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Amazon Kindle App Store Download Terms Restrict Developers
Engadget and Daring Fireball point out the Amazon’s recently announced app active content store is going to make it nearly impossible for developers to add any sort of internet connectivity without incurring hefty download fees. So let’s see, 16 shades of gray, limited motion and no connectivity. Fuuuun.
We were wondering how Kindle’s impending active content (read: apps) would be harnessing that free Whispernet bandwidth. As it turns out, there’s just a smidgen allowed for gratis. According to the terms laid out by Amazon, there’s a 70 / 30 revenue split, with that smaller percentage going to Bezos and co. “net of delivery fees of $0.15 / MB.” The price tiers is a little simpler: apps can be free if their download over 3G is less than 1MB and they use less than 100KB per month, per user.
Read More...Kindle for iPhone – Gives Books and The Real Kindle a Run For Their Money
As we move into the Apple Tablet era I wanted to test drive what the experience might be like so I downloaded the Amazon Kindle for iPhone Reader [FREE AppStore] from the iTunes Store. Kindle for iPhone is meant as a standalone or companion to an Amazon Kindle eBook reader. You can shop for books online using your Amazon.com account, purchase, download and read all in this clever little application.
Kindle for iPhone is a very light download so you’ll be up and running in no time, you just need to enter your Amazon.com account details. Then you are taken into a Safari browser session to pick out books. Couple of nice features, you can download decent sized free samples of any book you’re interested in and if you have a Kindle it will automatically sync up so you have one copy on the Kindle and one for the iPhone. I chose a cookbook about making Japanese food.
Read More...WSJ Makes Apple Tablet Official
Apparently the Wall Street Journal still has journalistic integrity, i.e. they don’t pass on every last unsourced rumor the web is happy to. So when they write up a deeply detailed description of Apple’s tablet plans to be unveiled on January 27th, we’re supposed to take this as gospel. Right? In a nutshell, what’s in store is massive changes to the ways we interact with textbooks, newspapers, magazines and cable TV. Here’s some highlights:
Read More...Apple Will Save Publishing and Redefine eBooks
Interesting article by Carly Z over at GearDiary in regards to the Apple Tablet as an ebook reader, which at this point is all but assumed. This piece is asking the question, Apple as a Bookstore: Savior of Reading or Doomsday Scenario?
Personally I have a feeling that it will be much more the former. That Apple will not only make huge strides toward saving traditional publishing but will also school all existing ebook efforts as to how its done. But first here are some of GearDiary’s points:
Apple Event Not Music Focused
Well it sorta makes sense as the music and later telco industries have been the intensive focus of iPod and iPhone related Apple events respectively for years. This morning All Things Digital reported some rumors on who would be part of the upcoming Apple tablet event. Of note is that music industry types would be low on the radar next to publishers, newspapers, magazines and books- in that order of preference.
Read More...HarperCollins in Talks With Apple for Enhanced Ebooks
According to the Wall Street Journal, leading publisher HarperCollins is in talks with Apple over enhanced ebooks for its tablet.
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out. More after the jump.
Read More...Apple Gets Official with January 27th Event
Believe it or not, all of the reporting we’ve been doing about Apple’s January 27th press event in San Francisco to purportedly unveil the tablet device has been based on rumor. That’s changed today as Apple has now officially confirmed the event at the Yerba Buena center to “come see our latest creation.” As first reported by Apple Insider’s tablet invitation, it looks like this:
Asus Brings Tasty eBook Reader to Market
Engadget points out this compact, WiMax-enabled e-book charmer from Asus:
ASUS is suddenly all chatty with its plans to enter the e-reader market in 2010. Just yesterday we got word of a 6-inch color (claimed to be OLED by InGear) e-reader from ASUS by the name of DR-570 headed to retail before the year is through. Now we’ve got details of a second ASUS e-reader, dubbed the DR-950 that should arrive sooner. This time we’re looking at a 9-inch Sipix panel with 1,024 x 768 pixel resolution pushing 16-levels of gray just like the Jinke reader unveiled at CES. The touchscreen DR-950 features text-to-speech (based on Svox engine supporting 26 languages), a web browser that works in portrait or landscape modes, a virtual keyboard and handwriting input, a RSS reader, and dictionary (with expandable database) with real-time translation.
Spec-wise, the 222 x 161 x 9-mm / 370-gram reader packs WiFi and HSPA (WiMax is optional) data radios, 3.5-mm headphone jack and stereo speakers, with 4GB of internal memory and SD Card expansion. Supported formats include PDF, TXT, Audible, MP3, and unprotected ePub. Not bad ASUS, not bad. Now let’s see some content partners, eh?
Head over to Engadget for more pictures.
Read More...Apple Tablet a Boon for Ex-Pats and Travelers
Apple’s tablet is expected to help resuscitate the publishing world by offering downloadable e-book versions of popular printed magazines, periodicals and newspapers through the iTunes Store. Perhaps this doesn’t seem all that exciting to the average American, but it could be a boon to travelers and ex-pats living abroad.
Read More...Apple Tablet Will Live or Die by Its Screen
Apple’s upcoming tablet has been often pitched as an ebook reader, which has led some analysts to speculate whether the device will feature an e-ink display like the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. Others think it will use the same LCD technology the iPhone and iPod Touch employ. Or perhaps it will feature an OLED screen like the Microsoft Zune HD and Google Nexus One. Speculation has been fueled by rumors that developers cannot get supplies due to Apple’s cornering of the market for 10.1-inch LCD and OLED displays in Asia. Whatever display technology Apple chooses will make a massive difference to the tablet’s success. Let’s take a look at the various display possibilities.
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