No, it wasn’t about the launch of a SuperKindle, or even the long-awaited Kindle for Mac app. Nope. Yesterday Amazon put out a press release entitled “Amazon Adds More Great Books for Cooks and Epicures to the Kindle Store.” It was the first Kindle-related release from Amazon in nearly a month, and I’ll admit to feeling a tad non-plussed when I read it. Nothing against cookbooks, mind you.

But then I got to thinking. Covering Amazon and the Kindle as I have been doing for the past couple of years requires a willingness, occasionally, to read between the lines, since Amazon has precious little to say about what it is planning for the Kindle, or anything else for that matter, at any given time.

So, long story short, I’m not saying that I read Amazon’s release yesterday and sussed out today’s Kindle for Mac launch. But whereas I usually rise at about 5 am to begin working on the day’s Kindle Nation Daily posts, this morning I rose at 3:30 and immediately checked my inbox for Amazon’s latest news release, which was there and, of course, announced the Kindle for Mac. Even so I was three hours late to the party, but I hope you’ll agree that the our take on the news and what it means for Kindle reading is worth sharing with you, beginning right now, in this brand new Kindle Nation Extra at  http://bit.ly/awXtdH