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Kindle Fire Welcome Screen Ads to Sell For $600,000+

May 20th, 2012

Bringing advertisements to the Kindle line changed the way that eReaders were priced. The competition has only recently been able to begin matching Amazon’s listings. Interestingly, Amazon has also surprised customers by offering advertisements that occasionally bring genuine value to them beyond the initial price drop in hardware purchase. Integration with Amazon’s local advertising only serves to make this more effective, of course. The success that the Kindle w/ Special Offers as a program has enjoyed made it almost inevitable that the Kindle Fire would be included eventually and it seems that the time has come.

The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s best-selling product, as their first-quarter earnings release made clear. It shouldn’t take anybody by surprise, then, to find out that they intend to make sure advertising space on the device comes at a premium. According to Ad Age, that premium might be an even more expensive one than we could have predicted. Amazon is said to be looking for $ 600,000 to run an ad on the Kindle Fire’s Welcome Screen. For a variety of reasons, some of which are apparent, there has not been a great deal of enthusiasm for the idea among advertisers so far.

In addition to this being an impressively high charge for something like this, there was a great deal that was left unsaid. For one, nobody seems to be quite sure whether or not these ads would be served to the millions of Kindle Fire owners who have already bought their tablets. Having purchased a new product at full price with no indication that it would be used by Amazon to serve up advertisements, doing so would definitely upset some people and potentially undercut the benefits of buying the ad space. This isn’t exactly a situation where Amazon is incurring obvious costs on existing units, as the Kindle Fire lacks 3G access.

Also, the company seems to have failed to clearly define what they consider to be the “Welcome Screen”. Is this the Lock Screen, or something else? This could very well be a sign that Amazon is getting ready for the next Kindle Fire and the Welcome Screen is something that will be included specifically for the purpose of creating a space for ads. Unlike the Kindle eReaders, persistent advertisements would not be possible when the tablet is powered down which creates the need for a more creative solution to make the ads worth buying.

If subsidized by advertising, the next Kindle Fire model could be impressively inexpensive. Existing Kindle w/ Special Offers options are 30% cheaper than their counterparts. If the same sort of trend applies to the Kindle Fire, it could mean a $ 150 7″ Kindle Fire or better yet a $ 200 9.7″ option. Now they just need to clarify the details to attract some interest. It is probably a smart buy for many advertisers, but how can they be sure of that when so many things are left unsaid?

Is the Kindle a Good Choice for Early Education Classrooms?

May 19th, 2012

We’ve been seeing a great deal of interest in the potential savings provided by the Kindle in educational settings lately. Now that some of the initial antagonism is out of the way, people are coming to see eReaders as valuable tools. It needs to be kept in mind, however, that as much as the Kindle can serve as a book analogue in the majority of situations it is still not a book and not suitable for every single situation where books are used. How we decide which situations to use them in is something that still remains vague.

Perhaps the most interesting case is the early education classroom. I’m thinking Primary School here (1^st– 5^th/6^th grade). On the surface it makes perfect sense. Using a Kindle rather than buying books means that schools can potentially avoid everything from lost reading material to profanity scribbled in the margins of textbooks. Students wouldn’t even need to worry about forgetting their books on the way to or from school. For every positive, though, there is a negative.

The most obvious is probably also the most trivial to fix. Kids break things. Whether through overwhelming exuberance or deliberate malice, from time to time they just tend to do damage as a group even if the same isn’t necessarily true of any specific individual. The Kindle, whatever else you might say about it, is not the most durable piece of electronics in the world. Amazon has an amazing return policy and does great work in making sure that damaged E Ink screens are replaced when the occasion calls for it, sometimes even for customers long out of the warranty period, but we have to assume they would balk at 5-10 free service orders per classroom every six months. Given the investment already being made in texts on a regular basis, it still might make sense to go with the Kindle. At the very least, a good case can prevent all but the most destructive acts from doing damage in my experience.

More important would be the issue of efficacy. While the Kindle is great for sequential reading, its limited navigational options and slow refresh rate can be a pain for referring to scattered parts of a book. On top of that, until color screens come into fashion in the eReading world there will always be some question of whether enough is being done to hold student attention. There is a reason that most textbooks for children are thoroughly illustrated and brightly colored.

Rather than just assuming a stance on this, I have to say that it feels like an issue best decided through trials. There are surely ways to use the Kindle properly in these classrooms, just as there are obviously ways for it to be used poorly. The only way to really figure out how to make it work is to throw the new technology into the mix and see how the kids take to it. I do believe that exposing children to this sort of technology early in their lives can have positive effects on both their technical proficiency and their love of reading, but one person’s anecdotal evidence about a kid who loves their Kindle is hardly enough for me to argue for an educational policy even when the anecdote is mine.

I’m curious what you all think on this. Do Kindles and kids make a productive combination?

Kindle Fire Review + Browser Test

May 19th, 2012

So I pre-ordered my Amazon Kindle Fire, a device that was released on the 16th of November this year, and its been what I play with for the past 2 days. The browser is okay, not a significant difference but the dual core processor really helps out while completing multiple tasks. You can find the Kindle Fire at amazon.com or here: www.amazon.com I have no doubt that this device will kill the Nook Color in speed, and in abilities. Thanks for watching, don’t forget to like, subscribe and favorite! EDIT: AS OF 12/24/11, YOU CAN NOW HOLD YOUR FINGER ON THE CAROUSEL OBJECT AND REMOVE IT. Merry Christmas!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Daily Deals: Identity: Lost and Fragger

May 18th, 2012

Today Amazon offers Identity: Lost by Pascal Marco just for $ 0.99

It’s July, 1975 and an overworked Chicago police force receives a call that an 85-year-old white man has been attacked by a gang of black youths on the lakefront in Burnham Park. Amid public outrage, contentious Mayor Richard J. Daley commands his police to find the killers fast and make the bucolic park safe again.Uncommonly but fortunately for the police, twelve-year-old James Overstreet steps forward and identifies five of the six assailants and arrests are made. But detectives and county attorneys bungle the case, leaving the judge no choice but to release the accused.This startling turn of events jeopardizes James’s life, forcing the entire Overstreet family into witness protection in Arizona, and creates a nightmare that will haunt the brave witness forever.Fast-forward thirty years. The stoic young man has grown to become Maricopa County’s most feared prosecutor. But his life is about to be turned upside down when paths from the past cross into the present, veering toward a shocking climax.

Some words about the Author

Pascal Marco, a Chicago native and long time resident, uses his intimacy with that city and his present residence to weave a tale of terror and murder with as many twists and turns as the city streets themselves. A successful entrepreneur and businessman, he’s a graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago and a member of the Scottsdale Writers Group.

Fragger Also Amazon give a chance to download for free the following game: Fragger

The world of Fragger is at risk, and he needs your help to explode all enemies. Unleash your shooting abilities to kill all the enemies and unlock three different perks. Play the interactive tutorial to get comfortable launching the grenades, and then put your game face on; it’s Fragger time.

Good Aim Is the Name of the Game

Featuring 340 challenging levels, and 11 different worlds, Fragger guarantees long hours of exploding fun. Once you become a grenade-launching expert, earn achievements and compare your score online with the millions of Miniclip users who play Fragger too.

PLEASE NOTE: This app lets you purchase digital content using actual money. You can configure parental controls for in-app purchases, which will require your Amazon account password or a 4-digit PIN, by tapping the Menu icon and then Settings.

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Daily Deals: Daughters for a Time and Gunman Clive

May 17th, 2012

Today Amazon offers Daughters for a Time by Jennifer Handford just for $ 1.99

When Helen Francis was a child, her mother died and her father walked out, leaving her to be raised by her older sister. Now thirty-five, married, and trying to start a family of her own, Helen has moved on but never really healed from her traumatic childhood. She has always believed that a new baby would help fill the loss of what was taken from her at such a young age. After four years of trying to become pregnant, however, she is resigned to the fact that she will never be able to bear children. Halfheartedly accepting adoption as an alternative, Helen gradually embraces and grows excited over the prospect. And when her new baby is finally in her arms, true happiness washes over her. But her unimaginable bliss is dashed when she learns that Claire, the sister who raised and loved her throughout her childhood and adult life, has been diagnosed with cancer.

For Helen, the pain of her childhood returns and the old wounds of abandonment are once again torn open. Balancing the joy of her new daughter with the painful experience of watching her sister, the physical embodiment of unconditional love in her life, slowly die, Helen must reconcile her inner feelings and heal her broken spirit. A heart-wrenching exploration of the ties that bind us and the lasting pain of childhood loss, Daughters for a Time is about longing for a family to heal a broken heart, experiencing unconditional love as a parent, and finding solid ground to stand on when suffering and elation have equally powerful holds on our life.

Some words about the Author.

Jennifer Handford was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where she lived until she moved to Oregon for college and graduate school. After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., and has lived in the Virginia/Washington, D.C., area for fifteen years. Jennifer is married and has three daughters. Daughters for a Time was awarded one of three first place prizes in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. It is her first novel.

Gunman Clive

Also you can download a game for your Kindle Fire which called Gunman Clive. It is free today only.

The west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnson’s daughter and are spreading havoc across the land. Only Gunman Clive can bring order to the west and save the girl. Gunman Clive is an old-school, side-scrolling platform game set in the old West with full 3D graphics and a unique art style.

Shoot ‘em Up

Navigate Gunman Clive through the dangerous Wild West using three controls. Directional arrows are located at the bottom left-hand side of your screen. Jump and Shoot buttons are located on the lower right-hand side. Move Clive through a number of obstacles while dodging bullets and taking down the outlaws.

Rowdy Bandits

Jump and shoot your way across 16 diverse and challenging levels against a variety of outlaws–from your run-of-the-mill gunman to their powerful bosses. The unique sepia sketch-shaded graphics pull gamers into the rough and rowdy ways of the original Wild West. Be careful out there.

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How to sideload apps on your Kindle Fire (no root)

May 16th, 2012

Download regular android apps that aren’t in the amazon appstore with this easy technique. No need to root your device, or even use a computer. Here is a link to the app download site: adf.ly
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Daily Deals: Desperate Passage and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils – An Interactive Children’s Story Book HD

May 16th, 2012

Today Amazon offers Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick just for $ 1.99

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened–and what it tells us about human nature and about America’s westward expansion–remained shrouded in myth.

Drawing on fresh archeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. “The Donner Party,” Rarick writes, “is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity.”

A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, Desperate Passage casts new light on one of America’s most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.

Some words about the Author.

Ethan Rarick has written about politics, crime, business and sports throughout the West. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Los Angles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he is the author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Also you can download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils – An Interactive Children’s Story Book HD into you Kindle Fire for free today only.

An Adventure of a Lifetime

Join Nils on his magical journey, meet new friends, and see the world like you’ve never seen it before! The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a beautiful interactive and magical storybook created for young readers. Watch how Nils learns an important lesson and comes to understand that we should treat all living things with trust and care. Enjoy fun interactive activities, superb animation, and brilliant sound effects your child will love.

Interactive Magic

TabTale’s interactive storybooks provide an exciting interactive reading experience for beloved children’s stories. Richly filled with innovative and engaging activities, each book inspires young children’s creativity and imagination in a uniquely enjoyable and interactive way.

The story comes alive with interactive fun. The young reader gets to meet Nils and and his animal friends, watch how a magic dwarf casts a spell on Nils, and fly over stunning landscapes with Nils aboard Muli the goose.

Nils eventually saves the day by warning the geese of an impending danger, and then your child will help welcome Nils back to the farm in a joyous celebration. Your child truly becomes part of the story.

Experience the Adventure Your Way

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils comes packed with features:

Beautiful high-definiton illustrations joined with a rich narrative on every page
“Read to Me”: automatically reads each page of the story to you
“Read it Myself”: allows you to control the reading yourself
“Auto Play”: automatically reads the entire story to you
Numerous engaging and fun animations on each page

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Daily Deals: The Last Explorer and KeyChord

May 15th, 2012

Today Amazon offers The Last Explorer by Simon Nasht just for $ 1.99.

This riveting biography recounts the life of the world’s first truly modern explorer, a life of unrelenting adventure and the high drama of polar exploration. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history: no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, he was a celebrated reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer. He captured in his lens war and famine, cheated death repeatedly, met world leaders like Lenin, Mussolini, and King George V, and circled the globe on a zeppelin. Knighted for being the first person to fly across the North Pole, Wilkins was also the first to fly in the Antarctic, discover land by airplane, and take a submarine under the Arctic ice.

Some words about the Author

Simon Nasht is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He has worked all over the world, lived in half a dozen countries, and reported for leading newspapers and TV networks everywhere. His acclaimed documentaries have been shown by the BBC, ABC, the National Geographic channel, and PBS. He lives in Australia.

Also Amazon offers KeyChord for free downloading today only.

Find Chords and Scales on your Android Device

Do you love your piano or keyboard but get bored when it comes to the nuts and bolts of finding chords and scales?

KeyChord is a virtual keyboard on which you can select chords or scaletypes. Now you can create beautiful music by tapping the screen of your smartphone or tablet without the strain of figuring out scales and chord root notes.

A Personal Piano Teacher

You can use KeyChord as your personal music tutor, learning chords and scales while enjoying the creative side of the piano. For instance, simply tap on a key to make it the root of your chord, or long-press a selected chord note to invert the chord to that position. You can do the same with scales. Tap an already-selected root note for different kinds of information modes like note names or intervals.

Features

KeyChord lets you select a chord dynamically anywhere you want on the keyboard. It doesn’t use a database to give you just a few predefined chord locations, but knows how chords work mathematically, giving you the power to explore chords on your keyboard.

Reverse Lookup allows for dynamic note selection for the chords you have in mind or that you discover on your piano: Keychord tells you automatically how the chord is called, and supports even missing notes like CMaj7 (no 5th).

More than 50 chord types
More than 100 scale types
Note names
Component intervals
Inversions
Staff view
Favorite and recent chord types
Hear every chord and scale

Audio playback is also enabled in all modes. And included as a bonus is the playable five octave multi-touch piano from Mini Piano Pro (128 sounds and 5 octaves).

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Daily Deals: 20 great novels that inspired movies and Pot Smash: Addictive Type & Match Game!

May 14th, 2012

Today Amazon unveil set of 20 books. This collection presents some of the most memorable books made into movies. Explore the connection between classic books and the popular films they inspired. Daily Deal Price:$ 0.99 each. Here is the list of the books:

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

To Dance with the White Dog: A Novel of Life, Loss, Mystery and Hope by Terry Kay

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

Fuzz by Ed McBain

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy

Red Alert by Peter Bryant

Make Room! Make Room! by Mark Harris

Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

In the Heat of the Night by John Ball

The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett

The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey

Also you can download Pot Smash: Addictive Type & Match Game! for your Kindle Fire or any other Android gadget.

Have you ever just felt like smashing everything in sight? You know, like Anarchist protesters in a march through a downtown commercial district? Well, if you like not getting arrested while smashing stuff, you’ll have a simply smashing time with Pot Smash. In this brain challenging game, let your fingers do the virtual smashing with no harm done to public or private property. Combine thinking skills required with quick, rapier-like swipes to smash every pot in sight.

Features

Features include achievement awards, addictive gameplay, and five unique game modes, including Teapot Match-up, Smash Typing, 3 Letter Words, Zen Smash, and Relax Mode.

Kindle DX, Free 3G, 9.7″ E Ink Display-Excellent team

May 13th, 2012

link: tinyurl.com Kindle DX, Free 3G, 9.7″ E Ink Display-excellent team Say Hello to the Kindle DX High Contrast E Ink Pearl Screen: Our graphite Kindle DX display uses the latest generation E Ink Pearl technology with 50% better contrast for the clearest text and sharpest images Beautiful Large Display: The 9.7″ diagonal E Ink screen is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs Read in Sunlight with No Glare: Unlike backlit computer or LCD screens, Kindle DX’s display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living roomcomputer or LCD screens, Kindle DX’s display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines Books In Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Free 3G Wireless: No monthly payments, no annual contracts. Download books anywhere, anytime Long Battery Life: Read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for two to three weeks. Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3500 books, periodicals, and documents Buy Once, Read Everywhere: Kindle books can be read on all your devices. Our Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your Kindle library and last page read across your Kindle(s), PC, iPhone, Mac, iPad, Android device, and BlackBerry device …
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