The Singles can be read in any of the many platforms Kindle, Kindle through smart-phones to desktop client of Amazon's Kindle, and they are priced accordingly, from $ 1 to $ 5.</P><br /><P>Long-form journalism has seen a startling revival in recent years, with services like Instapaper and read it later allows you to push more articles for mobile devices – how the iPad – to read later. Difunden typical thinking that web users want their information into pieces small easy, sites like Longform.org – which curates more in-depth stories – are blooming.</P><br /><P>Kindle singles will normally run for between 5 000 and 30 000 words, no man's land between a magazine article and a short book. In the past, there was no easy way to sell work that length. Magazine isn't just big enough and book-buyers want to receive your money in terms of page count. Electronic publishing has no such limits. In fact, the format looks perfect for tablets and phones. What is more natural than firing up your iPad during lunch and spend an hour reading about a 150 million bank heist (raised by writer Wired and New Yorker Evan Ratliff)?</P><br /><P>Raised is also the product of The Atavist, a small new publisher dedicated to long-form journalism. Writers do not receive the same kind of money that would receive major magazines, but they get something potentially better – a reduction in profits. Thus, a journalist can make a living by covering – in depth – the stories that interest you. Atavist titles are now available as Singles Kindle and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone via dedicated apps in the near future. This model, healed by quality but with pick-n-mix of sales, can be the real future of magazines, rather than electronic magazines like Wired apps or New Yorker, who come to pills with all print size restrictions.</P><br /><P>It seems ironic that the web, along with mobile phones and other portable computers, saved the same thing that we think he would kill. And short stories may just be the next.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGeywpHe-kallq93yU-Lxpgs6j2Dw&url=http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/amazon-launches-kindle-singles-saves-long-form-journalism/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-14209197237500357542011-02-03T06:12:00.000-08:002011-02-03T06:12:00.288-08:00 <p>"I'm talking about the crime or romance readers. They tend to read a lot of books and the cost is a deciding factor: you can get these books cheaper as e-books. If you love crime and read plenty more that you can't keep it all, you probably give away a lot of books for the charity. Is different if you buy hardcover fiction: you don't throw that away, "he says.</p><p>So we'll recall 2011 as real life books, put them on the shelf year become obsolete? It's certainly a turning point and maybe an even more dramatic than expected. Pack says curiously e-book sales are up to three times within a few months ago.</p><p>"Last month, the Kindle became the Christmas gift. Eighteen months ago, an e-book strong sale was selling in the TENs. Now the same e-book will sell thousands of copies, "he says. "The really interesting thing is the fact that people are getting these devices on Christmas day. For bricks and mortar stores in the week before Christmas is usually the most important. For e-books is the week after Christmas becomes crucial. "</p><p>Offline, however, these are testing times for the publishing industry, especially on the street. Last year it was reported that independent booksellers were closing down at a rate of two per week. Waterstone confirmed that 20 of their stores will close in the next 12 months as part of cost-cutting. And it is only a year since the borders and books Etc, with 45 UK shops, entered into administration and then shut down. Digital could very well be the salvation of publishers. Or at least had better be.</p><p>The bookseller reported this month that digital will become more dominant in 2011, with participation of e-books market quadrupling of five to seven per cent. However, there is a big problem with these estimates. There are no actual sales figures for these devices. After all, why Amazon, Sony or Apple would leave the competition to know how they're doing? Similarly, there is no precise figures for sales of books downloaded.</p><p>Philip Stone, graphics editor, the bookseller, explains: "the only information we have about e-book sales estimates is the Publisher. They put the size of the e-book market last year in the United Kingdom in about one to two percent of the entire book trade – or around the brand of 25 million pounds ".</p><p>While insiders can guess only the numbers involved, the bookseller has compiled its own list of eBestseller estimated on the basis of positions given by Waterstone, WHSmith, Amazon and Apple. (All of them produce chart lists of e-books, but not reveal sales figures).</p><p>One of the most interesting things that these graphs show that is at the same time as many Kindle owners first tendidos to be people in trade books and your downloads on the choices that now all quite literary bestsellers dominate the list.</p><p>It is a sign of the breadth that Stieg Larsson turned device occupies almost all positions on the chart and movements of one day by David Nicholls up and down. Other large sellers as e-books include life by Keith Richards, what you see is what you get: my autobiography by Alan Sugar, confessions of a GP by Benjamin Daniels, The Snowman by Jo Nesbo and sister by Rosamund Lupton. So far the room by Emma Donoghue is the only shortlister Booker Prize to crop from the list of eBestseller, although curiously Scott Pack says he heard about "a lot of people choose Wolf Hall".</p><p>So if you got an inflammation on Christmas day, the book that was your first download? Realized a straw poll totally unscientific in Twitter that question. Plots were free books: pride and prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, Gulliver's travels. First pay for downloads included even the dogs by Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury, £ 3.80 on Kindle), salto Jilly Cooper (Transworld Digital, £ 6.11 in Kindle) and I think I love you by Allison Pearson (CCV Digital £ 4.38 in Kindle). Many bought the help by Kathryn Stockett (ePenguin), best-selling year-to-mouth and a book group favorite.</p><p>Of course, many of the largest users of these digital devices are still likely to be "early adopters"-people who like to be seen for the first time with the new must-have. This group includes the publication industry insiders, and authors yourself and there are endless "cool spotting" sites dedicated to find celebrities in love with your e-reader. (Cameron Diaz, Karl Lagerfeld, Toni Morrison and Jennifer Aniston Kindle. Steve Martin and Justin Bieber iPad are in the field. Oprah Winfrey has both, of course).</p><p>The British novelist Polly Samson cheerfully admits to purchasing your own book perfect lives (Hachette Digital, £ 8.49) as its first Kindle download. "I bought my daughter eight years a Kindle for Christmas and couldn't resist seeing how mine looked into e-book format. Is there any published writer whose first download is not your own?</p><p>Comedian Dave Spikey, of Channel 4 TV Book Club, the presenter is a newly converted to Sony e-Reader. "When the music went first, everybody said it wouldn't take off. Now everyone is comfortable with it. The same happens with books. What I like most is that you can choose the font. My eyes go a bit now so that really helps. "</p><p>About to embark on a UK tour, he transferred a digital library for book their trips, including TV Book Club pick spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst and an old favorite, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.</p><p>Not everyone shares enthusiasm of Spikey, though. Your colleague Amanda Ross TV producer, a voracious reader, digital still a skeptic. Dubbed "the most influential person in the publication", Ross was the mastermind behind the Richard and Judy Book Club. Is telling his disapproval.</p><p>"I'm passionate about the idea of physical books. There is no feeling like cracking open a new draft. You cannot read a Kindle in the bath. Curling with a glass of wine in front of the fire with an electrical device is not conducive to relaxation. I spend my workday staring at a screen. Why do I want to spend my leisure time looking for one? Is a strange concept: a single download to you personally, and that's it. You cannot share them or pass them. And what about the joy of a library of books to grow?</p><p>These are still very early days of the digital revolution. And what's interesting is that despite its popularity alleged is still non-standard turn of phrase to refer to the gadgets. Sometimes e-reader is used as a catch-all, but even that is problematic because it is a Sony brand name. "E-book reader", "digital reading device" or even "digital player" can become the common language, but at the moment, none of them exactly travel outside of the language.</p><p>Until we have to face what call these devices, paperbacks and hardbacks still has a future. We should enjoy them as we can. I'm not sure that my Sondheim would be as gorgeous if not could flip through the pages.</p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHQwpcaNdDcyUWHwjqsDgkOtHwdOQ&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8286090/The-Kindle-Christmas.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-6375487100369544252011-02-02T20:04:00.000-08:002011-02-02T20:04:00.370-08:00<P>Welcome to another good e-reader video! In this video we can compare vs notion ink Adam the Apple iPad and the Amazon Kindle! We can compare mostly facets of electronic reading and show what Pixel QI and e-Ink looks like, in terms of reading.</P><br /><P>In this video we can compare first vs Adam Amazon Kindle, so you can get a sense of the size and scope of the notion ink Adam. We also show you that reading is how both Pixel QI mode and normal mode LCD. We also show page turn speeds and give you some information about the underlying factors between e-ink and LCD devices.</P><br /><P>After the Kindle we put the Apple iPad and Adam head-to-head using the Kobo electronic reading software. See which device turns pages faster and some other tests we run.</P><br /><P>We are also offering a bonus video in notion ink Adam tips and tricks! We emphasize a variety of applications and things new users may want to know. This video has early adapters in mind so there are some things that you can fix with your Adam before an official firmware update throws.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE3IhvmRgxiy9Y8nonUwMmcByfakA&url=http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/notion-ink-adam-vs-the-apple-ipad-and-amazon-kindle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-5894046201387120072011-02-02T02:19:00.000-08:002011-02-02T02:19:00.356-08:00<P>BookSwim, bills itself as a "Netflix for books", announced that it plans to launch eBookFling.com tomorrow, a site where users Exchange e-books. Press release from BookSwim makes obvious that managers of company wants to anticipate service not be warmly received by Amazon, Barnes & Noble and book publishers or are trying to gin up the release with a little controversy.</P><br /><P>"The initial reaction may be a negative", the company said in its statement. "Publishers and authors will claim that the lending feature is being abused and cause unusual sales." The company breathlessly acknowledged that the service can force authors to worry about "doing just half of sales on new books too!" (The exclamation mark is theirs).</P><br /><P>The service comes two weeks after a start-up called Kindle Lending Club has launched a service of digital-book sharing similar.</P><br /><P>In the era of file sharing, it is difficult to see how services like these would be seen as a serious threat or for that matter, attracting much of an audience. For those who don't want to pay, there is no legal means to acquire them (library) and the illegal means (peer to peer). Meanwhile, gadget manufacturers are trying to streamline the arduous process of digitizing books and if they succeed, they will undoubtedly accelerate the digital-book sharing via P2P networks.</P><br /><P>Still, Amazon launched the Kindle loans on December 30th, may want to risk any. My colleague Stephen Shankland wrote earlier this month "" is not Napster, but the Kindle probably has facilitated Lending Club loan over 1000 books between strangers. Under scale, it has the potential to automate the free book global loan when Amazon would rather see an actual sales. "</P><br /><P>A representative of Amazon wasn't immediately available for comment.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGO9k-szAq5X2dGGPpX4W-PvA9vfg&url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20029447-261.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-40552793674871131612011-02-01T13:18:00.000-08:002011-02-01T13:18:00.358-08:00Amazon.com<br /><P>Largest online retailer in the world missed revenue target uncharacteristically Wall Street in the fourth quarter.</P><br /><P>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos noted that the company has reached two important milestones in the quarter: breaking $ 10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and sell more eBooks from Amazon Kindle device paperbacks.</P><br /><P>Net income reached r $ 416 million, or 91 cents per share. In the same period last year, Amazon won $ 384 million, or 85 cents per share.</P><br /><P>Revenue jumped 36 percent to $ 12. 95 billion, but analysts expect $ 13.02 billion.</P>Time Warner Cable Inc.<br /><P>The second largest operator of cable television has increased its quarterly dividend U.S. 20 percent and earned a profit that beat analysts ' estimates, adding customers and sell more expensive products. Fourth quarter net income rose to $ 392 million, or $ 1.09 per share of $ 322 million, or 91 cents, a year before, the New York company said in a statement Thursday.</P>Microsoft Corp.<br /><P>The largest software maker said analysts ' estimates of second-quarter profit topped as enterprise customers bought more Office programs and the server and consumers bought Xbox Kinect motion sensors. Net income was $ 6.63 billion, or 77 cents a share, compared to Microsoft 6.66 billion, or 74 cents, a year earlier, said in a statement. Sales increased by 4.9% to $ 20 billion.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGmQCbXyMu_uOZUnmXtlgHUB6FbwQ&url=http://www.startribune.com/business/114767004.html?elr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUoD3aPc:_2yc:a_ncyD_MDCiU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-2385237454986357612011-02-01T00:24:00.000-08:002011-02-01T00:24:00.222-08:00<P>While many libraries throughout the region are reducing hours and closing branches because of budget cuts, a local library system is to try something new — lending Amazon kindles and giving patrons access to up to 80 digital books at a time.</P><br /><P>Rowan Public Library, which has branches in China Grove, Salisbury, and Rockwell, bought six lights in November with the idea of allowing library patrons to see them as books.</P><br /><P>The Kindles have been so popular, that the library ordered six more. The waiting list continued to grow and now the library ordered another Kindles 12 to meet demand.<BR>The electronic reading device can contain more than 1500 books in his memory. Libraries across the country have tried to borrow devices. In 2007, the Sparta public library in New Jersey purchased two Kindles loaned to patrons, according to www.libraryjournal.com.</P><br /><P>In December, the University libraries of the State of N.C. added 12 new third generation lights and now has 50 eBook readers for loan through technology loan library of D.H. Hill.</P><br /><P>Locally, Cabarrus County Public Library to offer electronic readers for loan, according to county officials. Charlotte Mecklenburg library offers downloadable media to electronic devices and readers, the library system website.</P><br /><P>"Part of our mission is to bring new materials that extend the public's mind, and the Kindle is one of those technologies that some people have heard about but haven't yet tried. The public library is the perfect opportunity to test it, said Suzanne white library, Manager of public services. "The way we look at it is that is another way that the library can provide information to people," said White.</P><br /><P>Amazon created the Kindle in 2007 as a way for people to read e-books. It weighs a little over 10 grams and is as thin as a magazine. Takes about a minute for a book to be delivered to the device wirelessly, and publicity of the company says that he "reads like real paper."</P><br /><P>"Reads amazingly like a book, but is lighter than most and contains many books in one place," White said.</P><br /><P>Public library of Rowan spent about $ 3.576 for 24 Kindles, which cost around $ 149 each, said White. White said used library Gift money to buy the Kindles.</P><br /><P>Bestsellers are cheaper in digital format than in printed copies, said White. The library has been able to buy digital copies for about $ 9.99 each. A new copy Eldest would cost $ 25 to $ 30, said White. In addition, a book purchased can be loaded up to six Kindles, she said.</P><br /><P>"We put a lot of free books on it, too," said White.</P><br /><P>Public library of Rowan Kindles has over 80 books loaded now, including the latest fiction and non fiction bestsellers, including Stieg Larsson's latest thriller, "the girl who kicked the Hornet's nest," and the memoir of Tony Blair, "a journey".</P><br /><P>The devices are more expensive than a hardcover book or a DVD, so that the library is to require that patrons have a current library card in good standing and show the license ID or the status of a valid driver's license when you are checking out.</P><br /><P>They also carry a heftier late fee of $ 2 per day compared to 10 cents per day to end books, said White.</P><br /><P>Patrons are responsible for the full price of the Kindle if it is damaged and accusations of theft may be prosecuted if they are not returned.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFmxu0kLCtig3F7doTHyb39ubrO8w&url=http://www2.independenttribune.com/news/2011/jan/30/rowan-libraries-see-increased-excitement-over-kind-ar-739151/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-86484825079311488072011-01-31T08:36:00.000-08:002011-01-31T08:36:00.907-08:00 <p>New Attorney General Alan Wilson can't get fixed your clock. He hasn't used the Kindle eReader that he got for Christmas. He stopped regular jogs.</p><p>"I just don't have time," says Wilson, 37, sworn in on January 12th, for a term of four years.</p><p>Your life never stops now. He shares some functions of child care for two preschool children with his wife, Jennifer, Manager of public affairs at the Lexington Medical Center, get home in time to read children books like "Goodnight Gorilla."</p><p>He is also an important in the National Guard who spends one weekend per month and two weeks each year on duty.</p><p>In his new position at $ 92.007 per year as top legal advisor of South Carolina, Wilson is still getting your mind all the work, reading law cases and whitepapers, chatting with members of the House and Senate and trying to figure out how to best run their offices in lean budget times.</p><p>Your Office gets about $ 3.7 million per year on State funds — about $ 4 million less than a few years ago. This money, along with several million multiple rates and federal subsidies, have to pay for a team of 169 people, including lawyers 69 and associated expenses. Total budget of the Institute is approximately 7.6 million.</p><p>In an interview last week, Wilson shared some plans:</p><p>He will continue initiatives begun by predecessor Henry McMaster to spotlight and prosecute criminal domestic violence, sexual offenders and Internet Predator cases of cruelty to animals.</p><p>With other States, he will fight in the courts against the national health plan of President Obama, attacking him for constitutional reasons.</p><p>Also with several other States, it is ready to fight a court battle on the effort of the Board of the national labour relations to prevent to approve a constitutional amendment approved in November which guarantees the right to secret ballot elections unions of South Carolina.</p><p>Although a conservative Republican inspired, Wilson is clear about the tone he wants to define — someone who reaches out to people in different parts of a controversy, which is open to all interest groups, and that won't hold grudges.</p><p>"This is a Republican State, but you can't do things without Democrats in the House and Senate," he said. "And there are so many questions that this Office deals with non-partisan".</p><p>Sometimes it can compromise, sometimes he can't, but "someone who is with me 70% of the time is not my enemy of 30 per cent."</p><strong readability="3"><p>FEDERAL BUDGET ISSUES, PROBLEMS</p></strong><p>As politicians of South Carolina made for centuries, Wilson makes it clear he goes toe to toe with federal officials, says are usurping the authority.</p><p>For example, after Lafe Solomon, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel, threatened to sue the South Carolina earlier this month issue of secret Union, Wilson said that he was ready to fight not only legally as Solomon politically.</p><p>This is explained as, Wilson. After President Obama named Solomon, a lawyer career NLRB, be official research and higher public prosecutor's Office of the Agency, Wilson contacted the Office of u.s. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-s. c., to talk about grasping the nomination of Solomon. (Senate rules allow only Senators sometimes put "safe" for people and laws, effectively freezing any action on the subject).</p><p>"This guy confirmation must be delayed (Solomon). I won't say stopped, "said Wilson. "But we need in the registry by selecting its position ....If it is not a sufficient explanation, I'll ask our Senators to hold him. "</p><p>It is too early to learn about State budget cuts will boycott Wilson office.</p><p>But people like Vicki Bourus, Executive Director of the S.C. Coalition against domestic violence and Sexual abuse, says she expects Wilson can continue with one of the programs signature McMaster — working against violence against women. South Carolina has one of the highest rates in the country of women killed and beaten by their partners.</p><p>"McMaster was probably the leading State much better than we had in this arena," said Bourus. Not only did McMaster use your Office as a bully pulpit to talk, he got grants and used settlements in lawsuits to configure programs such as shelters for battered women and hire prosecutors specially trained to put pressure on domestic violence cases in court. We need developers trained to combat these cases, said Bourus.</p><p>Wilson said, "right now my main concern is to offer the same most services on the same level with a lot less money. ... I'll do as much possible with each of these things without cannibalizing another. "</p><p>Money woes already bedevil office.</p><p>"We don't have the cash or the ability to go out and do ... new cases of insurance fraud," Wilson said.</p><p>Wilson said that the Attorney General's Office has the potential to generate significant revenue through some investigations and lawsuits. It can seek additional funds to the General Assembly for the resources that generate a great return.</p><p>The rewards can be great. In the 1990s, the former Attorney General Charlie Condon reluctantly joined Attorneys General in other States that sued tobacco companies to recover damages for loss of health care. The State has $ 2 billion. And McMaster earned a $ 45 million in a case of drug company.</p><p>"We're thinking outside the Inbox," said Wilson. That includes looking at ways to get more money and working with other agencies and private-law undertakings operate, he said.</p><p>The primary mission of Government is the public safety — protect people of all violent crimes of fraud the fraud on the Internet, he said.</p><p>"This Office is right there in the center of the storm," said Wilson. "We should be adequately funded to that."</p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGZSSE1d1KggmKGrhY0di5LGDCgXw&url=http://www.thestate.com/2011/01/30/1670634/new-attorney-general-sets-priorities.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-3828310024875248952011-01-30T17:16:00.000-08:002011-01-30T17:17:18.431-08:00<P>Amazon may disclose how many Kindles the company sold (using just the vague term "million" in its latest earnings report), but the company has no problem throwing up sales of books for the Kindle platform users. The company noted that sold three books for each title hardcover and ebooks are even surpassing paperbacks (Amazon notes that sells 115 ebooks for every 100 paperbacks).</P><br /><P>The news is not a complete surprise. Barnes and Noble noted last month that sales of books in your platform recanto likewise had exceeded sales of physical books from your online store.</P><br /><P>There are obvious advantages to ebooks, one of which is the convenience. Another, perhaps more telling the advantage is that electronic editions tend to cost significantly less than their physical counterparts, especially when it comes to recent hardcover releases. Amazon still noted in its release of financial results saying that most 670.000 810000 of the store plus books cost less than $ 9.99.</P><br /><P>One of the reasons that Amazon may be enjoying this level of success and still be willing to reveal how many real devices sold is that many of these sales ebook cannot be linked to actual Kindle devices. As with Barnes and Noble nook, Amazon produces a range of Kindle apps that can be installed on smartphones (a Windows phone 7 application joined recently apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry), tablets (including the iPad and Android tablets), PCs and Macs. Also, Amazon has announced plan to follow the concept of ebook on Google browser that would allow read on any device connected to the Internet.</P><br /><P>To make the Kindle a platform that can run on anything (and that synchronizes local, last read ebooks, notes and highlights on multiple devices), Amazon has positioned itself to rummage in ebook sales even if it can't move Kindle hardware in large quantities. Having the largest selection of ebook in the US wouldn't hurt either. Many users of Tablet PC and smartphone, myself included, they may prefer to buy books from other vendors (especially if they are cheaper – something that Leatherbound .me can help you find out), but are willing to purchase from Amazon if that is the single source for a particular title or if there is a notable difference in price.</P><br /><P>I prefer Apple's iBooks app on my iPad, for example. Has highlighted features and notation better, have more options to organize collections of books, does not require using an external browser to browse and buy books, synchronizes titles automatically to iTunes and not depend on access to servers only from Amazon and have a feeling more book-like. That said, there are several books that I've read using the Kindle app simply because Amazon was the sole source for electronic versions.</P><br /><P>If Amazon can keep this long-term advantage is a great question. Apple's IBookstore and Barnes and Noble nook store gained some ground (Barnes and Noble also offers applications for multiple platforms) and Google recently has launched its hat into the ring. While its catalogs may not be as large as the Amazon, they are growing. They may also have a possible advantage in the use of open standards in the form of EPUB as opposed to the default owner of Amazon for ebooks. For now at least Amazon definitely seems to be holding on to some of its advantages.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHryLWbyhS9trfIzwALJct9yhkiKQ&url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/218199/amazon_touts_ebook_sales_kindles_not_so_much.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-8502014507452422522011-01-08T19:20:00.000-08:002011-01-08T19:20:00.385-08:00<P>When my friend geekiest — a computer nerd from way back, a connoisseur of gadgets — announced that he had purchased an Apple iPad and an Amazon Kindle, I just assigned this its delicate condition: the guy is addicted to digital devices — he loves, he gathers the latest and greatest and he won't leave home without them.</P><br /><P>But, as it turns out, my friend is far from being alone. TechCrunch, an online source for technology news, reports that a recent study of 1000 owners iPad found 40 percent of them also have a Kindle. Another 23 percent said they planned to buy an inflammation in the next year. This demonstrates a couple of things: lots of Americans still has lots of disposable income, and lots of Americans have delicate condition of my friend. But, more importantly, he suggests that the iPad flashy has killed the Kindle modest, functional.</P><br /><P>In fact, Kindle, Amazon's third generation seems to be the company's best-selling product of all time, with estimated sales around 8 million in 2010.</P><br /><P>Obviously the iPad and Kindle are very different. The latter is a simple e-reader that you can buy now for $ 139. The iPad is a coloured tablet, with all kinds of applications, which is sold for $ 499. Because books and periodicals can easily be downloaded to the iPad, some techies believed that would capture market Kindle reader.</P><br /><P>Hasn't happened yet. My friend geek "my wife doesn't take the iPad beachfront to read," says, "she takes the Kindle".</P><br /><P>The claims of lean and lightweight Kindle 3 are impressive: he supposedly can store 3500 books (that's why Amazon came in this <A href="http://2663awoux61hjo79pnsvvxl380.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=HOTLINKEARNBUSINESS">business</A>) and offers affordable subscriptions to 153 daily newspapers (including this one) and 74 magazines. Your battery life can be until a month on a single charge.</P><br /><P>One thing I noticed in the last year: more people speak of owning a Kindle in question, as if they were saying that possessed a car. If sales of the Kindle third-generation were as good as markets observers say — Amazon not releases official numbers — you can 2010 could have been a year of escape for this simple, trusted e-reader: it not only survived the iPad, he prospered. And Hallelujah, people still want to read books and periodicals.</P><br /><P>To do this, some people.</P><br /><P>In some meetings during the holidays, I got into conversations with men and women who do not read newspapers or magazines anymore and they seemed to be almost proud about that. Incredibly, a man told me that he no longer reads The Baltimore Sun, because "there is no sport in it". Rather than argue or try to sell the idea to read newspapers from my employer — printed, online, or on a Kindle or iPad — only moved to the crab dip. Some of the nicest people I met during the holidays were people more desinformadas and boring, too.</P><br /><P>Don't apologize for sound elitist about this subject. And I don't care if it sounds self-serving. Of course it is self-serving. The entire nature of this column, suggesting that the wonders of Kindle accessible, is self service. Once in a while — how, once a year — I speak in favour of newspapers that many citizens who can live without the time to do wasn't on new year's Eve. who would have turned sour the crab dip. So I'm doing here. Maybe I'm just preaching to the choir, but you never know who might stumble on the website of The Sun and accidentally read this.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFkRm8ASySNfjdXcA570CZRAWeQ2g&url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-rodricks-kindle-20110105,0,507121.column" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-28668410709888321342011-01-08T01:35:00.000-08:002011-01-08T01:35:01.001-08:00 <p>Fourth grade teacher dramatically increased the amount of their children are reading. Visit a classroom of Altoona on Tuesday and learned about a device that is causing the interest of children in one of "the three" r "</p><p>Teresa Langlois says that she saw an increase of 50 per cent of the amount that several of their children are reading after she brought the Kindle, a wireless reading device for your classroom.</p><p>It was after she saw how excited his mother began when she received her Kindle, which Teresa Langlois thought about how the Kindle can be used in the classroom.</p><p>"I thought the Kindle would not be a great motivational tool for reluctant readers, or readers struggling," says Professor from fourth grade.</p><p>"Our readers struggling not like to read, because it is difficult, it is a challenge and can also be ashamed to pick up a book that is smaller or shorter than the books you are reading your classmates," title 1 teacher Amanda Miller tells us.</p><p>But with the Kindle, kids don't need to worry about being embarrassed.</p><p>"With" the Kindle that really help because they don't have to see the thickness of the book is, his colleagues would not have to see if you were reading a book really easy or a book really hard and it really evens the playing field for all our students, says Miller.</p><p>And children say reading with the Kindle is simply cooler than a normal book from the library.</p><p>10-Year-old Linnea McClintock "well, I like the Kindle because it maintains as many books as you want and is pretty cool because you can pick up any book you want," he says.</p><p>"I think it's more interesting and its funner than just reading a simple book," Wibel of Brayden of 9 year old tells us.</p><p>And Langlois expects only once the novelty of the Kindle, dress their children love reading remains.</p><p>Says that "it is difficult to say that you know, something new, we are keeping data, doing research and only time will tell," Langlois.</p><p>Classroom of Langlois has 12 Kindles, thanks in part to a grant, and she says she hopes to eventually increase the number of Kindles that all its students can use them together.</p><p>The 12 Kindles go home with a select group of kids each night to help them with your weekly reading assignments, the Kindles revolve fortnightly.</p><p>Langlois says that many of the books available for the Kindle are free, but even purchased books can be shared between 6 different Kindles, which makes them economically solid, an important aspect, she says in this tough economy.<br></p><br /><p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEC6zaOtgmzAwsOCcuccf_30dc4BA&url=http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/Kindle_helps_renew_kids_love_of_reading__112902254.html?ref%3D254" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-47952513270982286382011-01-07T12:34:00.000-08:002011-01-07T12:34:00.697-08:00The Amazon page restored to book of Thomas Hertog, now with reviews and ratings removed<br /><P>The author of an eBook that provides details about how easily bestselling rankings from Amazon can be manipulated accused the retail giant online "hypocrisy" after the title has been temporarily removed from the site throughout the new year.</P><br /><P>On the day of Kindle died, claims Thomas Hertog you can get your own book for the best-selling number one spot in its category at Amazon simply by posting fake reviews, to vote in favour and download copies of Kindle ebook.</P><br /><P>Hertog claimed that he managed to do just that with his own personal finance book 2009 dangers of wealth, push it up books by bestselling authors, including Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump, although really have sold a mere 32 copies to third parties.</P><br /><P>The author said it took "about 45 days" to purchase the book for the number one spot on personal finance. "There once was a review or vote rejected by Amazon," he wrote.</P><br /><P>Hertog concluded that rankings best-seller from Amazon are "inaccurate," "artificial" and "misleading" customers, saying that his discoveries meant "the Kindle is dead experience".</P><br /><P>Hertog published his exhibition the day the Kindle died in December, but claims that the title was taken from websites from Amazon in the new year after an article about the book appeared on tech site TechEye. Dangers of wealth was also removed Amazon listings on new year's Eve. Both books are now once again for sale on the site, but with their sales rankings and reviews now removed.</P><br /><P>Hertog said that the temporary removal of books showed behavior "hypocritical", the retailer, who recently cited their beliefs lawyers during the controversy about the guide a pedophile of Phillip R Greaves love and pleasure, eventually removed from the site of the Amazon.</P><br /><P>In a declaration during the furore retailer said: "Amazon believes that censorship is not to sell certain books simply because we or other people believe that your message is objectionable."</P><br /><P>Hertog asked: "Amazon has a double standard? They fear the truth come out? Nobody knows yet how they remain silent hoping that their actions won't be noticed. "</P><br /><P>Amazon.com refused to respond to requests for comment yesterday.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEaxH9ELIH4ciECsFsdOd4iMFMPDA&url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/amazon-ebook-manipulate-kindle-rankings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-37781229085936332902011-01-06T23:40:00.000-08:002011-01-06T23:40:00.920-08:00<P>The Kindle 3 was one of ebook readers hottest sale of the holiday season. And for reading books, there's really nothing better to scroll on a cold winter day by the fire. But many do not know that the Kindle has other useful features that can transform this Reader eBooks on a device from the Internet seriously.</P><br /><P>Under the option "experimental" in men main, the Kindle offers three pet projects, they added to the eBook reader for real world testing-Web browser, MP3 player and text to speech.</P><br /><P>The Web browser works just like your browser basics, imagine that you are trying to use it and your mouse is broken. Now you have to navigate with keystrokes rather than point and click. This is the Web browser experience. Is not too large to use every day, but if you're reading an excerpt of a book and want to share it on Facebook or shoot an email to a friend, is certainly useable.</P><br /><P>Next is mp3 playback. This is a nice feature where users can upload the Kindle with some of your favorite MP3s and then listen to them during playback. Excellent if you find yourself in a bus or train for a few hours and only want to pass the time.</P><br /><P>A useful resource for readers with disabilities or children who only want a bed time story and mother or father aren't around to read. Users can initiate the text to speech on "menu text". Press text to activate (Aa button to the right of the SPACEBAR) and SYM together to enable/disable. The Kindle will then begin reading for you.</P><br /><P>Besides these, users also can download PDF files free for your Kindle, sending them and markup with @ free.kindle.com e-mail address. Finally, users can manage their social networks. Going to the resource settings under the menu button, users can log on Twitter and Facebook and share thoughts.</P><br /><P>If you're new to Kindle experience, check out these helpful resources.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEq7pzNioFQQ6tJLkMEtDANT67Qsw&url=http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20110105/diving-kindle-3s-alternate-features/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-8650997195453251262011-01-06T07:52:00.000-08:002011-01-06T07:52:00.746-08:00<P>Shortly before Christmas, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) quietly released their app e-books to children kids dinner for Apple iPad. The new app came a little over a month after B & N unveiled its dining color e-reader, which seemed to be taking aim at the iPad and Amazon's Kindle. Book publishers for most children had high hopes for the iPad and tablets in General, since the default text-only e-readers are not the place for electronic versions of books pop-up and colored illustrations.</P><br /><P>Mostly, books were mainly the province of apps. But the price point of most applications tend to be cheaper than the e-books, many publishers are worried about the lack of a popular platform to sell their products. IPad app Kids of B & N books launches with 100 new interactive kids ' including closures for sale, Skippyjon Jones and sheep in a jeep. In General, B & N offers 230 interactive picture books, many with audio narration on your device color dinner. There are also books of Chapter 12 thousand children in dinner Color. That will be soon for kids dinner for iPad. Dinner line in General, B & n has approximately two million digital titles.</P><br /><P>With the introduction of the app Kids, B & N deepens its sales strategy e-books via apps and not only to promote their own line of dinner devices or their brick and mortar stores. Apps Recanto color system, interestingly, happen to be built on Google's Android system, which makes this app iPad additional further evidence of its ecumenical approach in digital, an area that is becoming increasingly important for the bookseller.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGECbMt51bw7YCr2u9PS5r5HLUi6Q&url=http://paidcontent.org/article/419-bn-adds-nook-kids-ipad-app-100-interactive-tities-at-launch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-29023605166589432262011-01-05T16:32:00.000-08:002011-01-05T16:33:17.693-08:00<P>Not much more to this than the headline: Amazon launched a Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft. This makes 11 major platforms-including the hardware itself-Kindle e-reader service popular from Amazon. Version helps Microsoft position the new mobile operating system as a competitor on the market of smart-phone, which in the United States is dominated by Apple and Google. Microsoft is expected to announce more news of Windows 7 telephone at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFGixsIOoaMC6fD4_SiO6FOUnGzAg&url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/234467.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-77976114693210204222010-12-30T01:09:00.000-08:002010-12-30T01:09:00.313-08:00<P><B>QUESTION: I'm interested in buying a Kindle. I heard that it has a built-in Web browser. How useful is to Web-surfing?</B></P><br /><P><B>Reply:</B> The Kindle Browser based on the same engine as Google Chrome, but lacks tabbed browsing, support Flash and colour you'll want to use it primarily for text-based site, but it can also access websites like Google Maps. You can also check Web-based emails from Yahoo and Gmail. Just keep in mind that cannot always be stable. When you use it, do it through a Wi-Fi connection. The Kindle has 3 g, but Amazon prefers that the high-speed cellular connection is used for downloads catalog only.</P><br /><P><B>Q:quero upload photos to share. I also have the option to order printed photos later. What is a good photo-sharing service online?</B></P><br /><P><B>A: </B>For sharing basis, Facebook is probably your best bet. Facebook has recently updated its photo hosting features. In addition, it integrates the popular photo sharing service Flickr. For printing and sharing, Picasa from Google is a good bet. It's easy to create sharable web albums. Google has an excellent desktop photo organizer, free. It integrates closely with the Web version of Picasa, which lets you print photos using a number of popular print services.</P><br /><P><B>Q:eu'm having family over for a meeting. I would like to configure my computer with some games for children, but I have a Mac. Are there any free games for it?</B></P><br /><P><B>A:</B> There are a number of free games available for Mac, and most are age-appropriate. You can get a beautiful game platforms side-scrolling as "Frogatto". For architecturally inclined, there are "Lego Digital Designer". "Frets on Fire" is a good substitute "Guitar Hero" for budding musicians. And finally, you can try "FlightGear," that is a Flight Simulator. It helps to have a joystick for that one. These games are available for computers running Windows. Find links at komando.com/news.</P><br /><P><B>Q: my mom wants to self publish a book about my father's military career. What would be the best way to do this?</B></P><br /><P><B>A: </B>The Internet offers many avenues for self-publishing. You'll probably want a print on demand service. These print books only when they are ordered. Three good candidates are Lulu, Blurb and CreateSpace. Each has a different method for submitting books. Do your research and choose one that fits your style of book. Also, check the prices carefully, as they change by book size and length. All three services have online shops for the sale of your book. Just Note that take a cut of every sale.</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGqFIxdJsYWEwdEBcqKGICz972Zpw&url=http://www.freep.com/article/20101228/FEATURES01/12280303/1026/Text-sites-best-for-browsing-with-Kindle" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-74373736537459863682010-12-29T09:21:00.000-08:002010-12-29T09:21:00.246-08:00<P><STRONG> LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian engaged:</STRONG> After your romance secret resulted in two <A href="http://45655tbpvax9glfqeup7iq02b4.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=HOTLINKCONFLICTDIVORCE">divorce</A>s, the tabloid pillars and former Lifetime original movie co-stars are tie the knot. No pressure! [People]</P><br /><P><STRONG>Sold products site Amazon Kindle:</STRONG> Although Amazon wouldn't release sales figures, their third generation Kindle e-reader is apparently your best-selling product single ever, even "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Talk about magic. [MSNBC]</P><br /><P><STRONG>More tops sales chart at the end of the year:</STRONG> "The Fame Monster singer" sold 5.8 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album in the land in 2010. Remember when Hootie and the Blowfish used to sell this on such a month? [MTV News]</P><br /><P><STRONG>Mario Batali Gets scary:</STRONG>The favorite Food Network has a role in "bitter Party"-a horror movie. [La Times]</P><br /><P><STRONG>Today in dog sad photos:</STRONG> This poor dog stuck his head in a hole in a wall (because, woof)-and got stuck. He was released one hour later. [Gawker]</P><br /><P>--David Greenwald</P><br /><P>Photo: LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian looking happy 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. Credit: AP Photo/Dan Steinberg</P><br /><P><A href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFgKuyvy_QgRoFVzdsVE5VDTrtBEQ&url=http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2010/12/eddie-cibrian-leann-rimes-engaged-kindle-beats-harry-potter.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>Calvin Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476721208048683180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5280491480084020511.post-49777472183942260172010-12-28T18:01:00.001-08:002010-12-28T18:01:58.254-08:00Already in 1992, virtual eras before the Kindle and iPad, Bob Stein created software that allows a reader to browse an electronic book on a laptop.<br /><P>To demonstrate the program at conferences, bedtime Stein ia on the stage as if <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&tag=xaviercnet-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M">reading</A> in bed.</P><br /><P>"Editors would see this and they'd think was beautiful, but they don't think it had something to do with them", said.</P><BR>Now that the revolution is here, Stein says editors must embrace what he sees as the inevitable result: the evolution of <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&tag=xaviercnet-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M">reading</A> a solitary exercise in a communal activity, electronically networked — something he calls social, <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&tag=xaviercnet-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M">reading</A> and writing.<br /><P>The advantages of digital technology "are so weighted toward collaboration that people will overturn existing structures and build something new," says Stein while sitting between the bookshelves jammed, but now rarely played in his house of Brooklyn.</P><br /><P>Head of Institute ambitiously nominated for the future of the book, Stein is one of a set of programmers, philosophers and other deep thinkers that debate where things are heading at conferences like books in browsers and on sites like <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&tag=xaviercnet-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M">reading</A> 2. 0.</P><br /><P>"Bob's Ambition is really changing the way people think about the book," said Brian O'Leary, founder of Magellan Media consulting company.</P><br /><P>Stein, 64, has a story attached media innovation. In the early 1980s, he worked in Los Angeles, in an effort to create a free digital home computer maker Atari. He then started, with some friends and his ex-wife, a company dubbed Voyager. The company has led the Criterion Collection, a distributor of video that pioneered the use of interactive features, initially on laserdisc, a predecessor to the DVD. Voyager also published the CD-ROM multimedia, such as one in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, using techniques that, since that have become common on the Web.</P><br /><P>Is nature Stein "to challenge the existing order," said O'Leary. "But when it comes to issues has a incredible legacy of making it work".</P><br /><P>In the world imagined by Stein, readers and authors will be in constant communication that the line between them will begin to disappear.</P><br /><P>Stein cites some initial examples, including goodreads.com, site online discussion of the book and Kindle device configuration in amazon.com Inc. that allows readers to highlight a row in a poignant book and share with friends</P><br /><P>"We leave the age of the individual", he said in a classic style of Delphi. "We're moving toward a more collaborative culture."</P><br /><P>Stein could even pass for an Oracle, with a shiny bald head, rope and glasses a framework of bird-like it curtains with wispy scarves and shirts.</P><br /><P>His Institute 6-year-old gets funding from the MacArthur Foundation and is affiliated with USC, but resembles a start-up scrappy. Stein-founded in your kitchen while he lived in Manhattan, and now has its offices in an apartment with garden behind his house in Brooklyn.</P><br /><P>The organisation pays a bunch of young scholars to meet regularly with their laptops, the ideas of hash and play with the new software.</P><br /><P>"It was really really social intellectually loaded," said one of the participants brainstorming, Ben Vershbow, who works in digital technologies to the New York Public Library. "We sometimes get there late and he would follow at dinner".</P><br /><P>An innovation Institute's Commentpress was early, which is a software that allows readers of the blog Type comments in the margin instead of at the bottom of the page. The Office also published a book on a site where readers can help shape the final product while commenting the author was still writing.</P><br /><P>Vision Stein is not a promising for publishers today. He predicts that eBooks will be victim of piracy that severely damaged the music recording industry. The value of the text of a novel or biography reach zero, he projects.</P><br /><P>The best opportunity to win money, according to Stein, come not in the sale of content, but in conversations around it, similar to how hosting that social networks Facebook hosts.</P><br /><P>Not surprisingly, many people in the publishing industry labelling Stein, who, in the 1960s and 1970s, was a radical activist in Columbia and Harvard campus, as too far in the future.</P><br /><P>"The general reaction is that it is not commercial, so therefore it can easily be fired," said O'Leary.</P><br /><P>Stein now is focusing on a plan to start an electronic publisher.</P><br /><P>And he hasn't given up the printed word. He still gets the Sunday newspaper delivered and it recognizes the value of its numerous social lasting books of physicists.</P><br /><P>"When you go to someone's House, you go to look at what is on the shelves," he said. "When you have these conversations in a date or at someone's House on a book, is as much about social glue because it is about the contents of the book. Is how you get to know someone. 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