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Amazon To Sell Screen Ads on Kindle Fire?

Sat, 19 May 2012 04:03:30 +0000

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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.

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Harry Potter eBooks now Available at Kobo

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:53:49 +0000

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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 for purchase with Kobo but instead you are redirected to the Pottermore website. Once you buy the books you can link your Kobo account to the purchase and then easily transfer them to your Kobo e-Reader or many of the Kobo apps on iOS or Android.

This new arrangement with Kobo is of a similar vein to the established relationship that Pottermore has with Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Sony and Google. All of these vendors do not physically sell the digital content but instead send you the main Pottermore website. This really marks the first time an author has a copious amount of control that major companies are bending over backwards and making their customers visit a 3rd party website to purchase these books.

The entire Harry Potter eBook series is doing tremendously well with a recent report citing that Pottermore raked in over five million dollars in sales in their very first month. The deal with Kobo is a solid one because they have their hands in more markets then most of their competition. This allows many users in Canada, Australia and Europe to easily read the books.

Michael Tamblyn, Executive Vice President Content, Sales & Merchandising, Kobo, commented: “We’re excited to bring together the extremely successful Harry Potter phenomenon and the always-enthusiastic Kobo eReading community. Fans have been waiting for years to see the Harry Potter series in digital and now that wait is over.”

In other Kobo news, their parent company Rakuten invested over 100 million dollars in Pinterest. The two companies will be working out an arrangement to get photo sharing on the Kobo Vox and integration into their other apps. Also, be sure to check out the official Kobo Blog where they talk about our website and our review of their new Kobo Instant Reader.

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Nook Tablet 8GB – $149

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:06:41 +0000

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; the Nook Tablets are quite nice and this is about the same price as a refurbished Nook Color, which is older hardware.

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Amazon Kindle 5 with a Color Screen Coming This Year

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:59:46 +0000

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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 as the second half of 2012. It has taken the color e-paper technology a lot of time to catch up though.

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E-ink did show its latest color screen at the IFA conference last year. Triton displays are low energy displays capable of displaying 4096 colors. At the time, it did seem the technology needed some work to be ready for prime time. But we have already seen devices such as the JetBook Color that use it.

Amazon has decided to wait before the technology is 100% ready before rolling out color-screen E-ink Kindles. That could very well be later this year. The bad news is we have been hearing these rumors for a couple of years now.

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Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders – 5/13/2012

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 +0000

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.

Death of a Serpent (A Serafina Florio Mystery) by Susan Russo Anderson (4 stars/30 reviews) Historical mystery; Women sleuths.

Ms America and the Offing on Oahu (Beauty Queen Mysteries No. 1) by Diana Dempsey (4 stars/24 reviews) Mystery; Women sleuths. Also free at Kobo.

Killer Twist (A Ghostwriter Mystery) by C.A. Larmer (5 stars/1 reviews) Mystery; Women sleuths. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Skin Deep (Simeon Grist #3) (Simeon Grist Mystery) by Timothy Hallinan (5 stars/11 reviews) Mystery; Hard-boiled.

Kill All the Lawyers (Solomon vs. Lord) by Paul Levine (4 stars/16 reviews) Legal thriller.

No Time To Run (Legal Thriller Featuring Michael Collins, Book 1) by J.D. Trafford (4 1/2 stars/29 reviews).

Let Us Prey (Book 1, Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries) (Gotcha Detective Agency Series) by Jamie Lee Scott (4 1/2 stars/26 reviews) Mystery; Women sleuths.

The Valley of Shadows by Mark Terry (4 1/2 stars/6 reviews) Thriller; Terrorists.

Supreme Betrayal by Steve Nyman (5 stars/5 reviews) Thriller; Spies. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Truth’s Lair – Perils of the Dead Man’s Diary by J. Richard Knapp (5 stars/12 reviews) Historical thriller; WWII.

Natural Causes (The Inspector McLean Mysteries) by James Oswald (5 stars/2 reviews) Supernatural mystery. Also free at Kobo.

Loose Ends – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book 1) by Terri Reid (4 1/2 stars/150 reviews).

Life Descending (The Cry of Havoc) by John Hennessy (4 1/2 stars/5 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Kobo.

Communion of Dreams by James Downey (5 stars/24 reviews) Science fiction; Post-apocalyptic; Alien artifact.

Terrene: the hidden valley by Eric Liu (5 stars/48 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Kobo.

New World: a Frontier Fantasy Novel by Steven W. White (5 stars/1 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

The Last Elf of Lanis by K. J. Hargan (4 stars/12 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Crossover (The Chosen One Trilogy: Book One) by Mireille Chester (4 1/2 stars/5 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

Shadow of the Sun (Timeless #1) by Laura Kreitzer (4 stars/48 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Kobo.

The Hawk And His Boy (The Tormay Trilogy #1) by Christopher Bunn (4 stars/89 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Kobo.

Bartemus Ammblin in the Old Forest (Prairie Adventures) by Jeffrey Scott Bishop (5 stars/3 reviews) Speculative fiction; Rabbits.

Terra Incognita: The Abyss by Joshua Mays (4 1/2 stars/9 reviews) Fantasy; Ancient evil book. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

A Cold Day In Hell by Denise M Main (4 1/2 stars/4 reviews) Fantasy; Demons.

Nordic Fairies (Novella Series, #1) (Nordic Fairies Series) by Saga Berg (4 stars/12 reviews) Fantasy; Short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

The Sentient Fire (The Seven Signs) by D.W. Hawkins (5 stars/9 reviews) Epic fantasy. Also free at Kobo.

The Initiate (Cloud Prophet Trilogy, Prequel) by Megg Jensen (4 1/2 stars/7 reviews) Fantasy; Short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

The Mind Readers by Lori Brighton (4 1/2 stars/37 reviews) YA Paranormal fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Sojourner (Book 1) (Sojourner Series) by Maria Rachel Hooley (4 stars/37 reviews) YA Paranormal fiction. Also free at Kobo.

Wilted (A Witching Pen Novellas Prequel) (The Witching Pen Novellas) by Dianna Hardy (4 stars/2 reviews) YA Paranormal; Short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Paradox – The Angels Are Here by Patti Roberts (4 stars/42 reviews) YA Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

The Amulet: A Faedra Bennett Custodian Novel by Alison Pensy (4 stars/57 reviews) YA Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

The Book of the King (The Wormling) by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry (5 stars/8 reviews) YA Fantasy from a faith-based publisher. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

The League of Freaks and the Secret Key by Alberto Hazan (4 1/2 stars/36 reviews) YA Fantasy.

The Key of Kilenya (Kilenya Series) by Andrea Pearson (4 1/2 stars/37 reviews) YA Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

Haven (War of the Princes) by A. R. Ivanovich (5 stars/24 reviews) YA Science fiction; Steampunk.

Survival, a YA paranormal romance (Book 1 of The Guardians of Vesturon Series) by A.M. Hargrove (4 stars/39 reviews). Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Tangled Tides (The Sea Monster Memoirs) by Karen Amanda Hooper (4 1/2 stars/40 reviews) Paranormal romance; Merfolk.

Bound, An Arelia LaRue Novel #1 YA Paranormal (The Arelia LaRue Series) by Kira Saito (4 stars/51 reviews) YA Paranormal romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

Haunted on Bourbon Street (Jade Calhoun Series Book 1) by Deanna Chase (4 1/2 stars/39 reviews) Ghosts; Paranormal romance.

How to Date a Werewolf (Rylie Cruz Series) by Rose Pressey (4 stars/67 reviews) Paranormal romance.

Samson’s Lovely Mortal (Scanguards Vampires #1) by Tina Folsom (4 1/2 stars/168 reviews) Vampiric romance. Also free at Kobo.

Once Bitten (Alexa O’Brien Huntress Book 1) by Trina M. Lee (4 stars/5 reviews) Paranormal romance; Shifters & Vampires. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Cursed (The Devil’s Roses) by Tara Brown (4 stars/7 reviews) Paranormal romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy by V. J. Chambers (4 stars/47 reviews) YA Paranormal romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

To Love A Witch (A Novel Nibbles title) by Debora Geary (4 1/2 stars/53 reviews) Paranormal romance; Short story.

Reunion by Jeff Bennington (4 stars/107 reviews) Paranormal romantic suspense.

Discovery – A Far Out Romance by T.M. Roy and Terran Moffat (4 stars/12 reviews) Sci-fi romance.

The Smoky Dragon by Brandon Berntson (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Fantasy; Romance.

A Timeless Love by Jeanne Savery (4 stars/4 reviews) Time travel romance.

‘Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy (Greatest Hits Mysteries) by Leslie Langtry (4 stars/19 reviews) Romantic suspense; Dark humor. Also free at Kobo.

Baby Kisses (Romance on the Ranch Series #3) by Verna Clay (4 1/2 stars/7 reviews) Contemporary Colorado romance.

Preservation by Rachael Wade and Susan Miller (5 stars/19 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Suite Nothings by J. M. Jeffries (4 stars/11 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Love Unlisted: A Novel by Stephanie Haddad (4 1/2 stars/7 reviews) Contemporary romance. Also free at Kobo.

Broken Hearts Damaged Goods by Jack Gunthridge (4 stars/13 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Walk in Beauty (Men of the Land) by Ruth Wind and Barbara Samuel (5 stars/4 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Georgia on My Mind by Marie Force (5 stars/26 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Friend and Lover (Cautious Women, Tempting Men) by Angela Benson (5 stars/5 reviews) Contemporary romance.

Until Forever (Women of Prayer) by Darlene Shortridge (4 1/2 stars/17 reviews) Contemporary romance; Religious.

Texas Roads (A Miller’s Creek Novel) by Cathy Bryant (4 1/2 stars/33 reviews) Contemporary romance; Religious.

Destiny Wears Spurs by Kari Lee Harmon (5 stars/7 reviews) Contemporary cowboy romance.

Cowboy Heat (Hell Yeah!) by Sable Hunter (4 1/2 stars/39 reviews) Contemporary western romance; Erotica.

Connections by Selena Kitt (4 stars/11 reviews) Erotica. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

Lavender Vows (The Medieval Herb Garden Series 1) by Colleen Gleason (4 stars/13 reviews) Historical romance.

The Fragrance of Her Name by Marcia Lynn McClure (4 1/2 stars/22 reviews) Historical romance.

Forevermore (A Jewel Trilogy Novella) by Lauren Royal (4 stars/13 reviews) Historical romance.

Yorkshire: Richard and Rose, Book 1 by Lynne Connolly (4 stars/12 reviews) Historical romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

Candlelight Wish (Wishing For Love, Book One) by Janice Bennett (4 stars/1 reviews) Historical romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

The Bedeviled Heart (The Highland Heather and Hearts Scottish Romance Series) by Carmen Caine (5 stars/26 reviews) Historical romance.

Wayfarer’s Promise by Sheila Raye (5 stars/2 reviews) Historical romance.

Fated Memories by Judith Ann McDowell (4 1/2 stars/15 reviews) Historical star-crossed romance.

Send Me A Lover by Carol Mason (5 stars/3 reviews) Contemporary fiction; Chic-lit.

Memoirs Aren’t Fairytales: A Story of Addiction by Marni Mann (5 stars/53 reviews) Contemporary fiction; Addiction.

Forever Silent by J.K. Drew (5 stars/2 reviews) YA Contemporary fiction.

I Called Him Dancer by G. Edward Snipes (4 1/2 stars/33 reviews) Contemporary fiction; Religious.

Joy by Anne L. Watson (5 stars/9 reviews) Literary fiction.

Fearless Heart by Gail Cauble Gurley (4 1/2 stars/12 reviews) Historical fiction.

Gold Under Ice by Carol Buchanan (5 stars/10 reviews) Historical fiction.

Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life by Maria Ross (5 stars/15 reviews) Memoir.

Mother’s House Payment – A Memoir by Ronnie Schiller (5 stars/10 reviews) Bipolar Disorder.

Second-Chance Mother by Denise Roessle (5 stars/18 reviews) Memoir; Adoption.

Will Love For Crumbs – A Memoir by Jonna Ivin (4 1/2 stars/59 reviews).

For Animal Lovers by Kim Cano (5 stars/12 reviews) Children’s fiction; Short stories.

The Adventures of Marco and Carla: The Dark Castle by Shamara Davis (5 stars/2 reviews) Children’s fiction.

Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen From the Kremlin that Sheds New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East by Pavel Stroilov (4 stars/4 reviews) History; Politics.

Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts on Etsy, the DIY Marketplace for Handmade, Vintage and Crafting Supplies by Steve Weber (5 stars/22 reviews) How-to.

Raising Chickens In Your Backyard: A No-Fluff Guide To Chicken Breeds, Coops, Runs, Tractors And More by Anna Greenwood and Simple Self-Sufficiency (5 stars/5 reviews).

Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should by David Gaughran (5 stars/81 reviews) Self-publishing.

What’s Your Secret?: Freedom through Confession by Aaron Stern (5 stars/5 reviews) Religion. Also free at Barnes & Noble.

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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate Series #1) by Gail Carriger (4 1/2 stars/316 reviews) has been reduced to .99 to promote the author’s latest book, Timeless. Same price at Barnes & Noble and Kobo. Haven’t read the book yet (it’s been in the stacks for some time), but I do love the cover.

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire — and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

Amazon’s Gold Box deal today is a selection of Kindle books that have been made into films priced at .99 each. Titles include I Am Legend, Wizard’s First Rule (first book in the Sword of Truth series), Who Goes There? (basis for The Thing movies) and more.

Scholastic has three new and free summer reading and math apps for children:

The Scholastic Reading Timer app for iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones helps kids keep track of how much they’re reading;
The Storia eReading app available for iPad and PC (with additional platforms rolling out soon) comes with five free ebooks and helps kids read and interact with favorite children’s eBooks;
Sushi Monster for the iPad supports the development of math fact fluency for addition and multiplication facts.

All three are free at iTunes.

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Wiley Takes on Verizon Over Piracy Concerns

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:53:35 +0000

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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 April, the publisher filed a lawsuit against 200 people based on the IP addresses after a deal was offered to all of the identified downloaders.

Now, Wiley is asking for personal information on Verizon customers in order to move forward with lawsuits against users who have illegal copies of ebooks, a request that Verizon has so far denied. The service provider has cited concerns over invasion of privacy and how the information could be used in other ways.

For its part, Verizon simply remains unconvinced that an IP address is an automatic guarantee that the actions were committed by the address owner. That’s not a far-fetched concern, as the registered user may not be the same person who engaged in illegal downloading. Other internet service providers, however, have caved to the pressure of the subpoenas and provided the requested information on their clients.

In April’s lawsuits. Wiley was only demanding the minimum punitive damages from the people whose IPs they recovered, typically 0. However, for those consumers who had been identified as infringing but refused to cooperate, the fine was as much as 0,000 per instance. />google_ad_client=”pub-5776314496161013″;google_ad_slot=”5610832462″;google_ad_width=468;google_ad_height=60;

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Mother’s Day weekend ereader & ebook sales

Sat, 12 May 2012 17:59:44 +0000

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 by Robert Goolrick, only customers in the U.S. are eligible for the discount; other titles are eligible for the discount to readers in the U.S. and Canada, possibly elsewhere as well. This promotion will end on May 14.

Best Buy has a few deals, like a gift card with the purchase of a Kindle with Special Offers or a Nook Simple Touch ereader or a gift card when you purchase both a Kindle Fire and a Kindle with Special Offers.

Amazon has a selection of Kindle Fire covers that are discounted by 30% when purchased together with a Kindle Fire. Good through May 13.

MyHabit has a selection of designer and boutique Kindle and Kindle Fire cases and sleeves on sale. Included in the sale are the DODOcase for the Kindle Fire. This sale will end at 9AM PT on May 15, but usually individual items are of limited quantity at MyHabit and often sell out before the end of the sale. MyHabit is an Amazon company and you can sign into it with your Amazon account. There are some nice covers here that Mom would probably like.

DecalGirlhas a promo code – ILOVEMOM – that will be good for a 25% discount through May 14th.

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Winners Of DataWind App Contest Announced

Sat, 12 May 2012 09:54:00 +0000

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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 the advantages are manifold as not only eould such an exercise allow the student community — the tablet’s intended clientele — to be more familiar with the device but will also bring to fore any flaws that the device might have. Also, the app contest will allow the students to explore more applications of the UbiSlate to not only among students but the general populace as well.

That the contest did help achieve the desired result can be made out in the words of Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli who said while announcing the results of the contest, “We have received a lot of great entries with very creative ideas from across the country. We wanted to engage the creative energy of India’s brightest minds and give them an opportunity to think outside the box to create solutions that add value to the life of an average Indian. The best five applications will get an award of Rs. 1 lakh each, apart from getting a share of the advertising revenue from these applications. This would allow these students to start and advance their entrepreneurial journeys.”

The top 5 apps (INPO) that have been declared winner are:

My Jobs: Created by Hemen Parekh from Mumbai, the app, as it name should imply, allows the user to search and apply online for jobs that have been drawn from a database of all vocational jobs available in the country.

Learn English: Created by Rajiv Kaul from Chandigarh, the app allows kids to pick up the nuances of the language English using finger tracking techniques with an intelligent voice guidance system to ensure the kids are picking up the right skills.

Axon is a quiz based app for students. The app will ask questions on mathematics, logic and verbal reasoning and will test the student’s ability with different levels of difficulty built into it. The Axon has been the handiwork of Nagpur based Saurabh, Sujay Anjankar, Tanya Tiwari and Umesh Chandani.

Release my Food is another interesting app and as the name signifies, it is about the food one eats and the nutritional value and calories it contains. The app will let users to have an idea of the calories and nutritional values one has gained from the food they have eaten. The app is based on the criteria laid down by the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) for daily allowances required by people based on their gender and age. The app has been developed by Kedar Radhakrishnan, Avin Agarwal, Abijeet Waghmare and Najmul Islam from Bangalore.

Another nice app that has made it to the top 5 and which could open up the UbiSlate 7+ tablet’s application is Krishi Ville. Designed by Manav Singhal and Nishant Rai from Meerut, the app is aimed at the Indian farmers who will be provided with all important information pertaining to farming. The data sourced from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) database will include such agricultural information like prices of grains, pulses, seeds and other commodities in the local markets, latest weather updates or any other news from the agriculture sector that could be of benefit to the farmers.

Catch up the official press release below for more on this.

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Students from Meerut, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Mumbai are winners

New Delhi, 11 May, 2012 – Datawind, the developers of the world’s cheapest tablet computer ‘Aakash’, /> today announced the results of the Software App Innovation ‘AapKiApp’ contest for their Ubislate series /> of Tablets. Datawind had invited the student community in India to submit their innovative ‘software /> applications’ for collaboration.

Announcing the results today, Mr. Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of Datawind said, ‘We have received a lot of /> great entries with very creative ideas from across the country. We wanted to engage the creative energy /> of India’s brightest minds and give them an opportunity to think outside the box to create solutions that /> add value to the life of an average Indian. The best five applications will get an award of Rs. 1 lakh each, /> apart from getting a share of the advertising revenue from these applications. This would allow these /> students to start and advance their entrepreneurial journeys.” added Mr Tuli.

The top five winners (in no particular order) are:

1) ‘’Krishi Ville’, an app for use by Indian farmers which will provide the latest agricultural /> market data like rates of grains, pulses, seeds and other commodities in local markets; latest /> weather updates and news related to the agriculture sector at the tap of a finger. It will pull live /> data from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) database.

Created by Manav Singhal and Nishant Rai from Meerut,

2) ‘Axon’ , a quiz application for students with questions on mathematics, logic and verbal /> reasoning at different difficulty levels.

Created by Saurabh, Sujay Anjankar, Tanya Tiwari and Umesh Chandani from Nagpur

3) ‘Release my Food’, an app for promoting healthy eating habits among children. It lets /> children calculate how many calories and what nutrients they are taking based on their daily /> food intake. The calculations are based on the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) /> criteria for recommended daily allowances for different age and gender.

Created by Kedar Radhakrishnan, Avin Agarwal, Abijeet Waghmare and Najmul Islam /> from Bangalore

4) ‘Learn English’ is an app for kids that let them learn a new language and script using finger /> tracing on the screen with intelligent voice over to guide them.

Created by Rajiv Kaul from Chandigarh

5) ‘My Jobs’ is an app that uses the database of available vocational jobs all over India and lets /> people search and apply for jobs online.

Created by Hemen Parekh from Mumbai

About Datawind –

Datawind, awarded the UK’s Most Innovative Mobile Company award, is a leading provider of wireless /> web access products and services. DataWind’s product range includes the PocketSurfer handheld /> internet device, UbiSurfer netbooks and UbiSlate tablet devices. Based on several international /> patents, Datawind’s breakthrough technologies solve the bandwidth limitations of cellular networks by /> accelerating content delivery by factors of 10x to 30x – resulting in a superior mobile web experience at /> a lower cost. Datawind has offices in Amritsar, London, Montreal, Dallas and New Delhi.

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iPad Mini? How about 13 Inch Tablets?

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:00:38 +0000

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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 considers Kindle DX the best e-reader around, I would like to see larger screen tablets make their way to the market. Toshiba is planning to release such a tablet in Toshiba Excite 13:

The Excite 13 is what we see as a home tablet … The larger size makes it an ideal kitchen tablet. You can watch how-to videos while you’re cooking, or look up recipes. And then later, you can bring it into the living room to watch videos with the kids, or to look at family photos with friends.

Jared Leavitt, a Toshiba spokesman, told Wired.com. The Toshiba Excite 13 has a 13.3 inch screen and will run Android 4.0. It will have a quad core processor inside. The device is pretty thin and will weigh only 2.2 lbs. id="more-5657">

Not everyone is sold on the idea behind these large tablets though. Many experts consider this tablet to be too huge. Jared Spool, the CEO of User Interface Engineering, a usability research firm, does not believe this tablet will be successful:

what this comes down to is that it’s not the specific technology in a tablet that makes it exciting. It’s the user experience. And there’s just a lot less to do on an Android tablet than an iPad. And what there is to do is much clumsier because the screen sizes and specs for Android tablets are all over the place. A 13-inch screen and a bunch of top specs do nothing to change that.

The Toshiba Excite 13 may not become an iPad killer. It is too huge to pull it off anyway. But there is no reason 11.6 or 12.1 inch tablets can’t be popular. We would love for Apple to release larger iPads. But that does not seem likely at this point.

Your turn: would you like to see Apple release larger iPads? Is Toshiba Excite 13′s screen too large?

iPad Mini? How about 13 Inch Tablets? from: eBook Reader Canada ebook-reader.ca

Pocket Star Revived as eBook Imprint

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:57:25 +0000

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 market has served as a platform to develop future hardcover authors, it is our mission to use Pocket Star’s new digital-only format to establish new voices in the marketplace,” said Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher. ”An eBook imprint is flexible, cost-effective, cutting-edge and makes sense in today’s marketplace. Under the Pocket Star banner we will publish original works including full-length novels and novellas from some of our most popular authors.”

The imprint is launching with titles from its Spring and Summer lists, featuring authors V.C. Andrews, Nathan Dodge, Cindy Gerard, Laura Griffin, Sabrina Jeffries, Carrie Lofty, and Michael R. Underwood, among others. All Pocket Star eBooks will have the full support of Pocket Books’ creative and innovative publishing resources. Reflecting a fluid marketplace, titles initially published under Pocket Star may transition from eBook to print format.

Pocket Star Revived as eBook Imprint from: eBook Reader Canada ebook-reader.ca