Posts by kbsbeme

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Those apps add value to Apple devices. Apple doesn't handle/store/distribute any of the content like they do through iTunes, therefore they have no right to 30% of sales. That's why we developed iPulpFiction.com as a web app instead of...

Quote: Originally Posted by steve-p How is it possible to patent something so trivial and obvious Patent laws really need to be changed. I was doing this with a rich-media training environment almost a decade ago. Only difference is...

My Skype no longer works after I updated the Airport firmware today. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a setting that needs to be changed? Thanks for nay help, KBS

The real news here is not that Google has opened its own eBook store, but that it is the second CLOUD-BASED READING SERVICE to be offered. This is a big deal for the publishing industry. This is the publishing equivalent of NetFlix or...

I'm a digital fiction publisher and have created a cloud-based e-reading service. In short, we don't publish e-books -- we serve short stories to connected readers. So I want to see the entire tablet market grow by leaps and bounds....

I'm a publisher of short stories (iPulpFiction.com) who has submitted several story collections to the iBookstore. It seems like it's taking forever to get approvals. Does anyone know how long it takes to get books approved by the...

I bought a 3G iPad and Apple case on Saturday. It is a device that will truly impact the electronics marketplace. As a result of this purchase we will: be selling our laptop, use our iMacs only for actual work, not buy the car GPS we...

These charts show the publisher's gross in shades of green with the lightest green being the publisher's net. Remember, until recently, Amazon was taking 70% of gross, not the 30% shown in these charts. At $13.99, publishers will make...

Beta 2 of the iPad Simulator has a blank white Safari button on the dock of the home screen. I've been using it to optimize our iPulpFiction.com site and prepare our mobile stories for reading on the iPad (They already are accessible...