I’m at my parents’ home, without my Kindle Fires, so I can’t check this out personally yet. But Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com’s landing page is announcing that everyone with a Kindle Fire will find 500 Amazon Coins, worth $5, in their account. “You can use the coins to buy apps and games, as well as [...]
If you heard my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, in TKC 244 last month, you know he planned to spend two full days getting ready for his encounter with Stephen Colbert. Well, it looks as if his preparation paid off, because the interview on May 7 went very well indeed. It was a lightning [...]
I just spotted this Mothers Day special at Amazon.com, good in the U.S. through Mothers Day on May 12, 2013: $20 off any of the Kindle Fire HD 7″ models, as follows, showing the new, discounted prices: 7″ 16GB with special offers – $179 7″ 16GB without special offers – $204 7″ 32GB with special [...]
I love this: O’Reilly Media today (May 3, 2013) is celebrating what they call “Day Against DRM” by offering ALL their eBooks and videos at 50 percent off or 60 percent off orders over $100. Click here to browse their titles. Use discount code DRM2013. O’Reilly has long championed DRM-free books, and it’s a movement which is [...]
Here’s a sweet deal from the University of Chicago Press: You Were Never in Chicago, a writerly portrait of the Windy City by Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg, is free for the first five days in May. Roger Ebert called the book, published in October of last year, “a poetic mosaic of his [Steinberg's] life and the life of [...]
Amazon this morning announced a major update for Kindle for iPhone and iPad, making it easier for blind and visually impaired readers to use the Kindle iOS apps. If you have the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad, you will see an update for it this morning, to version 3.7. I made the update [...]
If you love reading digitally as much as I do, you owe it to yourself to explore this vast new trove of culture that became available online approximately 15 minutes ago at the Digital Public Library of America. Well done! You will hear Robert Darnton, Harvard’s director of libraries, tell the story of how [...]
This is how the Digital Public Library of America website looked at 10:10 a.m. MDT, ten minutes after the scheduled launch. I keep refreshing, waiting for the moment it goes live. Maybe they are simply building up the sense of anticipation! Maybe it’s like a rocket launch and they are on a hold, waiting [...]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launches today at noon Eastern Time. If you point your browser to dp.la at that moment, you will have a front-row seat at an historic event, one that might have led Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and other Enlightenment-inspired Founding Fathers to nod their heads and say, “Just so.” [...]
My college friend Ben Beach ran the Boston Marathon today, so I was naturally concerned about him when news broke of the bombing at the finish line. He has finished 45 consecutive Boston Marathons, so today was his 46th. I received this text message from him here in Denver late this afternoon: “Police stopped me [...]
