Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’

Do iPad or do I Kindle? – Part 2

Tom Evans | 5:08 pm 15 Jul 10 Comments 2

Should authors and publishers publish for the Kindle, the iPad, or something else? Some of the current options are:

- Print – not going away in a hurry
- Publish for the Kindle and iPad via the Amazon Digital Text Platform
- Publish for the iPad via the iBookstore
- Publish via a third party ebook app like Stanza
- Publish via an aggregator like Smashwords, Lulu, Myebook, Issuu

If you are an author, my advice is to write, create accompanying audio and video assets and by the time you are ready to publish, there will be more than one route open to you.

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Digital Text Platform, apple, Apple iBookstore, epub2, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, Issuu, Kindle, Lulu, Myebook, Smashwords, Stanza —

Do iPad or do I Kindle?

Tom Evans | 2:58 pm 29 Jan 10 Comments 1

Tom Evans is an author, author mentor, writer’s unblocker and e-publishing wizard. Follow his memes and musings on Twitter @thebookwright
The debate is not about which device is better than the others. It’s about authors and publishers embracing a whole new world of opportunity.

Much has been written over the last 48 hours or so about Apple’s [...]

Tags: Amazon, apple, E-book, IBook, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, sony, Sony Reader —

amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions

Jon Reed | 10:43 am 15 Apr 09 Comments 5

If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition Against Censorship to help you catch up.
But it’s over now, right? Amazon have said it was an error, they’re fixing it, it’s dropped from the top 10 trending topics on Twitter – get over it [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, censorship, Dubai Festival, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Margaret Atwood, National Coalition Against Censorship, Stephen Fry, Twitter —

amazonfail = PRfail

Jon Reed | 11:57 am 14 Apr 09 Comments 1

My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal:
“Why don’t they just burn the books? They’d be better off and it’s very visual on television.”
I still can’t quite believe that lovely, liberal Seattle-based Amazon would go in for the sort of virtual book burning we have seen at the weekend – [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, book burning, censorship, Channel 4 News, fail, gay, Gore Vidal, lesbian, PR, Twitter —

An open letter to Jeff Bezos

Jon Reed | 10:19 pm 12 Apr 09 Comments 13

Dear Jeff,
I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the most talked-about topic among the network of 5m+ users. This is an online expression of dismay at Amazon’s new and apparently discriminatory censorship policy.
If the version circulating on the Internet is correct, your new policy of [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, amazon rank, banned books, Brokeback Mountain, censorship, D.H. Lawrence, discrimination, homophobia, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Bezos, Lady Chatterley's Lover, LGBT, Stephen Fry —