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Amazon Helps Your Promote Your Book On Your Authors Website

If you have a book in Kindle format on Amazon, you soon will be able to embed a sample chapter on any web site. Reader can browse and instantly purchase.

Those who don’t buy the Kindle edition or want a hard copy will still be able to use the Kindle For the Web version to sample.

We wanted to put up a sample of my “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online” but found that the controls weren’t getting us to the web version. (though we did put a new reader on a PC and get the sample.. but that’s another post Smile

Kindle for the Web Beta is designed to be embedded on our Associates’ websites and blogs. Embedding this new feature will allow you to display samples of best-selling Kindle title to your readers in an attractive and inviting fashion. Your readers will be able to initiate their Kindle book purchase easily from this feature.

We’d like to invite you to learn more on Kindle for the Web Beta by visiting our information page at http://www.amazon.com/kindlefortheweb. Recommending books has never been so easy, interactive, and attractive.

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Share a book sample

  • Book samples can be made visible on any website that supports embedded content. If you can add script tags to your site or blog, you can post a sample.
  • First, click the "Embed" button, visible on the right side of the screen when viewing any book sample. You will then see the code to embed. Click on "Customize" if you would like to change the width and height of the window or add your associate tag.
  • After making any customization changes, simply copy the embed code and paste it into the source code of your website or blog.
  • You may also share book samples via email, Facebook, or Twitter by clicking the "Share" button on the right side of the sample screen.

A Touch Screen for Your Kindle?

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Coming to the Kindel?

The New York Times reported

Touchco uses a technology called interpolating force-sensitive resistance, which it puts into displays that can be completely transparent and could cost as little as $10 a square foot. The capacitive touch screens used in the iPad and iPhone are considerably more expensive. Unlike those screens, the Touchco screens can also detect an unlimited number of simultaneous touch points.

The e-ink technology used in today’s Kindle products is much easier on the eyes than the lighted displays of most devices but we know that on screen viewing will continue to improve.

Do you need color on your book reading app?

Amazon Plays Hardball With Publishers

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I caught a discussion among some writers about titles missing from Kindle when a publisher doesn’t like Amazon’s pricing.

Apple makes the iPadSome suggested that Amazon better be careful now that Apple has announce the iPad.. the giant iPod touch the will be out soon… claiming “the timing couldn’t be worse for Amazon”

The timing couldn’t be better.

Amazon, Apple, or somebody is going to discover new ways of getting books to people. Whoever does will win the ebook distribution war.

The Apple iPod was not the first mp3 player.. Jobs was the first to take on the music publishers and win. The “game changer” is not the pretty new hardware.. it will be the distribution deals that give consumers what they want.

Amazon make the KindleImagine a future where the quantity of books sold without killing a tree equals the number of ringtones purchased. Sure, there would be some low prices, some piracy, some

I can’t say where things will end.. but it’s clear that we won’t be going back to publishing of yesterday. That’s gone for good.