Amazon Kindle Fire looks like a WINNER!

Amazon Kindle Press Conference - September 28, 2011, New York City

SHOW #100 - NerdBoyTV: Android NOOK Color

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee shares how some people are getting around the high cost of Android tablets by converting their NOOK Color e-readers into touchscreen tablets with full access to the Android App Market.

Self-Publishing: Who Needs a Publisher Anymore?

Self-Publishing: Who Needs a Publisher Anymore? - Newsweek: "Boyd Morrison was finishing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering when he wrote his first novel. Five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent—after nearly three years and three novels. But that turned out to be some kind of cosmic tease, because 25 publishers turned down The Ark. With nothing left to lose, Morrison uploaded The Ark and his two other unpublished novels to Amazon’s Kindle store in March 2009. Within three months, he was selling books at a rate of 4,000 a month—a number that attracted the attention of the same publishers who had rejected him. This May, when The Ark was released in hardcover from Simon & Schuster, it became the first self-published Kindle book to be picked up by a Big Six publisher. Morrison says that the phone call from his agent telling him he’d finally see his book in print was “one of the most amazing moments of my life.”

Until recently, reviewers and booksellers looked down on self-published authors the way Anna Wintour scorns Dress Barn. Now new writers and established authors alike are increasingly taking publishing into their own hands, and the publishing establishment is paying attention. According to a recent Bowker report, the market for “nontraditional books” in the United States grew by more than 750,000 new titles in 2009—a 181 percent increase over 2008. Five of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle store—which now produces more sales than Amazon’s hardcover list—are currently self-published.

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SHOW #87 - NerdBoyTV: Barnes & Noble Nook

In this President's Day episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee demos the Barnes & Noble Nook eReader with its color touchscreen and available designer accessories. It connects to the in-store WiFi automatically. Retails for $259.

SHOW #86 - NerdBoyTV: CES 2010

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee talks about the gadgets making a lot of noise at this year's CES 2010, including the new iLounge Pavilion, the Panasonic VT25 3-D Flatscreen Television, the wide assortment of eReaders coming out this year, and a SmartMoney.com matchup review of Google's Nexus One and Apple's iPhone 3GS.