I recently ran across a story about a young Minnesota-based author who’s having tremendous success selling her books in eBook format via Amazon Kindle’s web store.
Her name is Amanda Hocking, and she’d collected hundreds of rejection letters from publishers before turning to self-publishing. Unlike traditional publishers, she offers her eBooks for about $1.00 per [...]
OK, maybe that title is a little harsh.
Perhaps a better title would be “When someone tells you they love their iPad because it functions as an eBook reader, you should be a little suspect of their claims, because they’re starting to sound like a fan-boy, simply parroting the ad-copy dreamed up in Cupertino, [...]
Who wants a nice listing of all of the books in their eBook collection?
I needed a list to share with a few friends, and even though I could have generated a simple directory listing, I wanted something a little nicer.
I found this tip over at the MobileRead forums.
If you use Calibre to manage your eBook [...]
The Kindle 1 has a couple of nice “clock hacks” that will show you the current time.
For instance, on the first generation Kindle, if you hit “Alt-T” on the main screen a clock will appear in the lower right hand corner.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on the Kindle 2 – hitting “Alt-T” does nothing.
There is a [...]
Had the strangest problem with my Kindle today. All of a sudden, my Recently Read Documents started showing up, well, backwards.
Not all of them – only the books I had recently read. So after I would read each book, it would disappear from the first page of my document listing.
At first I [...]
