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New 'Games' page keeps track of games on the Kindle Store

Chris Walters — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:29:29 +0000

As of December 13th, there were 17 games available on the Kindle Store, ranging in price from free to $5. A lot of the titles have been introduced in just the past few weeks, so I thought it might be time to start collecting a list of them for easier future reference.

So starting today, there’s a new section in the main navbar at the top of the blog: Games.

To keep the list useful, I’m only including active content applications. You can find other titles on the Kindle Store that use ebook tricks (mainly embedded links) to try to simulate games, but based on user reviews these aren’t often successful.

In the future, I may expand the list to include browser-based games if I find more than just portablequest.com. I also still half-expect to see some non-game applications in 2011, but for now it looks like Amazon’s focus is on gaming.

As always, you can report updates, changes, or errors via the Contact Page.

Booksprung is on Twitter

Chris Walters — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:31:08 +0000

Because I am a groundbreaking thought leader who pushes the envelope and thinks outside the box, I have set up a Twitter account for Booksprung. Actually, it’s been there for a while, but I just figured out how to use the little box to post tweets.

THE FUTURE! SOCIAL MEDIA! FORCED BREVITY!

Forced whaa? Oh yeah, that’s why I never use it…

(Twitter/Wordle bird image from Graphic Leftovers)

Announcing new custom RSS feeds

Chris Walters — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:19:24 +0000

(This is a housekeeping post. Please bear with me for a moment.)

Almost every day, I post a “daily bargain” book from the Amazon Kindle store. If you visit Kindlerama you can see the new titles in the sidebar on every page. If you read this blog via RSS or on your Kindle, you see the daily bargains as individual posts.

But what if you don’t want to see those daily bargains in your RSS feed? They might get annoying. I don’t want to annoy you!

That’s why as of today you can choose the RSS feed that suits you best:

Posts & Daily Bargains – This is the original full feed. If you currently subscribe via RSS, this is what you’re using.

Posts Only – This will only show posts that aren’t part of the Daily Bargain sidebar. If you don’t want to see free/cheap book offers so frequently, you might want this feed instead of the original.

Daily Bargains Only – This is for those of you who don’t care about my blatherings and just want to see what the Daily Bargain is each day.

If you tend to categorize your RSS feeds according to subject, you may even find it easier to subscribe to both the “posts only” and “bargains only” feeds, so that you can keep the content separate according to your RSS needs.

And finally, if you subscribe via email or through the Kindle blog subscription, nothing has changed–both of those options still provide the full feed of both regular posts and daily bargains.

Thanks!

(Photo: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com, Mary Cassatt)

Contact page is working again!

Chris Walters — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:28:04 +0000

I recently discovered that every single person who was trying to contact me via the built-in contact form on this site was getting an error message. Luckily a few hardy typists went ahead and tried again via the email address on the error page, but that’s no way to keep a site thriving.

But now it’s fixed. If you have any questions, comments, or requests for screens, contact away!