In addition to responding directly to the questions in the Winter 2010 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey, the 1,892 individuals who responded also recorded hundreds of individual comments that provide some interesting insights into what makes Kindle owners tick. I’m in the process of breaking these down by category to share them here at Kindle Nation Daily. Yesterday I posted...
Thanks to James over at the Kindlelove blog for permission to reprint his timely and very nicely done review of the new Kindle for BlackBerry App: Kindle for BlackBerry review 2010 February 20 by flatland I have installed and used the new Kindle for BlackBerry application and I believe it is a completely viable e-reader app—whether sneaking in a chapter...
I’ve had some great discussions about book publishers, ebook pricing, the Apple iPad, and the Kindle Revolution lately, but one of the most interesting is now available for your listening pleasure. With the aroma of blueberry pancakes in the air in my Arlington, MA home, I sat down with podcaster extraordinaire Len Edgerly to record an interview for this...
By the one-quarter mark in this century, there may well be a billion ereaders — including as yet unimagined devices with ereading capacity — in the world. By Stephen WindwalkerOriginally posted February 19, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Amazon has announced that it has added language support for Kindle books (and Kindle authors) in Spanish, Portuguese and...
Originally posted February 19, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 (Scroll down for the fine print!) The following list contains all “promotional” free titles including several “sample” or “preview” offerings Click here for the complete list of 19,796 free books in the US Kindle Store, including public domain titles Wolf Signs: Granite Lake Wolves, Book 1 Off the...
I’ve written before on how the Kindle is so green that the Gore family must have one in every room, but I was reminded of it again this week while writing about the rumor that Amazon might be considering a plan to send out free Kindles to all of its Amazon Prime customers. From Amazon’s perspective, after all, such...
By Stephen WindwalkerOriginally posted February 18, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Kindle owners — especially those who read a lot on their Kindles — skew older and more female than many gadgets, but there are also a lot of kids reading ebooks on those same Kindles. More from the 1,892 individuals who responded to the Winter 2010...
Here’s an interesting post by Paul Biba, editor of the Teleread blog. He says, among other things: The Nook can’t read Sony DRM and Sony can’t read Nook DRM and, of course, the Kindle can’t read either and “either” can’t read Kindle DRM and now Apple is saying it will have its own DRM that Kindle and Sony and...
Today’s Amazon news release on the launch of its Kindle for Blackberry App provides the first direct and official confirmation that the company will also soon launch a Kindle for iPad App. Here’s the second sentence from the lead paragraph of today’s release: Amazon’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes a customer’s bookmarks across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod...
Comments from Kindle Nation Survey Respondents: The Pleasures of Kindle Reading
In addition to responding directly to the questions in the Winter 2010 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey, the 1,892 individuals who responded also recorded hundreds of individual comments that provide some interesting insights into what makes Kindle owners tick. I’m in the process of breaking these down by category to share them here at Kindle Nation Daily. In the next...
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