Mobile Fiction
Aldiko 2.0 released! Packed with new features, check this overview [video]
As I mentioned before Aldiko has released a new, huge update of, in my opinion, the best e-reading application for Android devices. A list of features is long and includes support for Adobe DRM books, in-app purchases, book lending from public libraries and advanced bookshelf management. If you have an Android smartphone or a tablet, [...]
Smashwords: e-book publishing and distribution made easy [presentation]
Have a look at this presentation from Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, the ever expanding e-book platform for modern authors and readers. The presentation is a great introduction to a self-publishing ecosystem based on a really smart business idea. In my honest opinion, Smashwords is the most convenient way to get published. “Publish once, [...]
The most absurd way to store and read books
People love it. I love it. This is so cool. I want it in my living room. I’ll roll 2 meters to the kitchen to make some coffee while reading 387th page of the Lost Symbol. Now, frankly, this thing is a totally inconvenient piece of appliance, definitely not designed to read books but to [...]
iPad e-reading apps part I: iBooks and Kindle [video]
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Parachute no limit
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Kurt Vonnegut’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. The director of an international airport was hanging from the ropes and checking their color in the sun, which graciously shone from between fiercely looking storm clouds. The ropes were suspended by carabiners from the [...]
Ebook Resell Markets: is the future of books in mobile e-book reading?
Here is a great article on mobile e-books by Marco Gustafsson from Digital Book Readers. That’s a good question. Does the future of books lie in the increasing popularity of mobile eBook reading? eBook readers have certainly advanced a great deal in recent months, partially because they allows people to access a large number of [...]
E-books: iPad is a Game Changer No. 2
Now, when everybody is crowding into discussions about iPad and it’s potential influence on e-book market, there must be somebody to write about a device, which changed the game already. Yes, it’s an iPhone. Big guys will never admit it because they can’t make that much money from a device being a game changer completely [...]
AndroGeek: Top Smartphone e-Book Apps for iPhone
It would seem as though smartphones are becoming the next biggest e-book platform. Image via http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com Recent news of ebook apps now exceeding the number of games on platforms like Apple’s iPhone and iPod. According to Mobclix, there are more than 27,000 app-based books available on Apple’s App Store, with games falling behind at 25,400, and [...]
TidyRead brings reading to mobile web
TidyRead is a fantastic service, which converts web pages into fast-loading, minimalist yet eye-pleasing versions, so that you can read them on your iPhone, Android or any other smartphone with a browser. How it works? You paste an url address of a page, click “Read” button and in a moment you’ll have it mobilized. The [...]
Mobile world: mobile fiction: eBooks
E-books have happily gone through the desktop phase. Now their destinations are eReaders, tablets and mobile phones. There is a place in this world for fiction books. Please read this great guest post about it. His author is a fellow mobile fiction writer – Small Stories. You can subscribe to Small Stories at Posterous. Please [...]
Will your future e-reader be a phone?
By Geoffrey A. Fowler On Tuesday, Hearst Corp. e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung’s mobile phone division to become its “preferred e-reading service partner.” That means that future Samsung smart phones, like the Galaxy S it unveiled at CTIA Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, will have built-in Skiff software [...]
Ul Fas Spe Rea Course
Blanka and Edmundo inhaled books by the truckload and even that was not enough. So they participated in an ultra-fast speed-reading course based on the Hi-Re method. After three days of intensive training they completed the course with honors. As a special prize, they received the longest novel published in the last three years, which [...]
Soup a priori
Wow, I Write Like gets really bizarre – this story was analyzed as Leo Tolstoy style. Get it for free with Password Incorrect collection. A certain unemployed mathematician from Afroasia worked out the Ligadul’s Law, based on which, and after considering a maximum number of variation, one could calculate the so-called near future (counted in [...]
Abnormales
“He is normally abnormal!” Clarisse (name on ID: Paul) said while biting into an unidentified piece of seafood hors d’oeuvre. “Who’s that?” Jonofi (name on ID: John) asked. “That Robert. Can you believe that he’s never in his life done amnesa?” “No! The dude is really wack. How you know him?” Onardo (name on ID: [...]
All-in-One EveryToy
A few days ago a new toy appeared in stores. It was a doll, or rather a robot doll with exchangeable parts, similar in concept to Kolego blocks, but bigger, more ergonomic and resembling realistic organs, which allowed for better chances of creative playtime. On its head, under the helmetphone and Busy Bee antennae, with [...]
The Language of Worldwide Communication
Professor Jeremi Przyrobacki from Poland and Professor Philippe Delaroussexemount la Rousse von Mount from Lotafranconia met at the 1st International Professors Congress in Vodafos dedicated to the dialog about the role of professors in the modern institutionalized, disorganized, miniaturized and softy restitutionalized world. Przyrobacki ran into la Rousse in the hall of the main conference [...]
Mini-Anti-Aggressor
Like many other inventors before him, professor Slawomir Suwak designed only the things he needed himself. He had several patents on his conscience already: an automatic cork opener for wine in the indicative state, a portable set of board games for solving personality problems, a wallet with a mini-device for the duplications of 100 zloty [...]
A man called Desk
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Cory Doctorow’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Christopher Warm had a sedentary job. On his keyboard he typed various letters and numbers, which would become computer programs. In his company he was known as Office Desk, because when he was working he [...]
Part-time evening elementary school
In September, a new and widely advertised school opened its doors in the capital city – the Part-time Evening Elementary School. You could read in its beautifully printed brochure that the school was designed to help all those “children of wealthy parents, who are too busy to learn during the day due to the time [...]
Mobile fiction – what is it and why is it at all?
Mobile fiction? What the hell is it? Another stupid name “invented” by a DIY author to describe his writing? Probably you’re right. But are you brave enough to give it a try? The fact that The New York Times didn’t write about it, doesn’t mean that it’s completely unimportant. What is it? Mobile fiction is [...]
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