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A different ebook model
The Humble Bundle is an innovative experiment in ebook sales. You pay whatever you want for a bundle of five books:
Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema
Paolo Bacigalupi's Pump Six
Lauren Beukes' Zoo City
Mercedes Lackey's Invasion
Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners
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Simon & Schuster Price Drops?
I don't know if this is a trend or just coincidence, but in the past couple of hours, eReaderIQ has informed me that two titles on my watch list, both published by S&S, have dropped from $12.99 to $8.27. If you've been waiting for a price drop on an S&S book, you might want to check it out. It also looks to me, though I can't verify it, that a ( Read more... ) -
Backup Backup Backup
There is nothing I find quite so heartbreaking as stories on LJ/DW of fans who lost all of their fanfic, vid, whatever collections because their hard drive crashed, and they did not have it backed up. We should all backup our computers somehow, using either a local program and external storage or a cloud-based solution (or if you're a worry wart ( Read more... ) -
Things I Learned as a Fanfic Fan That Are Not Covered in the Kindle FAQ
The recent post about downloading from AO3 has completely shamed me, because I've been doing that on my Kindle Keyboard for nearly two years now and never posted about how to get around the site's overload errors that were happening when I got my Kindle, or about how to deal with the glitch the previous poster mentioned. I just presumed that ( Read more... ) -
Downloading AO3 files directly to the Kindle - all versions?
melina123 posted recently: This may be old news if you have the KT or the $79 NT Kindle from last year, but for the first time, I was able to download a .mobi book from AO3 directly to my [Paperwhite] Kindle.On a lark, I decided to try this out with my two-year-old Kindle Keyboard (formerly known as the Kindle 3), even though I had no reason to believe it ( Read more... ) -
Paperwhite -- a couple things
I've had my PW less than 24 hours, and coming from a non-touch Kindle (the KK) it's quite a lot to get used to. So far, I am happy with it. This isn't a proper review, but I have a few thoughts.
This may be old news if you have the KT or the $79 NT Kindle from last year, but for the first time, I was able to download a .mobi book from AO3 ( Read more... ) -
Paperwhite reviews
I'm too lazy to properly format these :)
http://gizmodo.com/5947435/kindle-pa...eader-you-want
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/30/a...rwhite-review/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/30/34...erwhite-review
http://gigaom.com/2012/09/30/kindle-...iew-and-video/
http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-kind...view-30249722/
http://techland.time.com/2012/09/30/...rwhite ( Read more... ) -
Kindle Paperwhite: Unboxing
Have you been waiting for a tech reviewer to unbox and review the Kindle Paperwhite before you take the plunge? You're in luck - Slashgear have done just that. Check it out:
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Price drops on HarperCollins titles
It looks like we might be seeing the first results from the settlement of three publishers in the ebook price fixing lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice. Readers are reporting a flood of emails from ereaderiq.com on books they've been watching, all from HarperCollins and its imprints like Harper Voyager. On Amazon, "this price was set ( Read more... ) -
New Kindles
Kindle Paperwhite -- New eink reader, frontlit, higher contrast and resolution, touchscreen, "super sharp" display, no buttons at all. Adjustable light levels. More choices of fonts and sizes. "Time to read" tells you how long you have in the chapter or book (time, not pages) based on your reading speed. Includes the "xray" feature introduced ( Read more... )