Archive for the ‘kindle’ Category
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ben Lorica's excellent post at O'Reilly Radar (Waiting for the Billionth Download) is full of details about iPhone apps. A bit overshadowed is the growth in the Books category. I've done some clipping and rearranging on one of Lorica's charts to bring this out -- Note that the Rate-of-Change for ...
Posted in PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 13th, 2009
A couple of recent commentaries, excerpted below, suggest that the best sort of books for eBooks are ones that are intended to be read linearly, navigating through pages consecutively (i.e. most notably fiction). Both observers say that books whose usability is increased by flipping back and forth from one section ...
Posted in Navigation, Pageturners, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks, kindle | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
A notable feature of the KIndle iPhone app that was announced today is that it has color, unlike Amazon's Kindle device. The most complete comments I've found on this are at CNET.com, written by Nicole Lee (whose interest in comic books gives her good reason to look for color!) Her ...
Posted in Color, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 5 Comments »
