Are you interested in free MP3's? Then I have a great opportunity for you: Amazon gives away due to the Echo Awards in Berlin at 4:03 for each customer to a top track as an MP3 download. Included are the latest hits from Culcha Candela, Lady Gaga or silver moon. In 1000 the title will probably be something for everyone.

Everything you need to do is, you on this side here, choose a title, put it in the shopping cart and enter the coupon code as an action code ECHOMP33. From the cashier and the song is yours for free!

Amazon is DRM-free music downloads. You will get the title in high bit rate (256 kbits of my knowledge). Have fun at the shop and of course hear

2009 was the year that the e-book readers have only really taken away. Also at this year's book fair, they were a focal point. From time to time one reads a Twitter Tweets such as " What is it just the highlight in the e-book reader heaven? ". But somehow it seems as if these things are not really sold. Also, I'm going to define such a thing yet. The reasons are obvious, in a nutshell.

First, it is true that there is currently little to buy eBooks. At Amazon, the majority of the books in the English language. And the newspapers or magazines are still hesitant to really take the big step. Only two newspapers published as an eBook. One of them was the FAZ and its premiere was probably miserable . The TAZ currently engineering diligently to produce a digital output. The problem is that with the epub format is not so freely given to the format is, as printed in an edition. Images can be placed just hard to see why the digital edition differs from the printed.

Another reason may well be clear of the format war between the eBooks. Amazon's Kindle and the nook rely on a proprietary format, although already known is a free standard. Epub on the market. It should be clear why Amazon and Barnes & Noble to put your own formats: It should only be purchased eBooks from their shops.

Another reason could be probably the DRM copy protection. The book industry is making the same mistake as the music industry: one thinks, by a protection mechanism would be the greater book sales. That's not, as in this example: For example, the author Cory Doctorow presents his works under a Creative Commons license for free to the Internet community as well. Nevertheless, sales of his books are not the stream disappeared. He himself says that e-books are just a lure and not a replacement .
DRM can not simply copy the eBooks to a reader. This can be done only by the Adobe software "Adobe Digital Editions." Another stumbling block that is.

Finally, there are still major obstacles that must be overcome, the market for now. Is it so far, but I buy things. But not until then.

I know it's already the 11th December. But then at least stay for 13 days for profits and great wickets. As the overview fällt some hard times I've compiled a little list:

Advent calendar with 100% profit:

• ARD Tagesschau (small movies)
• Chip Online, a daily full version for download (including TuneUp, and lots more!)
• Focus (audio books for free!)
• Project Dragon (every day a Games article)
• TV nostalgia (nostalgic TV clips)
• Uli Stein calendar, a daily cartoon
• Wikibook

Advent calendar with raffle wickets:

• Advent Verlagsgruppe Random House (Christmas Quiz)
• Alverde Tweetkalender (Twitter account required)
• Amazon (everyday discounted items)
• Auto Motor Sport
• Brigitte.de
• Burger King
• The West
• DFB (football gains)
• DHL
• dm
• Europa Park (gains and reductions)
• eventim
• FAZ Advent Calendar 2009
• FC Bayern
• Fleurop
• Fressnapf
• Friend
• gamona
• Hugo Boss Advent
• Kerrygold
• libreka (free eBook)
• Nivea
• Panasonic
• Piper
• stage entertainment
• Sueddeutsche Zeitung
• Toshiba Advent calendar (with daily gains and a top prize on 24.12.)
• Tvtotal
• World (lottery, free downloads and lots more!)
• xBox 360

Well, that's it from me first. If you have more contests or Advent, then writes it in the comments!

Actually it is not entirely far-fetched: Apple has now, after games were so popular in the egg sets, before, to capture the electronic book market . Well, actually it was not intentional. Rather it is to be sold in the sales figures surprisingly more books than games. Yikes! Apple now plans to put in their stores now have a focus on eBooks and the book market continues to expand. eBooks can be easily acquired by the device online. Hey presto, the book on the iPod or iPhone . Accordingly, the iPhone is a serious competitor for the current (admittedly small) eBook reader market will be.

However, I have a bit of criticism: The biggest criticism is certainly to the small screen of the iPhone. 3.5 inches in my opinion look too little to be permanently on the screen. e-book readers have decided as a larger display. And more importantly: you have a more friendly display, and that a building that on eInk technology. This display has the advantage of being light as a normal sheet of paper reflect and thus it is much more relaxed, read a book there. Especially when the book "fat" (which is not quite true for eBooks ) Is. With iPhone, however, the eyes get tired after a permanent use.

For the above reasons, I do not think that the egg-devices are permanently prevail on the eBook market. Short time to read a PDF, ok. But no, not 200 pages.

Yesterday morning I turned on the radio like every morning to make my breakfast at a little more pleasant. A Michael Jackson song was played, I thought nothing of it. Suddenly my mother came into the kitchen "of Michael Jackson dead?". At first I thought my mother was kidding me. The King of Pop, why should he be dead? "Last night came at 0:00 in the news that Michael Jackson should have come to the hospital." Billie Jean sounded, and the presentation began. "Many news sites have now confirmed the terrible news. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died yesterday afternoon of heart failure" Please what?

I could not believe it really. Meanwhile, half the world knows it. And almost as many to mourn the star, written in music history and have sold as many records as no other artist has. I watch sometimes on the Twitter home page and there in the trending topics, we find dozens of tags to Michael Jackson. Today the situation has calmed down a bit again, but yesterday had 80% of the tags references to him. And the Amazon music charts are dominated by the King of Pop. That will please the music industry yet.

Michael Jackson was never as popular as at the present time.