Amazon Kindle

By Paul Biba Nintendo, in its last earnings call, stated that competition from the iPhone was one of the reasons its profits fell by half in the last quarter and Flurry feels that this is some indication of what the iPhone could do to Amazon. Amazon, however, has its own iPhone app and I don’t know, and Flu...

By Richard Lai Foxit's eSlick isn't exactly the most exciting ereader of all time, but now things have changed slightly with the addition of EPUB support, making this $259.99 device a more affordable (although less pretty) alternative to the Sony Reader, and a more flexible option than the Kindle. We lo...

By Wilson Rothman Case-Mate, the people who used to make zipper booklets for CDs, built the $80 Enlighten case that lights up the Kindle at night by way of an LED-illuminated acrylic overlay. So basically they pulled a Sony: Taking what's right about e-ink, and screwing it up. You don't put anything on e-ink,...

By Joe Wikert Hello from Amazon DTP. Thanks for using Amazon DTP. Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. We continue to experiment with e-book publishing, but it’s no longer a priority, and any future Kindle offerings will be through Smashwords.com.

By Joe Wikert(jwikert@gmail.com) Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. We continue to experiment with e-book publishing, but it’s no longer a priority, and any future Kindle offerings will be through Smashwords.com.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Do you remember your scariest Halloween ever? James Henderson does. It was the year he turned ten. What started out as a sensible plan to collect the most candy while trick-or-treating soon turned into a terrifying adventure for James, his two friends and his kid brother, Ricky." - Amazon.

Norway's Consumer Council, Forbrukerrådet, has spoken out against Amazon's terms-of-service regarding e-books purchased on the Kindle, as detailed in a post on the Council's website. The group's director, Hans Marius Graasvold, claims several points in the e-book agreement viola...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts a wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) The American philosopher George Santayana is quoted as saying that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. With more than 27,000 books in the Amazon Kindle bookstore "history" category, Kindle-owning history buffs will not run out of reading material any time soon....

Following Amazon's announcement of Kindle software for Windows users, the company has acknowledged that it is also working on a Mac version, according to Fast Company. Although the spokesperson did not provide specific details regarding the Mac app, the PC edition allows users to purc...

Barnes and Noble's rumored dual-screen e-book reader gained credibility Monday night with the leak of a paper ad in advance (subscription required). A full-page placement due for the New York Times' Book Review next Sunday labels the reader as the Nook and says it will ship for $259, reac...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) On the Edge by Ilona Andrews. Ace. Kindle edition $6.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Soulless by Gail Carriger. Orbit. Kindle edition $6.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. ROMANCE Sweet Seduction by Maya Banks. Berkley. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

By Dan Sung News - Amazon Kindle comes to UKFeature - The complete guide to eBook readers Tags: Gadgets eBook readers Amazon Amazon Kindle 2 Features Kindle Five good reasons to buy an Amazon Kindle... originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:35:00 +0100

After its recent e-book deletion fiasco and subsequent apology, Amazon has revised its rules regarding remotely deleting e-book content on a user's Kindle reader. The new legal rules give Amazon four reasons that would validate and justify its removal of content. They include a user's c...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) reflects the latest scholarship, current English, and the needs of contemporary students of the Bible. This new testament includes a multitude of study aids right in line with the text. Expanded translations and other helps make it possible for you to study the Bible while you read..." - Amaz...

Apple chief Steve Jobs today took shots at Amazon while also explaining some of the decisions behind the new new iPods and his own health. The co-founder is famous for having attacked Amazon's Kindle in the past but has now said that the e-book reader's main flaw its speci...

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) The monkeys are running the zoo: Rafe Needleman, Brian Cooley, and Brian Tong, with producer Lynn Fu, cover the iPhone finally getting MMS, Google's patent on its home page, Amazon re-delivering 1984 to Kindle, and the closure of the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) 4. Turn on the Kindle's wireless connection so you can use Google to search for information or check the Wikipedia for information about the author as you read. The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books will transport you, magically of course, to Kindle-friendly versions of free Pro...

In a nod to the growing popularity of e-books, OmniPage has also added a new Kindle Assistant option that helps you set up a macro that automatically sends a converted document to an Amazon Kindle book reader. In testing this feature, however, ...

 Norway Amazon updated its free Kindle app for the iPhone, adding three features in version 1.1 that many people--including some right here at Macworld--have been waiting for. The update also adds the ability to pinch to zoom in on images in Kindle books. ...

 Australia Amazon has released Kindle for iPhone 1.1, an update of their popular ebook app for Apple handheld devices. The new features in this iteration kind of make you wonder why they rushed v1.0 out the door at as these improvements really represent baseline ...

By Wilson Rothman The developer, Jesse Vincent, swears he didn't "hack" the new Kindle—rather, he wrote a "package" that happens to run on it. The thing doesn't crack DRM files, it just converts specific unprotected files on the fly—from PDF and ePub to Mobipocket, so it feels like they are supported by the...

Want to skip ahead in an eBook? Here's how to jump to a new location in the Amazon Kindle. cnettv.cnet.com

By Dan Frommer New books are cheaper on the Kindle than on paper. Makes up for the $360 you have to drop to get a Kindle in the first place. Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, for instance, costs $17 in hardcover at Amazon, but is $10 for the Kindle. The Host is $5 cheaper on the Kindle, too.

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) VOICE MAIL Kevin iPhone evidence? E-MAIL Regarding the gentleman who left a voicemail on Friday’s podcast wanting to know why Apple is charging ten dollars for a firmware upgrade to the iPod Touch, why don’t they just give it away for free, I’d like to propose the following theory:

By Paul Biba New digital reading devices are once again triggering predictions about the demise of the paper-bound book. Early adopters hope devices like the Amazon Kindle will transform and rejuvenate the publishing industry. But many readers are unwilling to give up their dog-eared copies of the...

 MA As Vincent writes, "This is not a tutorial about how to use the Kindle 2's Sprint connection from your computer...I do know that abusing the Kindle's Sprint modem like that would upset Amazon a great deal. Bear in mind also that Amazon knows where you ...

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) EMAIL Several people wrote in askling if the Kindle menus are spoken. They’re not. But there is a petition that Mike from Serotek sent us if you want to push Amazon into making the Kindle more accessible. http://www.petitiononline.com/Kindle2/petition.html

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/27/technology/copeland_hearst.fortune/index.htm Wil Wheaton vs. Authors’ Guild vs. Kindle http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/26/wil-wheaton-vs-autho.html E-MAIL Buzz Crew,

By Henry Blodget The Kindle 2 is a portable, wireless, paperback-size device onto which people can download a virtual library of digitalized titles. Amazon sells these downloads, and where the books are under copyright, it pays royalties to the authors and publishers.

By David Rothman Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like ‘epub,’ which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years." - Tim O’Reily in Why Kindle should be an open book, in Forbes. The TeleRead take: It’s hard to tell how things will shake out,...

By David Rothman In the end, it isn’t just Stanza/Lexycle vs. Amazon. It’s Adobe and Stanza/Lexycle, both, against Amazon—much more of an even match than David B. might suppose. Related: Adobe’s new e-book software ratchets up fright against Amazon Kindle: The new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK is aimed at smartp...

By Robert Nagle Here’s the mp3 of an Advisorpress.com podcast I did with Peter Johnson on the subject “What’s Up with Ebooks?” This 55 minute discussion provides a good overview about the ebook world in November, 2008. From the promo: See author the Author Marketing Teleconferencing Calls also on the Adv...

By TechFever.Net We thought that a second-gen of the Amazon Kindle won’t be released soon because it was Amazon’s chief spokesman Craig Berman himself who said that no version of the e-book will be out this year. But apparently, a new version was leaked ...

By Debbie The native format for Stanza is ePub, and you need to convert ebooks (which can be in formats like MS LIT, Mobipocket, Kindle, RTF, PDF, MS Word and others) into ePub. Here are some tips from Stanza’s FAQ on how to convert content. ...

Amazon to use Kindle as a platform for textbooks. Canon EOS 50D getting ink. N96 from Nokia has the Smartphone folks buzzing. nVidia getting ink for speeches and the Tegra chip. 120 GB Zune coming out. Will HP target Sun now? Intel spent half a million in lobbying. Photoshop Elements 7 now out. IPO d...

By Peter Collingridge Kindle PDF tips | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - “You can?t read a PDF on the Kindle, you can?t convert a PDF for a Kindle, but Amazon tells you how to use the Kindle via a PDF file. Ironic, no?” Guest post by Joe Wikert ...

Beam-ebooks Converter: With this web tool, you can copy and paste text into the form field and get a .prc or PDF file. ABC Amber LIT Converter: This free tool can convert the .lit format to a Kindle-readable .prc file. ...

By Cottontimer Thankfully, Blaine sent me a link showing how to convert PDF files using Mobipocket Creator but the instructions weren’t very clear. Here is a step-by-step on how to convert PDF files into .prc files for the Amazon Kindle. ...

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By Prof. Peter Kerry Powers, English Dept. Chair, Messiah College So let’s start with the typical American reading, or claiming to read, four books a year. For fun, I went to the Amazon web site. It’s not nearly as much fun a bricks and mortar store, but book lust may still be fed even online. I compared Kindle books prices to standard paperbacks, using the sale...

By Joe Wikert, a VP in the Professional/Trade division of John Wiley & Sons Microsoft Senior Program Manager and Wiley author Scott Hanselman is a former Sony Reader user who is now a Kindle convert. In this blog post Scott covers everything he loves about his new Kindle. He’s so right about the one reason the Kindle exists: “To extract money from my wallet.”

Summary: PDF -> PDF2LRF -> PNG2PDF -> MobiPocket Creator -> Kindle. A straightforward workflow to convert PDFs to Kindle format which also bypasses Amazon’s service. Note: this works best for image based/ or text +image based pdfs or if you want to preserve PDF formatted. Sum...

By noemail@noemail.org (Benjamin J. Higginbotham) It has become a Technology Evangelist tradition: cover the Sony Reader. I own the Sony Reader PRS500, PRS505, Amazon Kindle and iRex iLiad, so I'm no e-ink newbie. Here we have a quick and frank review of the state of eReader technology ...

Another Kindle Complaint: Cancellation Hassles  - I've owned Amazon's Kindle e-book reader for over a month now, and have come to two key conclusions about it: It's an incredibly clunky and poorly-designed ... First look: Sony Reader PRS-505/SC vs. Amazon Kindle San Jose Mercury News

So how do you load other eBooks onto the Kindle? Just add Amazon DRM. That’s one solution hacker Igor Skochinsky has used to load Mobipocket books onto his Kindle. Using a series of scripts, he’s able to convert eBook files to Amazon’s ...

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By Mike So how do you load other eBooks onto the Kindle? Just add Amazon DRM. That's one solution hacker Igor Skochinsky has used to load Mobipocket books onto his Kindle. Using a series of scripts, he's able to convert eBook files to Amazon's ...

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Filed under: HandheldsWe knew the Kindle's DRM would be cracked the minute we heard about it, and it looks like the first chink in the armor is here courtesy of Igor Skochinsky: he's discovered the algorithm the Kindle uses to turn regular Mobipocket books into Amazon's proprietary .azw f...

So how do you load other eBooks onto the Kindle? Just add Amazon DRM. That's one solution hacker Igor Skochinsky has used to load Mobipocket books onto his Kindle. Using a series of scripts, he's able to convert eBook files to Amazon's ...

Related articles from Cotton, mikedaisey.com, first.org.

By Wilson Rothman People bitch about a lack of Wi-Fi, but as a fan of wide-area wireless, I think Sprint's EV-DO was a good way to go, because it's available in more places. And as far as the lack of backlight, I am inclined to believe the messaging from both Amazon and Sony, that E-Ink is easier on the eyes than an...

Amazon has taken its knowledge of books and online selling to create a simple digital reading device. The main problem is the $400 price tag, which could come down if Kindle takes off