Amazon Kindle

By switch11 There is the tiny mistake of quoting the Amazon Kindle at $400 instead of $259. Steve Jobs did say in the Mossberg mini-interview that Apple would sell books for the same price as Amazon. Perhaps he meant that all ebooks would be sold for $15. My Take on the Amazon Macmillan stand-off

By Henry Blodget A quiet war has developed between Amazon and the book publishing world over ebook prices.  Amazon Fires Missile At Book Industry, Launches 70% Kindle Royalty OptionApple Trying To Squash Amazon's Kindle Like A Bug, Amazon Fighting BackSteve Jobs Says Book Publishers Hate Amazon's Kin...

By Matt Buchanan Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won't end well. Steve Jobs Says Book Publishers Hate Amazon's KindleAppl...

By matt buchanan It feels like a repeat of the same shit Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled with iTunes, trying to counter the leverage Apple had because of iTunes' insane marketshare. Same situation here, really: Content provider wants more money/control over their content, fights with...

Despite common assumptions, a device like Apple's iPad may be better-suited to current readers than dedicated devices like the Amazon Kindle, a new University of Georgia study says. Young adults who tried the Kindle described it as "old" and felt it was too limited compared to their smar...

By switch11 Let’s move on to the Kindle related stuff.  The big Kindle related news (via Yahoo) - Kindle and Kindle DX are available for immediate shipment to over 100 countries … Amazon.com announced a new 70 percent royalty option for Kindle DTP …

By switch11 Kindle, iPad comparisons are hard to do because the prices put the devices in two different brackets.The eInk screen and the battery life make the Kindle a better eReader. Meanwhile, the iPad is better at everything else (including things the Kindle just can’t do). Let’s dig into Kindle...

By Jay Yarow Is Apple's iPad going to kill Amazon's Kindle? No. Before you rave that the iPad's color screen is "better," factor in the higher price (including the data plan), the battery life, the e-ink versus LED screen, and other elements that make the Kindle an excellent e-reader. See Also:

By switch11 Whether you get a Publisher Deal.Whether you get picked up by blogs and featured by Amazon and Apple.How eReader owners react to your book.Whether your book reviews and/or sales cluster together and give you momentum. Whether Amazon lets you give away a free ebook. The factors that are un...

By switch11 The First British Author to sign a Kindle Exclusive Consider the offer from Amazon - Doing an Amazon Kindle Exclusive isn’t necessary Kindle vs iPad is going to make things even better for Authors Welcome to the new Author/Reader-Centric world of Publishing.

By switch11 Lots of users – Kindle owners, Kindle for iPhone users and Kindle for PC users. Lot of them locked in with their Kindle purchases.  Lots of loyal Amazon customers.People who actively dislike Apple (partly due to overzealous Apple fans). iPad as Kindle Killer is the Perfect Story – Except it’...

By switch11 There are a number of Kindle owners concerned that Apps will detract from reading. Kindle App Store Rules keep out most Apps that would be distractions The rules of the Kindle App Store encourage reading related apps There are a lot of ideas that could make the Kindle much, much more valuabl...

By Dan Frommer Just as Apple is about to launch its new tablet computer -- complete with e-books, magazines, and other multimedia -- e-reader market leader Amazon is venturing into Apple's territory with a new app platform for the Kindle, Amazon announced in the New York Times. Highlights from the arti...

By switch11 Would PDFmyURL work from the Kindle? Most survey respondents said they prefer to share e-books across devices. Only 28% said they would “definitely” purchase an e-book with Digital Rights Management (DRM); men were more likely than women to say they would not buy an e-book with DRM.

By switch11 If a Publisher takes the ‘delay the ebook for months’ route they already take a hit.  1 star reviews for the hardcover are like 1 star reviews the Kindle was getting The Book and the Author are adversely affected when they don’t deserve it

By switch11 Posted in news Lots of interesting pieces of news related to the Kindle and eReaders today. Let’s start with some kindle book deals. Cheap Kindle Books A scuba-diving adventure by Mike Monahan, Barracuda, is just 1 cent – even though its rated 4.5 stars across 50 reviews.   Pre-order of Insub...

By Rory Maher, CFA This is a report from our premium subscription research service The Internet Analyst.  The Internet Analyst is currently in beta, with a formal launch coming towards the end of 2009.  To sign up for a free beta trial, please submit your name and email address here. See Also:

By Rory Maher, CFA Today we had a conversation with Mark Coker, CEO of e-book distributor Smashwords.  At his company there has been a large increase in reputable authors releasing e-books themselves versus going through their publishers.  Specifically: See Also:

Amazon.com's Kindle still reigns supreme, with many of the books priced at $9.99. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos now says that the company sells e-books to print ... and more »

By switch11 However, there are a lot of things that strike me as interesting so here’s a post covering initial impressions of the Nook and the differences between it and the Kindle (to be followed by a full-blown Kindle Vs Nook Review and videos).

By realdeal@cnet.com (CNET.com) Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 191 Best of 2009 http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-10417775-82.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

By Mark Wilson Gadget Lab has a simple tutorial on setting up a Mac to automatically beam your Kindle any web-based content, conveniently stripped of any ads. If I had a Kindle, I'd try this. But I'm with Kat. [Wired]

By switch11 December 11th (this Friday) sees a renaming of the Sony eBook Store to Reader Store. Complete shift to ePub. Any new purchases or downloads of past purchases will be in ePub. Smart move by Sony.  Reader Library Software Version 3.1 comes out on the 11th too – It supports Windows 7 and Snow Leopa...

By switch11 What does each Nook review conclude on Nook Vs Kindle? Engadget Gizmodo There’s little doubt that Nook Vs Kindle is close. Reviewers tend to give the Kindle the edge (except for Slashgear) – However, they agree it’s a 2 horse race now.

By realdeal@cnet.com (CNET.com) Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 189 Rafe- Kindle without Kindle Momentus drive – finally works! Old WHS continues to degrade – how do I get HP to replace it with a new model? Clicker & Redux

By switch11 Jeff Bezos Interview in the NY Times Here are some choice snippets from Deborah Solomon’s strangely fascinating interview with Mr. Bezos - On keeping 65% of indie book revenue – You’re an author, what does your royalty check look like? Are your royalties 35 percent?

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) Kindle gets better battery life, native PDF support E-MAIL CNET and Roku — Hey guys. While it is not the cleanest solution, you can get all the CNET video and audio content using the mediafly channel. You can even link your mediafly and roku box to browse only shows you watch.

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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 ...

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.

 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) 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 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 workathomebizreviews Whether you want to add photos to your Kindle for slideshow viewing, or create specially formatted graphics for use in your own Kindle publication, this e-book is for you. Learn how to edit photos and apply special effects written ...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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