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Amazon launch Jet City Comics

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics.…

Filed Under: Books, Comics Tagged With: amazon, Ben Avery, Cooper Moo, Erik Bear, George R. R. Martin, Greg Bear, jet city comics, Joseph Brassey, Mark Teppo, Meathouse Man, Mike S. Miller, Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland, Symposium, The Foreworld Saga, The Hedge Knight

Narr8 expands to the Amazon Appstore

June 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the year Geek Native noticed Narr8’s growing range. Narr8 is an interactive story platform that takes the concept of motion comics and takes it up a level.…

Filed Under: Comics, Sites Tagged With: amazon, narr8

Amazon suspend SimCity downloads, blaming EA

March 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In an unusual twist Amazon have suspended downloads of SimCity and issued a warning about EA’s servers. In effect they’re saying; you could buy this from us but you’ll not be able to play it and then you’ll be angry at us.…

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: amazon, ea, simcity

Amazon to rebate some US customers

October 14, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A coalition of American Attorneys Generals have made significant progress in an antitrust lawsuit brought against publishers and retailers. The claim was that the price of ebooks had been rigged unfairly.…

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: amazon, ebooks, kindle, legal

Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?

June 25, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This blog took part in the Pottermore speculation. It was fun. When the news was finally announced it felt, at first blush, a bit of an anti-climax. JK would let Harry Potter eBooks be sold from the site.…

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: amazon, kindle, Pottermore, S1, S2, sony

Sanity found as Amazon sides with Cthulhu geeks

June 19, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Can you imagine the soul destroying horror of working on a huge project, making the results available for free only then to discover that someone’s ripped off your work and has started to sell it at a profit?…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: amazon, cthulhu, kindle, lovecraft, nook

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