from Ebook Friendly » Tips & More by Piotr Kowalczyk Kindle Daily Deal / Amazon I’m tracking Kindle Daily Deal since the very beginning. I’m also watching Kindle Daily Deal in UK and Germany, as well as Nook Daily Find – B&N’s answer to ebook deals from Amazon. It actually doesn’t take a lot of time to notice that those deals are about the attractiveness of the price, not the book.… (more…)
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Buying a Kindle Fire for Europeans. Worth the trouble?
Dear reader, This might be an interesting article for European e-reader friends. I found it and thought it good to share: “Recently, a friendly colleague brought a Kindle Fire back to the Netherlands after his US trip. I had bugged him for weeks to buy this tablet for me because I really think the Fire matches my needs: “reading books and… (more…)
Amazon and foreign languages
Dear reader, It seems that Amazon is doing some very strange things with respect to foreign languages. On the friendly website of EbookFriendly.com, I found this article, which I will post here verbatim: (start quote) Amazon Is Removing from Kindle Store Books Published in Unsupported Languages The international policy of Amazon is mysterious. They ship Kindle Touch to over 170… (more…)
Kindle Devices: Availability and Prices for International Users
KINDLE 4 | PHOTO: AMAZON.CO.UK In this post I’ll track changes in prices and availability of Kindle devices for non-US customers. I’ll update it every time a price will change or a new model will become available. The chart below lists devices in Kindle Stores localized in six countries: US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Kindle devices from US… (more…)
Improvement in tablets may ‘doom’ the e-reader
via TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics by Chris Meadows Is the e-reader doomed? According to Matt Alexander on The Loop, it might just be on its way out as tablets get better and better. Alexander’s argument basically boils down to the fact that e-ink is an intermediate step, a necessary compromise between readability and… (more…)
How-to: Add Public Domain Books to Kindle
Each year’s January 1st is the Public Domain Day. In many countries, including the USA and European Union countries, the copyright terms expire 70 years after the death of the author. After that time a work enters the public domain. It means that it becomes fully available for everyone and can be used freely for any purpose. Authors entering the public domain in… (more…)
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