The link below is to an article that takes a look at Kindle Matchbook, the new service provided by Amazon.
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http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-matchbook-service-a-match-made-in-ebook-heaven/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Kindle Matchbook, the new service provided by Amazon.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-matchbook-service-a-match-made-in-ebook-heaven/
The link below is to an article that looks at ‘Kindle Dementia.’
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http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/kindle-dementia.html
The link below is to an article that looks at ebook prices and what they may indicate to you.
For more visit:
http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/whats-the-right-price-of-a-book-for-you/
All five publishers who were accused of conspiring with Apple(s aapl) to set ebook prices at the launch of the iBookstore have settled with the federal government and with the states, and until now it has been unclear how much money customers would get from those settlements. On Friday, though, the states released new documentation laying out how much people who made qualifying purchases are likely to receive.
Short answer: If the states’ settlement with the publishers is finalized, customers who bought an ebook from any one of the five settling publishers between April 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012 will be eligible for a refund of up to $3.06 per book. If you’re one of those people, you’ll get that money as a credit to the digital bookstore where you purchased the book.
It’s taken awhile to even get to this “final” — but still preliminary — dollar amount…
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Maybe this was inevitable since Amazon (s AMZN) acquired book-based social network Goodreads (see disclosure), but Kobo has stopped using the Goodreads API on its website and in its apps, Good E-Reader reports.
That means no more Goodreads ratings and reviews on Kobo book pages. It sounds as if the decision was driven by Kobo, not Goodreads or Amazon: The company’s chief content officer Michael Tamblyn tells Good E-reader that Kobo might re-add the Goodreads API in the future. And back in March when Amazon acquired Goodreads, the companies told me they would leave the Goodreads API open and would not shut off the Kobo feed. (Update: Goodreads confirmed it’s made no changes to its API.)
Nonetheless, the move demonstrates the risk of relying on what is now a competing retailer’s API. At one point, Goodreads actually encountered a similar problem itself: In early 2012, it stopped sourcing its…
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The link below is to an article reporting on yet another bookseller shooting itself in the foot – Kobo has suspended Goodreads from its ebook readers.
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http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/kobo-suspends-usage-of-the-goodreads-api
The link below is to an article reporting on the death of Seamus Heaney.
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http://www.teleread.com/poetry/r-i-p-seamus-heaney-the-passing-of-a-giant/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the life of Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate who recently died.
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney-life-pictures-poetry
The link below is to an article that comments on negative book reviews and bullying online.
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http://www.teleread.com/internet/on-negative-reviews-and-bad-online-behavior/
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