Nook HD+ Gets the Jellybean Treatment via N2A 16 December 2012 by Michael Kozlowski 8 Comments The Nook HD+ is a very solid tablet and gives customers in the USA and UK a ton of content to purchase. If you live outside those two countries, you are somewhat limited in the things you can buy. N2A has released a new Micro SD card that will turn your device into a full Android Jelly Bean experience. The process is quite simple; you insert the card into your tablet and boot … [Read more...] about Nook HD+ Gets the Jellybean Treatment via N2A
DC Digital: Timing Is Everything 16 December 2012 by 0 Comments A few weeks ago, DC Comics began selling single-issue comics via iTunes, Kindle, and Nook. Previously, DC only sold single issues via the comiXology platform (both the comiXology store its own branded store and apps, which are run by comiXology), although it has been selling graphic novels via Amazon for quite some time. As I mentioned in an earlier post, single-issue comics … [Read more...] about DC Digital: Timing Is Everything
Amazon Posts Bestseller List for 2012 16 December 2012 by Mercy Pilkington 0 Comments With only a couple of weeks to finish out the current year, Amazon has released its list of bestselling titles from 2012, ranging in different categories. Some titles, like the third book in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, held the list's top spots in different capacities, as they were stand-alone bestsellers and boxed set bestsellers. Sequels fared very well this year, at … [Read more...] about Amazon Posts Bestseller List for 2012
Google eBook Resellers Encouraged to Switch to Kobo 16 December 2012 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments The American Booksellers Association is encouraging everyone still selling digital content via Google eBooks to get ready for a change. January 7th is the final date current resellers need to bear in mind, so there is no interruption in the ability to sell ebooks. Google officially announced it was suspending support for their digital book ecosystem on January 31st 2013. … [Read more...] about Google eBook Resellers Encouraged to Switch to Kobo
Hans Christian Andersen’s Lost First Story Now on the Internet – The Tallow Candle 15 December 2012 by 0 Comments A historian in Denmark has found a previously unknown fairy tale by Andersen that is thought to be the first story he ever wrote. It was found in a box and was evidently written for a vicar's widow, leading scholars to believe The Tallow Candle was written as a gift. According to the Melville House blog, Andersen's works are second only to the Bible in their amount of … [Read more...] about Hans Christian Andersen’s Lost First Story Now on the Internet – The Tallow Candle
Top Tablet News – December 15th, 2012 15 December 2012 by Sovan Mandal 0 Comments Walmart offering iPad 4 for $399, iPad Mini on a roll, iPad shipment may reach 100 million in 2013 Walmart is offering a quite hefty 20 percent discount on the third gen iPad. The 16 GB Wi-Fi only iPad can be yours for just $399, the same as what Apple is charging for iPad 2 model. For those buying the most recent iPad 4, there is a bonus $30 iTunes card awaiting them, which … [Read more...] about Top Tablet News – December 15th, 2012
Programmer Begins Selling 100,000 eBooks on Amazon with New Algorithm 15 December 2012 by Michael Kozlowski 5 Comments When authors want to make a digital ebook, they have to sit down and write and rewrite and edit and rewrite again. It often takes a fair amount of time to pump out the written work. Philip M. Parker, who spearheads ICON Group International, seeks to defy this convention. He has developed a new methodology to write non-fiction material based on an algorithm. This has allowed him … [Read more...] about Programmer Begins Selling 100,000 eBooks on Amazon with New Algorithm
Google News Optimized for Tablets 15 December 2012 by Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments Google News is one of the the company's greatest strengths. Many people end up sending articles or genres of interest to their Google Reader or a slew of third party apps for Android and iOS. Google announced today that its web-based news service has been optimized for larger screen devices and now sports a cleaner look. You can find new articles, news sources, and even … [Read more...] about Google News Optimized for Tablets
Rumor: iPad Mini 2 to Have Retina Display 15 December 2012 by Sovan Mandal 0 Comments This seems pretty obvious, given Apple's present obsession to pack in as many pixels as is technically feasible, making it impossible for the naked eye to differentiate each individual pixel. The Retina craze started out with iPad 3 (among Apple's bigger screen displays), but has since made it to many MacBook devices as well, not to mention the new iPad 4. In fact, it came as a … [Read more...] about Rumor: iPad Mini 2 to Have Retina Display
Amazon Kindle Store May Violate Licensing Agreements in China 14 December 2012 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments Earlier in the week Amazon officially opened up shop in one of the world's strongest markets, China. The company never got the agreements that it needed to start selling Kindles and hit a snafu when it came to their cloud storage technology with regulators. Today it has been announced that the entire Kindle China operation may be in jeopardy due to an investigation from various … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle Store May Violate Licensing Agreements in China
