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Amazon V. Apple, some simple initial thoughts…

For people who might not follow this story all ready, here is a brief recap for you:
1. Amazon’s Kindle ruled the ebook market despite limited competition from a few other companies like Sony and Barns & Noble.
-It seemed that Amazon liked selling most ebooks for about $9.99 even though publishers wanted to sell ebooks [...]

Amazon Kindle now costing less, and works outside US.

I saw via Mitch Joel who saw via the Wall Street Journal that Amazon is lowering the price of the entry level Kindle to $259.00 USD. In addition to that the Kindle’s wireless fucntions will now work outside the US.
Going to Amazon.com confirmed this…
Looks like Amazon is really hoping to move [...]

eBook Hacks 002 Lots of Marvel Comics for $60.00

A few days ago I wrote about how Marvel comics seems to be embracing the idea of digital digital sale and distribution of comics. Today’s eBooks hack aims to inform people how they can (legally) get access to a HUGE amount of digital copies of Marvel comics, for what I consider to be a low [...]

eBook hacks 001

I’ve been thinking about doing a regular series of posts here on NGdC about ways to get eBooks for cheap or for free. This series will be called “eBook hacks”. This post is the first post in that series.
Today I want to make people aware of a way to get some really great tech books [...]

Text Edit 004

In Text Edit 004 I talk about how I think the act of reading text stays the same, regardless of what the text appears on.
Example: Reading text on paper V. Reading text on a iPhone, or a Kindle IS STILL READING TEXT.
I’m really cerious to see, or hear, what people think [...]

Text Edit 001 (a podcast)

I’ve been out of the loop with podcasting for a bit now.  For way to long really, it is past time for me to try to podcast again.  For the past several days I’ve been thinking about what king of content I would like to podcast about, and I made a list of several subjects.
After [...]