Daily Archives: December 9, 2010

Apple Understands Friction: So Should You

Apple Ingeniously at Work on a New Way to Share & Buy Apps For example, Aaron, a smartphone user, is at lunch with his friend Brent. After lunch, when the bill comes, Aaron demonstrates a specialized calculator application on his … Continue reading

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LibraryBIN: Buy An Overpriced eBook To Help A Public Library

I never heard of this service until it showed up in an email I got from the New York Public Library: Click = big Well, this excited me! A way to support the NYPL and buy eBooks. What’s not Win … Continue reading

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Kittenwhipped, He Says!

NC = NookColor @stroughtonsmith Bah. NC planned mainly for GBooks PDFs anyway. Kittens frikkin willing. One day!— Mike Cane (@mikecane) December 09, 2010 They eat and eat and eat and eat and eat … and I’m not even going to … Continue reading

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THE Reason To Buy And Root A NookColor

Click = big Aldiko came out of nowhere several years about a year and a half ago and enabled Android devices to read DRM-free ePub files. That was an astonishing feat. Since then, Aldiko has gone on to dominate Android … Continue reading

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What We Are Waiting For As Of 12/09/10

Not in any order: 1) Blio Reader (supposed to be arriving 9/28) 2) Google Editions 3) Barnes & Noble PubIt 4) Kobo Reader WiFi 5) Something else I am NDAed about — I can now reveal this is Aldiko 2.0, … Continue reading

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