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Les Kindle sont en promo pour le printemps : quel modèle choisirez-vous ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 27 March, 2023 - 09:32
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Un stylet plus malin pour la Kindle Scribe d’Amazon
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 5 March, 2023 - 13:00
Amazon a lancé en fin d'année dernière un nouveau modèle de Kindle très particulier : la Scribe est une liseuse qui se double d'une fonction de carnet de croquis et de prise de notes. Le constructeur a amélioré le logiciel de l'appareil il y a quelques jours.
Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites
news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak · Monday, 27 February, 2023 - 17:54 · 4 minutes
When Amazon launched the first Kindle fifteen years ago, book piracy was already a common problem.
When publishers clashed with The Pirate Bay over illegally shared copies, we envisioned that things could get much worse if Kindle-ready pirate sites began to pop up.
Fast forward to today and book piracy is easier and more widespread than ever. It has reached a point where the highest echelons of U.S. law enforcement stepped in to tackle this issue, with the crackdown on Z-library . Thus far, this hasn’t achieved the desired result .
The frustrations of publishers and authors is understandable. Many see their books being openly shared for free, just hours after they hits the stores. This isn’t limited to bestsellers either, it affects independent authors too.
In the midst of this drama, Amazon is making things worse. Generally speaking, the company is a blessing to many smaller authors because of its accessible self-publishing options and promotional features. This includes KDP Select , through which books are made available on Kindle Unlimited.
As part of the KDP Select agreement, authors promise to make digital versions of their books exclusive to Amazon. This makes sense, as it comes with various perks. However, this rule doesn’t only apply to competing stores, pirate sites are included as well.
Over the past few weeks, several authors complained that Amazon had removed their books from Kindle Unlimited because they violated their agreement . The piracy angle is front and center, raising plenty of questions and uncertainty.
Raven Kennedy , known for The Plated Prisoner Series, took her frustration to Instagram earlier this month . The author accused Amazon of sending repeated “threats”. This eventually resulted in the removal of her books from Kindle Unlimited, ostensibly because these were listed on pirate sites.
“Copyright infringement is outside of my control. Even though I pay a lot of money to a company to file takedown notices on my behalf, and am constantly checking the web for pirated versions, I can’t keep up with all the intellectual theft.
“And rather than support and help their authors, Amazon threatens me. The ironic thing is, these pirates are getting the files FROM Amazon,” Kennedy added.
A similar experience was shared by Carissa Broadbent , author of The War of Lost Hearts Trilogy. Again, Amazon removed a book from Kindle Unlimited for an issue that the author can’t do much about.
“A few hours ago, I got a stomach-dropping email from [Amazon] that Children of Fallen Gods had been removed from the Kindle store with zero warning, because of content ‘freely available on the web’ — IE, piracy that I do not have any control over,” Broadbent noted .
These and other authors received broad support from their readers, and sympathy from the general public. A Change.org petition launched in response has collected nearly 35,000 signatures to date, with new ones still coming in.
Author Marlow Locker started the petition to send a wake-up call to Amazon. According to her, Amazon should stand behind its authors instead of punishing them for the fact that complete strangers have decided to pirate their books.
Most authors will gladly comply with the exclusivity requirements, but only as far as this lies within their control. Piracy clearly isn’t, especially when it happens on an almost industrial scale.
“Currently, many automated systems use Amazon as a place to copy the e-files that they use for their free websites. It’s completely absurd that the same company turns around and punishes an author by removing their book from KDP Select,” the petition reads.
From the commentary seen online, several authors have been able to resolve their issues with Amazon. And indeed, the books of Broadbent and Kennedy appear to be back online. That said, the exclusivity policy remains in place.
Amazon is aware of the complaints and informs TorrentFreak that it’s working with the people involved to find an appropriate solution. The company stresses that, if books are removed from Kindle Unlimited, they remain for sale on Amazon’s regular store.
The company further explains that, before taking action, it sends authors an advance warning with an extended timeline so they can try to resolve the issue.
“We welcome author feedback and work directly with authors to address any issues or errors affecting their accounts,” an Amazon spokesperson said.
The problem is, of course, that individual authors can’t stop piracy. If it was that easy, most authors would be happy to do so. However, if billion-dollar publishing companies and the U.S. Government can’t stop it, Amazon can’t expect independent authors to ‘resolve’ the matter either.
It would make more sense for Amazon to update its KDP Select policy to exclude pirate sites from the exclusivity rule. With book piracy being as rampant as it is, no title can ever guarantee to be piracy-free, ever.
Perhaps it’s also a good idea to use all the vocal and social media-savvy authors as an asset to educate the broader public on piracy. That will do more than having them stress over book removals and pointless DMCA takedown campaigns.
From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is pen-centric hardware let down by book-centric software
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 16 January, 2023 - 11:45 · 1 minute
Enlarge / Amazon's Kindle Scribe e-reader. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Amazon's Kindle e-readers have been around for 15 years, and they've remained steadfastly focused on displaying books for reading (and, to a lesser extent, audiobooks). Input has never been something they've been particularly concerned with. The devices' poky processors and laggy touchscreen keyboards are best suited for short annotations or looking up the name of a book or author—not for writing anything longer than a sentence or two, and certainly not for taking notes or jotting down idle thoughts.
That's the main change to the Kindle Scribe , the newest and most expensive member of the e-reader family. It's the first Kindle with its own purpose-built pen accessory and a 10.2-inch screen that's more suitable for input than the 6-to-7-inch screens on other Kindles. It doesn't come cheap—it starts at $340 and goes up quickly from there. It's over three times as expensive as the Kindle Paperwhite and not much cheaper than a baseline iPad and Apple Pencil combo. But it's also trying to do some new things that older Kindles aren't built for.
The problem for the Scribe is that the Kindle's software, likewise laser-focused on the reading experience and not the input experience, doesn't feel robust enough to deliver on the pen's promise. The actual handwriting experience is great, which gives us some hope that further updates could make this device more useful. But as it is, most of the things it's trying to do are things that an iPad is better at, and they come at the cost of some of the regular Kindle's best features.
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La Kindle 2022 profite des soldes d’hiver pour passer à moins de 100 euros
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 11 January, 2023 - 13:32
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Pour les soldes d’hiver, le plus léger et compact des Kindle est en promo
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 11 January, 2023 - 10:04
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Test de la Kindle Scribe : la liseuse se met enfin à la page
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 20 December, 2022 - 08:30
Annoncée en grandes pompes il y a quelques semaines, la Kindle Scribe entend donner un second souffle aux liseuses d’Amazon, qui peinent encore à s’imposer dans nos habitudes de lecture.
Test de la Kindle Scribe : la liseuse se met enfin à la page
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Review: Amazon’s $100 Kindle is lightweight and cute, and it nails the basics
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 10 October, 2022 - 16:35 · 1 minute
Enlarge / The new $100 Kindle is Amazon's best entry-level model ever, though it still has to live in the Paperwhite's shadow. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is the e-reader lineup’s exciting new high-end device, the one that's pushing the Kindle experience forward. But it’s just as important for Amazon to keep pushing the baseline forward for the people who want to hop into the ecosystem but don’t want to spend too much.
So we come to the new $100 Kindle (or $120, with no ads). Also called the “2022 release” or “Kindle (11th generation)” on Amazon’s product pages, this model costs $10 more than the one it replaces (inflation comes for us all), but it has new perks to help justify the price bump. For the first time, the basic Kindle has the same 300 PPI screen density as the rest of the lineup, and Amazon has streamlined the top and side bezels around the 6-inch screen to make the device smaller and lighter. USB-C, Bluetooth support for audiobooks, and a boosted 16GB of storage round out the spec sheet.
We’ve had the new Kindle for a few days, not long enough to read more than a few hundred pages or put a dent in the battery but long enough to develop some impressions about the device's strengths and weaknesses. The main question to answer: Who should buy this Kindle, and who should spend $40 more on the waterproofing and larger, nicer screen of the current Kindle Paperwhite ?
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Vous pouvez dessiner avec un stylet sur le nouveau Kindle Scribe de Amazon
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 28 September, 2022 - 17:42
Amazon vient de dévoiler le Kindle Scribe, le premier Kindle destiné à la lecture et à l'écriture.
Vous pouvez dessiner avec un stylet sur le nouveau Kindle Scribe de Amazon
