MORE 'AMAZON-COM' POSTS
From the Publisher’s (FourteenFiftyFourBlog) Post Written by children’s author David Gatward, the Booksurfers series features four children who are kidnapped by an arch-criminal and his evil henchwoman. They are forced to jump ‘into’ classic adventure stories to steal famous fictional artefacts such as the map in Treasure Island, using a bespoke gadget called the Nautilus. […]
From Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. now sells 105 books for its Kindle electronic-readers for every 100 printed books. Sales of the e-books for the Kindle, introduced in 2007, surpassed hardcover titles in July 2010, and overtook paperbacks six months later, the Seattle-based company said today in a statement. “We had high hopes that this would happen […]
Amazon.com Launches New Author Interview Series
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Interviews, Profiles, Publishing
|From an Amazon.com Announcement: Amazon.com [has] introduced “Author Interviews@Amazon,” the new author interview series that will be available in a new content destination called The Backstory (www.amazon.com/thebackstory). Author Interviews@Amazon launches with five video interviews, including celebrity chef and James Beard Award-winning Tom Douglas, New York Times bestselling debut author Joshua Foer, young adult authors Holly […]
Library City shares 35 words (one sentence) that were published in today’s Publisher’s Lunch, a well known publishing industry news source. “Privately, some publishers say that the alliance will eventually limit ebook offerings to libraries rather than expand them, as at least some companies fear that unlimited library lending across all major platforms will cannibalize […]
This is an update to an INFOdocket post (from AM on Wed) located here. OverDrive has posted answers to a few questions that are being asked today. They’re answers but OverDrive should be providing more depth to their responses. As you’ll read, “Your users’ confidential information will be protected” is one example. It’s an answer […]
Amazon.com Will Partner With OverDrive and Launch Library Lending Service for Kindle
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|UPDATE: Answers From OverDrive to a Few Questions Being Asked Today Full Text of News Release Note: This will be a U.S. only service. Unfortunately, It contains almost zero info about the actual service (how it will work, the type of materials available, additional costs for libraries, end users, etc.) beyond when it will work […]
Is a $25 savings worth it? We will have to wait and see. However, as you’ll read in a moment, the special offers have the potential to add a nice stream of savings for user. However, potential and what ends up happening are often not the same thing. The subsidized Kindle with “special offers & […]
The Wolfram|Alpha Blog has the details along with a link to the to the Amazon Appstore where you can download the app. You might also want to know that each day Amazon’s Appstore takes a fee-based app and makes it the “Free App of the Day.”
"Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android"
|From the News Release: Amazon.com today announced the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive (www.amazon.com/clouddrive), Amazon Cloud Player for Web (www.amazon.com/cloudplayer) and Amazon Cloud Player for Android (www.amazon.com/cloudplayerandroid). Together, these services enable customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. Customers […]