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UPDATE: Here’s an Interesting “Reference” Feature Mentioned in the Official Product Launch Announcement: Amazon invented X-Ray, a new feature that lets customers explore the “bones of the book.” With a single tap, readers can see all the passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as […]
Here’s a new blog post by Peter Brantley on the Publisher’s Weekly site. Title: “Lending E-Books is about B-2-C” By: Peter Brantley From the Blog Post: Eric Hellman writes that Macmillan CEO John Sargent has said, “You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing. ‘It’s like Netflix, […]
The Netflix Model for Books: "Amazon in Talks to Launch Digital-Book Library"
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|Is the WSJ report linked below on what might become Amazon’s “Netflix like” program the beginning of a new way to access and read ebooks. Perhaps. However, the article has few if any hard facts and Amazon isn’t talking. In fact, the WSJ is clear that they don’t know if any publishers have even signed […]
From the LATimes.com Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, is testing a new website design. The new look is a pretty big shift away from the blue-and-white, image-heavy look that Amazon has used for years. The royal-blue bar across the top and the light-blue “all departments” menu box running down the left of Amazon.com are gone […]
Amazon Launches A New Format for Kindle, Materials Using New Format Available to Rent (or Purchase)
|From Paul Biba at TeleRead: Along with Kindle for Mac 1.7 and Kindle for PC 1.7, release a few days ago, Amazon have introduced a new ebook format for their Kindle ebook store. Called “Print Replica”, it is Amazon’s solution for books with a page layout that is too complex to reproduce using their usual […]
Google Catalogs (web version) debuted in December, 2001 and was available until early 2009. It taught the company a lot about mass digitization (scanning, readability, how to handle documents, etc.) that they have applied to book digitization. For its time, it was very cool. Here’s the Google Catalogs homepage from December 17, 2001 and the […]
Clarity From the Top: Today’s News is For Anyone Wanting Access to the Kindle Books They’ve Purchased. It’s Unrelated to an Amazon/OverDrive Announcement Expected Before the End of 2011 re: Library eBooks.*** Kindle for the Cloud Info and Access Here It’s now available for the following web browsers: 1. Chrome 2. Safari 3. Safari for […]
UPDATE: Several of you have pointed out that the “public notes” feature has been available for about six months. You are correct. This feature was announced at the beginning of February, 2011 on this web page. More from Brian Dudley at the Seattle Times. From theBookseller.com: The site, called kindle.amazon.com, allows users to set up […]
From Amazon.com: Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental—now students can save up to 80% off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store. Tens of thousands of textbooks are available for the 2011 school year from leading textbook publishers such as John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis. Students […]
Today’s News from Amazon.com: 1. Storage Plans that Include Unlimited Storage Space for Music 2. Free Storage for All Amazon MP3 Purchases 3. iPad Web App For Access to Cloud Player Note: Though not officially supported you can access Cloud Player with an iPhone or iTouch) An Andoid app is also available. From a News […]