The link below is to an article reporting on the latest offering from Amazon, ‘Kindle First.’ Kindle First is just another reason to go with Kindle in my view.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/amazon-is-now-giving-early-access-to-kindle-books_b79603
Thinking about giving someone an Amazon Kindle(s amzn) this holiday season? How about adding a customized case with an image of your face to go with it? Amazon on Thursday introduced a new line of personalized Kindle accessories that allows you customize your Kindle cover for no extra cost.
This service was already available through third-party manufacturers, but this marks the first time that Amazon will be offering the personalized accessories itself. You can design your own cover by uploading photographs from your library, or you can choose from a number of Amazon-made designs. There’s also a library filled with images, logos and patterns, including graphics from cartoons and television shows like Peanuts and Breaking Bad.
The covers are available for the new and old Kindle Fire HD, both sizes of the Kindle Fire HDX, the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Touch. The covers are shipped and sold by…
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As the article linked to below mentions, there has been no announcement about the creation of an Australian Kindle store. I stumbled across this myself just recently. If you sign up to the Australian site it seems to interfere with the free and discounted offers available via the US Kindle store. So something to keep in mind.
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/11/12/amazon-launches-local-kindle-store-australia/
The links below are to Amazon’s best books and ebooks of 2013. Perhaps your next book or ebook can be found there?
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Top Books/Ebooks of 2013:Top 100 Books of 2013:
Print
Top 100 Ebooks of 2013:
Kindle Ebooks
The link below is to a book review (Author Interview) of ‘One-Stop Shop – Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,’ by Brad Stone.
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http://www.npr.org/2013/10/14/232204962/one-stop-shop-jeff-bezos-wants-you-to-buy-everything-on-amazon
The link below is to an article that takes a different approach to Kindle Matchbook and once again Amazon is the bad boy. You can always find some reason to bash Amazon, but I remain a fan and I don’t see any great issue with Kindle Matchbook. It seeks to look after the customer/reader, and perhaps that is the real issue for publishers. I think most publishers have had an issue with looking after their customers/readers, so it’s really no surprise that this would be a something they take issue with.
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/09/09/least-surprising-aspect-kindle-matchbook/
The link below is to an article that reports on Kindle Matchbook.
For more visit:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/amazon-couples-print-digital-books-with-new-program/
Like a visiting dignitary from another world, Amazon (s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos descended on the Washington Post newsroom on Wednesday to meet with editors and reporters at the newspaper he recently acquired for $250 million, and by most accounts the reaction from the somewhat shell-shocked staff was surprisingly positive. That could have something to do with the fact that Bezos didn’t sound at all like the tech warlord out to gut the newsroom and get everyone to produce more slideshows — in fact, he said he prefers a printed newspaper to a digital one, and he also believes that readers will pay for a “daily bundle” of news on a tablet.
The Amazon founder made a number of other points that probably sat well with the Post‘s journalists, including the idea that the paper’s primary focus should be on readers and not advertisers, and that catering to…
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