HTC says sorry to shareholders for poor performance (Android Community)
HTC may be busy introducing new phones left and right but truth is, the company is losing money. Revenue the past months went down by 40 percent but HTC is still hopeful that sales will improve especially after the new models are launched.
TeleRead Take: Considering my growing dissatisfaction with my HTC phone, I’m neither surprised nor disappointed.
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Reduce Vig to 15% – Will It Impact eBooks? (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
For the past four and a half years Apple has been strangling its ebook competitors by requiring a 30% cut of any sales made in, or through, an app on the iPad or iPhone.
That’s the same vig Apple has asked of all games, media services, and app developers for the past seven years, but The Financial Times has given us reason to hope that it will change.
TeleRead Take: With almost all publishers back to the agency model, I doubt it will have much impact on prices, although one could hope for better book royalties to authors? I know. Crazy thinking.
Settling the E-Books vs. Direct-to-Brain Digital Text Streaming Argument (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
Call me old-fashioned, but no matter how popular direct-to-brain digital text streaming gets, I’ll never give up e-books.
TeleRead Take: Humorous and quirky. I agree. As much as I love electronic books, I still want to read, not download the words.
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Review: the Nexus 9 from an iPad user’s perspective (iDownload Blog)
As someone who no longer personally owns an iPad, it was great to finally get back into the tablet game with the adoption of a Nexus 9 from Google.
TeleRead Take: The 9″ size just seems odd to me. I think the 9.7″ of an iPad is good for large-screen tablets. If you want smaller, there’s lots to be said for the 6″ Fire. Great size to carry everywhere.
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Kindle Daily Deals: Two Action Thrillers by Paul Levine (and others)
