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Those of you who have tried Kindle models with special offers know too well how Amazon run ads on those devices. The company now seems to be toying with the idea of selling ads on the welcome screen of the Kindle Fire. It is not going to be cheap by any means as Amazon is looking to charge 0k or so for this privilege.  That money would get advertisers a two month run time, covering both the front-page and Amazon’s Special Offers inventory. id="more-5681">

It will be interesting to see whether there will be too many advertising agencies interested in such an offer. Amazon does have a new Kindle Fire in the works. But it is not clear whether that will get these front-page ads as well. Not everyone is excited about the idea though:

It’s kind of an expensive buy to not get a guaranteed audience and measurement … It doesn’t comply with a lot of our necessary planning rigor,

one agency executive explained. It will be interesting to see how Amazon approaches this. Will the company offer its customers even more discount to run more ads? That remains to be seen.

Kobo has just landed a deal for the seven new Harry Potter eBooks. Kobo customers across the globe will have access to them in many different languages such as;  English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish to begin with, and more languages on the way.The eBooks themselves are not available [...] Continue Reading…

Through its eBay storefront, Barnes & Noble is selling new – not refurbished – 8GB Nook Tablets for 9.  This is off of the usual price and is probably not going to last long as the available quantities are said to be limited.  This is a good deal; [...] Continue Reading…

Amazon has already released a color-screen e-reader to the market. But that just happens to have a LCD screen. The company was supposed to adopt color e-paper a while ago. It may be ready to do so this year. According to DigiTimes, Amazon could make that move as early [...] Continue Reading…

Please check and make sure that any of these you like are still free before you click the Buy button.  Happy Mom’s Day!
Too Close to Miss by John Perich (4 1/2 stars/13 reviews) Mystery; Women sleuths.  Also free at Kobo.
Paydirt by Paul Levine (5 stars/8 reviews) Crime fiction; Sports. [...] Continue Reading…

John Wiley and Sons, publishers of the widely popular bestselling For Dummies series of titles, have been doing battle of late over piracy of its ebooks. As recently as last month, Wiley estimated that more than 74,000 of one of its popular titles alone had been illegally downloaded. In [...] Continue Reading…

A few sales and deals for this Mother’s Day weekend:
Kobo is running a 30% off promotion on all titles published by Algonquin.  To get the discount use the promo code Algonquin30 at checkout.  For two of Algonquin’s biggest hits, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and A Reliable Wife [...] Continue Reading…

Datawind, makers of the ultra cheap UbiSlate 7+ tablet devices has just announced the winner of the App contest ‘AapKiApp.’ The contest involved the student community in India and was conceived to test their innovative abilities in developing suitable software application for the Aakash II tablet device. Of course [...] Continue Reading…

In the past few months, we have heard a lot about Apple’s plans to release a smaller iPad to the market. A 7 inch iPad could put pressure on Samsung, Amazon, and B&N. What we don’t hear a lot about are over 11 inch tablets. As someone who still [...] Continue Reading…

Pocket Books, America’s first paperback publisher, has re-launched its Pocket Star line as an eBook-only imprint. As it did in print, Pocket Star will continue to feature bestselling and debut authors in popular genres, including women’s fiction, romance, thrillers, urban fantasy and mystery.

Louise Burke said, “Similar to how mass [...] Continue Reading…