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Amazon is dipping its giant toe into the book subscription model with the recently unveiled Amazon Unlimited program. Claiming to offer book lovers access to over 600,000 books and thousands of audio books, this Netflix-for-books plan is priced at $9.99 per month. You can view the nitty-gritty here, but for me, the most pressing question … Continue reading Amazon Unveils New Unlimited Program for Readers
A bit of magical-tastic news hit my inbox this morning. Amazon announced a new feature called MatchBook. Why is this magical-tastic news, you might ask? According to Amazon, MatchBook offers the following: For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, … Continue reading Kindle a Fire under Your Print Books with Amazon’s MatchBook
Do you ever find yourself printing something to read because you really need to focus on it or pay attention to the content? Have you read something on screen and then later had difficulty recalling the details of what you read? (here's me, raising my hand) Turns out that it happens to most of us. … Continue reading Reading on Paper versus Screen: See What Science Says About What Your Brain Prefers
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