Can the Amazon Kindle eBook Compare to the Endurance of the Printed Word?
The Amazon Kindle is great and all, but for many lovers of the printed word there is something still lacking. The History. We can download the newest books to our Kindles and forget about them. We...
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How Amazon Can Handle Their Kindle Spam Problem
As the Kindle Store is bombarded with countless titles of little or no value to potential purchasers, Amazon has to be wondering what can be done to keep this situation from casting a bad light on the...
View ArticleCan The Kindle Be The Future Of Newspapers?
While a great deal of effort has been put into supporting a supposed opposition between eReaders like the Kindle and traditional paper publications, there are some places where paper just wasn’t really...
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Nook Kids Out of Luck On iPad
In recent news, Apple has decided to start thoroughly enforcing their in-app purchasing rules after a bit of a delay. While this is inconvenient for Kindle users, Nook users, and pretty much everybody...
View ArticleKindle Fire App Recommendations: Utility Apps
Last time I did a round of recommendations for the Kindle Fire was really a focus on games. This makes sense to me given how much fun I’m having with my own. That said, there is a fair amount that we...
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Franzen Dislikes Kindle, Gives Voice To Misconceptions About eBooks
Jonathan Franzen, author of such wildly popular titles as The Corrections and Freedom has recently made a bit of an impact on the eReading community by coming out against electronic media. Apparently...
View ArticleThe Amazon Kindle, eBooks, and Piracy
While it is hardly the only place that media piracy is coming up these days, eBook piracy is very much on the minds of publishers and booksellers. There has been some informed speculation made that...
View ArticleWhy Amazon & The Kindle Deserve To Be Dominating Bookselling
This is going to be a bit controversial, I’m sure, given how Amazon has gone about using their influence to beat down smaller publishers and other suppliers recently, but when it comes right down to it...
View ArticleThoughts on Amazon, the Kindle Platform, and the Anti-Amazon Publisher Defense
The ongoing conversation regarding the DOJ suit against five of the Big 6 publishers and Apple has at times been even more interesting than the case itself in what it says about the publishing industry...
View ArticleHow the Kindle is Contributing to a New Way of Looking at the World
It is occasionally amazing exactly how far we’ve come over the years. It’s an inane observation but not, I think, an inaccurate one. This came to me recently while reading Halting State by Charles...
View ArticleHow Publishers Can Kill the Kindle by Trusting Customers
There is no avoiding the fact that the Big 6 publishers created their own problem in the Kindle. Amazon provided them with an easy way to start making a move into digital publishing when it was just...
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Thoughts on the Future of the Kindle eReader
In most of the ways that matter we can safely say that the eBook war is over. Owning a Kindle is no longer strange or a sign that one is obsessed with gadgets. Where does all this lead, though? In...
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Kindle Fire vs Windows 8 Tablets: Another Pointless Comparison
There is essentially no competition to be found between the Kindle Fire and any imaginable Windows 8 Tablet at this time. I’ve touched on this a bit here already immediately following the announcement...
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Nexus 7 vs Kindle Fire: Should Amazon Really Be Concerned?
Hardware specs aren’t everything when it comes to tablet performance. If they were, the Kindle Fire never would have gotten off the ground. Still, the Nexus 7 from Google is far enough ahead in that...
View ArticleCould a Kindle Phone Really Redefine the Smartphone Market?
Interest in a potential Kindle Phone has been rising ever since Bloomberg reported that Amazon was in the middle of testing said phone. The logic behind the move is arguably sound for Amazon, which...
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