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26-08-2014

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Blurb, the independent online publishing platform, announces a partnership with Ingram Content Group for worldwide distribution of books. In addition, the indie publisher announces a new, sharper-priced line of books. These two announcements, coupled with the ability to create Blurb books available for the Kindle platform from Amazon, henceforth ensure that authors sell their books worldwide with a good margin. These are three important milestones for Blurb in realizing their mission to make. The publishing world democratic

Blurb authors can now use any type of book, whether it’s a novel, photo, cooking or business book, self-designing, publishing and selling. Authors can publish both digital and print books from a single file, and they sell through Ingram new initiative through more than 39,000 locations around the world, both online and through traditional retailers.

reflowable books for the Kindle
Blurb also announced a new beta-ebook-service, which import authors Rich Text Files (RTF) enables their Blurb book to make suitable sale in the Kindle Store. Blurb Book Wright, free design software from Blurb, it is possible to reflowable e-books to make. Tracks or illustrated books fiction and non-fiction This service is available for Blurb authors. Free during the beta period

New book formats
The world is changing and visual perception is much more important here. However, the publishing costs and hence the price of this type of visual books is often very high, reducing the formation of sold. In order to allow to offer a better price and to raise the selling authors Blurb introduces a new, discounted Trade line. The available book formats from this line are 5×8, 6×9 and 8×10 paper book formats. The new line is available in both hard and soft cover available and can be performed in less costly paper options designed specifically for printing content, such as drawings, photographs, maps and tables.

“Authors want just artists like two things: control over their product and the process and a fair compensation for their work, “says Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb. “These elements are all now available for independent authors. They have the process of design, marketing and sales of their digital and printed books, like the margin own hands via global distribution to booksellers, both online and through retail. This introduction is therefore very important for us. “
” Ingram believes it is important to get wherever they are located, “content quickly and efficiently into the hands of readers said Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Content Acquisition , Ingram Content Group. “We are proud that we can support you with our extensive distribution network Blurb.”

Gittins here on: “Our partnership with Ingram is especially interesting for our authors who want to sell books worldwide. They are now able to make their books available anywhere in the world. “

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New Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 spotted with Snapdragon chip 805 – Tablets Magazine

It’s almost a year ago Amazon Kindle Fire tablets HDX brought on the market and so it is time for renewal. The expectation is that the American company’s new models announced in September and if we may believe the first clues are the new tablets equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor.

In the database of AnTuTu was spotted about next generation Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. This model, like its predecessor, with a size of 8.9-inch, would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 805 . This chip features four new Krait cores and 450 has a clock speed of up to 2.5GHz. For the graphics chip is equipped with an Adreno 420 GPU. The GPU should be 40 percent better performance than the Adreno 300 which we find 800 processor in the Snapdragon.

In addition, the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 would have a resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels, 2GB of RAM , a 2 megapixel camera on the front and an 8 megapixel camera on the back. The tablet runs on Android 4.4, according to the benchmark KitKat, but as with previous generations Fire tablets Amazon puts its own produce FireOS shell over it. This interface is mostly dominated by content made available through the various services and shopping from Amazon.

When the new Kindle Fire tablet officially announced HDX be is unclear. The expectation is that we get to hear more in September.

Your Kindle is Making You Stupid? Study Says E-Readers May Be Missing Out – Forbes

A Norwegian study has found That readers who use a Kindle are “Significantly” worse Than Their paperback-wielding counterparts at recalling key events in text, accor ding to Britain’s The Guardian .

Paperback Reader

The study gift 50 people copies of the same mystery story, half in and half classic paperback format on Amazon’s electronic tablet, Kindle. After reading, subjects were tested on different aspects of the story-including objects, characters, and setting. While the results in many categories yielded ie the comparable results, Kindle readers received Significantly lower scores on Questions Concerning the timing of events in the story – ie putting events A, B, and C in chronological order. Only two out of the fifty people Studied identified as regular Kindle users.

If failing to recall the order of events in a piece of fiction seems benign, the study still raises significant concerns worldwide. Text is only valuable if a person can derive meaning from it; When reading, comprehension is king.

Learning to understand and digest a piece of writing is even more important for younger students, as Their reading habits are still forming. In some classrooms, Kindles, tablets, and other electronic devices have been used as replacements for textbooks, as administrators look to capture the fleeting attention span youth. Will this switch serve to Further erode the attention span and reading comprehension skills of students already weaned on tech-heavy lifestyles?

This issue extends beyond the ivory tower, as academia and literature are not the only aspects of our lives That May Be suffering from an influx of screen-centric innovation. According to a New York Magazine reporter, an increase increasing number of couples are breaking up due to one partner’s “obsession” with online pornography. Dale Latch, a paralegal quoted in the study, cited pornography’s Increased convenience as the main factor in crumbling relationships.

With paperback sales declining, book stores around the world closing, and libraries in danger of extinction, do physical books even stand a chance? According to studies like the one from Norway’s Stavanger University, we May Be in need of a paperback renaissance. Still, with Apple, Samsung, Amazon, and Microsoft all serious players in the tablet game, adoption of the tablets and other e-devices continues to rise. Will the influx of tablets have Further impact on reading comprehension skills?

Amazon Kindle soon in Dutch – eReaders.nl

A vacancy on Amazon points out that the Kindle is going to be. soon in Dutch and Dutch ebooks sold The company is looking for a Dutch translation expert who will be translating the Kindle platform to Dutch. responsible

For some time there are rumors that Amazon wants to focusing on. Netherlands The company sells through the British Department for some time also Dutch paper books.

There is so far no Dutch website of Amazon. Yet Customers who want to buy something can visit the international website of the German, British and French establishments. When the Kindle will be offered actually in Dutch is not yet known.

Those interested in the vacancy must move abroad, either to Bratislava or to Cape Town. In these cities are also other translation teams Kindle situated.

Amazon launched Kindle Unlimited – Book Journal (subscription)

Via Amazon users can close the subscription, but do get the first chance to try it out. As there is a trial available, where it is possible to thirty days Amazon free to try.

Last Wednesday reported the American website Gigaom.com Amazon Kindle Unlimited was testing. Gigaom.com had already discovered that the service would cost 9.99 euros per month, and that 600,000 e-books and thousands of audio books would be available.

The books that are indicated on the website with the logo and the “read for free” button. Unlimited available via Kindle Now, when users close a Kindle Unlimited subscription, it should currently receive three months membership to Audible gift, which they get unlimited access to all the audio books for three months. Unlimited Access to Kindle is possible with all Kindle devices or Kindle Reading Apps

Under the Kindle Unlimited subscription is:. Access more than 600,000 books, including titles such as Life of Pi , Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter series. Additionally, there are more than two thousand audiobooks available. There are also ‘Kindle exclusives, thousands of books that are only available through Kindle. Amazon also has short stories in Kindle Unlimited

See also:.

– Amazon test unlimited reading e-books (July 2014)

Kindle Fire HDX with Snapdragon 805 spotted in benchmark – Tablet Guide

Amazon is preparing to charge. New tablet on the market At least that would show the results of online AnTuTu benchmark. It’s the new Kindle Fire HDX with a powerful Snapdragon 805 included.

Amazon is a relatively small player in the tablet market. In 2011, the American retail company launched the original Kindle Tablet, which later expanded with several other models such as the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. According to research conducted by DisplayMate Technologies last tablet until recently headed the list of best tablet screens until the Samsung Galaxy Tab S appeared on the market. All in all, the Kindle Fire offers a decent tablet experience at an affordable price.

Specifications Kindle Fire HDX

Online AnTuTu benchmark says known to with the specifications of the upcoming new Kindle Fire HDX. Thus, the new tablet from Amazon reportedly a 8.9 inch display with screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. That is a significantly sharper resolution than the current Kindle Fire HD 8.9, which does not go beyond 1920 x 1200 pixels. The most notable change is to be the processor of choice. Did the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 still has a TI OMAP 4470 processor with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz, and his successor, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. AnTuTu has clocked at 2.4 GHz.

The memory is 2 GB. For the graphics Amazon has chosen the Adreno 420 GPU. The Kindle Fire HDX is equipped with two cameras: an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a 1 megapixel camera on the front. Finally ‘know’ that we are the new tablet from Amazon runs on the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.4.4 (KitKat).

Pricing and Availability

Whether and when the tablet to the Netherlands, is not known. All we would say about that now would be pure speculation. Once we learn something about the price and availability, then you read it here at Tablet Guide.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9

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• Screen size 8.9 inch
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• Screen 1920 x 1200
• Size 240 x 164 x 8.8 mm
• Processor TI OMAP 4470 (dual-core)
• Weight 567
• Storage 16 GB / 32 GB /
• Launch Date June 2013

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• Screen size 7 inches
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Amazon doubles storage memory Kindle Paperwhite – Nutech

Amazon has the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader upgrade. The new model has 4GB of storage memory instead of 2GB.

This confirms Amazon versus TechCrunch .

Very many Kindle users will not have the extra gigabytes. Most e-books do not take up much space; the 2GB version is already about a thousand e-books can be stored.

For the rest of the e-reader from Amazon remains identical to the previous model. Amazon also emphasizes that it is not a new model goes, but an upgrade. A new e-reader from Amazon is expected this fall. That model will supposedly a much sharper display with 300 pixels per inch. The current White Paper has a display with 212 pixels per inch

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Skylanders: Trap Team also iPad, Kindle Fire and Android Multi – Gameliner.nl

Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2014 at 17:30 by Kees Wijnhorst

Activision has announced Skylanders: Trap Team on October 10, will appear on the consoles, but also for not only tablets. This is the full version, which will be available for the iPad, Kindle Fire and Android tablets

The tablet version of Skylanders download:. Trap Team offer exactly the same experience and graphics which can be compared to the console versions. The Tablet Starter Package will Bluetooth Traptanium Portal, a tablet stand and a Bluetooth controller contain, although the game also with touch-screen controls to play. It also contains two Skylanders characters, two-stage and a display tray, who captured displays information including the number of bad guys you have.

Skylanders: Trap Team

Platform:

IPad

Release Date:

October 10, 2014

Genre:

Adventure

Publisher:

Activision

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Skylanders: Trap Team also iPad, Kindle Fire and Android – Gameliner.nl

Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2014 at 17:30 by Kees Wijnhorst

Activision has announced Skylanders: Trap Team on October 10, will appear on the consoles, but also for not only tablets. This is the full version, which will be available for the iPad, Kindle Fire and Android tablets

The tablet version of Skylanders download:. Trap Team offer exactly the same experience and graphics which can be compared to the console versions. The Tablet Starter Package will Bluetooth Traptanium Portal, a tablet stand and a Bluetooth controller contain, although the game also with touch-screen controls to play. It also contains two Skylanders characters, two-stage and a display tray, who captured displays information including the number of bad guys you have.

Skylanders: Trap Team

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IPad

Release Date:

October 10, 2014

Genre:

Adventure

Publisher:

Activision

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Amazon Launches Spotify for ebooks: Kindle Unlimited – Knack.be

with Amazon Kindle Unlimited has the Spotify launched a US-variant for e-books. For $ 9.99 per month, users get unlimited access to 600,000 Kindle books.

Amazon has launched a service that is in line with Spotify and Netflix, but for e-books. The subscription service called Kindle Unlimited and gives users $ 9.99 a month for unlimited access to 600,000 Kindle books.

As a matter of course to which all e-readers and tablets from the Kindle range of Amazon are consumed as well as all other mobile devices with the Kindle app available.

Amazon offers a free trial period of 30 days, as well as a 3-month subscription to Audible, which equates to access to 2,000 audiobooks. Equipped with the Whispersync technology, which allows at any time to switch between a read mode and a listening mode.

For a service that ‘unlimited’ calls it, has Kindle Unlimited still some drawbacks . So Amazon has not yet received all the major publishing it, and the service is still only available in the USA