A post appeared last month from Sarah Lacy, former senior editor at TechCrunch and now founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. In this post, Lacy shared part of the contents of an email from a not-to-be-named publishing executive who blasts Amazon yet again for damaging the business of publishing and bookselling. While the executive’s email takes some cheap shots at the … [Read more...] about Perpetuating the Stigma of Indie eBook Publishing
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Amazon-Sized Rumors After Signing a Deal with Bango
The people at Amazon can’t buy tissues without someone speculating that the company has a cold. While rumor mills can prove to be annoying, especially in the world of instant access to internet press releases, there’s a reason why it’s so fun to guess at what a tidbit of news might possibly mean: Amazon does some cool stuff. So when UK-based publicly-traded Bango was … [Read more...] about Amazon-Sized Rumors After Signing a Deal with Bango
TechCrunch Has Seen the New Amazon Tablet, Due in October
How exactly would a single person go about breaking Twitter? By posting an article declaring that he has seen, held, and used the new Amazon tablet, due out this fall. That’s precisely what happened when TechCrunch’s MG Siegler posted his article only a few hours ago, an article that already has over 2,000 “likes” on Facebook and has been picked up by tech watchers all across … [Read more...] about TechCrunch Has Seen the New Amazon Tablet, Due in October
Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich explained
Summers and ice cream have always been intricately related but it seems its going to be special this summer. Reason? Well, its none other than Google that too will be joining the ice cream race this year, albeit the enhanced Android version that the search giant unveiled at the Google I/O event. Launch of the software would be held in the fourth quarter and the reason why its … [Read more...] about Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich explained