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≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Education, e-books | ≅ 4 Comments
Last fall, Princeton launched a small experiment, replacing traditional textbooks with the Kindle DX, Amazon’s large e-book reader. Almost from the beginning, the 50 students participating in the pilot program expressed dissatisfaction with the devices. Yesterday, a university report offered some more definitive findings. On the upside, students using the Kindle DX ended up using far [...]
≡ Category: Education, e-books | ≅ 4 Comments
This morning, Macmillan announced a new kind of textbook — a remixable electronic textbook that will give professors, according the New York Times, the ability “to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations.” Essentially, Macmillan provides the core [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, Books, Web/Tech, e-books | ≅ 13 Comments
Caveat: If you missed it, yesterday’s post was 10 Reasons iPad Will Not Kill Kindle. So take everything here with appropriate grains of salt.
10.) Books with graphics. Many books contain photos, graphics and diagrams that the Kindle does not handle well, if at all. When people realize that the iPad will do this flawlessly, they’ll [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, Books, e-books | ≅ 5 Comments
Caveat: before half of you get your shorts in a bunch, tomorrow’s post will be: Top 10 Reasons Why iPad Means Kindle Is Dead. With that said, have at it!
10.) Taking reading from a simple printed page to an e-book environment such as the Kindle is a great step forward. Its ease of use, portability [...]
≡ Category: Law, e-books | ≅ 5 Comments
A quick fyi on a free eBook from the University of Chicago. (It’s an offer that seems well timed, given this weekend’s copyright debate on OC.) Here are the details from UC:
Offered as a free e-book for one day only, February 1: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. “[Adrian Johns] traces the [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, Books, e-books | ≅ 7 Comments
Today we have a guest post by William Rankin, director of educational innovation, associate professor of medieval literature, and Apple Distinguished Educator, Abilene Christian University. ACU was the first university in the world to announce a comprehensive one-to-one initiative based on iPhones and iPod touches designed to explore the impact of mobility in education. For [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Books, Business, e-books | ≅ 4 Comments
Click here to listen to this post as audio. (Right-click to download.)
As some of you already know, back on December 27th, I released a sample of my first short story collection A Long Way from Disney on Amazon’s Kindle store and used social media strategies to market it. I did this for various reasons, but [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Literature, Most Popular, e-books, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Today, we’re rolling out a sizable collection of Free eBooks, most of them classics, that features major works written by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Nietzsche and others. (We have even thrown in a little Paulo Coelho.) You’ll find 100+ free ebooks in total, and you can download the texts to your computer, smart phone (iPhone, [...]
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He’s a technology columnist for The New York Times, and the author of many popular technology manuals. And today, David Pogue writes about an experiment he conducted last year, testing the hypothesis that free e-books can drive sales of print copies (rather than eat into them). How did it work out? He writes:
My publisher, O’Reilly, [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Books, Literature, e-books | ≅ 7 Comments
Those who read this blog regularly may remember my past posts (here, here and here) about the Amazon Kindle and recall that I have mixed feelings about it. You’ll also know that I’ve been interested in what authors such as J.A. Konrath have accomplished by releasing books on the Kindle itself. (Heck, some of you even [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature, e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
This holiday season, I’m happy to have teamed up with eleven fabulous authors in offering a holiday sampler just for book lovers! Here you’ll find excerpts of a dozen new novels and nonfiction books by these New York Times bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, and talented storytellers. The excerpts can all be found in this nice PDF. [...]
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Looking to take back some of the e-book market from Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble has released its new reader, the Nook. This week, Walt Mossberg, the influential tech reviewer, gave his thoughts on the new gadget. Needless to say, it’s not a good PR day when he says that it feels like a product [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books | ≅ 1 Comment
The Atlantic Monthly and Amazon/Kindle are hoping so…
PS Note that the “Bestsellers in Kindle” (look in the right column of linked page) all currently cost $0.00.
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≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Books, e-books | ≅ 3 Comments
With six published novels under his belt, you might think J.A. Konrath has it made. But, if you know much about the current publishing market, you could certainly question that. Made or not, JA made a very interesting discovery recently when he sat down and compared his Hyperion ebook royalty statements with the proceeds he’s [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books | ≅ 1 Comment
The marketing around the Nook, Barnes & Noble’s Answer to the Kindle, has begun, even though the product won’t be sold (for $259) until November. Above, you’ll find a B&N video that demos the features of the new e-book reader. Gizmodo is already giving the Nook some nice reviews. See 8 Reasons You Can Finally [...]
≡ Category: e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Another sign of the changing times…
5,400 public libraries are now lending free e-books and audio books to their patrons. With the help of OverDrive, library customers can download texts to their Sony e-book readers, computers and various hand held devices. They get two to three weeks with the book, and then, poof, it expires. It’s yet [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books | ≅ 8 Comments
The rise of e-books opens up new horizons for readers, and also the possibility that books will be “Napsterized,” as The New York Times explains. The Times article begins:
You can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com.
Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a free copy [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Education, e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out the Kindle DX. This new, supersized e-book reader had one basic goal: to give readers digital access to textbooks, newspapers and other larger format publications. This fall, the rubber has started to hit the road, and the Kindle DX has been getting tepid reviews, at least at Princeton University. [...]
≡ Category: Google, e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
The US Justice Department officially weighed in today on the Google Books settlement with publishers and authors. On the plus side for Google, the government wants to see the project continue because it has clear social benefits. On the downside, the DOJ has concerns about antitrust and copyright issues, and it’s looking for the deal [...]
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A quick heads up: Lifehacker is highlighting today some new software (Windows only) that will let you download free access/public domain texts from Google Book Search and then turn them into neat PDF files. To get tips on how to use the software created by a third party, not Google, head on over to Lifehacker. I [...]
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