Amazon has been working on Kindle for the Web, which has been in beta testing since last September. At the moment, you can only preview the first chapter from select titles on Amazon, but according to the Kindle for the Web page, full text is coming soon.
To test this out, I went searching through Amazon’s Top 100 list to find a title available in the Kindle for the Web program.
Public Notes – This feature lets Kindle users choose to make their book notes and highlights available for others to see. Any Kindle user – including authors, their fans, book reviewers, professors and passionate readers everywhere – can opt-in to share their thoughts on book passages and ideas with friends, family members, colleagues, and the greater Kindle community of people who love to read. This is a new way for readers to share their excitement and knowledge about books and get more from the books they read.
In a statement, CEO Jeff Bezos said, “Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected – and it’s on top of continued growth in paperback sales.
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Если учесть, что Amazon — это один из крупнейших ритейлеров книг в США, то картинка складывается забавная.
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Очень дельная статья Сары Лейси о том, как Amazon стал предоставлять авторам традиционные издательские инструменты обратной связи типа real-time данные объёмов продаж. И что из этого может выйти. Для авторов. И для издателей.
Amazon today announced that Kindle for Android is the first Kindle app to receive an update that enables users to buy, read, and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more. Kindle for Android users can now buy a single issue or subscribe to the most popular newspapers and magazines, have them automatically delivered to their Android-powered device, and enjoy a full color reading experience optimized for the touch interface of Android-powered devices.
During the past 30 days, Amazon.com customers purchased more Kindle books than print books–hardcover and paperback combined–for the top 10, 25, 100, and 1,000 bestselling books on Amazon.com.
“For the top 10 bestselling books on Amazon.com, customers are choosing Kindle books over hardcover and paperback books combined at a rate of greater than 2 to 1. Kindle books are also outselling print books for the top 25, 100, and 1,000 bestsellers–it’s across the board,” said Kessel.
Выпустив плагин для экспорта книг из InDesign в формат для Kindle: http://www.macuser.co.uk/2757-amazon-plugs-indesign-into-kindle
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Онлайновые книги становятся, похоже, трендом. Amazon запустила, правда, не читалку, но превьюер фрагментов электронных книг.
Bookmate пока может расслабиться )) Вопрос, надолго ли?
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Как я понял, на бумаге будет book-on-demand, а так - Kindle Edition. Переводная книга, теретически, и впрямь очень подходит для цифрового издания — она дороже по расходам, чем обычная (из-за выплат переводчику), но за счёт экономии на бумаге может быть всё равно выйдет дешевле.
Kindle can now display Cyrillic (such as Russian)
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Вот это новость! Никаких хаков не надо. Когда же появятся русские книги в Amazon?