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Harry Potter Books Coming to Kindle Lending Library
Yesterday, Amazon announced a deal that that has been agreed upon with J.K Rowling’s Pottermore that will soon make the entire Harry Potter book franchise available through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Starting from June 19, all seven magical books will be available in 5 different languages; English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. The Lending Library is available to Amazon Prime members who pay an amount of $79 a year which allows them to borrow one book a month from a collection that contains 145,000 books including self-published authors.
If you do not have an Amazon Prime membership, the amazing Harry Potter tales on Pottermore are priced at $7.99/book for the first three books, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. For the subsequent four books, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, they will cost $9.99 per book. If you are looking to get the entire collection and you don’t have the Prime membership, it will set you back $57.54.
When is a phone not a phone? I suppose that seemingly paradoxical question is easily answered with the presence of the NoPhone. The NoPhone happens to be a successfully funded Kickstarter project, where it intends to be a smartphone substitute for folks who are unable to live without a smartphone.
It sports a similar form factor to the average smartphone out there today, but what it lacks would be that of a display, and everything else that makes a smartphone, well, a smartphone. In other words, this is but a slab of plastic, but it has its uses – such as letting thieves relieve you of your NoPhone as they think that this could be a newfangled device, where it is actually priced at at $12 a pop. The NoPhone has seen more than 2,000 units sold in time for the holidays, where orders placed by December 7th is tipped to arrive by December 25th.
We have awesome but expensive news for you on the Samsung Galaxy S3 front. If you’re looking for an unlocked version of the phone, you can apparently now purchase either the Pebble Blue or Marble White version of the phone from either Amazon or Expansys for $799 and $700 respectively. Prior to this article, we’ve seen a leaked image of the phone being sold on Amazon, but now apparently its official here in the States.
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Star Micronics has come up with another option to provide mobile users with a portable method of printing services. The funky-colored portable printer with the model number SM-T300 can be used outdoors for mobile purposes with most smartphones or tablets. While you might be having thoughts that it could allow you to print photos on the go, we unfortunately have to bring you back to earth by telling you what it is actually for. The company’s statement reads, “Basically, this product is for printing receipts and delivery slips. The battery lasts up to 11 hours, so you can use this printer for a long time.
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