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  The e-ink has dried on Kindle lending whether authors like it or not, by Steven Lewis

  1911 readersAmazon has turned on the Kindle book lending program, which allows book owner to “lend” books to anyone with an email address and a Kindle (or a Kindle app for another device). The conditions are that the loan offer email must be accepted within seven days. Once accepted, the loan lasts for 14 days. Presently

• Amazon Book Reviews: 10 Cardinal Rules of Using Reviewing Power

  1860 readersAmazon Book  Reviews: 10 Cardinal Rules of Using Reviewing Power Amazon reviews, which were only mildly significant three years ago, now have a make-or-break impact on an author’s sales. So, when writing a review or rating a book on Amazon, it is essential to remember that the rating has a direct influence on the success of the

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  Kindle Author Challenges Amazon To Fix Rankings System

  1297 readersAmazon does not take lightly to authors trying to manipulate its review system. Author Thomas Hertog authored a Book on how he worked the Amazon rankings system to get an inflated ranking. The eBook called The Day the Kindle Died, was allegedly removed...

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  NetGalley Has Restored Kindle Support

  1868 readersThe digital galley service NetGalley announced today that it’s once again able to support the Amazon Kindle. It had removed Kindle support some months ago, but never explained why. The cause appeared to be some kind of conflict with Amazon, but t...

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  Has Anybody Seen an Honest Reviewer?

  191 readers Has anybody seen an honest reviewer? Five years ago we asked Do Amazon Reviews Count? Our answer was yes, they absolutely do, and we were surprised that few publishers quoted them to support the books they published. Since then a surge of self-serving reviews, many of them covering self-published books, has cast a dark shadow on the

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  Has Anybody Seen an Honest Reviewer?

  373 readers Has anybody seen an honest reviewer? Five years ago we asked Do Amazon Reviews Count? Our answer was yes, they absolutely do, and we were surprised that few publishers quoted them to support the books they published. Since then a surge of self-serving reviews, many of them covering self-published books, has cast a dark shadow on the

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  Book reviews & reviewers: deciding which reviews to trust

  3017 readersRecently, on a discussion forum, the question was asked: “Would you trust a paid book review?” Most commenters declared an unambiguous “no,” but I’m not sure the answer is so easy or should be so emphatically given. We start, of course, with what constitutes payment for a review. In the forum, the answers began with

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  Apple Plans to Pull 500px App From App Store For Nudity

  432 readersApple has plans to remove the 500px photography app from the App Store, after concerns that users have been posting nude photos. Pulpfingers, the Twitter handle for App Studio, the company that created the app, tweeted the news yesterday, “ISO500 is going to be temporarily removed from the @AppStore. We will be back soon. Sorry for

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  Tools of Change: Literary reviewing in the digital age

  1954 readersBethanne Patrick (Book Maven Media), Ron Charles (Washington Post), Sarah Weinman (Publishers Marketplace), Bob Carlton (Kirkus Reviews) Patrick: freelance critic and author. A number of places are developed a Rotten Tomatoes for books. Charles: fiction critic and book reviewer for Washington Post. Chief challenge is findability for both authors and readers. Media complex does not

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  Anandtech reviews the Kindle Fire and Touch 3G

  1757 readersAnandtech is the “cream of the crop” in hardware reviews and they set the standard for everyone else. Now they have taken a look at the Kindle Fire and Touch 3G, in two seperate reviews.  They like both units.  The Fire review is long and goes into incredible detail on the technical and hardware end. For the