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What would make you buy a new Amazon Kindle?

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What would make you buy a new Amazon Kindle?

Amazon is trying all sorts of things with their current generation Kindles to try and get people to upgrade from previous generation models or get it for the first time. In 2020, the Kindle Paperwhite received new color options, Sage and Plum, in addition to white, black and blue models. The Kindle Basic has been shipping out 8GB models, to customers, instead of the stock 4GB edition. It is unknown if this was a mistake during the manufacturing process, or if the device will have double the storage going forward. These…

Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More

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Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More

A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers.  Goodreads has become a great place to go for sharing reviews, recommendations, ideas, and more since its debut in 2007.  While this is certain to be mutually beneficial in many ways, we have to assume that the goal here is to develop the Kindle Social experience into a real selling point for the eReader line. The Kindle has an interesting position with regard to social interaction. By its very nature it allows greater privacy …

TKC 249 Guy Kawasaki

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TKC 249 Guy Kawasaki

Founder of Alltop,  author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book Interview Starts at 13:55 People say, “Well, Guy, if you’re successful and more people become self-publishers there’s going to be more crap out there.” That’s true…. You could make the case that the cave-in started when Gutenberg had a printing press. Up till then you only had scribes working for the Pharaohs and the Pope and rich people. Let’s just face it: that horse is out of the barn, and that horse is procreating already, so you ain’t going to put it back in the barn. So now more people will write…

TKC 250 Vivienne Roumani

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TKC 250 Vivienne Roumani

Director of “Out of Print” Interview Starts at 16:37 He [Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos] wanted to give me a half an hour–he gave me 45 minutes. And it was really an amazing interview. He was very bright, very warm, very gracious, and you got the sense that he really wanted to do good. That’s the sense you got–of course, still being a brilliant businessman, and those are not mutually exclusive. Show Notes and Links: Intro Belmont Hill School News “Amazon is Going to Buy Liquavista” by Nate Hoffelder – January 21, 2013 “Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista — Color Kindle to Follow?” by Nate Hoffelder – May 13, 2013 The…

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TKC 251 Kevin Franco

President and Cofounder of Enthrill  Interview Starts at 19:27 Our system really will reward stores for doing what they do best, and that’s getting customers interested in books. We’re the only true answer for discovery for eBooks that doesn’t deal with metadata. Our discovery tools are all physical, and right back to the reason that you hire a designer to do your cover art, because you want it to be picked up and looked at and get people interested. So we’re very happy with that part of our business.  Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: …