Category Archives: Free Ain’t
Amazon Only Does What’s Best For Amazon
Amazon in Talks to Launch Digital-Book Library Amazon has told publishers it is considering creating a digital-book library featuring older titles, people familiar with the talks said. The content would be available to customers of Amazon Prime, who currently pay … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Free Ain't, Google
Free Is The Last Resort Of Bad Marketing
E-Book Giveaway Aims to Lift Sales Digital publisher RosettaBooks LLC is giving away digital editions of five titles that have been turned into movies in a bid to jump start interest in them at a time when record numbers of … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Free Ain't, Friction, Marketing, Pricing
Opera: A Basket Case
1) There is no sensible way to import my Speed Dial from another install. The suggestions in the Support forum were all FAIL. 2) Without any sense to it and despite plug-ins being disabled just for it, YahooMail has begun … Continue reading
Filed under Free Ain't, Friction, Stupid
Another Yahoo Failure: MyBlogLog
Via email: Yahoo! MyBlogLog to be discontinued Dear MyBlogLog Customer, You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies … Continue reading
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What Are Kindle Sample Conversion Rates?
The Free App Economy: How Sustainble is it? This is the line that got me thinking: Ivan says, “Our [free lite app to full paid app conversion] rate is pretty low and is somewhere around 5 to 10%, depending on … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, eBooks: General, Free Ain't, Friction, Marketing, Pricing, Writers
Amazon’s Android App Store: No Thanks!
Apps from Amazon routinely phone home and other interesting details I left my Viewsonic gTablet sitting at home while I was at a conference last week. The battery died while I was gone, and when I charged again I noticed … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Android, Free Ain't, Friction, Other Hardware, Stupid
She’d Thank The Little People If She Acknowledged They Even Existed
Flush w/ $300m in cash, FluffPo's first step will be bonuses for its unpaid, non-celebrity contributors who made sale possible, right? #not— Guy L. Gonzalez (@glecharles) February 07, 2011
Filed under Free Ain't, Pottersville, Rights, Writers, Writing
Sony Popularizes Google Vandalizing Books
What is wrong with all of these companies that have hooked into Google Books? Are all of the people at them non-readers? Lazy? Mere suckhogs who never do a proper job and who show up only because they feel entitled … Continue reading
Filed under eBooks: General, Free Ain't, Google, Sony Reader
The real cost of free | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
You know who peddles false hope to naive would-be artists? People who go around implying that but for all those internet pirates, there’d be full creative employment for all of us. That the reason artists earn so little is because … Continue reading
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Quit The Last Century Book Signings!
Goodbye to Book Signings Yesterday, for a book signing, I drove 328 miles, spent $40 on gas, and was gone from home for 8 hours. I sold 20 books while I was in the store, at a profit of about … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Free Ain't, Marketing, Writer
