Daily Links: Macmillan signs deal with Scribd, Oyster

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

The Digital Life:

Macmillan Signs Deal With Scribd, Other eBook Subscription Service (The Digital Reader)

Someone gave my 5 year old a tablet (Washington Post)

Should authors and publishers spy on readers? (Digital Book World)

Here’s how to decide whether or not to keep books (BoingBoing)

Games and Video Streaming:

Groupees Lovecraftian bundle showcases promo bundle giving (Teleread)

Finds and Deals:

In today’s Gold box Deal on Amazon, there is a large selection (over 450 titles) of books for students for up to 75% off. Categories include programing, history, biography, religion and more. I would take the for students with a grain of salt. While there are many college level texts, if you like reading non-fiction, there are some great finds here! I picked up The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers.

The Nook Find of the Day is Emily Sue Harvey’s Space for $1.99. The bonus deal is Carol Leifer’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying for $3.99.

The Kobo Daily Deal is The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer for $2.99.

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Amazon Kindle and Fire Accessories on Sale

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

Just noticed this:

Today, January 12, 2014, Amazon has select Kindle and Fire accessories for 30% off as part of their Gold Box Deal of the Day. Items include genuine Kindle adapters, keyboards and cables.

CES 2015 Idea Round-up

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

A final few items of interest to close out CES:

Remix is the Android tablet that can replace your laptop (Mashable)

Hands On With Netronix 6.8″, 13.3″ E-ink Android eReaders (video) (Digital Reader)

Smart Baby Bottles, 3-D Food Printers and Other CES Oddities (Recode)

Besides all the new tech presented at CES, it is also a place for discussion and ideas and trendsetting. Here is a round-up of some of them:

On net neutrality, Internet providers are betrayed by one of their own (Ars Technica)

Troll fatigue: Earnest debate on patent abuse at CES (Ars Technica)

One-on-one with FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez about the Internet of Things (Ars Technica)

Toyota releases fuel cell patents for royalty-free use to all (Mashable)

And finally, a couple of overview article about the CES event itself:

CES is basically a Toy Fair for grown-ups. Is that a bad thing? (Mashable)

Gallery: The weird, wacky, and wonderful world of CES (Ars Technica)

CES is finally over. Here’s everything you missed (Gigaoam)

The selfie stick has taken over CES 2015 (Mashable)

At CES, everyone wants to be the Oculus killer (Gigaoam)

Daily Links: Authors Guild drops HathiTrust Case

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

Digital Life:

Authors Guild Drops HathiTrust Case (Publishers Weekly)

Online outlets showed Hebdo images but offline media didn’t. Why? (Gigaom)

Twitter’s New Video Feature Is Only a Few Weeks Away (Recode)

Microsoft’s Spartan Web Browser Breaks Cover, Confirming MS Plans to Push IE Down a Well (Digital Reader)

DDoS service targeting PSN and Xbox powered by home Internet routers (Ars Technica)

Broadband and telephone news:

With McDonalds U.K. Deal, the Other Wireless Charging Group Fights Back (Recode)

Got an Asus router? Someone on your network can probably hack it (Ars Technica)

Finds and Deals:

Amazon’s Gold Box Deal today has up to 65% off select versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking software (version 13) for PC and Dragon Dictate 4.0 for Mac.

The Kindle Daily Deals for today include 85% off a variety of books in the mystery, romance, science fiction & fantasy, contemporary fiction, biography, children, teen and religion & spirituality genres.

Barnes and Nobles’ NOOK Find of the Day is The Millionaire Affair by Jessica Lemmon.

The Kobo Store Daily Deal is Innocent Blood, Book # 2 in the Order of the Sanguines Series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell for $1.99(normally $9.99).

And in the remember this one category, John Jakes’ classic North and South (The North and South Trilogy) (volume 1) is on sale for $1.99 until February 8, 2015. Time for a re-read?

Daily Links: CES 2015 Day 3

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

More new shiny toys for day three:

The YotaPhone 2 is coming to a U.S. carrier, exec says (Android Central)

Hands On With the Hemingwrite (Digital Reader)

Cast-Fi is a speaker with a display and a port for Chromecast (Gigaom)

This Gadget Could One Day Charge Your Mobile Device from 15 Feet Away (Digital Reader)

USB 3.1 and Type-C: The only stuff at CES that everyone is going to use (Ars Technica)

Hands-on with Intel’s new mini-desktops: Faster, smaller, more expandable (Ars Technica)

Your future kitchen knows when food is spoiling, tells you what to make for dinner (Mashable)

I tried to search for USB Type-C cables and was disappointed in the results, so I am not quite sure the future is actually here yet….

You can check out the official CES website here.

Daily Links: Free download Tor 2014 anthology

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

FREE:

Some of the Best from Tor.com 2014 is Free to Download Now! (Tor.com)

The Time Machine is January’s Whispersync for Voice Freebie (eBook Reader)

Digital Life:

World’s first (known) bootkit for OS X can permanently backdoor Macs (Ars Technica)

Newspaper websites and other online forums continue to struggle with comment policies (Talking New Media)

Here’s how a real teenager uses, and doesn’t use, social media (Gigaom)

Yahoo’s U.S. share on Firefox quadruples after deal (Computerworld)

Broadband and telephone news:

At CES, FCC’s Wheeler hints at Title II net neutrality decision (Gigaoam)

AT&T defends unlimited data throttling, says the FTC can’t stop it (Ars Technica)

Finds and Deals:

For the Kindle Daily Deals, Amazon is offering First-in Series novels for $1.99 each or less.

For the Nook Daily Find, I Belong to You by Lisa Renee Jones is $1.99 today.

At the Kobo store, today’s deal is The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro.

If you are looking for a good quality wireless speaker, you can buy a Sonos Play: 3 at Amazon and get a Fire HD 6 for $50 off. This is a limited time offer.

Daily Links: CES 2015 Daily Digest – Day 2

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

Some of today’s interesting shiny gadgets:

Clear out an HDMI port for Intel’s $149 Compute Stick (Gigaom)

Lenovo, Toshiba field handwriting input solutions (Teleread)

Hands On With The Boogie Board Play & Trace at CES 2015 (video) (Digital Reader)

Hands on: Dell XPS 13 packs a 13-inch screen into an 11-inch laptop (Ars Technica)

CES Snapshot: Panasonic’s “Smart” Mirror (Recode)

The very weirdest things you’ll see at CES 2015 (Mashable)

And from reading all this coverage, I guess that selfie sticks are all the rage at CES 2015. Who knew? 🙂

You can check out the official CES website here.

Daily Links: Zuckerberg Launches Book Club

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

Digital Life:

Zuckerberg Launches Book Club (Publishers Weekly)

VPN Services consider leaving Canada to protect customer privacy (Torrent Freak)

Netflix, VPN Users and the Real Question for Content Providers (Teleread)

Apple to make price adjustments in the App Store due to VAT and exchange rates (Talking New Media)

Angie’s List launches a new digital-only weekly magazine into the Apple Newsstand (Talking New Media)

Gaming and streaming news:

PS Now subscriptions to offer all-you-can-play access starting at $15/month (Ars Technica)

You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month (Recode)

Google announces “Cast” line of home audio products (Ars Technica)

Broadband and telephone news:

Only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new FCC definition (Ars Technica)

AT&T offers data rollover, but with much stricter limits than T-Mobile (Gigaom)

Deals and Finds:

The first book in Zuckerberg’s book club is The End of Power by Moises Naim.

The Amazon Fire Phone is now priced at $189.

There are over 30 mysteries and thrillers priced at $1.99 or less in today’s Kindle Daily Deals. Features book include Max Alan Collins’ Nathan Heller Novels.

Barnes and Nobles Daily Find is featuring 18 thrillers and mysteries for just 99 cents . They are also offering Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger games for $1.99.