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Apple gives book creators beautiful, golden handcuffs
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsToday Apple raised the bar on interactive textbook publishing, with the introduction of a revamped iBooks app for the iPad and a free textbook publishing app for the Mac. If you’ve got an iPad, a fairly new Mac, and a big pile o’ knowledge to... -
Barnes & Noble offering free Nook Touch if you subscribe to New York Times for a year
Posted on January 9, 2012 | No CommentsFor a couple of years now, people have suggested that if ereaders got cheap enough, they could be used by newspapers as promotional swag—sign up for a subscription and get an ereader for free. Newspapers haven’t warmed to this idea yet, but who’s to say... -
How to put custom screensaver images on a Kindle 4 (nontouch)
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe new Kindle 4—the one without touchscreen capability—doesn’t run the Kindle 3 screensaver hack, so even if you pay Amazon the extra $30 to disable the ads you’re stuck with some generic default images. If this is driving you crazy, take heart. A Kindle 4... -
Eleven free Philip K. Dick short stories
Posted on January 4, 2012 | No CommentsYou might not think that the sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, whose brain twisting stories seem to end up as Hollywood movies every couple of years, would have anything in the public domain (he died in 1982), but Project Gutenberg has eleven short stories that... -
Here’s how a local bookseller tried to get my future business
Posted on December 15, 2011 | No CommentsIn my recent counter-tirade against the emotional outbursts that booksellers are frequently guilty of when they should be discussing retail strategies, I mentioned that the last time I contacted a local bookstore to offer feedback on what I want as a customer, I was ignored.... -
The biggest threat to local bookstores? Crazy booksellers and their fanboys
Posted on December 15, 2011 | 1 CommentLast week, Amazon tried to train consumers to openly treat local retail stores as showrooms for Amazon merchandise. It was a ballsy but ethically shaky move; I believe customers who participated helped Amazon steal resources and sales from competitors for very little compensation. It was,... -
eReaderIQ improves Kindle deal alert service with new filters and categories
Posted on December 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsTwo days ago I noticed something new in the daily email I get from eReaderIQ. Actually, I noticed a couple of new things. The first was that suddenly the books were being organized according to genre, which makes it a lot easier to skim. The...
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How to put custom screensaver images on a Kindle 4 (nontouch)
The new Kindle 4—the one without touchscreen capability—doesn’t run the... -
Set public domain content free from locked PDF files
Lately I’ve been digging around online to find old genre short stories written in... -
How to convert the entire Skyrim canon into a single ebook
If you’ve ever spent any time in the game Skyrim—or its predecessors Oblivion...
