Monthly Archives: January 2010
What Do You Think About The Apple iPad
Apple released the much awaited iPad earlier this week. But did it meet people’s expectations? well! as far as I am concerned these are my thoughts on the iPad: First of all, it’s hard for me to understand whether there … Continue reading
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Steve Jobs Unveils Apple iPad
Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad today. Jobs positions it as a third computing device between a laptop and a smartphone geared towards the “key tasks” of Web browsing, email, sharing photos, watching videos, playing games, and reading digital books. … Continue reading
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Effects of Apple’s Entry Into The e-Book Market
There is a lot of notion going on out there in the eBook market that the launch of Apple’s iSlate (a.k.a Tablet) that is expected to launch in couple of days will bring a huge shift in the entire paradigm … Continue reading
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Competition Over e-Book Price Makes Publishers Sacrifice Quality
Publishers are definitely not happy with the pressure they are facing due to the price war over eBooks. They are increasingly becoming so focused on their sales earnings that they are compromising on quality to keep their costs down. The … Continue reading
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Amazon’s Next Step for Kindle: Kindle Apps
Just yesterday I posted about Amazon’s announcement of their new royalty program for Kindle eBook sales where authors and publishers will be able to make a larger share(70%) of the Kindle eBook sales revenue and see what we have today? … Continue reading
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Amazon Makes Authors & Publishers Happier with Higher Cut of Kindle eBook Sales
Amazon Announced their New Royalty Program for Kindle Book Sales Amazon.com has announced that they will be offering do-it-yourself authors and publishers a bigger cut of their book sales on Kindle eReader. Although there will be certain criterias that authors/publishers … Continue reading
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places to get ebooks from for your ebook readers
1) Mobipocket Catalogue : 65,000 titles Price :$14 Formats : Mobi Exception: Nook, Sony Reader 2) Project Gutenberg Catalogue: 30,000 titles Price: Not Available Formats: ePub, Mobi, HTML Exceptions: None 3) CyberRead Catalogue: 310,000 titles Price: $14 Formats: ePub, PDF, Mobi Exceptions: None 4) Waterstone’s Catalogue: 21,000 Price: Not Available Formats: ePub Exceptions: Kindle … Continue reading
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