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Celebrating the 4th: Historical Novels for the Kindle Set in Revolutionary Times
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Sat, Jul 4
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers. A fictional memoir based on actual facts, Burr describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States....
Take Me Out to the Kindle: New Baseball Books
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Wed, Jul 1
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team - Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others - provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a...
Opinion: Capturing Lives: New Biographies & Memoirs for the Kindle (28 Jun 09)
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Sat, Jun 27
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and M...
Opinion: Kindle Genre Watch (23 Jun 09)
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Tue, Jun 23
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) This is a modern fairy tale. It's a story about finding a job, having a weird boss, and meeting someone you like. But behind it all, there's a mystery: What is the secret of Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store? This is also a story about books, writing, and technology. So, if you're someo...
CHARTS OF THE WEEK: MySpace's User Engagement Stinks, Broadband Thriving
Original at Silicon Alley Insider
• Sun, Jun 21
By Dan Frommer CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone App And Kindle Stores Are Bigger Than YouTube CHART OF THE DAY: MySpace's 'Horrendous' User Engagement CHART OF THE DAY: Broadband Thriving Despite Economic Collapse CHART OF THE DAY: Why Investing In The Internet Is Like Investing In The Cement Business Follow...
The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
Original at Engadget
• Fri, Jun 19
By Ross Miller iPhone 3G S torn apart, could do 833MHz and 720p videoVideo: Samsung's e-passport turns your head into a rotating government specimenApple unleashes iPhone 3G S on well-prepared US public (with video!) Meijer's brand new $99 (shipped) Blu-ray player brings joy to skinflints everywh...
Opinion: Engadget Podcast 151 - 06.19.2009Original at Engadget
• Fri, Jun 19
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Apple Treats Third-Party Developers Like Garbage
Original at Silicon Alley Insider
• Tue, Jun 16
By Nicholas Carlson HuffPo will spend some of its $25 million getting into tech news [BoomTown]The Big Kindle sells out [Seattle Business Journal]Microsoft sues three over click fraud [WSJ]Web ads can sometimes carry viruses [WSJ]About.com adds celebrity experts [PaidContent]YouTube tests letting u...
The Kindle Yuks It Up: Amusing Reads for Lazy Summer E-Book Reading
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Mon, Jun 1
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Tired of 24/7 bad news on cable? Talking heads got yours spinning? The antidote? A few hours getting away from it all with a mood-changing jolt of humor.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_WZgP5QuUFN8/SiMN6KhpacI/AAAAAAAAApg/kJKfs...
Review: Hanlin e-reader
Original at Times Online
• Fri, May 29
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. ...
Patch: Kindle for iPhone 1.1 released
Original at news.idg.no
• Thu, May 21
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. ...
Patch: Kindle for iPhone 1.1 arrives
Original at iphonetouch.blorge.com
• Thu, May 21
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 ...
Opinion: $243 for Sony e-book on Balzac’s short fiction? But wait! How about the $6.4K Kindle nuclear engineering e-book?
Original at TeleRead
• Fri, May 8
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.
Opinion: Amazon Kindle DX first hands-on (with video!)
Original at Engadget
• Tue, May 5
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.
New York Times To Offer Kindle-With-Your-Subscription Deals
Original at Silicon Alley Insider
• Tue, May 5
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)
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 951: Scary and hot
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Mon, Apr 13
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…
Savory for Kindle 2 automates PDF and EPUB conversions, doesn't make James Patterson any more enjoyable
Original at Engadget
• Sun, Apr 5
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...
How To: Quick Tips: Jump pages in the Kindle
Original at cnettv.cnet.com
• Thu, Mar 26
Want to skip ahead in an eBook? Here's how to jump to a new location in the Amazon Kindle. cnettv.cnet.com
Podcast: Radio show on the future of the book
Original at TeleRead
• Fri, Mar 13
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...
How To: Kindle 2 hacks: bypassing Whispernet
Original at Ars Technica
• Fri, Mar 6
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 ...
Kindle iPhone App Launches, E-Book Sales To Jump?
Original at Silicon Alley Insider
• Wed, Mar 4
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...
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 922: Hot and junky
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Tue, Mar 3
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
Kindle 2 Review: Sheeeyah, More Like Kindle 1.5 [Review]
Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, Mar 2
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...
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 921: No One Likes To Be Called An Moral Pygmy
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Mon, Mar 2
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
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 920: Speak for yourself, Kindle
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Fri, Feb 27
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,
Kindle 2 Rips Off Authors And Publishers, Says Authors Guild
Original at Silicon Alley Insider
• Wed, Feb 25
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.
Tim O’Reilly: Kindle needs open ePub-style standard to survive
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Mon, Feb 23
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,...
Podcast: Kindle-format software vs. Stanza: What about Adobe and ePub, David B?
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Wed, Feb 18
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...
The Kindle vs. the Plastic Logic device: Could PL’s king-sized screen, ruggedness and wireless crush the K machine?Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Wed, Dec 3
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...
Podcast: "What’s Up with Ebooks?" is now available
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Thu, Nov 13
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...
Patch: eBook Update: Leaked photos reveal Amazon Kindle 2
Original at TechFever Network
• Tue, Oct 7
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 ...
How To: Comparing e-book readers for the iPhone
Original at Inkygirl
• Tue, Sep 2
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. ...
Podcast: 120 GB Zune
Original at mevio.com
• Tue, Aug 26
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...
How To: Apt’s links for July 19th through July 20th
Original at aptstudio.com
• Sun, Jul 20
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 ...
How To: Hack Your Kindle: 100+ Tips, Resources, and Tutorials to Get More ...
Original at College Degrees
• Tue, Jun 17
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. ...
How to Convert PDF Files to Read on the Amazon Kindle
Original at Cotton
• Tue, May 6
• 3 related articles
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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Opinion: The economics of the Kindle, revisited: Should a professor buy a $400 e-reader?
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Fri, Apr 11
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...
Opinion: Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours [Legalese]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Mar 21
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...
Opinion: Kindle pros and cons—from Microsoft program manager Scott HanselmanOriginal at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Fri, Feb 29
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.”
Mini-Review: Amazon Kindle vs. Sony Reader
Original at Signal vs. Noise
• Mon, Jan 14
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 ...
Converting your PDF files to Kindle using PDF2LRF
Original at The Kindle
• Sun, Jan 13
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...
CES 2008: Sony Reader PRS-505
Original at Technology Evangelist
• Tue, Jan 8
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 - PC World
Original at PC World
• Wed, Dec 26
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
How To: Kindle DRM Hacked (That Was Easy)
Original at first.org
• Fri, Dec 14
• 3 related articles
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 Gizmodo, Cotton, mikedaisey.com.
How To: Hacks: Kindle DRM Hacked (That Was Easy)
Original at mikedaisey.com
• Thu, Dec 13
• 3 related articles
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 ...
Related articles from Gizmodo, Cotton, first.org.
Kindle DRM hacked to allow protected Mobipocket ebooks
Original at Engadget
• Wed, Dec 12
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...
How To: Hacks: Kindle DRM Hacked (That Was Easy)
Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, Dec 10
• 3 related articles
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 - PC Magazine
Original at PC Magazine
• Mon, Dec 3
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 ...
Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review (Verdict: Lightweight, Long Lasting and Easy to Grip... In Bed) [Our Kindle Verdict]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Nov 23
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...
Podcast: Amazon's Kindle
Original at BusinessWeek
• Wed, Nov 21
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