NewsKindle Lights up Amazon with 12% of Book Sales
Posted 07/11/08 at 07:38:50 PM by Pulkit Chandna
Amazon’s proprietary wireless reading device Kindle has been rather successful. It remained out of stock for months after being launched in November, 2007, despite being criticized heavily for its lack of WiFi, ugly design and limited PDF support. Now it is fast emerging as a popular electronic book reader, if a Time magazine report is to be believed.
A source inside Amazon told Time that Kindle accounts for 12% of sales of the roughly 130k titles that are both available physically and as Kindle downloads. Kindle’s share has doubled from May, when Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos had claimed it to be 6%. It is good to hear that digital distribution threatens to change the landscape of the books publishing industry as well. However, Kindle is far from perfect and its design and features need nothing less than an overhaul.
NewsAcrobat 9 Release Represents Good News, Bad News for Adobe PDF Users
Posted 06/26/08 at 03:54:34 PM by Mark Edward Soper
New Acrobat 9 adds built-in Flash and multimedia support to the venerable PDF format. That's the good news. The bad? Unless you buy (or try) Acrobat 9, you can't enjoy any of the new multimedia goodies in PDF documents just yet.
To find out what's new, how to buy (or try) your favorite version of Acrobat 9, and to learn when Reader will catch up, read on.
NewsJavaScript Vulnerability Gives a Whole New Meaning to "Get Adobe Reader"
Posted 06/26/08 at 02:27:24 PM by Mark Edward Soper
If you're running Acrobat or Reader 7.x or 8.x, the bad guys have you in their sights with an in-the-wild exploit that targets a JavaScript handling vulnerability. This vulnerability is cross-platform: this time, MacOS and Windows users alike need to update their installations.
To find out how to get the updates you need to protect your system, keep reading.
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