Today we share a post from one of our partner sites, BookGorilla, which offers a free, daily, customizable ebook freebie and bargain alert you can sign up for here. Earlier this week we shared a picture that may have surprised some of our readers: a side-by-side comparison of Wednesday’s top ebook recommendations from our BookGorilla … Read more
Hi! It’s your friendly Editor in Chief, April L. Hamilton here, and I’m speaking to you personally because today’s Amazon Free App of the Day, Bullseye Premium, is being unfairly slammed with 1-star reviews and I wanted to offer my personal experience with it. Just so you know: I have no connection with this application … Read more
Nowadays it’s typical for schools to require kids to read, and report on, a new book every semester from first grade all the way up through high school. If your household has fully embraced Kindle books, it’s likely that the only time you buy picture books, chapter books or novels in hard copy is to … Read more
Today Amazon announced its new Kindle MatchBook service, which offers discounted (to $2.99 or less) Kindle editions of hard copy books you’ve previously bought from Amazon. Note that only the titles publishers have decided to enroll in Kindle MatchBook are eligible for this new service; so far that’s over 70,000 titles, and Amazon is actively working … Read more
This is a cross-post from KF on KND Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton’s new site, The Digital Media Mom, and it is reprinted here in its entirety with her permission. Digital Video: It’s The Last Video Format You’ll Ever Buy As a matter of fact, it’s the only video format you’ve been buying since … Read more
You may have heard of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, an annual event held each November in which writers the world over set themselves the challenge of writing an entire first draft novel in one month. Readers responded with NaNoReMo, or National Novel Reading Month. Because NaNoReMo doesn’t have any specific, single founder or … Read more
Great news for those of you who are making the transition from CDs to digital music, or those who use both formats: Amazon has announced its new Auto-rip service for CDs. From Amazon’s press release: ———————————— SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 10, 2013– (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon AutoRip, a new service that gives customers … Read more
We’ve been getting some questions about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD on our Facebook page and via email. Keep ’em coming, we’re here to serve! Q: Do I have to pay for a monthly data plan to use the internet features of my Kindle Fire or Kindle Fire HD? A: No. So long … Read more