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 UK You can also buy e-books of current titles from sites such as Mobipocket and ebooks U, which retain the formatting of real books and are much easier to read. This device is clearly aimed at the same market as the Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. ...

 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 David Rothman The p-book version featured  at Amazon goes for $299.00 new, just $56 more. You can buy other copies via Amazon for $186.40 new and used paper codies for $50.48 on up. Reminder: In case you didn’t pick up on it already, Oxford University Press is the real culprit here—not Sony or Amazon.

By Paul Miller We just got a quick first in-person look at Amazon's new Kindle DX. It looks bigger! Some quick thoughts on the device: Gallery: Amazon Kindle DX close-ups originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 May 2009 12:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

By Henry Blodget See Also:  Printing The New York Times Costs Twice As Much As Giving Each Subscriber A Free Kindle See Also: Kindle Books Now A Shocking 35% Of Sales When Kindle Version AvailableAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unveils Big-Screen Kindle DX (AMZN)

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) In this case it refers to Jeff Bakalar's face, but it could also refer to Amazon, Steve Jobs, and Skype. Well at least in part. Find out all about all of these things in today's scary and caliente episode. --Tom … Amazon says it was a glitch…

By Joseph L. Flatley We've seen surprisingly few Kindle 2 hacks 'round these parts, and therefore few apps that run on the beloved e-reader itself. One notable exception is Savory, which monitors the device's Documents directory for files sporting either the .epub or .pdf extensions -- when one of these guys r...

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

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 Dan Frommer That was quick: A week after the Amazon Kindle 2 started shipping, Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is now available for free download. Amazon Caves In To Publishers On Kindle Robot Voice (AMZN)Another Kindle Projection: 500,000 Sales This Year (AMZN)What Do You Want To Know About Amazon's Ki...

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 Wilson Rothman You may be reading this as a slam on Amazon and Kindle, but the fact is, I am a proponent of pushing forward with the ebook concept. I think it's still easier to read books on E-Ink screens than it is to read them on an iPhone's LCD, and while there's no perfect ebook reader, E-Ink and other electr...

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) E-MAIL Amazon has a sense of humor. I was showing my wife the Amazon App on my iPhone last night and I attempted to take a picture of my TV and see what Amazon Remembers would suggest. Somehow I fudged the photo but decided to send it anyway. We laughed pretty hard when the

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 David Rothman Why Amazon needs Kind 2.0, from two ZDNet bloggers, is a response to—guess what?—Why Amazon Doesn’t Need Kindle 2.0 in Forbes. Wireless issue: The Plastic Logic machine will have wireless, as noted. I don’t know if this will be WiFi or a Kindle-style approach that lets you hook into a bookstor...

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. ...

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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 matt buchanan The Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle are portable media devices designed to carry and display e-books and other electronic documents. Kindle has a mobile broadband function that allows users to browse online content and download e-books while on the go. Alternatively, the Sony Reader r...

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.”

By Mark The other main complaint was lack of PDF support, and I read a number of blogs that cited that as a reason why the Sony Reader was superior. The Kindle supports Mobipocket formatted content, and there are converters from PDF to ...

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.

Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader PRS-505 Video Review  - It's pricey, but Amazon's Kindle is the e-book's best hope to make the Best Seller list. When you're finished watching the video, read our full review of ...

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