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Poetry Breaks the Bank, Doesn’t Bring the Book Backlash

Paul St John Mackintosh — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25:27 +0000

Much publicity has surrounded the record prices fetched for poetry manuscripts at an auction held by Bonhams in London as part of The Roy Davids Collection of Poetry, Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. The sale made a total of £750,000 ($1,141,550). The draft of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember me when I am gone’ fetched £33,650 ($51,217), almost ten [...]

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E-Book Usability News: Adjustable line spacing now available on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9”

David Rothman — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:30:55 +0000

LibraryCity knocked Amazon for not letting users of the Kindle Fire HDs adjust their line spacing. But guess what I noticed just now within the font-related submenu of my Kindle HD 8.9” model running version 8.3.1 firmware? Alas, on my several files tested, I still couldn’t narrow the spaces sufficiently on the HD even though the Kindle app [...]

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Amazon Coins Goes Live, a Digital Currency for the Amazon App Store and Kindle

Arnold Zafra — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:51:00 +0000

Amazon has just gone live with its own digital currency dubbed Amazon Coins. Announced in February 2013, Amazon Coins is described as a new way to buy Kindle Fire apps, games and in-app items from the Amazon App Store and on Kindle Fire. To kick off the launch of Coins, Amazon also announced that they [...]

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Forgot to Turn off your Kindle in flight? You’re not alone!

Juli Monroe — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:47:29 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association released some interesting data yesterday about electronic devices on planes. • Ninety-nine percent of flyers bring a portable electronic device on a flight with them. That’s a lot of gadgets! • Thirty percent of them have forgotten to turn off a device at some time. Whoops! Another interesting breakdown is this: The study [...]

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Amazon Rumored To Be Working On 10-Inch Kindle Fire With Impressive Display

Adrian Diaconescu — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:02:31 +0000

You’re familiar with the saying “Go big or go home?” Well, it doesn’t exactly apply to the tablet market nowadays, but the tide could turn soon enough. One of the biggest ongoing battles is for the small tab crown, with Google, Asus, Amazon, Apple, but also Acer fighting each other guns blazing. Meanwhile, the bigger [...]

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Amazon Reportedly Producing a “Kindle TV” Set-Top Box

Aggregated Content — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:00:25 +0000

By Jeff Kleist Amazon has been making its own devices for quite a while now. From e-readers to tablets to a rumored smartphone, the company has been pretty successful in establishing its own Apple-style ecosystem. So it makes perfect sense that Amazon wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to take charge of the one device [...]

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Kindle for iOS Updated with More Accessibility Features

Juli Monroe — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:37:19 +0000

Kindle for iOS received a major update yesterday, allowing it to work with the VoiceOver features of the iPhone and iPad. This is a good thing for the blind and visually impaired. It also has application for sighted readers who don’t mind computer text-to-speech voices and want to listen to their books on the go. I tested it [...]

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Digitizing the Backlist

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:15:21 +0000

Publishers Weekly approaches the subject of the digital backlist with a fresh angle in a recent blog: They compile a list of the best-sellers of yesteryear and then see how many they can find Kindle editions for. The results? “Looking through PW’s archives at the top 25 bestselling books of both 1992 and 1982 in fiction and nonfiction [...]

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Morning Links: Has climate change created a new literary genre?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:00:55 +0000

Has Climate Change Created a New Literary Genre? (NPR) What Kids Think of Books, Reading and Technology {Infographic} (E-Book Friendly) Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools (The Guardian) Sydney bookseller holds Kindle ‘amnesty’ (The Bookseller) 30 Things to Tell a Book Snob (Booktrust) Kindle Daily Deals: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield [...]

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Track Kindle e-book prices and availability using eReaderIQ

Juli Monroe — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:24:10 +0000

I’ve seen people mention eReaderIQ on various forums, but I never took the time to check them out until today. Wow, have I been missing out! The site allows you to track a few things, mainly price and availability on Kindle. They also show freebies, but I’m personally less interested in that since I’ve been [...]

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Best-Seller Lists: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:20:46 +0000

Digital Book World has been compiling weekly e-book bestseller lists for some time, and in the latest analysis they’ve made on them, Jeremy Greenfield alleges to have found an e-book pricing “sweet spot.” What he means by this is that in looking at data over the last four months, very few books have made the best-seller [...]

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TIME to publish free tablet-only magazine on Boston tragedy

Aggregated Content — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:38:23 +0000

Time magazine has revealed that it will publish a tablet-only edition on the Boston Marathon attack tomorrow. The digital magazine will be available free on iPad, Nook, Android and Kindle devices. The publication will feature stories and exclusive photographs from Boston, as well as… Read Full Article… Source: Tab Times

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Mobile Magazines, Part IV — Periodicals on E-Readers

Juli Monroe — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:30:50 +0000

* Note: Click here to read Mobile Magazines, Part I — Google Play Magazines, here for Mobile Magazines, Part II — iOS Newsstand and here for Mobile Magazines, Part III — Next Issue So far this series has exclusively covered periodicals on tablets. But what if you have an e-reader? Yes, magazines and other periodicals are [...]

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Former Amazon Employee Speaks Out!

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:58:57 +0000

The New York Times has a fascinating preview up of a forthcoming tell-all from Jason Merkoski, formerly of Amazon and one of the developers of the first Kindle. Merkoski has a lot to say about both the benefits (a complete library; accessible using your phone) and drawbacks (sadness for paper fetishists) of the revolution he helped to [...]

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Beyond a Digital Attic: How the DPLA can honor the Five Laws of Library Science

David Rothman — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:48:20 +0000

This is the era of bits and bytes and multimedia and 3D printing, not just books and other texts. But Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science would still apply today in spirit even after more than eighty years. Educated originally as a mathematician, S.R. Ranganathan was a library-science genius who studied librarianship in Great Britain and worked as the librarian [...]

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