Amazon Kindle

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 Paul Biba 3. iPhone: Having the same reader on the Kindle and the iPhone is an incredible convenience. I really prefer reading on an e-ink screen, but I regularly read on the iPhone in places where it would be inconvenient to carry the Kindle. I have 8 pages of books on the Kindle and I have them all on the iP...

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.

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....

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 Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby. Riverhead. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...endearingly minor-key tale of never-too-lateness told in Hornby's dry, Brit-wit tones." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Whether you have a beloved animal companion or - like me - are currently furry friend-impaired yet enjoy reading about other folks' cats and dogs, you may wish to add these recently-published Kindle titles for animal lovers to your Kindle e-library:

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...

By Joe Wikert(jwikert@gmail.com) I discovered the NY Times iPhone app when I got my first iPhone. As is the case with most apps, they keep updating and improving it. The latest version has me wondering why I bother paying Amazon $13.99/month for the Kindle version. I hear there are elements in the Kindle version that don't appea...

By Joe Wikert(jwikert@gmail.com) It's old news by now. Someone who didn't own the rights uploaded Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm to the Kindle distribution service. Amazon then stepped in and removed all the illegal copies from Kindles around the country. It should also be noted that Amazon provided refunds as well.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation....In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right away - the Librarian of Alexandria's great library is found dead in his sealed offi...

By Joe Wikert(jwikert@gmail.com) I blame some of this on Amazon for having such a closed model and not allowing for a third-party development ecosystem like what Apple has done for the iPhone, but most of the responsibility lies with the content publishers. I don't see anyone stepping up and creating some great, new Kindle...

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...

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...

By Steve(noreply@blogger.com) Stephen Windwalker, Author and Publisher of Kindle Nation Daily Kindle Edition Cover Image, $29.95 Author bio (based on notes provided by author): $19.95 Kindle Blog Publishing Package, $29.95 Kindle Article Cover Image, $9.95 Kindle Text Formatting, $9.95 plus $.01 cents/word

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 Steve(noreply@blogger.com) First, there have been people who got print deals after starting on Kindle, and here's one of the most thoughtful and interesting analyses of the most recent big deal: A Kindle Success Story: How to Promote a Kindle Ebook Between Morrison, Amazon, and his new publisher, they have endeavo...

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 Joe Wikert(jwikert@gmail.com) DC: First, I would really, really love to be able to write notes and annotations on an e-ink screen with a stylus or some sort of electronic pen. The ability to scrawl notes in margins and underline, star, and circle passages is the most important reason I still often buy printed books, even w...

By Chris Meadows Amazon owns both its Kindle-DRM, and (through its subsidiary) everybody else’s Mobi-DRM. Amazon has already shown it does not want Mobi-DRM being read on its Kindle hardwae platform. It has begun to expand beyond that hardware platform into other hardware platforms (the iPhone is only t...

By David Rothman Sven Birkerts, a book critic and tech skeptic who wrote The Gutenberg Elegies, took some swipes at the Kindle recently, and now Matthew Battles, a former rare-books librarian at Harvard, has replied. Just how important is it that you appreciate p-books in a paper context?

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 XML Aficionado(noreply@blogger.com) Another issue: no doubt it is great that one can shop in the Kindle Store on Amazon.com using the Kindle, which allows you to buy new books on the road and has been a feature of the Kindle 1 from the start (see left). But the world has changed since November of 2007! On my iPhone I can use the Amazon.c...

By David Rothman The free Harlequin titles will be available beginning today to all iPhone and iPod Touch Stanza users. Stanza for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store or from http://www.lexcycle.com.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) The author of this collection of five long stories is a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest. "Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately... [they] take the reader inside Nigeri...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Sudoku maven Liza Kelly is conducting classes in a penitentiary, of all places. One of her best students is released, but his freedom doesn't last long. He's found dead, leaving his own puzzle for Liza to solve to find the killer -- before her number is up." - Amazon.

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) A humbug of a shopping mystery...From The Anthony and Agatha Award-Winning author of Accessory to Murder. Mystery shopper Josie Marcus doesn't get the appeal of the year-round Christmas shop. But when three such holiday houses pop up within two blocks, she's assigned to rate them anonymous...

By Wilson Rothman In the US, the debate between the Kindle and the Sony Reader is one of closed platform versus open one. (Ironic that Sony is the "open" platform here.) The Sony does have a DRM-heavy ebook retail operation, but it also plays, among other things, the many free PDF-format ebooks that are widely...

By Blog Admin(noreply@blogger.com) My sister-in-law likes her Kindle because it lays flat on her treadmill, making it easier to read while she walks. She also can tear through six or eight novels on a week's vacation. On her last trip, she left her book bag at home and took her Kindle.

By switch11 There are only 18 magazines available on the Kindle. Nearly every magazine offers a ‘buy current version’ option - a great way to check out the magazine’s kindle edition without committing to a subscription. Lets take a look at Kindle edition magazines - Newsweek - #1 spot, $1.49 monthly pri...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Today's Amazon Kindle status: ORDER NOW and Amazon will ship you your new Kindle within 2 to 3 weeks. Eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime. Well, believe it or not, putting a Kindle book in your wish list depends on whether it has been reviewed yet on Amazon by other folks! PLAN A PLAN B

By Jason Epstein Technology Review asked for my thoughts on Kindle. Here they are, slightly emended. No one can doubt that digitization and the Internet together with various factors intrinsic to the publishing industry will radically transform the distribution of books: books can now be transmitted l...

By Stacey Higginbotham Ian Freed, Amazon: When we started thinking about the Kindle, we debated for a long time: Should we have this completely wireless and not connect it to the PC? So we thought about books and what makes them good. They’re portable and instant on. So we thought about those things and you can’t do t...

By Joe Wikert(noreply@blogger.com) The first rule of thumb here is that nothing is truly 100% secure. If enough hackers want to unlock your protected files they'll find a way to do it, period. That said, I haven't heard of any serious issues up to now with Kindle content. Don't forget though that DRM-protected content isn't the o...

By Joe Wikert(noreply@blogger.com) JW: There's been a lot of talk about the Kindle (or some other e-book device) becoming a huge hit for textbook reading and storage. With the functionality you see on the Kindle today, do you feel that's a viable short term solution? Are there any features you feel would need to be added to the K...

By Brian Lam As I said, I read a great deal more than I usually do on this trip and faster. How much of that was me being on vacation versus me being on the Kindle? To be honest, I haven't read very much since I've come back home. I blame the computer and internet's endless bounty of shorts, but my experience usi...

By Paul Biba Why is it that, so often, cases that come with products are really poor. That certainly is the situation with the Kindle case, which is bulky and allows the Kindle to fall out of it easily. If you want to secure the Kindle in the case you have to use a built-in elastic band that covers the scroll wh...

By switch11 One of two changes is going to happen - Either, The Kindle is simply going to cut the textbook market down in size by offering cheaper textbooks; Or, and this is the scenario that truly fascinates meA combination of Professors and Students are going to use the Kindle (and/or other platform...

By switch11 I’m going to dissect a typical anti-Kindle article - in this case one from Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com (which obviously adheres to a higher journalistic standard than the typical ‘it’s got DRM and it’s not designed by apple’ anti-kindle review by someone who’s never touched a kindle).

By Brian Lam 8:33 Mossberg: Could you separate Kindle's whispernet from Sprint? Bezos: We have to think globally, so yes. 8:41 Bezos: You might consider the web the ultimate book that you'd choose over everything else. Mossberg: You might want to go to Amazon.com and order the Kindle Shoe Edition.

By April Hamilton Before consolidations began, back in the days when publishers generously dotted the landscape of America, there was a lot of truth in the assumption that the only author who resorts to self-publication is an author whose work isn’t good enough to attract a “real” publisher. This is clear...

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 David Rothman OK, great, but why isn’t the Times pressing Amazon on the obvious? Why is Amazon so keen on nonDRMed music while steadfastly “protecting” e-books in the Kindle format in rather obnoxious ways? Is it because Amazon views DRM less as protection for publishers than as protection for the pro...

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 richb Overall though, I guess I'm still old-school. I still prefer the feel of a paper book. The ability to easily and quickly view other pages. It'll be a while before I do my reading-for-pleasure electronically. Technorati Tag: Amazon Kindle]

By Wilson Rothman USB disk folder appearance of Sony Reader:USB disk folder appearance of Amazon Kindle:There's no way to download books from Sony's store without using the special eBook Library software, which is cumbersome and works only with Windows PCs.

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...