There are a million posts (and podcasts) in the Kindlesphere, and here are a few that caught my eye this week and seemed worth sharing with you: BlogKindle has a fun post referencing this very retro “new” Kindle case for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX from Busted Typewriter. I have two recommendations for the very imaginative entrepreneurs at...
Defective by Design, an anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative founded by the Free Software Foundation in 2006, has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading Amazon to remove digital rights restrictions from the books that Kindle owners purchase and download from the Kindle Store. The DRM issue has been a contentious one since the Kindle was launched in November...
We all know that a picture is worth 1,000 words, even in this economy. But are charts like these worth 28 million Kindles? Thanks to David Rothman’s heads up at TeleRead, they come tied to a juicy tidbit of Kindle projection from a pretty credible source: The well-respected and extremely popular Tech-On blog (Tech and Industry Analysis from Asia,...
3. The Brass Bed by Jennifer Stevenson (30 customer reviews) Auto-delivered wirelessly Kindle Price: $0.00 8. My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent (19 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions Auto-delivered wirelessly Kindle Price: $0.00 Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn by JOHN JACKSON MILLER (3 customer reviews) Auto-delivered wirelessly Kindle Price: $0.00
Like Joe Konrath and Cory Doctorow, Scott Sigler is a talented, bestselling novelist who isn’t afraid of doing some hard thinking about what the Kindle and other new publishing technologies will do for us as readers and writers and, oh, yes, people otherwise employed in the book trades. He releases many of his books in the form of podcasts,...
Three classics top the billing as the most popular among over 7,000 free “public domain” books in the Kindle Store, as of Monday, August 17, 2009: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and The Art of War. If you have any doubt about the value, for Kindle owners, of the value of “Free,” let me just observe...
Is this a mountain, or a molehill? Or should we just call it “1985″ and hunker down for two weeks of blowback and a lawsuit or two? At some point in the last few days, Amazon began including this line in the “product detail” information display for all its Kindle newspapers and magazines: “Your name, billing address and order...
Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock “An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famous–or infamous–creation.”–Amazon Product Detail Page And that’s not all…. Just in time for back-to-school flu preparations, here is a free download of a recently published Citizen’s Guide 2.0...
The Kindle Chronicles The Friday Podcast That Helps You Get the Most Out of Your Kindle TKC 56 Steve Shank Steve Shank of Arizona is a Kindle fan with 35 years of experience introducing new technology, dating back to his days as an early employee of Apple. And now you can list The Kindle Chronicles directly on your Kindle...
Fears that the Kindle edition of Dan Brown’s forthcoming blockbuster novel The Lost Symbol might not be released concurrently with the September 15 hardcover release date have been dispelled as Amazon is now accepting $9.99 pre-orders for the instant bestseller-to-be in the Kindle Store. There has been a behind-the-scenes tug-of-war going on between Amazon and some publishers concerning the...
