Beginning on the 27th August Amazon are going to release a UK-centric Kindle e-ink e-reader to a book-loving British public and with it they are finally bringing us a UK-priced UK-focused ebook store on Amazon.co.uk. The reason I’m mentioning it now is that the Kindle UK store went live today, which is good news for [...]
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News: I was mentioned in The Times on Saturday!
It’s only a fleeting mention of my thoughts on China’s win in the Arthur C Clarke Awards 2010 but it’s lovely to see. It’s doubly pleasing following a mention in The Guardian. It’s also great to see Mark Chitty of Walker of Worlds getting credit too. A great start to a week. Thanks Chloe for pointing [...]
News: I'm quoted in today's Guardian Review!
It was quite a shock when Ian Sales sent me a message on Twitter today: @nextread did you know you’re quoted in today’s Guardian? As you would I rushed out and bought a copy. And here I am in The Week in Books section: It’s slightly out of context (as straight after the quote I [...]
Updates and Future Planning
Firstly, The Stone-Cutter review is being moved to Sunday as again my time management skills fail me. But I’d rather get it right than rush it. I am though using the ReadMore iPhone app to try and work out my reading speed and to keep track of my reading and I think I’m a page [...]
New Releases: The Good Man Jesus & The Scoundrel Christ iPhone App
Enhanced Editions and Canongate Books today announced the launch of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ on the App Store. The app, which includes an enhanced e?book, audiobook and exclusive videos of Philip Pullman reading the book, has been developed for iPhone and iPod touch users, and will be available on the iPad. [...]
New Books Announced for 2010: The Reapers are The Angels and White Tiger
So two press releases dropped into the mailbox over the last couple of days. The first I’ve been following on Twitter from reading a tweet along the lines of ‘Im reading a Zombie novel’ to reading a Tweet a couple of weeks later saying. ‘I’ve bought a zombie novel’ to the actual press release: Tor [...]
New Feature: News from a 140 characters
In the interest of ch-ch-ch-ch-changes I’m trying something new, well I tried it before (twice), and try to bring out some of what I enjoy about Twitter to my blog. Here is an list of things that I’ve found via Twitter over the last few days. Please comment if found something you didn’t already know. [...]
News: Amazon.com’s Kindle coming to the UK, kinda
Well that was a surprise this morning to wake up to the news (via @guardianbooks on twitter) that Amazon.com had announced that you’d know be able to use the Kindle (their version of an ebook reader) in more than 100 countries. But and there is a but you can only order directly from their US [...]
News: The Fry Effect and the power of Social Media?
A tweet from Stephen Fry appears to have sent a book about the afterlife from the murky depths of the book sales lists to the dazzling heights of number two. The online retailer Amazon yesterday reported a 6,000% rise in sales for Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. It went from number [...]
Comment: More on the “International” Amazon.com Kindle
I had a feeling yesterday that this was going to be messy and I was right! The messiest bit from mine and your points of view is that at the minute you’re going to be buy an American focused product which Amazon.com will kindly let you use in the UK, and other countries except Canada [...]