Andrew Hyde

Founder of Startup Weekend and Startup Enthusiast Based in Boulder, Colorado

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03.2.13

Why Do Kindle Images Look So Bad?

I was reading a book the other day on my iphone (The Last Indian War, a highly recommended story of the Nez Perce Indians) and noticed a really interesting map. Zooming in, I couldn’t figure out the name of something:

Toolboothhootrote Band? Toolboohoolrote Band? Horrible…

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10.25.12

My MLOVE Berlin Talk About Travel and Mobile

I had dinner with MLOVE organizer Gianfranco Chicco who with Harald Neidhardt invited me to speak at MLOVE in Berlin. The talk was to a group of mobile industry experts and was based off the intersection of travel and the new definition of mobile. I really enjoyed giving it and I hope you enjoy watching it!

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06.25.12

Why Are Kindle Books So Expensive?

I read a lot of books and never got why books on Amazon’s Kindle were so expensive.  $9.99?  Greedy authors.  A lot of people agree, you can see by just browsing Kindle books:

The customers are firmly in the “The Author / Publisher is Greedy” camp. I never crunched…

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06.19.12

Featured in the iBooks Store, Amazon on the PR Backpedal

What a delightful surprise, Apple has featured my book in several categories in the iBooks store. 12 ratings and a slew of downloads today. It is featured in “Made with iBooks” and “Travel Guides” “New and Noteworthy” and “#2 Top Charts” 

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06.13.12

Kindle Sales Vanish When Users Know About Their Fees to Authors

A few things happend after my post about Amazon’s 127,000% markup. Well, there were 40k visits to this blog in 24 hours (which at one point actually brought the site down) thanks to Hacker News, Radar, Reddit, The Domino Project, The Next Web and a few smaller blogs. I met a ton of great authors, vendors…

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