{"id":8792,"date":"2017-11-05T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:08:32","slug":"interesting-links-5-10-years-of-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=8792","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links #5: 10 Years Of Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month is the 10th anniversary of the Kindle, so quite a lot of articles about it.<\/p>\n<p>-Amazon didn&#8217;t invent the ebook, but the Kindle popularized it in the same way that Henry Ford didn&#8217;t invent the automobile but the Model T popularized it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/2017\/10\/amazon-kindle-deserves-some-praise-on-its-10th-birthday\/\">Amazon Kindle Deserves Some Praise On Its 10th Birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Speaking of that, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmazonKDP\/status\/924984251828772865\">I liked this video about the 10th anniversary of Kindle Direct Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-There&#8217;s something to be said for selling lots of a cheap product rather than focusing on a premium one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/amazon-gains-share-in-declining-tablet-market-apples-ipad-still-no-1\/\">Amazon Gains Share In Declining Tablet Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-It is here to not make friends and chew bubblegum, and it&#8217;s all out of bubblegum: <a href=\"http:\/\/genedoucette.me\/2017\/09\/kindle-unlimited-is-not-here-to-make-friends\/\">Kindle Unlimited Is Not Here To Make Friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Draft2Digital has a good piece on avoiding scams: <a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\/author-overhead-pt-2\/\">Author Overhead, Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-The &#8220;first million words&#8221; thing seems daunting, but I did that a really, really long time ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\/the-first-million-words-are-practice\/\">The First Million Words Are Practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-I don&#8217;t approve of ebook piracy, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/2017\/10\/a-story-about-piracy\/#comment-404087\">but this comment from Joe Konrath at the Passive Voice seems a sensible view of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-I didn&#8217;t know a cheeseburger emoji could be offensive, but, well, here you go: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/357070\/google-ceo-promises-to-fix-offensive-cheeseburger-emoji\">Google CEO Promises To Fix Offensive Cheeseburger Emoji<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-This is an excellent guide to the different kinds of microSD cards. A Class 10 card is not the same as a Class 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/476\/best-micro-sd-cards\/\">Best Micro SD Cards For All Your Devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-JM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month is the 10th anniversary of the Kindle, so quite a lot of articles about it. -Amazon didn&#8217;t invent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-links"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6ri-2hO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/KindleUnlimited.jpg?fit=1541%2C819&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}