Alright so I was extremely lucky and got to go to a big Samsung launch/training thing recently. As part of the event, I got the new Samsung Vibrant. The phone is completely awesome and I love it. The best part…. The built in Kindle!!! I know I have always argued on here that I don’t [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more. This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place. A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time. When I came across this [...]
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece So here we are in 2010. Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now. From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here. [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-07-22-ereader-network_N.htm?csp=34 So I happen to work at T-Mobile currently. In the past I have worked for Verizon, AT&T/Cingular, and Sprint. I tend to know what’s what in the cellular world so this news caught my attention today. Today AT&T announced that they will carry an electonical reading device next year. Hmm, sounds like Kindle, which [...]
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/amazoncom-plays-big-brother-with-a-famous-e-book/?apage=1 Should we be surprised that publishers are changing their minds on their books being available for e-sale? I’m not. If anything, this is only an omen of what is to come. It is a fairly well known fact that e-books tend to be cheaper than actual books. This makes sense because there [...]
So on http://calitreview.com/category/blog I would this entry… Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It: A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had [...]
