The Teardown: Amazon Kindle Voyage e-reader

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
P. Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Kindle

scholarly journals “You” speaks to me: Effects of generic-you in creating resonance between people and ideas

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (49) ◽  
pp. 31038-31045
Author(s):  
Ariana Orvell ◽  
Ethan Kross ◽  
Susan A. Gelman
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Kindle

Creating resonance between people and ideas is a central goal of communication. Historically, attempts to understand the factors that promote resonance have focused on altering the content of a message. Here we identify an additional route to evoking resonance that is embedded in the structure of language: the generic use of the word “you” (e.g., “You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes”). Using crowd-sourced data from the Amazon Kindle application, we demonstrate that passages that people highlighted—collectively, over a quarter of a million times—were substantially more likely to contain generic-you compared to yoked passages that they did not highlight. We also demonstrate in four experiments (n= 1,900) that ideas expressed with generic-you increased resonance. These findings illustrate how a subtle shift in language establishes a powerful sense of connection between people and ideas.

scholarly journals E-Book Readers Come to Eastern North Carolina

2012 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor I. Cook ◽  
Lisa S. Barricella ◽  
Robert James ◽  
Jan Mayo ◽  
Mark Sanders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Eastern North Carolina ◽  
Amazon Kindle

The authors describe a pilot project where Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook e-book readers are provided for patrons to check out. Topics covered include start-up considerations, issues with selection and acquisition of content; cataloging approaches, circulation procedures, publicity strategies and evaluation.

scholarly journals Amazon Kindle Fire (version 6.2.1)

2012 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Nancy F Stimson ◽  
Jean L Siebert
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Kindle

scholarly journals Nadeem Ul Haque. Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050. Karachi, Pakistan: Kitab (Pvt.) Limited. 2017. 193 pages. Amazon Kindle edition.

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Idrees Khawaja
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Asian Tiger ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Amazon Kindle

“Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050” is Nadeem Ul Haque’s latest book. The Kindle edition of the book is available from Amazon. The book, while dismissing the notion of ‘development first’, argues for ‘reforming the system first’ to make the ground conducive for sustainable development. The book, written as semifiction, imagines Pakistan as a developed country by year 2050. The United Nations, which sets up a commission in the year 2051 to understand Pakistan’s development model, narrates the development story

scholarly journals Advertising Versus Sales in Demand Creation

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Hochman ◽  
Oded Hochman ◽  
Eithan Hochman ◽  
Amir Heiman ◽  
PingSun Leung
Keyword(s):  
Demand Elasticity ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Apple Macintosh ◽  
Demand Elasticities ◽  
Demand Creation ◽  
Amazon Kindle

Abstract We investigate the dynamics of a firm whose advertisements and sales contribute to its customers’ stock of goodwill. An advertising campaign precedes the firm’s sales when the marginal product of advertisement is sufficiently large (e.g., Amazon Kindle and Apple Macintosh), whereas sales of a new brand of a familiar product may start without advertising (e.g. Crocs shoes). When the firm chooses both advertising and sales policies, the optimal solutions can be divided into two groups typified by low and high demand elasticities. When demand elasticity is low, a massive increase in the quantity sold causes a considerable drop in the product's price. Therefore, the firm prefers to use advertising, rather than excess sales. With high demand elasticity, a massive increase in the quantity sold reduces the price only marginally, thus sales becomes a relatively cheap way to build up the stock of goodwill, compared with advertising.

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