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Is iPad Really Going To Kill Kindle? No, It’s Not

The iPad has been announced. But does it mean Kindle will be dead? No, not at all. Remeber, iPad is still a multimedia device. You can do a lot of things including reading ebooks; but it’s not focused on reading ebooks. Those who prefer to read a lot of fiction, and text-only non-fiction still need [...]

Written on January 27, 2010 | Posted in Kindle-killer?, Opinion, feature, iPad | No comment

Amazon will be Releasing Kindle Developmeny Kit (KDK) for Applications

That’s a big news. Amazon has decided to release SDK for Kindle so that people can contribute making applications for Kindle just like AApple’s iPhone. It’ll be available in February as beta-test. There are some news that Amazon already gave access to SDK to some companies like Handmark to develop active Zagat restaurant guides for [...]

Written on January 22, 2010 | Posted in News, feature | 2 comments

Amazon Offers 70-30 Split For Kindle eBook Authors Like AppStore With Conditions

Amazon has finally decided to offer 70% of the sales price of Kindle ebooks to the content providers. This is the similar model followed by Apple for AppStore. However, there is a catch. Amazon put some conditions to get that 70% share. The AppleInsider elaborates:

The author or publisher-supplied list price must be between $2.99 and [...]

Written on January 21, 2010 | Posted in News, feature | No comment

Amazon DTP Now Open Worldwide

So long authors from non-US countries couldn’t publish their ebooks through Amazon for Kindle. Today Amazon has announced the wait is over: now you can publish your own work for kindle from anywhere in the world, and earn money. Remember, Amazon will give you only 30% of the sales. This has been criticised on many [...]

Written on January 15, 2010 | Posted in News, feature | No comment

Kindle DX May Go Global Anytime

Engadget got an snapshoot of amazon website – on the right corner it says: “Kindle DX Now with Global Wireless.” Not yet, really; but amazon is probably ready to ship Kindle DX globally like Kindle 2. There will be no Kindle DX (U.S. wireless) then. If you go to amazon website or it’s kindle site, [...]

Written on January 5, 2010 | Posted in News, eReaders, feature | No comment

Details of Skiff Reader From Hearst Out

Skiff Reader from Hearst is coming soon as the company has just revealed the specifications, and a lot of pictures on its website. The company will show it at the coming CES gathering next week. This is by far the largest e-paper (not e-ink like kindle, sony) device – 11″x9″ dimension. Display size is 11.5″ [...]

Written on January 5, 2010 | Posted in Skiff Reader, feature | No comment

B&N Nook’s EPUB DRM Hacked and Cracked

i♥cabbages who happens to crack the kindle DRM with the program litled “unswindle” has also recently been able to circumvent B&N’s EPUB DRM. He writes, on his blog:
The basic idea behind the B&N EPUB scheme is the same as that used by the ill-fated eReader format B&N acquired – step 1: generate an encryption key [...]

Written on December 29, 2009 | Posted in Nook Hacks, feature, hacks | 1 comment

“I was honestly shocked when we found out that the wholse OS runs on microSD” Says NookDevs Team Leader Robbie

The person behind the NookDevs team rooting and hacking the Nook is Robbie Trencheny. He is an 18-year-old student now leading the team to run applications on Nook. Recently, Robbie gave an interview with Nookaholic. Among the other things, he said:
I was honestly shocked when we found out that the whole OS runs on microSD [...]

Written on December 26, 2009 | Posted in Nook, feature | No comment

Jeff Bezos on P-Book & Kindle & How I differ with Him on Issues

NewsWeek has recently published an interview with Jeff Bezos. Among many other issues, when he was asked whether P-Book will eventually go away, he said that he believed so:

I don’t know how long it will take. You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world. That’s [...]

Written on December 24, 2009 | Posted in News, Opinion, feature | No comment

A Christmas Surprise: Kindle for PC DRM Hacked & Cracked – Another DRM Fiasco

Okay, Amazon might be unhappy, probably all publishers as well; but the truth is DRM is not the solution to prevent sharing of ebooks in this digital era when programing has become much more collaborative on the net, and access to internet has become easier than ever. For a long time Amazon got immunity from [...]

Written on December 23, 2009 | Posted in Kindle hacks, feature, hacks | 1 comment

You Can Get Kindle Just Day Before Christmas with One-Day Free Shipping if You Order on December 23

Amazon has announced that if you order your kindle 2 on 23rd December, and choose one-day shipping on check-out, and you’ll get your kindle the next day – just day before Christmas. That’s so sweet! If you’re the one who couldn’t manage time to order kindle for you or as a gift for your lovely [...]

Written on December 22, 2009 | Posted in News, feature | No comment

How to Install Applications on Nook

Since the nook has been rooted by NookDevs a lot of people got interested on usability of nook with respect to installing android applications. And it’s now possible if you have enough courage to root your nook.
It’s not an easy job since you have to take apart the nook first, and you must have knowledge [...]

Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in Nook, eReaders, feature | 1 comment

Nook Has Been Hacked and Rooted By Dev Team

Do you know there is a Nook Dev team? Probably not until now. Yes, the team has torn off the nook, took out the micro SD card which contains the whole Android OS. They have used a card reader connected to a Linux computer that has Android Dev Toolkit installed to access the file system [...]

Written on December 15, 2009 | Posted in Nook, feature | No comment

Kindle For iPhone is Now Available More Than 60 Countries

Kindle for iPhone (also for iPodTouch) is now available 63 countries. Remember kindle books and kindle are available in around 100 countries; but iTune store is available for only 77 countries. So even if amazon wants to, they can provide kindle for iPhone application in all countries where kindle is available.
Here is the list of [...]

Written on December 14, 2009 | Posted in Kindle for iPhone, News, feature | No comment

Rivalry Between Amazon and Publishers Moving Fierce: An eBook Perspective

LATimes reports that five publishers – Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. are going to form a joint online storefront to fight Amazon’s power in the market in digital content. We have already listened unpleasant comments so many times from New Corp’s Rupert Murdoch regarding Amazon’s ebook business model. [...]

Written on December 9, 2009 | Posted in News, Opinion, feature | No comment