Ether Books Wants to Out-Amazon Amazon. Good Luck!

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EtherBooks claims that they are going to out-Amazon Amazon. The company will be selling mostly short articles and stories; fewer than 6,000 words, or about 15 times the length of this blogpost. This length of e-book is aimed squarely at the smartphone market, and the new attention-span-challenged generation. EtherBooks’ claims to fame include: [...]

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Auto-Rip for Vinyl, eBook Cover Designer, Discounting MacMillan books, and more…

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Have you used Amazon Auto-Rip? That’s the service where you purchase a CD and get the MP3 version free. This service started in January 2013, and I mentioned it in this post. Now, Amazon has introduced an extension of the popular service to purchases of vinyl records. Any vinyl purchases made dating back [...]

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No more ads, AZ’s return policy, .pin up for grabs? and more…

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I feel so bad! I didn’t even come up with some stupid, scary story yesterday to get everyone all upset, and then at the last minute save myself with a “Happy April Fool’s.” Face it: I have no personality. So I guess you all are stuck with the real news of the day, [...]

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Send to Kindle, raising Apollo 11 engines, nudity in advertising, and more…

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Hey, did you see the new button on the site? Yes, THAT one, right above this paragraph!  Now, I don’t know whether Amazon is reacting to Google’s impending shut-down of Google Reader, or if they have other reasons, but they have developed a plugin that will send any blogpost to Kindle, if the [...]

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Happy Birthday to your friends, Lawsuit by small merchants, Google/Amazon rivalry again, and more…

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Can’t figure out what to buy someone for their birthday, and couldn’t afford it anyway? You might be just the candidate for Aggregift, a service that allows users to crowd-fund gift campaigns on Amazon! Using Aggregift, you can all work together, using social media such as Facebook as well as Amazon, to get [...]

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Amazon wants “.book” – others object, SimCity temporarily suspended, and Prime membership

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ICANN is apparently going to release a bunch of new domain name extensions, not the least of which are “.book” “.author” and .read.” Betcha can’t guess which online entity is ready to pounce on “.book,” right? Yep it’s Amazon, but not without objections by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. [...]

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Amazon’s iPad and Mini Cloud Player app is out, but don’t install!

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It appears that Amazon’s Cloud Player is now available for download, and it will store all your Amazon music purchases and a bunch of imported music (for free) and a bunch more (for a fee).  Unfortunately, it’s having its serious issues.  Don’t install it for now if you are using an iPad or [...]

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