Pinterest blocks Amazon, KDP Select increases payout, and more…
Send to Kindle In a surprise move to keep its own site from crashing, Pinterest actually blocked prospective pinners trying to pin from Amazon last week on Black Friday. Apparently there was some...
View ArticleApple’s suit dismissed, Rayon is NOT Bamboo!, Home Depot fights, funnies, and...
Send to Kindle So Apple sued Amazon over the Amazon Appstore name, saying Amazon was deceiving a segment of its audience by using the name Appstore. Amazon answered, of course, and the lawsuit was...
View ArticleAmazon Auto-Rip, Kindle Utility Kit, DRM to be dropped? and more…
Send to Kindle Have you heard of Amazon’s new Auto-Rip? It’s a nifty new service that transfers free MP3 versions of CDs purchased from Amazon – yes, even past ones! Amazon has announced the service...
View ArticleOffline Competition, Waffle Iron Expert? Cloud App Update and more
Send to Kindle Well, the cruise fun’s about to end, and it’ll soon be time to come home. We arrive in the Port of Galveston in the morning, and in a few more hours, it’ll be time to get back to...
View ArticleAmazon Coins, re-using digital content, AWS more expensive than you think,...
Send to Kindle Got Coins, Amazon? Oh, no, that’s Amazon Coins – to be released in May. What is Amazon Coins? It’s a type of virtual currency to pay for apps, and, I suppose to get people hooked, Amazon...
View ArticleUnder the Dome at Amazon, Online shopping battle with Google, and How to...
Send to Kindle Venture Beat tells us that Amazon Prime users will be able to stream CBS’s new Stephen King show at the same time it’s airing on broadcast television. This is a first for the streaming...
View ArticleFree eBook, Even More Sales Tax Concerns, Amazon Redshift for Everyone, and...
Send to Kindle I have a happy announcement to make today! I have published an ebook (on Amazon, of course!) entitled Making a GREAT Living with Fulfillment by Amazon: Specific Answers to 30 Questions...
View ArticleAmazon’s iPad and Mini Cloud Player app is out, but don’t install!
Send to Kindle It appears that Amazon’s Cloud Player is now available for download, and it will store all your Amazon music purchases and a bunch of imported music (for free) and a bunch more (for a...
View ArticleEther Books Wants to Out-Amazon Amazon. Good Luck!
Send to Kindle EtherBooks claims that they are going to out-Amazon Amazon. The company will be selling mostly short articles and stories; fewer than 6,000 words, or about 15 times the length of this...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle: Expanded distribution of Kindle Fire, Barefoot Books...
Send to Kindle They say time flies when you’re having fun! Based on that, I’ve been having a TON of fun – and in actuality, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I took a little time off to acclimate...
View ArticleWho is Amazon Going to Buy Next? And Other AZ Happenings
Send to Kindle Amazon was recently in the news for the buyout of Goodreads. But Goodreads is the 42nd company to be absorbed into Amazon since it started in 1998. Over in Software Advice, David K....
View ArticleE-Reader Technology is now “Good Enough” and “Affordable Enough”
Send to Kindle I am a relatively recent convert to digital format books. For a long time after the first e-readers came out, I didn’t consider the technology good enough, but I knew the day would...
View Article“Package X-Ray” Feature Lets You See What’s Inside Your Packages
Lately, Amazon has been rolling a bunch of crazy deals as part of their “35 Days of Black Friday Shopping” which I’m pretty sure a lot of you have already took advantage of. If you haven’t yet, then...
View ArticleAmazon Prime’s New Perk Will Give You Fashion Advice
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot of news about Amazon’s plans to expand its private label fashion. In a span of 3 months, reports about an active wear line, lingerie and plus size fashion came out and...
View ArticleHere’s the App Millennials Can’t Live Without
Nope, it’s not Instagram… nor it’s Snapchat. Despite of young individuals always being on these social media networks, neither of these two apps made it into the top 5 “can’t go without apps” among...
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