Sunday, June 2, 2013

Kindle for the Web to read and share book excerpts without installing anything - Engadget

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War of the ebooks is pretty fierce, so even Movistar wants to jump on the bandwagon. While Apple has a great opportunity to popularize iBooks thanks to the success of the iPad, Amazon is not willing to give an inch to their advantage. Therefore, they are focusing on your strategy of getting your book store as many platforms as possible (while still enhancing their specialized device, the Kindle).

The last movement have taken in this direction is to launch Kindle for the Web , a web service that allows us to read and share fragments ebooks Amazon Shop directly from the browser without having to install the Kindle software for PC or Mac This reader offers almost the same features as the Kindle desktop client: you can adjust the font size, line spacing, the length of the lines, full screen reading, jump to a particular page, etc.. The only thing I would criticize in this section is that the font rendering is a bit spartan.

Best of all is that it allows you to embed / embeder (or whatever you say in Spanish) this display of books on blogs and websites. There are also shortcuts for the book share on Facebook, Twitter and Email .

But that’s not all, since Amazon is also offering incentives for bloggers and webmasters books fragments embedded in its pages. Each time a reader finishes a book buying by this route, Amazon will pay you a percentage of the sale , in the style of Google AdSense (yes, you must be enrolled in the Amazon Associates Program to enjoy this benefit).

This function also allows publishers to promote their books in a much more simple and practical. You can embed on your website, giving interactivity to readers, thereby increasing sales. That is the main achievement of this movement Amazon make sure your party publishers , by offering more effective ways of spreading what they find in the store of Barnes & Noble, or Apple iBooks same

Way | TechCrunch
Link | Kindle for The Web

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