Archive for August, 2011

Mr. Reader – an iPad RSS Reader with Lots of Useful Features

This post is not directly related to ebooks but it’s about reading on mobile devices, and if you are an iPad user you may find it useful. There are many RSS feed reading apps for iOS, designed exclusively to deliver content from Google Reader account. Most popular are Reeder, MobileRSS, NewsRack or Feedly. There is [...]

“Look Inside” for Kindle Books – 3 Tips for Authors

Recently Amazon added to Kindle Store a new, very useful feature – Look Inside. It is the same feature as Look Inside for printed editions but it’s showing the content of the relevant Kindle book. More details about the this functionality you can find in this post and now I’d like to focus on how [...]

Now “Look Inside” Feature Is Available for Kindle Ebooks!

Recently, somewhere around the launch of Kindle Cloud Reader, I’ve noticed another new functionality for Kindle users – and in my opinion this is big. Now Look Inside, the feature you well know from printed editions of books sold on Amazon, works also for Kindle ebooks! Already in late May some Kindle authors were reporting [...]

Easy Tip to Reduce Clutter While Browsing Amazon

Amazon is one of the most cluttered sites on the web. On average there are around 150 links on a single Amazon page, but this is not the only problem. Opposite to news sites or blogs, where main post area is rather easy to spot, you have to go through several information sections, bars and [...]

Links on Mobile E-books & Self-Publishing 07.08.2011

How to Preview Kindle Ebooks in a Web Browser

Sometimes, if you are on your computer and visit Kindle Store, you’d like to start reading a book immediately – before making a decision to buy. You can obviously send a free sample to a device connected with your account, but some people just don’t want to clutter their Kindles or Kindle apps with too [...]