Choose AT&T as your carrier, Amazon as your distributer, and Lincoln as your cash handler and you’ve got yourself a deal. Too Cryptic? Ok, how’s this: All AT&T Phones are $0.01 on Amazon.com this weekend? That sounds a bit better now doesn’t it? Best of all, the new Windows Phone 7 devices are included in this sale. Score! Now all you have to do is decide what to spend that penny on… Source: Amazon Via: ...
Yesterday Amazon announced that they scored an exclusive deal with publisher Andrew Wylie (clients: Oliver Sacks, Salman Rushdie, and Philip Roth plus more) that will give them the sole rights to distribute books by mentioned (and unmentioned) authors for a full 2 years. At first, it seems like a great way to push ebooks further and yeah, is a nice little nest egg for Amazon. But when you sit back and look at the bigger picture, it’s a very bad decision. First and...
Think the Kindle is washed up, used, and useless in leu of all the other e-readers/tablets that have come on the scene recently? In many ways, those looking for a feature packed e-reader would be somewhat correct. Then again, if you buy a device specifically made to read digital books, how many bells and whistles do you really need? Meh, it’s all water under the bridge I s’pose. But for those with a few minutes and some coding know-how, taking something as...
It isn’t often that we here of the little guy, the consumer, the real victim in the great corporate sandbox getting what is dully theres. When Sony removed the other OS feature from the PS3 with the recent 3.21 update, a fair share of geeks around the globe were pretty upset. Granted, a “fair share of geeks” is quite small considering the overall global population. But it doesn’t really matter how many people actually used the feature. The point...
Curling up next to the fire with a good book will one day be no more than a faint memory. For the near term however, physical books won’t give up easily. Some simply won’t give up on the “real” feel of a stack of paper in your hands nor the smell of a fresh book off the printing press. Such things an ebook just can’t replicate. With all the talk around paper books and ebooks, the biggest controversy has centered around publishing costs. ...
