Amazon Kindle and other Electronic ebook readers » Ebooks http://ebookreaderscentral.com Amazon Ebook reader Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:21:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Best Selling Author to Write for Kindle http://ebookreaderscentral.com/selling-author-write-kindle/ http://ebookreaderscentral.com/selling-author-write-kindle/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:33:32 +0000 Admin http://ebookreaderscentral.com/?p=195 A moment all publishing companies have been dreading since the first ebook reader device went on sale, the first top selling author has signed to write exclusive content for Amazon Kindle.

7habits Best Selling Author to Write for KindleStephen R. Covey author of many top selling books among which is “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and “Principle-Cantered Leadership” which has sold more than 15 million worldwide, has signed an exclusive deal with the ebook retailer to only distribute his books through the Amazon Kindle Store.

A move that will set apart Kindle from its competitors and that may convince many readers to switch from traditional books to electronic books.

This much feared deal will see a change in the book publishing company where authors are searching for a bigger cut of the royalties of the book by skipping the traditional publishers, this will also set Amazon ahead of its fierce competitors Sony and Barnes & Noble.

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One of the reasons Kindle competitor claim their product is better than kindle is their compatibility with the extensive Google Free Ebooks library

While Amazon Kindle is not yet  compatible with the open ePub eBook format which gives Sony Ebook readers access to the entire Google Ebook Publick library, this library is mainly composed of public domain classics such as Jules Verne, Jane Austin and Mark Twain’s books.

But the key here is that these are public domain books which are equally available for Amazon Kindle users through the Amazon store. The problem is that Amazon seems to make it hard for Kindle users to find these books.

Here is a list of the cheapest Ebooks you can find on Amazon:

Still the fact that you can get books through Amazon’s Whispernet gives the Amazon Kindle the advantage over it’s inmediate competitors, such as :

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The agreement between both companies, which no economic details have transcended, will allow Sony to offer some competition to his great rival, Amazon’s Kindle Google Shares half a Million Ebooks with Sonys Ebook reader
. In fact, the owners of e-book from Amazon can now buy about 250,000 books in that shop online, The New York Times reports.

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, however, does not seem very worried. First, its digital library has fewer titles, yes, but today they have the best selling books catalog, they have Stephen King, Tom Clancy, etc.. And therefore are much easier to reach the public.

Among the books that Google has made available to users of the Sony Reader Google Shares half a Million Ebooks with Sonys Ebook reader are public domain titles whose copyrights have expired, ie, published prior to 1929.

Google has proposed to digitize all the books that are edited and published in the world and has launched a multimillion dollar advertising campaign in the media of paper informing writers about their project.

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You can now use your iPhone or iPod Touch to read Kindle books with the new free Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch application that Amazon is offering for free.

Choose from earth’s biggest eBook selection of over 240,000 books Free Kindle Books Reader for Ipod at the Kindle Store and get books auto-delivered wirelessly to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

  • New York Times bestsellers and new releases $9.99 unless marked otherwise
  • Free book samples: read first chapters for free
  • And all the latest books delivered directly to your Ipod.

You can also shop at Amazon.com on your iPhone using the Amazon Mobile App.

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Kindle is nowhere to be found

Amazon has run out of Kindle. The Ebook reader Kindle from Amazon was not an easy product and, in fact, there’s still time until the electronic book is consolidated, but the results are very good. About a year has passed since the Amazon Kindle was released and it already has accumulated sales in excess of 250,000 units. However, rather than sales of the device itself, Amazon’s great success is reflected in the download of virtual books, which accounts for 10 percent of the total sales of books.

Has the fact that Oprah recommended Kindle influenced the sales? maybe!

The Kindle is known as the iPod for books, for having been able to offer the best product of its kind to date and become, therefore, the most popular. Amazon.com put it on sale in November 2007 and its sales have been rising gradually for various reasons, including a publicity campaign órdago.

To begin with, born under the wing of a store like Amazon is already a guarantee. In remarks to CNN picked up by other press sites, the technology editor of Consumer Reports, Paul Reynolds, said in this sense: “You can not deny the importance that Amazon has had overalll behind this.” But if that was not enough, Kindle has been promoted in a TV program by none other than Oprah Winfrey, who exercised great power in the publishing world with usual recommendations of books.

ADVANTAGES OF DESIGN

However, the beauty of the technology is also responsible for the success of Kindle. Unlike its major competitor, the Sony e-reader, the product Apple does not need a USB cable to transfer the virtual books. This is a wireless device using a technology known as Whispernet. “I believe that the Whispernet is what puts Kindle apart from other e-readers on the market, felt the writer Leslie Nicoll, who has published the book ‘Frequently Asked Questions and Answers on the Amazon Kindle.”

Since then sales data for Kindle isbeyond doubt. Although the titles available in digital format for the device are around 200,000, a tiny figure compared with the huge supply of books at Amazon, in total sales in the latter years of e-books accounted for no less than 10 per cent. In total, Amazon sold 250,000 units of its product, which is now exhausted and has a waiting time of 11 to 13 weeks.

The company is already working on a new model of Kindle that is expected to appear in 2009, with improvements in the design. Although more data is not yet known, it was speculated that it will be thinner and improve the distribution of buttons, which in the current design takes users to accidentally switch pages sometimes. Its price on the Amazon site is 280 euros (359 dollars).

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1. Leather Executive Jacket for Amazon Kindle

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It reads like a book, it can store hundreds of books but if there is something that the Amazon Kindle doesn’t look like is a book.

Why not changing it’s appearance as well as protecting it with a stylish leather jacket?.
Nice colors to choose from and this way our gadget will call less attention to those friend’s of stealing other people’s items in the subway.

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2. Emergency Battery Charge Extender for the Amazon Kindle TOP 5 Accessories for Amazon Kindle

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Emergency Battery Charger for Kindle

Yo are in the last pages of that captivating book that has kept you out of any social life for the past to weeks, you are on the bus to work and all the sudden your Kindle revels on you and decides to shut down!!! what a terrible situation, you won’t be able to survive the day without knowing what’s going to happen to Cheryl and Matt in that godforsaken island.

This emergency battery will save your mental health for the day and charge your Kindle so you can continue reading until you are able to recharge the Kindle properly.

Buy it in Amazon here for less than $20

3. The Ultimate Messenger Cool Bag for Amazon Kindle

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The Ultimate Messenger Cool Bag for Amazon Kindle

Unisex, Stylish and practical, what more can you expect from a bag, because let’s face it the Amazon Kindle is no light weight to be carrying around in your hands.

You’ll look like a 40′s schools boy with this trendy bag for the Amazon Kindle

Buy it in Amazon here for less than $70

4 Kingston 32 GB SDHC Class 4 Flash Memory Card SD4/32GB

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SD HC 32GB Memory card

Until the full color Ebook readers are invented, there is little room for improvement, this device is already light enough to carry it around, the battery lasts for ages and it already plays music, so the best way to improve your Amazon Kindle is to expand it’s memory capabilities and right now the best choice is this 32 GB Memory card.

If only they had had this in Alexandria they wouldn’t have needed such a big library!

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Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Clip-On Light

If there is a flaw I think in Amazon’s Kindle is that it’s not backlit, I guess it clashes it’s philosophy of not tiring the eye and resembling as much as possible a paper book, but what if we are in a dark place? we still have the right to read even in the darkest places aren’t we?

This little light solves the problem with a very clear and intense beam of light produced by leds which makes it a lot better that the standard bulb lamps.

Buy it in Amazon here for less $14

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  • Connects to the Internet and downloads content through a wireless network for mobile
  • There is no need to synchronize with a computer to renew your library
  • The company already has a catalog of 90,000 titles to 9.99 U.S. dollars each
  • It has an internal memory of 185 MB and supports SD memory cards

    • The On line shop Amazon, known for selling books and CDs over the Internet, has launched its first ‘e-book’, Amazon Kindle. A portable device on which you can download books, newspapers, blogs or access Wikipedia without cables and without having to synchronize with a computer.

    Kindle has an electronic ink display of six inches and a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels. In addition, it plays a scale of four levels of gray. According to the company, reflects the letters as if it were paper and has no backlight, making it easy to read along with the possibility of expanding the size of the text.

    “We’ve worked on Kindle for more than three years. Our goal is to design it disappears in your hands and you can enjoy reading,” says Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, who also emphasizes its wireless connectivity and that does not A computer for ‘loaded’ with new readings.

    This system, called Amazon Whispernet, uses technology EVDO, a data transmission system for high-speed telephone networks. Thus, users can download new content Kindle without searching for a connection point and free, as Amazon pays the bill for her connection.

    The funds in his shop are the major asset of the company to succeed his device in an area where other large, such as Sony or Microsoft, they have not come to fruition. Amazon has more than 90,000 titles and 100 ‘best sellers’ ready to be downloaded to 9.99 U.S. dollars, a price far lower than in the printed books. However, we must have the 399 U.S. dollars it costs to the device.

    Moreover, as if it were a book on paper, it is possible to make notes in the margins and edit, remove or ‘draw’ these notes of the device. Even pages can be marked for use later. They also can store text documents, images and sound, at a price of 0.10 U.S. dollars each.
    Not just books, also news

    One of the strengths of this’ gadget ‘is that it also allows you to download newspapers, magazines and blogs to subscribers. From the retail store to browse Kindle may be as normal and choose from the newspapers as’ The New York Times’ or ‘Le Monde’, magazines like ‘TIME’ or blogs like ‘Boing Boing’. You can also access the ‘The News Oxford American Dictionary’ and Wikipedia.

    The editions are updated automatically during the night, so that the user has them available when waking up. The daily press service costs between 5.99 and 14.99 U.S. dollars per month, the magazine between 1.25 and 3.49 U.S. dollars, and the blog-over 300 -, 0.99 U.S. dollars a month for subscription.

    In Kindle’s memory you can store more than 200 titles (185 MB), but it is possible to extend it with SD memory cards. In addition, all books that are purchased will be ‘copied’ on Amazon.com’s user account, so it is always possible to retrieve them, since you can connect to a computer through its USB input.

    The battery is another of its strengths, as it connected to the wireless network lasts a full day and, without doing so, more than a week. In addition, it is completely recharged in two hours, according to what Amazon says.

    A device ready to use just out of the box. No need to install any software or perform a complicated configuration. High technology for the average user. The only question is whether the average user is willing to pay for things you can get free to turn the Amazon Kindle into the ‘iPod for books’.

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    Amazon Kindle Ebook Reader Review

    • It’s electronic-paper display provides a very sharp, really high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper without tiring your eyes.
    • It’s very simple to use: you need no computer, no cables and no syncing with anything.
    • It’s provided with Wireless connectivity which enables you to shop the amazon Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in a coffee shop, at any airport, or in the toilet.
    • Just to buy a book will take seconds and it is auto-delivered wirelessly .
    • So many books available, actually more than 190,000 books,  which include more than 105 of 112 current New York Times® of the Best Sellers.
    • New York Times® Best Sellers and also New Releases are only $9.99, unless they are marked otherwise.
    • You get countless free book samples. You can download and read first chapters in your Kindle before you decide to buy.
    • You can also read U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; as well as top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes.
    • You can also read top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times- all in your Kindle wirelessly.
    • Even more, you can browse more than 1000 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, entertainment, sports, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly during the day when your Kindle is connected to the Internet.
    • So much lighter and so much thinner than a typical paperback; your Kindle only weighs only 10.3 ounces.
    • You can store over 200 titles in your Kindle.
    • The battery lasts really long. If you leave your Kindle wireless on you’ll need to recharge approximately every other day. But if you turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in only  2 hours.
    • Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
    • No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—Amazon Kindle takes care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
    • It also includes free wireless access to the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
    • You can also email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for using the  easy on-the-go viewing.

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