Weekly links on e-books and self publishing 28.11.2009

Author: nizejpodpisany

Date: November 28, 2009

Category: English, Shared

Best “I Quit” Note You’ll See This Week (Found on the company computer after he left)
November 27, 2009
via buzzfeed.com
Elgan: 7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year
November 28, 2009
You can read them on mobile phones and on PCs, for example. (Even many Kindle owners these days read most of their books on their iPhones. ... See all stories on this topic
Our Computers Are Down
November 28, 2009
via Digg Similar in Geeky Fun: Computers Are Racist ! New: Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Recommended!Our Computers Are Down
Sony Daily Edition eBook Reader Available for Pre-Order · TechBlogger
November 28, 2009
Just like the PRS-300 and PRS-600 models, the Daily Edition works with multiple eBook formats, including ePub and PDF files. The Daily Edition comes with a soft cover and an A/C adapter for recharging the reader – accessories that the ... TechBlogger - http://www.techblogger.org/
iRiver Story e-reader on sale now
November 28, 2009
ElectricPig.tv Another week, another e-reader hits the shops. This time its the iRiver Story taking on the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle. Read on to see if it has what it ... See all stories on this topic
New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections
November 27, 2009
A new website aims to publicize the details surrounding the much-maligned iPhone application review process - Apple's secretive procedures that have been under heavy scrutiny this year, especially since the FCC's involvement regarding Apple's rejection of the Google Voice application. Notable iPhone...
100 Free Lectures That Will Make You a Better Writer
November 27, 2009
This article, from Caitlin Smith, originally appeared on the Online Universities Blog on March 9, 2009. Being a writer means you constantly evolve and grow in your writing knowledge. One way to aid in this evolution to becoming a better writer is by learning from what others have to offer. The fol...
This is how you get a literary agent or publisher
November 27, 2009
This post points you to a fantastic guide to putting a book proposal together, followed by my own account of unconventionally attempting to get a literary agent. Left: The first of many devices used to write my novel. Right: Reading at Hay in 2004. You know when you spend a couple of weeks thinkin...
Great Example of Author 2.0 Marketing and Connection…And What You Can Do Right Now!
November 2, 2009
It is a new world of book marketing out there, and it is brilliant to see how authors are embracing it! Here is a little story of what happened to me this week that I thought I would share, so you can learn from it and also tips on what you can do to replicate this kind of connection success. Last w...
Amazon offers Kindle 2 for $159 with Audible membership
November 27, 2009
Amazon is offering a $100 discount on Audible-ready devices for members of its $14.95/month Audible audiobook club, including the Kindle 2. This would reduce the price of the Kindle 2 to $159. While I make no bones that the Kindle 2 is not the perfect e-book reader, and Amazon is still doing some th...
Reading books on an iPhone
November 10, 2009
Usually, people assume that the iPhone is not the best device for reading books. And so most industry observers have been waiting for the advent of the (fabled) Apple Tablet as the device that (probably) would be the tipping point for an iTunes-like book store. However, here’s an interesting artic...
Virtual iPhone Phrasebook Brings Us Closer to the 'Babel Fish'
November 24, 2009
In Douglas Adams's best-selling novel The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler could stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines' iLingual iPhone app doesn't exactly realize his dream, but it's a step in the right...
IT PRO | Are ebooks and tablets the future for print media?
November 26, 2009
Will ebook readers and tablet PCs be enough to save magazines and newspapers? ... Related Tags. new media newspaper ebooks e-book reader tablet. advertisement. Latest Industry Public Sector News ... ITPRO - Mobile Telecoms - http://www.itpro.co.uk/
Mobile deal extends Wattpad audience by 110m – eBook Magazine
November 26, 2009
“India has always been one of the most important countries for Wattpads ebook service,” said Allen Lau, CEO and Co-founder of Wattpad. “Our launch on Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means more people can now access ... eBook Magazine - http://www.ebookmagazine.co.uk/
Cell Phone Readers Learning What Japanese Have Known for Years
November 26, 2009
It's taken a couple of years but it looks as if Americans are finally picking up on something the Japanese have been doing for years: reading books on cell phones. It may be a long time before it becomes the craze we wrote about last year - one Japanese publisher alone carries one million "keitai s...
Ommwriter: Be Alone with Your Thoughts
November 25, 2009
Between Skype, chat, texts, push news notifications and three screens of scrolling feeds, it's easy to get distracted while writing an email or post. If you've misspelled names, forgotten words or hit send prematurely on numerous occasions, then you probably just need to slow down. Rather than resor...
The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet
November 25, 2009
A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN doesn't measure website traffic. It's similar to T...
Amazon Improves Kindle Battery Life and Adds PDF Reader
November 24, 2009
Just in time to remind holiday shoppers, Amazon has announced an 85% battery life increase as well as a native PDF reader application for the Kindle digital book reader. Whereas the previous battery life topped out at about four days with wireless access turned on, the updated Kindle will run for se...
Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010
November 23, 2009
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.
how we read: an investigation
November 23, 2009
An extremely interesting new book by Stanislas Dehaene entitled Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention has just been released. Dehaene, a neuroscientist, is curious about exactly what happens in the brain when we read, a subject of much conjecture but previous little ev...
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