What with music being stored in the cloud, it was just a matter of time that books would make their way up there, too. This article is about Amazon's Web-based Kindle Cloud Reader. It may be of interest to all you techies out there. Frankly, my head's in the clouds half the time as it is, but I never see any books or hear any music. Which is probably for the best, really.
Now, the next thing I want to tell you about is an app in development. This post from the ABA (as in the American Booksellers Association) says the following (and I quote):
At Wednesday’s IndieCommerce Institute in Chicago, the American Booksellers Association announced that it is working with Bluefire Productions to create a version of the company’s popular BlueFire Reader app for IndieCommerce stores selling Google eBooks™. The app will be called IndieBound Reader and will link back to indie bookstores for purchase on the Android platform. An iOS version of the app will also be available, but without a purchase option due to Apple’s restrictions regarding in-app purchases.
Bluefire Reader is an independently developed app for iOS (and in beta for Android) with a competitive feature set noted for its clean user interface and highly customizable display preferences, including controls for font size, brightness, page margins, night mode, and more.
Oh, wow! More techie stuff. Enough to make this poor little techno-idiot's head spin. :)
Feel free to read the articles, if you want to learn more about all that, okay?
So, then I saw this and I thought, "Where have you guys been?"
And I read this, and thought, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." :)
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