Saturday, September 19, 2015

New budget version of the Kindle Fire released – Mobile

The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s own carpentry Androidplatta at least for the most part do not usually boast of specifications. On the other hand, the function as a cheap entry point to Amazon’s various services and trade stalls.

New Kindle Fire 6 follows the same template, with sextumsskärm and resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, quad-core processor at 1.3 gigahertz and Eight gigabytes of storage, it is hardly a powerhouse. But on the other hand, is the price tag of fifty dollars, or just over 400 SEK. There are simply so cheap that Amazon itself started selling the device not only individually but also in a six-pack for $ 250, that is, with a plate of purchase for anywhere in round figures SEK 2 000. If you would get for you to cope with all the family julklappsköp in one go as well.

The Amazon is however not established in Sweden yet, but import the plate, you can still shop in their store for, among other books, including for example, movie service is not working yet.

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Amazon Kindle vs Scribd: eBook subscription models Compared – Live Mint

E-books havebeen popular simply Because people like The convenience of being able to read them on Their phones, tablets and readers while traveling, During Their lunch break or even before falling asleep, and do not have to carry physical books. The Library of e-books HAS BEEN massive on services Such as Amazon’s Kindle, Scribd, Kobo, Nook and Google’s Play Books.

Now, Amazon HAS Launched the subscription service for Kindle users in India, where at a fixed monthly cost, users read from a collection over 600 000 books.

Incidentally, another e-book service called Scribd was Already offering a subscription service in India. We take a look at how the two compare.

Amazon Kindle Unlimited

Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Kindle readers

Kindle Unlimited victims Kindle readers access to 600,000 books without having to buy even one of them. For this, Amazon charges a monthly subscription fee of Rs. 199 (at present, there is a Limited Time Offer That charges a discounted rental of Rs. 99 per month). In terms of the cost, the Kindle Unlimited costs less than Scribd, but we Feel that the form’s collection of books available for users in India is not as impressive as What They casualties in the US and various European countries. While you will get to read Gone Girl and the entire Harry Potter series, most of the other titles are not exciting. We could not find the Scion of Ikshvaku by the Amish, Which incidentally is available as a separate purchase on the Kindle store.

However, the biggest edge That Kindle Unlimited HAS over Scribd Is that it works seamlessly across all Kindle apps and devices. Though its interface is clean and uncluttered, it is pretty basic-some of the images used in the book cover look blurry, but That is not a deal breaker. Amazon Has a lot of work to do with the Kindle Unlimited in India, And they can begin by bringing in more publishers, new books and audio books.

Scribd

Android, iOS,

The unique piece about Scribd Is that it Began With The subscription-only model. It charges about Rs. 624 per month and Gives you unlimited access to 400,000 e-books, 50,000 audio books, and overpriced comics on Both mobile and desktop. Also, there is a huge stack of literary research papers on Scribd, mostly uploaded by users. It’s not as well organized as the ebooks and other categories but They can be really valuable to some users.

It has a busy but smartly tabulated interface your current reading list shows on top, Followed by new books and Several other categories curated for readers of according to Their reading habits. For instance, if you are reading a book by Ernest Hemingway , the homepage will show a category on books by Hemingway with the entire collection of the writer’s work on the Great. Searching for books is as much fun as reading them. Every book Has a small excerpt Followed by reviews from other readers.

However, When It Comes To New launches it’s no better than the Kindle Unlimited, but we like it as It has a good collection of rare books, Which are not available on Kindle Unlimited, like Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman, published in 1964. It is a novel about life in public schools in the US in the 60s. The story is told through letters written by a young teacher to her friend, memos filed by her and conversations between students and the teacher.

Scribd carries books from all leading publishers Such as Penguin, HarperCollins, Macmillan. Their subscription is a bit costlier than Amazon, but the collection, variety and presentation given it an edge over Kindle Unlimited.

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Amazon spearheads Kindle revival with $ 50 Fire tablet, and new 8-inch and 10 … – Digital Trends

Amazon HAS Launched a completely refreshed range of Kindle Fire tablets, with four new versions in total, soon after rumors Began gathering of Their impending arrival. The headliner is a low-cost 7-inch model, Which is joined by a new Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 model, alongwith a revamped Kids Edition.



New Fire costs just $ 50

Fire Tablet Front The new Fire tablet is Amazon’s entry level device, and costs an almost impossibly cheap $ 50 Early leaks warned the tablet would not have a high spec, and sure enough, this is A very basic tablet – but it does have some interesting additions We were not expecting.

Related: Amazon snuffs out the fire Phone

It’s a 7 -inch display for a start, rather than the rumored 6-inches, but the basic 1024 x 600 pixel resolution is not going to win it many fans. Inside is a 1.3GHz quad-core processor that’s likely built by MediaTek, and a total of 8GB storage space. However, the good news is the Tablet Has a MicroSD card slot thatwill add up to 128GB of space to this figure.

There are overpriced two cameras, a 2 megapixel on the rear and a VGA cam on the front . Amazon’s mayday feature is installed, alongwith the latest version of Fire OS, named Bellini, complete with an updated UI and new features.



Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10

Fire HD 10 The Fire is joined by the Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 10. Both use the same quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear cameras, and 720p video recording front cams, plus providesprofessional dual- band Wi-Fi over the Fire’s single band connection.

The difference comes in the screen size, Which is either 8-inches or 10-inches – the resolution stays at 1280 x 800 – and the storage space. The Fire HD 8 HAS either 8GB or 16GB of space, while the Fire HD 10 HAS 16GB or 32GB. Both have microSD card slots to Increase this, and an average battery life of 8 hours.

Unsurprisingly, They cost more than the basic Fire, and you’ll need to part with $ 150 upwards for the Fire HD 8, and at least $ 230 for the HD 10, depending on your choice of storage space and Amazon Offers’s preference.

Amazon Fire Kids Edition

 Fire Kids Edition > Finally, there’s the New Kids Edition, Which wraps the basic Fire tablet up in a tough, kid-proof casing, and comes with a two-year guarantee That if your kids break it, Amazon will replace it for free. The tablet Also comes with a year’s subscription to Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, Which contains more than 10,000 apps, games, movies, and other media that’s ideally suited to little ones. The Fire Kids Edition costs $ 100th

All Amazon’s new tablets are available for pre-order right now, and have a release date of September 30

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Mother Seeks Information on seat Kindle – WXXV News 25

An Ocean Springs mother is looking for your help to identify a woman who stole a Kindle from a McDonald’s.
Gulfport Police confirm on Friday a woman walked into the restaurant and swiped the Kindle off of an unoccupied table. The mother tells News 25 the Kindle belonged to her 6-year-old child.
If you have any information on this crime, please contact the Gulfport Police Department at 228-868-5900.

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And now D & Q is available on Comixology and Kindle – Comics Beat

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Well, D & amp; Q was just about the last digital holdout Among prestigious comics publishers, but today They have joined the throngs with a full selection of books available bothering via Comixology and in the Kindle Store. Books you can download include Lynda Barry’s One! Hundred! Demon; Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City; Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds; and Anders Nilsen’s Big Questions and tons more of th greatest graphic novels ever made.

“It is fitting That on our 25th anniversary, D + Q moves forward with our list digitally with comiXology and the Kindle Store,” Said Drawn & amp; Quarterly Publisher Peggy Burns in a statement, “ComiXology won us over withtheir understanding of not just the comics industry, but the medium itself. Their team understands just how Carefully we Consider the life of our books. They made us feel perfectly at ease and we look forward to a long relationship. “

” Nothing gives me pleasure Greater than having Drawn & amp; Quarterly’s stellar catalog finally available digitally on Both comiXology and Kindle, “added David Steinberger, comiXology’s co-founder and CEO. “D & amp; Q celebrate Their 25th birthday this year, but comiXology and Kindle fans are getting the poison by being able to read These amazing books on Their Devices.”
Here’s a list of what’s available:
• Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge
• The Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry
• One! Hundred! Demon! by Lynda Barry
• Ed The Happy Clown by Chester Brown
• I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
• The Playboy by Chester Brown
• Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle
• A User’s Guide to neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle
• Goliath by Tom Gauld
• You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld
• Marble Season village Gilbert Hernandez
• Letting It Go by Miriam Katin
• Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
• Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan
• The Property by Rutu Modan
• Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
• Dogs and Water by Anders Nilsen
• Do not Go Where I Can not Follow by Anders Nilsen
• Daybreak by Brian Ralph
D & amp; Q Previously was available digitally only for the Kobo, a waning platform from the early days of digital. Joining The Other publishers available on These readily accessible Great Seems like a total no brainer. And if you have not read ay of the above books, I can only say, hurry hurry hurry.

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Chipotle team with the Amazon Kindle into writing contest – 9NEWS.com

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This is what Amazon’s 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet likely looks like – ZDNet

Earlier this month, reports of Amazon working on a $ 50 tablet overpriced mentioned a larger slate. Press Renders of Such a device leaked on Wednesday, giving us our first look at a possible 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet.

Noted tipster Evan Blass, who has great industry connections and thwart shared images of pre-announced Devices, tweeted the image EARLIER today.

There’s little to be gleaned from the image since it does not show any apps or interface tweaks That are new to the Kindle Fire software platform. Amazon calls it Fire OS and builds it from the free open source version of Android.

Currently, the Largest Kindle Fire tablet Amazon offers is the 8.9-inch HDX model.

Although That tablet is similar in size, I’d expect Amazon to continue selling the HDX; I do not see a 10-inch model Replacing it.

Instead, between a low-cost small model and the anticipated 10-inch version, it looks like Amazon is trying to Broaden the range of Kindle Fire tablets by offering something for every price range and screen size.

And every one of them is a sales terminal for Amazon purchases.

Unfortunately, That approach Means That Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets excellant face competition at Both ends of the spectrum.

The rumored $ 50 6-inch Kindle tablet would compete against low-cost tablet brands found in stores everywhere. And a 10-inch model, Which would surely be priced higher than the $ 399 8.9-inch base model gets into iPad territory.

To win a meaningful number of customers over, Amazon will need to bring more value -Add services and apps. That’s Difficult When The slates run a subset of Android apps and non-Amazon tablets have access to Amazon’s shopping and Content Services.

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Monday, September 14, 2015

Association to hold meeting to feature the Kindle as writer’s tool – St. Augustine Record

The Ancient City Chapter of the Florida Writers Association will hold its monthly meeting at 10 am Sept. 19 at the Main Library.

Speaker Pat Gaydos will address using the Kindle and its many apps geared toward writing, editing and researching manuscripts. She will show how to “Work Anytime, Anywhere” using the features That the Kindle victims and no other tablet does.

Among the features is a personnel email address thatgives the registered owner The ability to send documents to Their Kindle, plus an option That can convert a Document Directly Into the Kindle format. Thus, the author can view how the e-book Will Appear on the Amazon.com marketing site. In addition, registered Kindle users have access to an online page That stores all the highlights and notes; can turn-on the text-to-speech feature, open a manuscript and hear how it flows When read aloud. There is Also a free app Word That enables the user to open, write, edit, save and share Word documents. There will be much to learn in the informative talk about the benefits of the Kindle to writers.

Gaydos HAS taught digital photography at the University of Baltimore and Daytona Beach Community College. She now Teaches a Kindle Workshop through Flagler County’s Adult Education program. She has overpriced written and marketed a series of six Adobe Photoshop books, plus a how-to user guide Entitled Kindle and the Writer.

Meetings are held in Conjunction with the Friends of the Main Library, and all book sales Benefit Friends of the Library. Doors open at 10 am and the meeting, Which is free and open to the public, begins at 10:15 am For information, email Judy Weber at fwaacc@gmail.com.

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Kindle Unlimited: Good sampler for the avid reader – Business Standard

The service is great for ‘re-picking’ your favorite titles That you might have lost touch with

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One of the memories from my childhood is about the library period we’ve had in junior school. Every week, During a stipulated period, lasting 40 minutes, we would DISCUSS books we had read, or were tasked to read, thats month. For me, the highlight used to be at the end of the period, When books were lent out, of according to the role number. Since our roll numbers were alphabetically arranged of according to our surnames, in a class of 35 boys, I would Usually ask the 30th one to pick a book, mostly stuff no one wanted to read.

While I was disappointed with the rather limited choice, it did Introduce (and re-Introduce) me to certainement authors – Mark Twain’s writings outside of Tom Sawyer, Isaac Asimov (Whom my teachers had the foresight to Introduce at that stage), Arthur C. Clarke and PG Wodehouse. This overpriced suffered me to experiment with various genres right through my growing up years, courtesy of libraries.

The daily grind of working life ensured I was starved of books, reading only stuff I could beg, borrow or buy (both in physical and electronic forms). But this month, Amazon finally Launched the Kindle Unlimited service. For Rs 199 a month, I could have access to all that I could read; The caveat was one could “borrow” only 10 books at a time. Since the first month’s subscription was available at a discounted Rs 99 (the victim stands to September 30), this was a no-brainer.

Subscription into place, I eagerly Reached for a Kindle Paperwhite 3G, looking to Read the final part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. No sir, it was not available. In fact, quite a few of this season’s popular titles were missing. I was heartbroken to find thatmany titles I had picked up over the past few months at discount sales, were there for the taking. I should have saved up for Ghosh’s Flood of Fire.

The service HAS all the popular Kindle featuressuch as Whispersync, X-Ray and customer reviews. I borrowed the popular indie bestseller Wired by Douglas E. Richards and was hooked enough to try reading it across devices (you can read across six devices or apps) – from the White Paper to the Kindle app on my iPad. In fact, the addition of the “Book Browser” tab in the kindle app is a winner – it is given one access to all the titles (Amazon Claims there are over a million) Kindle Unlimited HAS to sacrifice. A caveat: All borrowed titles are deleted the moment you cancel a subscription. And the service is heavily populated by Amazon’s own titles and self-published novels.

The Kindle Unlimited service Has Its Competitors, most notably Scribd, Which a friend swears by. Also, many big publishers and popular authors are missing from the list. But If You Want to dip your fingers into certainement stuff Normally you will not buy to read, or like non-fiction a lot, this is a nice sampler.

itemprop " headline "> Kindle Unlimited: Good sampler for the avid reader

The service is great for ‘re-picking’ your favorite titles That you might have lost touch with

The service is great for ‘re-picking’ your favorite titles That you might have lost touch with One of the memories from my childhood is about the library period We had the junior school. Every week, During a stipulated period, lasting 40 minutes, we would DISCUSS books we had read, or were tasked to read, thats month. For me, the highlight used to be at the end of the period, When books were lent out, of according to the role number. Since our roll numbers were alphabetically arranged of according to our surnames, in a class of 35 boys, I would Usually ask the 30th one to pick a book, mostly stuff no one wanted to read.

While I was disappointed with the rather limited choice, it did Introduce (and re-Introduce) me to certainement authors – Mark Twain’s writings outside of Tom Sawyer, Isaac Asimov (Whom my teachers had the foresight to Introduce at that stage), Arthur C Clarke and PG Wodehouse. This overpriced suffered me to experiment with various genres right through my growing up years, courtesy of libraries.

The daily grind of working life ensured I was starved of books, reading only stuff I could beg, borrow or buy (both in physical and electronic forms). But this month, Amazon finally Launched the Kindle Unlimited service. For Rs 199 a month, I could have access to all that I could read; The caveat was one could “borrow” only 10 books at a time. Since the first month’s subscription was available at a discounted Rs 99 (the victim stands to September 30), this was a no-brainer.

Subscription into place, I eagerly Reached for a Kindle Paperwhite 3G, looking to Read the final part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. No sir, it was not available. In fact, quite a few of this season’s popular titles were missing. I was heartbroken to find thatmany titles I had picked up over the past few months at discount sales, were there for the taking. I should have saved up for Ghosh’s Flood of Fire.

The service HAS all the popular Kindle featuressuch as Whispersync, X-Ray and customer reviews. I borrowed the popular indie bestseller Wired by Douglas E. Richards and was hooked enough to try reading it across devices (you can read across six devices or apps) – from the White Paper to the Kindle app on my iPad. In fact, the addition of the “Book Browser” tab in the kindle app is a winner – it is given one access to all the titles (Amazon Claims there are over a million) Kindle Unlimited HAS to sacrifice. A caveat: All borrowed titles are deleted the moment you cancel a subscription. And the service is heavily populated by Amazon’s own titles and self-published novels.

The Kindle Unlimited service Has Its Competitors, most notably Scribd, Which a friend swears by. Also, many big publishers and popular authors are missing from the list. But If You Want to dip your fingers into certainement stuff Normally you will not buy to read, or like non-fiction a lot, this is a nice sampler.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Harpenden cancer survivor’s heartfelt insight into coping with illness Becomes … – Herts Advertiser

Nicola Bourne

A cancer survivor is celebrating Following the success of her first book about how to cope with the illness.

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Nicola Bourne, 35, of Cornwall Road, Harpenden, was inspired to write a book Following her near-fatal experience with advanced colorectal cancer in 2012 and in 2013.

The book, The Fabulous Woman’s Guide Through Cancer, flew straight to the Amazon Kindle top 15 books When It Launched last month and it remains in the top 50 today.

The non-fiction title shares hints, stories, information and ideas to help women through the illness .

Nicola, a mum of two, said: “I want The Fabulous Woman’s Guide Through Cancer to be a resource for anyone needing some reassurance and inspiration, So THAT no woman would I feel alone like I did.

“When I was Diagnosed with cancer, I found cancer books either very medical or memoirs, nothing That Answered the lifestyle questions That I had Such as how to talk to children or how to Help with the emotional side of the illness.

“I want the book to be inspirational but overpriced an honest representation and a practical help and guide to Those Affected.”

It features mail -operation styling ideas to stay social When ill, how to deal with doctors, ways to keep spirits lifted and What To Do When depression takes hold.

Since having cancer Nicola HAS built a strong social media Following with her honest blog posts about life with and after the illness, as well as living life to the full with a colostomy bag.

She documents currently attends the University of Hertfordshire reading English Literature and Creative Writing, after returning to study Following her illness. She writes for a number of publications on women’s health, cancer and living with an ostomy.

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