31 gennaio, 2010 
Diritti, Internet 
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Una storia su cui farà luce la magistratura, una partenza da segnalazioni dal basso e una convergenza al volo fra un grande quotidiano e un ottimo blogger-cronista. Ecco un ennesimo esempio di come la comunicazione in rete e la buona informazione diventino uno straordinario servizio per i cittadini.
Tutto inizia con un messaggio di Palmasco su FriendFeed del 10 novembre
Kindle. Come un pollo l’ho ordinato a Kindle Italia, pensando: pago una decina di euro in più, però lo ricevo subito. Dove cazzo vivi Palms? Ovviamente il mio ordine #81, approvato il 30-10-09, non è ancora arrivato. Bel sito però, Kindle Italia, hanno un servizio di supporto online addirittura. 3 mail mie, nessuna risposta. Che pollo.
La discussione rimane circoscritta a quel messaggio e a post in rete fino a metà gennaio, quando in parallelo Corriere.it e il grande LorenzoC alias Lorenzo Campani partono come segugi sulla notizia.
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27 dicembre, 2009 Economia, Media 0 commenti
Amazon ha venduto a Natale più ebook che libri di carta (via Silicon Alley insider)
Amazon’s Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books.
Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a Kindle for Christmas (lots of folks) firing it up and ordering a bunch of eBooks on a day in which most physical-book readers weren’t shopping. But it’s still important and impressive.
The Kindle’s economics are still lousy for Amazon: The company loses money on new releases and makes only a modest amount on older titles, thus losing an estimated $1 per Kindle book.
That said, Amazon’s strategy is clearly to drive “ubiquity,” and based on stats like those above, it is succeeding. The more Kindle books Amazon sells, the more leverage it will have over publishers when it tries to force them to cut wholesale prices. If Amazon’s Kindle momentum continues, the day publishers have to capitulate will come sooner rather than later
10 novembre, 2009 Personale 0 commenti
Via Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the availability of “Kindle for PC,” the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC). The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) currently offers more than 360,000 books, including New Releases and 101 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, which are typically $9.99 or less. The Kindle Store is the only place to find some of today’s most popular books in digital format. Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch and PC. Kindle for PC is now available as a free download to readers in over 100 countries at www.amazon.com/KindleforPC.
21 ottobre, 2009 Economia, Internet, Media 0 commenti
Via Ars Technica ; da leggere Nook vs Kindel dal blog si Simplicissimus book store
Like the Kindle, the software will synchronize content among a variety of devices, including PCs and Macs, as well as Blackberries, iPhones, and iPod touches. But it also allows users to lend their purchased items to friends with linked accounts. So, for example, you can choose a book and send it to a friend via the touchscreen interface. Once sent, your friend has 14 days to read it (presumably, the work is inaccessible to you during that period).
Back in July, Barnes & Noble made it clear that it, too, had designs on the developing e-book market, as it launched an e-book store and released reading software for a variety of platforms, from traditional PCs to the iPhone. Today, the company is releasing its dedicated e-book reader, called the Nook, at an event in New York City. The device has many features that distinguish it from its competitors, including a small color touchscreen for control, the use of the Android operating system, all at a $259 price.
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7 ottobre, 2009 Computer, Internet, Media 0 commenti
Via Antonio Tombolini
La notizia [qui il comunicato stampa ufficiale]è che ho vinto la scommessa, da oggi Kindle è in vendita non più soltanto negli USA, ma in oltre 100 paesi in tutto il mondo. Italia compresa!
Certo, per ora con qualche limitazione (si può comprare solo il Kindle picccolo, non il Kindle DX), e viene spedito dagli USA (ma Amazon si fa carico di gestire per il cliente le pratiche doganali), e bisogna pagarlo in dollari ad un prezzo un po’ più alto che negli USA (279$ + iva e dazi, contro i 259$ negli USA, ma con l’andamento del dollaro attuale non è poi così male…), e gli ebook e i giornali che si possono comprare sono solo quelli (in lingua inglese) già in vendita nel Kindle Store americano. Ma sono limitazioni certamente temporanee, aldilà delle quali spiccano un paio di considerazioni tremendamente significative, destinate a scatenare un effetto dirompente perfino sulle ultra-statiche strategie degli editori italiani.
Gli Editori. Fino a ieri Amazon non poteva vendere gli ebook del Kindle Store fuori dagli USA non per sua volta, ma per precise limitazioni contrattuali imposte dagli editori: evidentemente gli editori hanno esteso la licenza di distribuzione su scala globale. Dice ad esempio John Makinson CEO di Penguin Books: “Penguin is a leading supplier of digital books to Kindle in the U.S. and we are delighted to be extending that successful partnership to the rest of the world. The publishing industry is experiencing explosive growth in digital book sales in the U.S. and we hope to stimulate digital buying elsewhere by making our content widely available on new devices.”
26 agosto, 2009 Computer, Internet, Mobile 0 commenti
Via ZDNet
Sony announces $399 7″ Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?
28 luglio, 2009 Computer, Economia, Media 0 commenti
Via Techcrunch
While there’s a lot of talk about Apple’s rumored tablet device as it relates to new initiatives from the music industry, the device is undoubtedly a lot larger in scope. The music-angle talk is mostly thanks to the Financial Times all-over-the-place first report yesterday. But a second story also released yesterday with much of the same information, clears things up a bit, and adds a few interesting new nuggets of information.
Here’s the best excerpt: “It would be a colour, flat-panel TV to the old-fashioned, black and white TV of the Kindle,” one publishing executive said. Uh oh, Amazon.
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18 luglio, 2009 Computer, Media, Pensieri 1 commenti
Via David Pogue
This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.
A screen shot from Amazon.com The MobileReference edition of the novel, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” by George Orwell that was deleted from Kindle e-book readers by Amazon.com.
But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people’s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price.
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19 maggio, 2009 Blog, Internet 3 commenti
Incuriositi della iniziativa di Amazon di portare a pagamento la lettura dei blog su Kindle e del grande progetto di self-publishing della Digital Text Platform di Amazon, il bloggante ha smanettato per un po’ per riuscire a portare questo blog , attraverso la piattaforma Kindlepubblishing , direttamente in vendita sul lettore di ebook di Jeff Bezos
Non che si speri molto che qualcuno spenda 1.99 $ per leggersi su un ebook reader questo blog, ma è divertente vedersi in vendita su Amazon
6 maggio, 2009 Computer, Economia, Media 0 commenti
Zdnet, Engadged, Techcrunch e sicuramente altri stanno seguendo il liveblogging il lancio del Kindle dx di Amazon. Un po’ caro per poter far decollare il mercato …
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