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Opinion: Capturing Lives: New Biographies & Memoirs for the Kindle (28 Jun 09)
Sat, Jun 27 | from The Kindle Reader
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and M...
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A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly Jun 26/Jul 3
From building houses in Appalachia to saving sea turtles in Costa Rica to teaching English in Thailand, this book is a rich resource of ways to use your skills to help out the world and reap some lasting benefits yourself. Like its two predecessors, it includes an engagingly descriptive me...
Mon, Jun 29 | from The Kindle Reader
NEWS: Comment: Amazon's "See a Kindle in Your City" scheme is genius
Amy, a retired reader from Rockford, Michigan interested in buying a Kindle, arranged to meet her Kindle demo buddy in a coffee shop via the Amazon site. Amy says of the meeting: "His demo definitely convinced me that I wanted to buy the Kindle!"
Fri, Jun 26 | from lint.com
Opinion: Kindle Genre Watch (23 Jun 09)
This is a modern fairy tale. It's a story about finding a job, having a weird boss, and meeting someone you like. But behind it all, there's a mystery: What is the secret of Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store? This is also a story about books, writing, and technology. So, if you're someo...
Tue, Jun 23 | from The Kindle Reader
CHARTS OF THE WEEK: MySpace's User Engagement Stinks, Broadband Thriving
CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone App And Kindle Stores Are Bigger Than YouTube CHART OF THE DAY: MySpace's 'Horrendous' User Engagement CHART OF THE DAY: Broadband Thriving Despite Economic Collapse CHART OF THE DAY: Why Investing In The Internet Is Like Investing In The Cement Business Follow...
Sun, Jun 21 | from Silicon Alley Insider
The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
iPhone 3G S torn apart, could do 833MHz and 720p videoVideo: Samsung's e-passport turns your head into a rotating government specimenApple unleashes iPhone 3G S on well-prepared US public (with video!) Meijer's brand new $99 (shipped) Blu-ray player brings joy to skinflints everywh...
Fri, Jun 19 | from Engadget
Opinion: Engadget Podcast 151 - 06.19.2009
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Fri, Jun 19 | from Engadget
Apple Treats Third-Party Developers Like Garbage
HuffPo will spend some of its $25 million getting into tech news [BoomTown]The Big Kindle sells out [Seattle Business Journal]Microsoft sues three over click fraud [WSJ]Web ads can sometimes carry viruses [WSJ]About.com adds celebrity experts [PaidContent]YouTube tests letting u...
Tue, Jun 16 | from Silicon Alley Insider
Patch: Kindle for iPhone 1.1 released
Norway Amazon updated its free Kindle app for the iPhone, adding three features in version 1.1 that many people--including some right here at Macworld--have been waiting for. The update also adds the ability to pinch to zoom in on images in Kindle books. ...
Thu, May 21 | from news.idg.no
Patch: Kindle for iPhone 1.1 arrives
Australia Amazon has released Kindle for iPhone 1.1, an update of their popular ebook app for Apple handheld devices. The new features in this iteration kind of make you wonder why they rushed v1.0 out the door at as these improvements really represent baseline ...
Thu, May 21 | from iphonetouch.blorge.com
New York Times To Offer Kindle-With-Your-Subscription Deals
See Also: Printing The New York Times Costs Twice As Much As Giving Each Subscriber A Free Kindle See Also: Kindle Books Now A Shocking 35% Of Sales When Kindle Version AvailableAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unveils Big-Screen Kindle DX (AMZN)
Tue, May 5 | from Silicon Alley Insider
How To: Kindle 2 hacks: bypassing Whispernet
MA As Vincent writes, "This is not a tutorial about how to use the Kindle 2's Sprint connection from your computer...I do know that abusing the Kindle's Sprint modem like that would upset Amazon a great deal. Bear in mind also that Amazon knows where you ...
Fri, Mar 6 | from Ars Technica
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 920: Speak for yourself, Kindle
Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/27/technology/copeland_hearst.fortune/index.htm Wil Wheaton vs. Authors’ Guild vs. Kindle http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/26/wil-wheaton-vs-autho.html E-MAIL Buzz Crew,
Fri, Feb 27 | from Buzz Out Loud
Podcast: Kindle-format software vs. Stanza: What about Adobe and ePub, David B?
In the end, it isn’t just Stanza/Lexycle vs. Amazon. It’s Adobe and Stanza/Lexycle, both, against Amazon—much more of an even match than David B. might suppose. Related: Adobe’s new e-book software ratchets up fright against Amazon Kindle: The new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK is aimed at smartp...
Wed, Feb 18 | from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
Podcast: "What’s Up with Ebooks?" is now available
Here’s the mp3 of an Advisorpress.com podcast I did with Peter Johnson on the subject “What’s Up with Ebooks?” This 55 minute discussion provides a good overview about the ebook world in November, 2008. From the promo: See author the Author Marketing Teleconferencing Calls also on the Adv...
Thu, Nov 13 | from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
How To: Hack Your Kindle: 100+ Tips, Resources, and Tutorials to Get More ...
Beam-ebooks Converter: With this web tool, you can copy and paste text into the form field and get a .prc or PDF file. ABC Amber LIT Converter: This free tool can convert the .lit format to a Kindle-readable .prc file. ...
Tue, Jun 17 | from College Degrees
How to Convert PDF Files to Read on the Amazon Kindle
Thankfully, Blaine sent me a link showing how to convert PDF files using Mobipocket Creator but the instructions weren’t very clear. Here is a step-by-step on how to convert PDF files into .prc files for the Amazon Kindle. ...
Tue, May 6 | from Cotton
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