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Kindle Version 2.5.? Software Update

As promised, we will be devoting our full attention to the Kindle enhancements that will be included in the Kindle Version 2.5.? software update when the update has been rolled out fully to Kindle owners. But we’d better stop projecting or guessing about the final date for a rollout that was originally scheduled for the end of May until Amazon apparently spied some flies in the ointment. Here’s the latest official word from Amazon:

Kindle Version 2.5 Overview

We know Kindle customers are anxious to receive the 2.5 software update, so we wanted to provide you with some details about its status. We’ve rolled out the 2.5 software release to a set of Kindle customers and have received great feedback from these early customers. Based on this feedback, we are making some small adjustments to improve the experience further. We will be rolling out the 2.5 software update to more users over the coming weeks.
Here’s a list of the coming enhancements:
    • Collections: Organize your books and documents into one or more collections.
    • PDF Pan and Zoom: Zoom into PDFs and pan around to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics.
    • Password Protection: Password protect your Kindle when you’re not using it.
    • More Fonts & Improved Clarity: Enjoy two new larger font sizes and sharper fonts for an even more comfortable reading experience.
    • Facebook & Twitter Posts: Share book passages with friends on Facebook and Twitter directly from your Kindle.
    • Popular Highlights: See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you’re reading.

The GTD list for the Kindle team is actually getting a tad crowded just now, with initiatives like audible menuing and the restructuring of the Kindle DTP relationship with authors and publishers promised to launch by June 30, serious buzz about a slimlined Kindle 3 in August and no firm date for the promised launch of a Kindle Apps department in the Kindle Store.

Bestselling Libertarian Ron Paul’s Books Offered as Kindle Exclusives

Libertarian congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) might do better as a national politician without the gatekeeping role of the two-party system, and he’s decided to circumvent the traditional book trade gatekeepers as an author. He has proven a more popular author than vote-getter at the national level — and I will admit that I might be anxious if the opposite were true.

He may be headed for even more success as an author now that several of his books are available as Kindle exclusives. The exclusives include A Foreign Policy of Freedom, Pillars of Prosperity, and The Case for Gold.

Several of his other bestsellers — including The Revolution: A Manifesto and End the Fed — are available in the Kindle Store and elsewhere.

Here’s the guts of Amazon’s news release today:

Bestselling Author and Congressman Ron Paul’s Books Now Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

 
RosettaBooks makes electronic versions of four books by Ron Paul available exclusively in the Kindle Store for download in under 60 seconds

SEATTLE, Jun 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that RosettaBooks has released four books by bestselling author and Congressman Ron Paul exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). The books–“A Foreign Policy of Freedom,” “Pillars of Prosperity,” “The Case for Gold” and “Abortion and Liberty”–are available as e-books for the first time, and they will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year. Customers can download these books from the Kindle Store for $9.99, and can read them on their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, iPad and soon, Android phones.

“We’re happy to be able to offer our customers these four books by Ron Paul exclusively in the Kindle Store,” said Melissa Kirmayer, Director, Kindle Content. “All four books are available for $9.99 and are ready for customers to download and start reading in under 60 seconds.”

Ron Paul, an 11-term congressman from Texas, has been described as a leading advocate of freedom in the U.S. capital. He has devoted his political career to the defense of individual liberty, sound money and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him “the Thomas Jefferson of our day.” After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s, Dr. Paul moved to Texas to begin a civilian medical practice, delivering more than 4,000 babies in his career as an obstetrician. He served in Congress from 1976 to 1984 and again from 1996 to the present. He and Carol Paul, his wife of 51 years, have five children, 18 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Ron Paul, the New York Post once wrote, is a politician who “cannot be bought by special interests.” A congressional colleague once said: “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

“Ron Paul is one of the most widely admired authors in politics,” said Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of RosettaBooks. “RosettaBooks is proud to publish the first e-book editions of four of his most important books, available exclusively in the Kindle Store.”

Ron Paul’s books join other bestselling political and current event books in the Kindle Store, such as “To Save America” and “13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.” The Kindle Store now includes over 580,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York TimesBestsellersand New Releases. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle, including titles such as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Treasure Island.”

Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at www.amazon.com/kindle.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, June 7: Four New Titles on Our Updated List of Free Promotional Titles in the Kindle Store!

Four new free promotional titles to add to our updated list on Monday morning, and a heads up to scroll down for the next four pre-orders, since they will probably expire with the ebook release around midnight tonight.

by Rick Johnson 4.0 out of 5 stars   (11 customer reviews)
The Choice Effect by Amalia McGibbon, Lara Vogel, Claire A. Williams
by Maggie Brendan 4.4 out of 5 stars (28 customer reviews)
by Randy Alcorn 5.0 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

Four new Tor.com pre-orders from MacMillan:

These appear to be novella-length, and they are set for release next Tuesday, June 8. But don’t delay, because there is no guarantee that the free pre-orders will last that long!   

And while we are at it, don’t miss today’s Free Kindle Nation Short, a substantial excerpt from Audrey Braun’s new 5-star novel A Small Fortune.

by Cynthia Ruchti (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
 
by Charlene Teglia (Author)

4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)


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His Majesty’s Dragon (Kindle Edition)

by Naomi Novik (Author)

4.4 out of 5 stars   (286 customer reviews)


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Nine Ways God Always Speaks: * Offer Only Available In Certain States (Kindle Edition)

by Mark Herringshaw (Author), Jennifer Schuchmann (Author)

3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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Kensington Publishing Company has a new Kindle Store freebie this morning: a lengthy excerpt from Brad Herzog’s new road memoir Turn Left At The Trojan Horse. At 936 “locations,” this is over 5 times the length of a Kindle sample, and the full-length book is available for pre-order here until its release on Tuesday. The book is being billed as On the Road meets Eat, Pray, Love, if you can get your head around that combination. Kirkus Reviews says “Herzog’s third travel memoir follows the highways cross-country examining the idea of the hero along the way. He captures stunning details of the American landscape. The hero’s return, is irresistible…a near-perfect ending.”

by Brad Herzog (Author)

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Treason (Kindle Edition) by Don Brown 3.5 out of 5 stars  (117 customer reviews)


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Private (Exclusive Free Preview: The First 24 Chapters) (Kindle Edition)

(The full novel is available for Kindle pre-order for $14.99 here, with a release date of June 28).

by James Patterson (Author), Maxine Paetro (Author)

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Democratizing Innovation (Kindle Edition)

by Eric von Hippel (Author)

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    by Charlene Teglia (Author)

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    His Majesty’s Dragon (Kindle Edition)

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    The Irish Warrior (Kindle Edition)

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    Nine Ways God Always Speaks: * Offer Only Available In Certain States (Kindle Edition)

    by Mark Herringshaw (Author), Jennifer Schuchmann (Author)

    3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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    God Don

    Kensington Publishing Company has a new Kindle Store freebie this morning: a lengthy excerpt from Brad Herzog’s new road memoir Turn Left At The Trojan Horse. At 936 “locations,” this is over 5 times the length of a Kindle sample, and the full-length book is available for pre-order here until its release on Tuesday. The book is being billed as On the Road meets Eat, Pray, Love, if you can get your head around that combination. Kirkus Reviews says “Herzog’s third travel memoir follows the highways cross-country examining the idea of the hero along the way. He captures stunning details of the American landscape. The hero’s return, is irresistible…a near-perfect ending.”

    by Brad Herzog (Author)

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    At a party Saturday evening, I met an author who has published several of her novels with Kensington, Robin Reardon, and I told her she was very well positioned for the ebook revolution because Kensington, a successful New York-based independent publishing company, is light years ahead of dinosaurs like Penguin Pearson in understanding how to connect with ebook readers. Much more on this later, but let me just mention that Penguin, coincidentially, is the publisher of the two books mentioned above in that On the Road meets Eat, Pray, Love comparison, and both of the Penguin titles are terribly overpriced in their Kindle editions since Penguin established its new predatory pricing plan under the agency model.

    Home To Italy (Kindle Edition)

    by Peter Pezzelli (Author)

    3.8 out of 5 stars  (21 customer reviews)


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    Treason (Kindle Edition) by Don Brown 3.5 out of 5 stars  (117 customer reviews)


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