February 2010 - Page 4 of 11 - Kindle Nation Daily

Kindle for Blackberry App Gets Thumbs Up from Kindlelove Blog

February 20, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 or two during lunch, quick reading in bed, while riding the subway, etc.—due to Amazon’s brilliant Whispersync feature.

Here are some comments:

The application loads quickly (2.5 seconds)

Books open and download quickly

There is a “Fullscreen” option that can be selected by pressing ‘F’—this removes the title of the book at the top of the screen and the current location at the bottom of the book. This is helpful for the smaller screens of BlackBerries with keyboards (note to Amazon: this would also be a nice feature on standard Kindle devices).

6 font sizes are available:
The smallest font provides 7 ‘location’ (“Fullscreen” adds 2 additional lines of text) per page view; the second-smallest font provides 5 ‘locations’; the middle font sizes provide 3-4 ‘locations’ As a comparison, the same book on the 6″ Kindle provides 11 ‘locations’ per page view (“and so businesses); The second-smallest font provides 7 ‘locations’

Other shortcuts:
’space’ key: next page‘P’ (or shift+’space’): previous page‘-’ (‘+’): decrease (increase) font‘B‘: add bookmark’When in Archived folder, press a letter key to jump to a book title or author name

And the final biggie….

.mobi files downloaded (or transferred) your BlackBerry WILL open in the Kindle for BlackBerry applicationDirections:

In the ‘Save file’ dialog box, select the folder icon to explore to a new location.

Select ‘Device Memory’->’home’->’user’->’kindle’->’eBooks’

Open up Kindle for BlackBerry. Your ebook will be included in the ‘Home’ screen.

eBooks, calibre-created newspapers/magazines/blogs, Instapaper files—all work and include the navigable table of contents. Hyperlinks open in the BlackBerry browser.

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One final note: I was unable to download the application from the BlackBerry’s browser, receiving the following error message after attempting to load the amazon.com/kindlebb url:

Invalid address: https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/kcp/install.html?ie=UTF8

I figured out the fix for this issue: go to the “Options” menu on your BlackBerry, scroll down to and select “Security Options”, scroll down to and select “TLS”, and change the “Protocol” selection to “TLS/SSL”. Save these settings, reopen your BlackBerry browser and re-enter the amazon.com/kindlebb url. If you still are having problems, you can enter directly the download link: http://klamath.s3.amazonaws.com/rc8b/kindle.jad

Your Humble Scribe Appears on The Kindle Chronicles Podcast: The Kindle and Book Publishers, eBook Prices, and the iPad

February 20, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 week’s episode of The Kindle Chronicles. Len is such a great interviewer that he can make a ham and egger like myself come across as a reasonably intelligent and thoughtful man, so I keep coming back, and my lovely and talented friend Betty has photographic gifts of similar impact.

Click here to tune into the podcast, available for listening at any time of your choosing.

Advancing the Kindle as a Global eBook Reader: Challenges and Opportunities for Amazon in a Balkanized World

February 19, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 Windwalker
Originally 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 Italian to its previous support for English, French and German, and this seems like the right time to step back and take a look at exactly where the Kindle is going for readers, authors, publishers, and current and prospective Kindle owners around the world.

The Kindle is still a relatively new product outside the United States. Amazon began shipping the 6-inch Kindle with global wireless connectivity to customers in over 100 nations around the world in the Fall of 2009, and followed with a global wireless update to the Kindle DX early this year. Initial international sales have been brisk, and the Winter 2010 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey included some indications* that as many as one out of every 10 Kindles being sold in early 2010 could be destined for a customer outside the U.S.

Amazon has its work cut out for it in several key areas if it is to make the Kindle all it can be for potential ebook customers — and ebook content — all over the world. The company is racing to replicate as closely as possible, with the international Kindle customer experience, the very positive experience that the Kindle hardware, catalog selection and pricing, features, and support provides for U.S. Kindle owners. But there is nothing simple or easy about the process, due largely to some serious complicating factors that result from the balkanizing effects of multiple “geographies” on wireless connectivity issues and costs, copyright issues, language support, translation and character-set display challenges, and issues related to pricing, taxation, and import duties.

Many of these issues exist below the radar for many current and prospective Kindle customers around the world, so it should not be surprising — for now — that we have regular instances, all over the Amazon website and in other venues such as this blog’s comment areas and Amazon’s own Kindle Facebook page, of international customer dissatisfaction with and misunderstandings about several key shortcomings of the international Kindle in its early months:

Kindle books that are listed as free in the U.S. Kindle Store are not free in other countries, since incremental charges that usually fall in the $2 to $5 range are added to all Kindle titles for other countries to cover value-added taxes, import duties, and wireless transfer costs.
All of the recent focus on the standard U.S. price point for Kindle new releases and bestsellers, due to controversies between Amazon, Apple, and the big book publishers, has only served to heighten dissatisfaction outside the U.S. with bestseller and new-release ebook prices that due to the aforementioned incremental charges fall, ironically, in the same $12 to $15 range whose anticipation has U.S. customers up in arms.
Thousands of books that are bestsellers in the Kindle Store for U.S. customers are not available to Kindle owners in the U.K., Australia, Canada, and many other nations due to geography-based copyright restrictions.
Equally important, there are very few titles in the Kindle Store in any language other than English. As I write this there are 2,320 Spanish titles, 1,495 in French, and 1,074 in German in the Kindle Store’s U.S. iteration, and support for Italian and Portuguese is so new that you can’t even search for titles in those languages with Amazon’s Advanced Search tool.
The free wireless web feature and Kindle web browser that are very popular with U.S. Kindle owners are not yet generally available to Kindle owners beyond U.S. borders, due to wireless connectivity costs dependent on 3G wireless contracts between Amazon and carriers that may vary from country to country. International customers (and U.S. customers who are travelling internationally with the latest-generation “international” Kindles) do have access to the Kindle’s 3G international wireless Whispernet, but are charged significant extra sums for content downloads and can generally use the Whispernet only for access to the Kindle Store, for content downloads, and for Wikipedia access.
None of the 8,500 or so blogs in the Kindle Store — including Kindle Nation Daily — are available in Kindle editions to Kindle owners outside the U.S.

If all of this sounds like a big whine, well, that’s not my point at all. The good news is that Amazon is on a mission to fix each and every one of the issues I have just recounted. I believe that the time will come when Kindle pricing will become more straightforward and transparent across international boundaries, when blogs and Kindle’s wireless web will be available around the world, and when Amazon will find ways to bring its Kindle Store closer to Kindle owners in a growing number of countries around the world.

Most importantly of all, Amazon has not backed off its original mission for the Kindle, which is that it will allow anyone, anywhere, to download any book ever published within 60 seconds. Support for some languages, of course, will require Amazon to make changes in its hardware display features in order to render those languages’ alphabets. The Kindle is still dominated by English-language content, and it will be essential soon for the Kindle platform to support the full range of languages being read and spoken in all the countries where Amazon makes the Kindle available. To achieve this will require enhancements to both hardware and software, and it is possible that the Kindle platform will be able to render some character sets before the Kindle device itself is read to display them. Along the way, Amazon will also have major barriers to overcome with respect both to country-by-country copyright issues and to translation and language options for the Kindle’s documentation and onboard command structure and its content.

So even the good news is complicated. If there’s bad news, it’s that the clock is ticking with respect to customer good will around the world. The recent Kindle Nation survey made it clear that such good will is abundant for Amazon with its U.S. Kindle customers, but prospective Kindle owners in other countries may judge the company less generously if they perceive it to be lagging on any of the issues delineated above.

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. Millions of them will be manufactured and sold by companies that do not even exist yet. But Amazon is in a better position than any other existing company to manufacture and sell the lion’s share of those ereaders, and to be the world leader in providing content for them. Amazon’s experience with the Kindle, its inviting platforms for new and existing authors and content providers, and the fact that it is already running its own successful online retail stores in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom provide it with enormous advantages against all competitors in extending a worldwide Kindle Revolution. Some very possible definitions of success for the Kindle could add so much top- and bottom-line power to Amazon’s P&L statements over the next decade that neither the company nor the analysts who cover it would dare speak of such numbers for fear that they would lose all credibility.

But it is equally clear that Amazon has a bull’s-eye painted on its back. To succeed, the company will need to maintain the discipline of a start-up — which continues to mark the Kindle team’s approach 27 months out from the Kindle’s 2007 launch — and apply that start-up mindset to what could well become dozens of individual but integrated start-up initiatives within the overall Kindle operation.

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*Among the 412 of the survey respondents who had purchased a Kindle since December, 8.2% said they were not U.S. residents, and it is natural at this point that the Kindle Nation Daily blog would be less well-known to Kindle owners outside the U.S. than within.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, February 19, 2010: Over 60 Free Promotional Titles, and a Link to All 19,796 Kindle Freebies

February 19, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 Record

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Daring Chloe (Getaway Girls #1)

Economic Report of the President

Breakthrough! (Chapter 1): The World-s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of M…

Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way

The Reincarnationist Series

The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-to-Be

Equivoque Principle, The

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Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus

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Devotions for Lent

The Apothecary’s Daughter

Talk of the Town

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

Homespun Bride

Baby Bonanza

Once a Cowboy

A Very Special Delivery

Speed Dating

Kiss Me Deadly

Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch

Dancing in the Moonlight

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project

New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forwar…

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

The Civic Potential of Video Games

Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

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Rethink (Chapter 1): How the -How- Trap Is Trapping You

Touchdown! (Intro & Chapter 1): Growing Up

Rethink: Index

ReThink: Introduction

Option Trading Body of Knowledge (Introduction & Chapter 1), The: Market Overview

Outsmart (Epilogue)

Homebuyers Beware (Intro & Chapter 1): Getting the World’s Cheapest Loan

America, Welcome to the Poorhouse (Intro & Chapter 1): Why You Can’t Retire from a 401…

Rethink: Key Concepts

Private Sector and Poverty: Progress at the Bottom of the Pyramid During 2004-2009

Inspire (Intro & Chapter 1): From Tired to Inspired

The Network Imperative: Community or Contagion?

Outsmart (Intro & Chapter 1): It’s a Smart, Smart, Smart, Smart World

Econosphere (Preface & Chapter 1): Born with a Loaf of Bread

Tumor Chapter 1

The Wild’s Call

Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice

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When Night Falls

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How Green is Your Kindle? The Kindle as a Dedicated Dematerialization Device

February 19, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 an initiative would not only be about accelerating the already fast-moving Kindle Revolution. There would also be great benefit to Amazon’s bottom line because increasing the percentage of Kindle owners among its Prime customers would naturally lead to fewer physical shipments of books to expense against the $79 in annual revenue provided by the Amazon Prime fee.

Turns out there’s a word for this. It’s “dematerialization,” according to the lead paragraph in this post about Green:Net 2010 over at GigaOm:

One e-book device can displace the buying of some 22.5 physical books a year, according to the Cleantech Group, which translates into an estimated savings of 370 pounds of CO2. Indeed, the Kindle, Nook and other e-reader devices are examples of “dematerialization,” putting into digital form what would normally be delivered physically. Such carbon savings potential extends beyond books to CDs and other products….

Can teleportation be far behind? Beam me up, Jeffrey!

Comments from Kindle Nation Survey Respondents: The Pleasures of Kindle Reading

February 18, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

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 few days we will look at comments in areas such as Using Kindle Apps, the Ipad and Other Devices, and Pricing for eBooks, but for starters we will focus on individual comments under the heading “The Pleasures of Kindle Reading.” Each bulleted comment is from a unique individual.

I have been using this device since November 2008, it has increased my reading enjoyment….so far I’ve read over 140 books on my Kindle
Am enjoying the many free books available that I would not thought about. Especially old classics such a the Russian authors. Occasionally lose my place and find it difficult to restore. Essentially find reading from Kindle better and easier than from the print books.
LOVE my Kindle and the price of books for downloading.
The kindle changed my life. It made reading so much easier physically, I am not cluttering up my house with books, and I read more and faster than I ever had. The quality of hard back and paperback books is very disappointing, I have books printed 100 years ago, and the bindings are still intact, while I also have books that are only 5 or 6 years old, and the bindings are seriously degraded. Paperback books can only be read once or twice before the pages start falling out. I prefer ebooks.
I love the kindle – even the original. Hope that they can come to reasonable terms with the publishers.
Although I am new to the Kindle nation, I absolutely love my kindle and now prefer it to paper editions of books, for convenience, mobility and ease of use anywhere.
Avid reader; could not return to paper books after owning a Kindle. First Kindle was “injured” and I didn’t plan on replacing immediately After 3 days without my Kindle, I decided that the purchase was a necessity, not discretionary spending.
I received my Kindle for Christmas and use it everyday.
My Kindle is indispensable. I am disabled and unable to hold a book. I not only read e-books on my Kindle, I listen to Audible content
Every book is a large font book.!
I should have waited a little longer for a reading device. I’m not that happy with this one. The more I use this device, the more I don’t want to use it. It is good for travel – other than that I prefer a ‘real’ book. Prices for digital books are way to high for what I get.
Love my Kindle, but since I usually borrow best sellers from the public library, this is costing me more to read than usual. I usually read 10 novels a month, borrowing 8 and buying 1 or 2.
Sometimes friends will lend me a book or 2 per month as well. i would love to be able to borrow books from the libray that are in kindle format. It is too complicated to get new decent books from the format they are offering at present. I am sure their technology wil catch up eventually.
My Kindle 2 is great especially on long plane flights.
Like 95% of the members of Kindle Nation, I love my K2 and have thoroughly enjoyed reading on it since receiving it in March 2009. I can’t imagine reading any other way and I am an avid reader.
I’ve only had my Kindle a month and I love it. I’d say my biggest disappointment is that new releases are not available for the Kindle for several months. Of course, not every book in print is available but I didn’t expect they would be.
Kindle is exactly what I expected and has become my preferred way to read, including books themselves. I read a lot.
“My eye sight is impaired. I struggle to read a newspaper. The Kindle has made reading possible with enlarged text. The dictionary setup is very convenient. My Washington Post subscription gives national news daily. Shopping in Kindle store is very convenient.
I bought Kindle 2 out of necessity, an implosion of books at home. I long ago ran out of places to put books, but I am a voracious reader.
My wife and I love the Kindles! We are out of room to store books, so it is wonderful to be able to read and then archive for future reference. Screen is easy on the eyes and easy to use. Still the best in our view. Wish more publishers would use Kindle format.
My first Kindle was the Kindle 2 in June 2009. I have been an avid eBook reader ever since…as long as it is a Kindle. I am visually disabled so the Kindle DX was my next purchase and I love it! I still use both on a regular basis.
I love this thing and read more on it that I do regular books. I prefer reading on the Kindle.
The Kindle 2 is my favorite and I’ve read over 120 books since I got it Feb 09 when it became available. I’ve done more reading in the last year than I did in the previous 20 years. I’ve rediscovered reading and it is wonderful!
New user – love it, but don’t yet know all the capabilities beyond Kindle books.
Excellent service and easier to read. Prices very reasonable
My KINDLE DX (US) is everything and more than I expected. It’s a joy to use everyday. I love that I can get most of the books I want downloaded to it, AND that I can also have them on my PC to read as an alternative convienence.
I also had an ebook several years ago( when they first came out) It was heavy and cumbersome the Kindle is comfortable to use
I wanted a Kindle from the minute I heard about the Kindle 1. It was too expensive for me. When the Kindle 2 came out I still wanted one but waited and asked my kids for gift cards for Christmas. I’m thrilled with my Katie Kindle. I take her everywhere I think I might have a waiting time to read. I LOVE MY KINDLE!
I like the Kindle because it does one thing and does it well. Amazon support is an important aspect–maintains my digital library.
I have 2 Kindle 2s. I got one for myself and my daughter kept stealing it, so I got her one. We are a three Kindle family.
Have carried a Zeos Pocket PC primarily for reading ebooks for many years. My Kindle has (finally) replaced it.
I am an avid reader. I used to buy hardbacks. Since I got my Kindle in December of 2007 I have never looked back. Did not think I could love anything as much as I do my Kindle.
I wish you could tell what page you were on. I really love my Kindle. I would never go back to a regular book again.Wish I could put my ebook on a disk and then send it back to my Kindle if I would want it in the future again.
I have gone thru about 60 books since I got my Kindle. Have not made a trip to the library since I got it. Used to average about one trip a week. I am 87 years old and don’t mind at all, not having to make those trips. The Kindle service has been excellent as far as I am concerned. Recommend it highly.
Great device.I use it often. I hopr the price of books remain at $9.99
I received a Kindle while I was doing chemo therapy for breast cancer, t was a birthday present. It was a life saver. I am a voracious reader and many days I could only sit in a chair and read because I ached so badly, I even ignored my email. I have recently replaced the primary battery and added an SD card and it keeps on working. Even tho I have a Kindle 1 and it has some quirks, I still love it.
The Kindle is the ideal reading device which happens to have other nice features. I purchased it primarily for reading and nothing else. The ability to have ebooks saves me money and physical space. I still purchase hardcover books and will always do so. I won’t however pay as much for an ebook as I do a hardcover copy.
Up until nine months ago, I had no desire for an electronic reader and only purchased the Kindle because of a long trip. Now it is my preferred reading method.

Click here to see complete, detailed results of the survey, and keep your dial tuned to Kindle Nation Daily — here on the web or here to have posts pushed directly to your Kindle — for ongoing breakdowns of the significance of the survey results.

Additional Survey Results, coming soon:

What If Big Six Market Share Leader Random House Breaks Ranks with the Apple Five? Likely Kindle Owner Buying Behavior at Strategic Price Points
Kindle Features: Past, Present, and Possible
Prospects for Competition and Co-existence Among the Kindle, iPad, and Other Devices
Kindle Owner Demographics
How Many Devices in a Kindle Household?
Bezos’ Nightmare: 20-20 Hindsight on Amazon’s 2003 Decision to Begin Development of the Kindle

Survey Results on Kindle Owner Demographics: 57-43 Tilt Toward Women, 59% Aged 55 and Older, Growing International Base

February 18, 2010 by Steve Windwalker

By Stephen Windwalker
Originally 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 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey February 6-13:

55.9% identified themselves as female, and 42% as male, which suggests that for 2.1% gender information is handled on a “need to know” basis
Less than 0.5% are under 25, compared with 38.7% aged 25-54 and 59% aged 55 or older
Just over 4% said they were not U.S. residents, a significant number which of course reflects the growth of the international Kindle in recent months
Among the 412 respondents who became Kindle owners since December 2009, twice as many (8.2%) said they were not U.S. residents

So, it’s no surprise that Kindle owners, and Kindle Nation citizens in particular, skew toward mature women. Although it is common to think of men, and of younger people, as being more likely to own gadgets, we have been saying all alone that the Kindle is a special kind of gadget, purpose-built for readers rather than gadget heads.

I suspect that the gender and age breakdown in terms of actual ownership of a Kindle may be spread more evenly, but there is a difference between Kindle ownership and active or voracious reading of Kindle content. Regardless of gender or age, the people most likely to read Kindle Nation Daily posts and to be socially engaged enough in the process to participate in our survey are probably more likely to active and voracious readers of Kindle content than the broader population of Kindle owners, some small number of whom may have cut way back on their Kindle use since making an initial novelty purchase.

None of this is intended to undercut the significance of the views expressed by Kindle Nation citizens in the survey, but it does seem fair to suggest more or less hypothetically that if, say, the gender breakdown among all who purchase and own a Kindle is roughly 50-50, I should not be the least bit surprised if the statistical breakdown of gender for anyone buying a Kindle book, or for those reading this post or any of our Kindle nation Daily Free Book Alerts, is more along the lines of 57-43 favoring women.

And mature women at that.

At first it may seem like contradictory information, in light of the age breakdown noted above, that 5 of the top 57 bestsellers in the Kindle Store right now are the titles included in popular tweener author Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which among other things happens to by my 11-year-old son Danny’s favorite fiction series. Given that none of the 5 titles is currently free, this really means that the 5 titles are all among the top 20 non-free titles in the Kindle Store, which amounts to bestseller list hegemony similar to that experienced by vampire-fiction novelist Stephanie Meyer back in 2008-2009.

But rather than being a contradiction, it points us to an interesting new trend in the way people are using their Kindles:

The Kindle is gradually becoming more and more of a family, or household, reading platform.

A 12-year-old may be reading the latest Percy Jackson saga before or after school, then turning the Kindle over to his Mom when she gets home so she can finish reading the latest from Elizabeth Gilbert or Kristin Hannah. If both parties happen to have overlapping time available for reading, there’s always the possibility of switching to reading on another device with the Kindle for iPhone/iPod Touch/PC/Blackberry Apps. Occasionally, of course, multiple members of the same household or Kindle-sharing group will read the same books, newspapers, magazines, or blogs, and save on the price just as they would with a print edition. And all of this will work in just about any household regardless of how you define “family.”

Additional Survey Results, coming soon:

What If Big Six Market Share Leader Random House Breaks Ranks with the Apple Five? Likely Kindle Owner Buying Behavior at Strategic Price Points
Kindle Features: Past, Present, and Possible
Prospects for Competition and Co-existence Among the Kindle, iPad, and Other Devices
Kindle Owner Demographics
How Many Devices in a Kindle Household?
Bezos’ Nightmare: 20-20 Hindsight on Amazon’s 2003 Decision to Begin Development of the Kindle

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Kindle for Blackberry App Gets Thumbs Up from Kindlelove Blog

Kindle for BlackBerry review

Your Humble Scribe Appears on The Kindle Chronicles Podcast: The Kindle and Book Publishers, eBook Prices, and the iPad

Advancing the Kindle as a Global eBook Reader: Challenges and Opportunities for Amazon in a Balkanized World

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, February 19, 2010: Over 60 Free Promotional Titles, and a Link to All 19,796 Kindle Freebies

How Green is Your Kindle? The Kindle as a Dedicated Dematerialization Device

Comments from Kindle Nation Survey Respondents: The Pleasures of Kindle Reading

Survey Results on Kindle Owner Demographics: 57-43 Tilt Toward Women, 59% Aged 55 and Older, Growing International Base

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