Mobile Reading
Reading on mobile devices, especially cellphones is a fascinating topic. There are more than one billion smartphone users. Most of them haven’t discovered the pleasure of reading books on them.
6 Tips and Tricks to Use Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Kindle for iOS has just been updated to version 2.8 (iTunes link), which complies with Apple’s new in-app purchase rules. Kindle Store button was removed from home page – it was obvious. I’ve also checked endings of free samples to see what Amazon did with their Buy Now link, which in older versions was switching [...]
Which Links Shared on Twitter Are Mobile Friendly?
Recently Mashable published interesting numbers showing that Twitter users are likely to share a story without actually reading it. In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that users are afraid of opening links on their mobile phones. And as much as 37% of users access Twitter via mobile devices as this infographic shows. [...]
5 Tips on How to Use Your Smartphone to Read Ebooks
In this article I’d like to share tips on how to use your smartphone as an e-reader. Nobody wants you to read long novels on this decent device. Just the opposite – enjoy its most prominent features: mobility, connectivity and instant access. Based on my personal experience (I’m reading on an iPhone since late 2008) [...]
How Mobile Phones Can Extend Our Daily Reading Experience
Reading on mobile phones is a subject of my continued fascination. How to help people read e-books on their phones? What to do to overcome popular prejudices? Certainly, mobile phones won’t be a primary e-reader for anyone who wants to read more than occasionally, but they can be very useful as a supporting, emergency device. [...]
Use Mobile Twitter to Discover and Instantly Buy Kindle E-books
How much time do you spend on Twitter every day? Do you connect with a service via your mobile phone or a tablet? This article is for you. Do you know that you can use Twitter as a quick and convenient way to download Kindle ebooks? You can start reading a book in a couple [...]
8 Myths About Reading Books on a Mobile Phone
According to Wikipedia there are 4.6 billion mobile phones in the world. It’s a huge number. But people don’t try to read books on them. In this post I’d like to address some of the most popular reasons, which prevent us from doing it. The screen is too small This is true – if you [...]
4 Ways to Turn Your Mobile Phone Into an E-reader
According to The Economist there are about 5m e-readers in circulation worldwide and double that amount will be sold in 2010. Let’s compare it to touchscreen phones: 184m sold last year, 97% growth is predicted for 2010 (Gartner). Mobile phone is a music and video player, gaming console or a mobile office, so why not [...]
Do I Care About Mobile Readers? [Checklist]
Year 2010 has already been called “The Year of the Mobile”. Internet activity is shifting from desktop computers to laptops to tablets to mobile phones. This is an inevitable trend. People play music on mobile phones, update their social networks, watch movies and even play games. What about reading? It seems to be one of [...]
15 Free Tools to Mobilize Your Blog
Mobile web is growing at an extremely fast pace. Google says, that “50% of all new internet connections in 2009 will come from mobile phones”. According to the latest report by AdMob, data traffic created only by iPhone/iPod Touch has increased 19 times(!) from September 2008. Can mobile users read your blog? There are several [...]
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