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Amazon kills the Instagram competitor you never heard about
Did you know that Amazon launched an Instagram clone? Yeah, me neither.
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The culture wars in one tweet
How are people reacting to the change to Doctor Who? Not well…
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Amazon relies on your own laziness
Getting my fix of futurology cheaper than Amazon provides it…
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Amazon's Bookerly font arrives on E Ink Kindles
As of this morning, Amazon’s new Kindle typeface Bookerly [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/bookerly_amazons_new_kindle_font.html] has made it to the E Ink Kindles – well, the most recent ones, anyway: The current supported list is: * Kindle Voyage [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/
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How millennials and the middle-aged get to streaming TV
Compare and contrast: > Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are reuniting to create an all-new car show, exclusively for Amazon Prime. The show will be produced by the trio’s long time executive producer Andy Wilman. On working with Amazon, Jeremy Clarkson said “I feel like I’ve
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Amazon brings its Bookerly font to iOS - E Ink next?
A couple of days ago, Amazon updated its Kindle iOS app [http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&node=11516960011&tag=thedigrea-20&linkId=OFHEQ6GU2X4TITAC] to bring Bookerly – the font that came to the
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Amazon versus Captain America
re/code on Amazon’s rapidly escalating war with media owners [http://recode.net/2014/08/09/amazon-takes-on-disney-and-captain-america/]: > Retail giant Amazon is giving Captain America, Miss Piggy and Maleficent the cold shoulder. Consumers are suddenly unable to place advance orders to buy DVDs or Blu-ray discs of forthcoming films
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Kindle Unlimited: the Spotify or Netflix of books
Well, it was rumoured earlier in the week, and now it’s official: Amazon has announced Kindle Unlimited [http://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited] in the US. What do you get? Unlimited access to a library of books for $9.99 a month. > Amazon.com today introduced Kindle Unlimited—a
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The publishing winner on iPads - comics - are under threat from Amazon
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/comixology-new-app-3708.html] It’s interesting to note that one type of publication was hugely assisted by the arrival of the iPad: comics. > Very few people bought comic books digitally before the iPad (probably more stole them). Remember how the iPad
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Why the book might be getting shorter
Interesting analysis of how Kindle Singles, and other short ebooks might be the future [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2013/10/what-kindle-singles-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-ebooks.html] : > The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I
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Washington Post sails up the Amazon
The internet buys a venerable news institution… > The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations. Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has
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The Two Tier Tablet Market
In the shadow of a hurricane, Google launched some new tablets [http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html] , a phone and a revamp of the latest version of Android. Pondering this, I’ve come to the comclusion that we’ve actually got two tiers of tablets [http://nextberlin.