I've got a similar 13" ereader. I really don't think it's any good for reflowable formats.
A device that size is less an ereader than it is a document display tool, if that makes any sense.
Speaking as a guy who wrote about it at the time, lots of erotica was pulled from the major ebookstores for a time. (I don't think Monster erotica was included, but it could have been.) And to be clear, there was no ban on monster erotica. It was being sold, and is being sold.
Then why not upload them to Amazon's cloud and download them from there?
I'm not faulting you for preferring the offline solution, but there is another option.
Given that the new terms are voluntary and limited to just KU, this will likely be fine for everyone.
What the above summary missed was that the new payment terms only apply to the books authors put into Kindle unlimited, and not to the entire Kindle Store.
http://the-digital-reader.com/...
Amazon made the change to encourage authors to submit longer works to KU. The old terms were based on per ebook read, not page. That favored short works over longer works.
It turns out that he did have a formatting issue in the ebook:
http://the-digital-reader.com/...
The author coded the ebook by hand and used minus signs in place of hyphens. While that would look okay when you read the ebook, a TTS engine would have issues.
There was an outbreak of a mutated form of the Ebola virus in Reston, VA in 1989. Humans were not susceptible, thank god, just the lab monkeys which had been imported from Africa,
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Do you know what would explain the difference? The fact that only 2 people from the Kindle group had used one before. That is going to throw the results, I think.
I don't think it's co-owned. Read the article I linked to.
Also, I can't find any other affiliate links to Amazon, so there is no evidence to support the idea that "whenever a title is mentioned, link to the appropriate Amazon page". If that were the case then song titles would also link there.
Did anyone else notice that the affiliate tag on the links suggest that the links belong to Slate magazine and not the newspaper?
For the record, Bezos didn't buy Slate last year, and I don't think he owns it now.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/mon...
Given the unanswered questions, I'm going to assume there's more to this story. I think this could be a syndicated article which arrived with the links. Or perhaps something broke in the WP's servers, I don't know.
But I do know that I checked a half dozen other articles and didn't see any affiliate links.
A vendetta? Not at all. I just thought that was an interesting detail which might interest slashdotters. If it came out badly phrased then it was because I was distracted by other things.
Here's an interesting detail not in the original post. According to what the bookstore director told me, the UC Davis bookstore only earned around $140 thousand in affiliate commissions in the first 6 months. Considering that the bookstore had revenues of around 20 million dollars last fiscal year (July to June 2014), the partnership doesn't look like it is worth anything to the bookstore.
http://the-digital-reader.com/...
This is a bogus complaint.
First, WHSmith can't add DRM. Their ebookstore is provided by and run by Kobo.
Second, that label has been changed in less than a day. The ebooks no longer say that they have DRM, and that suggests this was just a website bug: http://www.whsmith.co.uk/EProducts/Bangkok-Burn-Bangkok-Series-1+eBook+KB00106286902
This is not a valid comparison.
Is that 3 year old a long term user of Windows? Then he does not reflect the average user who will have trouble switching over because they are used to the current interface.
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So does this mean I can now insert a smartphone and get a woman pregnant? No? Then it's not an app.
I've got a similar 13" ereader. I really don't think it's any good for reflowable formats. A device that size is less an ereader than it is a document display tool, if that makes any sense.
Son'y device was marked down, and now sells for $800. And another similar model is up for pre-order.
"The right-hand side of the page will be left free for Google's own Product Listing Ads. "
... will be replaced by a different type of advert? That doesn't exactly sound like Google is ditching anything.
So the ads in the sidebar
Yes. Here's a post which explains why that is the case: http://the-digital-reader.com/...
Speaking as a guy who wrote about it at the time, lots of erotica was pulled from the major ebookstores for a time. (I don't think Monster erotica was included, but it could have been.) And to be clear, there was no ban on monster erotica. It was being sold, and is being sold.
Uh, Amazon didn't ban monster erotica - or dino erotica: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb... The guy clearly doesn't know what he us talking about
Then why not upload them to Amazon's cloud and download them from there? I'm not faulting you for preferring the offline solution, but there is another option.
Given that the new terms are voluntary and limited to just KU, this will likely be fine for everyone. What the above summary missed was that the new payment terms only apply to the books authors put into Kindle unlimited, and not to the entire Kindle Store. http://the-digital-reader.com/... Amazon made the change to encourage authors to submit longer works to KU. The old terms were based on per ebook read, not page. That favored short works over longer works.
If they haven't named the craers yet, I suggest we call them Mel Gibson's career.
It turns out that he did have a formatting issue in the ebook: http://the-digital-reader.com/... The author coded the ebook by hand and used minus signs in place of hyphens. While that would look okay when you read the ebook, a TTS engine would have issues.
There was an outbreak of a mutated form of the Ebola virus in Reston, VA in 1989. Humans were not susceptible, thank god, just the lab monkeys which had been imported from Africa, : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
For those who can't find the link to the original article, here it is: http://librarycity.org/?p=1097...
Do you know what would explain the difference? The fact that only 2 people from the Kindle group had used one before. That is going to throw the results, I think.
That is the same article I linked to and which the other commenters aren't bothering to read. Kudos for finding the correct info.
I don't think it's co-owned. Read the article I linked to. Also, I can't find any other affiliate links to Amazon, so there is no evidence to support the idea that "whenever a title is mentioned, link to the appropriate Amazon page". If that were the case then song titles would also link there.
Did anyone else notice that the affiliate tag on the links suggest that the links belong to Slate magazine and not the newspaper? For the record, Bezos didn't buy Slate last year, and I don't think he owns it now. http://www.slate.com/blogs/mon... Given the unanswered questions, I'm going to assume there's more to this story. I think this could be a syndicated article which arrived with the links. Or perhaps something broke in the WP's servers, I don't know. But I do know that I checked a half dozen other articles and didn't see any affiliate links.
A vendetta? Not at all. I just thought that was an interesting detail which might interest slashdotters. If it came out badly phrased then it was because I was distracted by other things.
Here's an interesting detail not in the original post. According to what the bookstore director told me, the UC Davis bookstore only earned around $140 thousand in affiliate commissions in the first 6 months. Considering that the bookstore had revenues of around 20 million dollars last fiscal year (July to June 2014), the partnership doesn't look like it is worth anything to the bookstore. http://the-digital-reader.com/...
This is a bogus complaint. First, WHSmith can't add DRM. Their ebookstore is provided by and run by Kobo. Second, that label has been changed in less than a day. The ebooks no longer say that they have DRM, and that suggests this was just a website bug: http://www.whsmith.co.uk/EProducts/Bangkok-Burn-Bangkok-Series-1+eBook+KB00106286902
This is not a valid comparison. Is that 3 year old a long term user of Windows? Then he does not reflect the average user who will have trouble switching over because they are used to the current interface.
I guess I'm the only one who saw Star Trek. Kirk got it on with a lot of alien babes.
Except I'm only on Facebook just barely enough to have a page for my blog, so that doesn't count.
I'm told that it's not a complete set of source code. - signed, guy who submitted the story.