If you’re looking to buy a Kindle Fire HDX, but don’t want to plunk down the full $229 or $379 all at once, Amazon(s amzn) now offers a payment plan that lets you pay the tablet off in four interest-free payments over the course of nine months. Introduced on Amazon’s homepage over the weekend and spotted by AllThingsD, the offer appears to be for the holidays only, available through December 24.
The payment plans are good for either the $229 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX or the $379 Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. All you have to do is accept the offer on Amazon, add the Kindle to your cart, and at checkout you’ll be charged 25 percent of the tablet’s price, along with any applicable tax and shipping charges in full. After that, you’ll automatically be billed for the balance in three equal payments every 90 days. You can…
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The links below are to a series of articles that examine why publishers hate Amazon.
For more visit:
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/why-big-publishing-hates-amazon-and-wants-you-to-hate-amazon-too/
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/why-big-publishing-hates-amazon-part-2/
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/why-big-publishing-hates-amazon-part-3/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Amazon StoryFront, Amazon’s new short fiction imprint.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-launches-imprint-storyfront-for-short-fiction/
The link below is to an article that looks at the future of the ebook and the features of traditional books that are being retained.
For more visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/technology/e-books-hold-tight-to-features-of-their-print-predecessors.html
The link below is to an article that reports on Norway’s national library and its attempt to digitalize every book published in that country.
For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/national-library-of-norway-digitizing-all-books-published-in-norway
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the art of cheap ebook reading.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-secret-to-ereading-on-the-cheap/
The links below are to two separate articles dealing with book fanatics of both the traditional form and the digital form.
For more visit:
– http://bookriot.com/2013/12/11/dont-care-dogear-pages-confessions-failed-book-fanatic/
– http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/confessions-of-an-ebook-fanatic/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at one of the newest ‘branches’ of literature – cli-fi.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/cli-fi/how-and-why-sci-fi-gave-birth-to-cli-fi/
I have had some surgery in recent times and while everything seems to be going OK, healing well and all the rest, I have been finding some difficulty while sitting at the computer – so I have been easing off on the posts in recent times. I expect this will continue for the next couple of weeks or perhaps a bit longer than that. I don’t intend to stop posting completely, but there will be far fewer posts during this period. One or two Blogs that I have will receive no posts during this time, while one or two others will continue to receive the same number of posts throughout this period. However, it is all a bit of a daily thing as to just how many posts I upload.
So all is going well, but a bit of a break and rest is needed to ensure a full recovery. Thanks all 🙂
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