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• Smashwords books to show up in Kindle store: Shipping to Amazon starts November 25

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  News release follows. – D.R. Smashwords , a global publisher and distributor of independently published ebooks, today announced it will supply ebooks to the Amazon.com Kindle Store. Kindle is Amazon’s wireless reading device that allows customers to downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to a crisp, ...
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• A walk ‘with’ Molly Ivins: Too bad she isn’t alive to tell the Authors Guild off about its war on text to speech

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The late Molly Ivins raised a Texas-sized amount of hell in her time over political and social issues even though she grew up among members of the Lone Star elite and knew the Bush family. Now she is the topic of a new biography, Molly Ivins, A Rebel Life , by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith . Later ...
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• For novices: Downloading free classics to your Kindle without a computer

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Not all public domain books in the Amazon Kindle store are free or even available, period. You can broaden your choices by downloading books from other sites directly to your Kindle, and in this post, we show how —and tell where you can look. Even old Kindle hands may not be aware of FreeKindleBooks.org. Digg us. ...
  6 hours ago

• A contest!

  
  DAYS of the INSANE — Authority: 112
  Well, its certainly the week for free books. Not only is my spy-con-rom-com The Twelve Lies of Christmas available free on Kindle all week, Im also offering something spicier in the form of a free download of Empire: Dawn Rising . Yes, you can read all about Edward and Callies hot romance and fight for freedom ...
  7 hours ago

• Kindle Nation Daily: Well-Organized FreeKindleBooks.org Offers User-Friendly Access to Indexing and Direct Download of Thousands of Project Gutenberg Books

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 443
  Check the full post for tips on single-click access and Instapaper Whether you have a Kindle or are using the Kindle for PC App or, soon, the Kindle for Mac App, theres nothing not to like about a new website called FreeKindleBooks.org that offers thousands of free books for seamless automatic download to your ...
  9 hours ago

• About that ePub logo, Mike: A friendly jog for the IDPF

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Ugh, it’s time to broach the topic again. Why the devil doesn’t the International Digital Publishing Forum have an ePub logo so its format standard can compete better against the Kindle’s? The IDPF said it would unveil a contest for the best logo design, but I haven’t seen a follow-up. I’ve emailed ...
  13 hours ago

• Pixel Qi vs. the Kindle: Which is the better display for YOUR e-booking?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Which is better for an e-book display—the Kindle or the Pixel Qi technology that Mary Lou Jepsen is developing? Not seeing the two side by side, I can’t say; and besides, individual needs will vary, with a number of variables plugged in: everything from battery life to glare resistance. But if you click ...
  20 hours ago

• Kindle the Answer? For Author J.A. Konrath It Is

  
  Open Culture — Authority: 595
  With six published novels under his belt, you might think J.A. Konrath has it made. But, if you know much about the current publishing market, you might start to question that. Made or not, JA made a very interesting discovery recently when he sat down and compared his Hyperion ebook royalty statements with the ...
  21 hours ago

• Auction your stuff for free

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 529
  Getting rid of clutter around your house can be one of the most annoying things to do. I know from experience that sometimes you just want to dump it to Goodwill or some other charity rather than trying to get anything for your stuff. However, some of the stuff in your house can be worth something. There’s a rather ...
  23 hours ago

• Ha, ha, ha, mine’s thinner than yours: Amazon PR guy on the Kindle vs. the Nook

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  “Kindle is 40 percent thinner, 10 percent lighter, with 2 times the battery life. It’s the best-selling, the most wished-for, and the most gifted product on Amazon across all product categories—not just electronics. Kindle manufacturing is humming, and the latest generation Kindle—just released in October—is ...
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• Wired’s tablet edition: The e-book angle

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  ";" alt="" /> E-books, e-magazines and newspapers can piggyback on each other, so it’s good to see Conde Nast demoing a Wired Magazine edition for the ever-rumored Apple tablet. I hope the idea evolves the right way, with such features as customizable, reflowable text. Didn’t Shakespeare say, “Kill ...
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• No more Nookie til next year, says Barnes & Noble

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 668
  Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Media World , Technology Take the Nook off your Christmas list. The new e-reader from Barnes & Noble ( BKS ) has already sold out, and more wont be available until after the holiday has passed . The next batch will be available, at best, by November ...
  2 days ago

• Computerworld writer: ‘Eight reasons why e-readers could fail’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Matt Hamblin in Computerworld offers eight reasons why dedicated e-readers like the Kindle and Sony Reader could fail . Check out his piece for the full story. The reasons: (1) “Price of devices,” (2) “price of e-books,” (3) “Smartphones,” (4) “Apple’s rumored tablet computer,” (5) popular ...
  2 days ago

• Hardware is dead! Long live Hardware!

  
  Gear Diary — Authority: 714
  (image courtesy of apple.com ) Yesterday Businessweek reported that Sony plans to open an iTunes-style store, showcasing their eBook, music and movie libraries. While certainly newsworthy all by itself, this news marks something bigger that is changing in technology today; hardware doesn’t matter anymore. … [ ...
  2 days ago

• FreeKindleBooks.org for fans of Dickens, Twain and other public domain writers: Easy Kindle book downloads

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  How to download free books directly via your Kindle’s built-in Web browser? Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized right now for devices with small screens and slow browsers. And free download guides—with links to public domain books—are not as easy and convenient to use ...
  2 days ago

• Congrats to Angela Kohler!

  
  ELIZA Blog — Authority: 128
  One of our favorite photographers, Angela Kohler, who has wowed us over and over with her photography, has also wowed Amazon. Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths won their contest and they loved the spot so much it is now on tv! Congrats to you both, your hard work and creativity has paid off.
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• Barnes & Noble Nook already sold out for the holidays

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 603
  If you were hoping to purchase the nook ereader from Barnes & Noble for the holiday gift giving season, hopefully you did it before now. According to the New York Times , Barnes & Noble has sold out of the initial productions runs of the [...]
  2 days ago

• Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System in 2010 [Kindle]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  Specifics have not been announced, but Amazon noted via their Kindle Facebook page that a more user-friendly, organized ebook management system will arrive as an over-the-air update in the first half...
  3 days ago

• Barnes & Nobles Nook Sold Out for the Holidays

  
  Bits — Authority: 769
  It’s shaping up to a be very merry holiday season for Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader.Earlier this week, we reported that Sony could not guarantee that its new Daily Edition Reader would reach online buyers in time for Christmas. Now Barnes & Noble says that preorders of its stylish new Nook e-reader have exceeded ...
  3 days ago

• No Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Reader Until Next Year

  
  Mobile Magazine — Authority: 540
  You see? This is why it pays to get your holiday shopping done early. Right when the Barnes & Noble Nook was announced late last month, we had a good feeling that it’d be a hot seller among Christmas shoppers. A couple of weeks ago, we learned that it was more popular than expected . Well, this popularity has ...
  3 days ago

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