Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Downsized by Ms. Downlow

Amazon disses Apple!

I love my iPhone and iPad but I must admit that Apple was tripping a bit when they tried to lock down the AppStore so that any app that charged for a product had to give them 30% of every sale.

I was curious how Amazon was going to take Apple's new rule because I knew that Amazon had no intentions on paying Apple 30% for every sale that they got from the Kindle app.

I wasn't sure if Amazon would complain or try to sue Apple and I was surprised when they went completely out of the box and announced the Kindle Cloud Reader.

The cloud reader displays in a Safari or Crome browser which allows a user to read...and... purchase books from Amazon.bypassing using an app.

When I heard about this I wasn't very impressed, however, after loading it I was blown over! 

Although I buy my ebooks from Amazon, I prefer to read them on my iPad so that I can view them in color and your ebooks look 10 times better on the Kindle Cloud Reader.

So not only did Amazon get over on Apple but they also now provide a better Kindle Reader.

Check it out:

www.amazon.com/cloudreader

 

Use the followiing link to read the announcement from Amazon:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Introducing-Kindle-Cloud-bw-554626435.html?x=0&...

 


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Monday, August 1, 2011

Apple may buy Barnes and Noble

As an erotica writer, I would...really...be unhappy if Apple were to purchase B&N.  Apple is beyond anal when it comes to having erotica on the IBookstore.  To date I have only been able to get one book listed on the iBookStore and I fear if Apple were to purchase B&N that they would quickly impose their sexually repressed, draconian sentiments on the Nook Store.

B&N is my bread and butter in sales.  I really hope that Apple doesn't f#@% it up.

Use the following link to read the article:

http://www.investorplace.com/53483/fridays-apple-rumors-apple-barnes-noble/A

 

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Is Apple Using Gift Cards to Prop Up a Sagging iBookstore?

The problem with the iBookstore is that it is anal in regards to the content that they will allow upon it. I own a iPhone4, iPad, iMac and MacBook. I'm also an established author. So when Apple announced the iBookstore I was very excited.

That excitement was dashed quickly, however, when the iBookstore approved only two of my books for sale on the store. I write erotica, and Apple felt that my covers and images inside of the books were just too much for their little hearts to take.

Two months later, the ibookstore informed me that upon...second thought...they were removing my book "I'm Shy...", from the iBookstore because the cover was just too hot for them to handle. I published a new book yesterday but with the flakiness of the iBookstore I'm not the least bit concerned with publishing any new work there and I encourage all of my readers to read my work on Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook. I'm not the only publisher feed up with the iBookstore doing this. And there are many readers who realize that it's a very good chance that they won't find the book that they are looking for at the iBookstore.

Use the following link to read the article:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/11/14/is-apple-using-gift-cards-to-prop-up-a...

 

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