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Canada gets International Kindle support, no longer feels inferior to Trinidad and Tobago

Mon, Nov 16 | from Engadget
Good news for our Canadian brethren! While the realization that you'd been excluded from the International Kindle may have angered you, or frightened you, or engendered feelings of shame or lust, all hope is not lost! We have just got word that Amazon has added your fine nation to the list...

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Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System in 2010 [Kindle]

As many Kindle owners already know, keeping a large number of books on the device can get a bit unruly—so this would be a welcome update. It's also good news for people on the fence about whether or not to get a Kindle or a Nook over the holidays. It appears that the Kindle is going to be the only gam...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Gizmodo

Amazon Kindle cleared to sell in Canada

Amazon today gave the green light to selling the Kindle 2 in Canada. The reader is the same international version sold elsewhere and will give Canadians the same access to the Kindle bookstore as Americans. Some Canadian publications, such as the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen, are a...
Tue, Nov 17 | from Electronista

Podcast: BOL 1108: Tracker pulling

Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) EPISODE 1108 Google book settlement revised, criticized
Tue, Nov 17 | from Buzz Out Loud

Sony's 3G-enabled Reader Daily Edition up for pre-order, content deals coming next month

Amazon and Barnes & Noble may be swiping the limelight, but Sony's clearly playing for keeps with its $399 Reader Daily Edition. The 7-inch e-book reader has just been listed for pre-order over at SonyStyle, and with it will come wireless access (via AT&T) to the company's own eBo...
Wed, Nov 18 | from Engadget

The Great Hunt – Wheel of Time Volume 2 – released

I just got it from Amazon at $7.99 for my Kindle and I understand that it has been released on the Sony platform as well. Eoin Purcell raises an interesting question in his blog: But riddle me this? Why do they not just sell it direct? The multi-publisher bookstore provides just the platform, t...
Thu, Nov 19 | from TeleRead

If you want to send blogs to Kindle for PC…

Got an Amazon blog subscription and want it to show up in Amazon’s Kindle for PC program, not just your Kindle? Well, the secret is to use the Manage Your Kindle page. At the very least it can send a day’s worth of postings to the app—I don’t know about blog subscriptions on a permanent [...]
Mon, Nov 16 | from TeleRead

Sony reports Touch Edition sales exceed expectations

According to Bloomberg, Sony says that sales of its Reader Touch Edition e-book reader have “exceeded expectations”. They are increasing available supply for the holiday shopping season. Even with these exceeded expectations, Amazon’s Kindle still holds 60% of the dedicated-reader...
Thu, Nov 19 | from TeleRead

‘Run Kindle for PC in Linux with Wine’

Too bad Amazon isn’t doing nonDRMed ePub to make it easier for books to be read across a number of platforms. But if you use a Linux desktop and are sufficiently adventuresome, yes, you can use the Wine Windows simulator to run Kindle for PC.
Tue, Nov 17 | from TeleRead

‘Interactive’ fiction comes to the Kindle: Choose Your Own Adventure books

Well, interactive books have finally come to the Kindle—except that these books are actually thirty years old. Amazon has begun selling Kindle editions of the venerable “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. With interactivity touted as “the future of e-books,” I find it amusing that the f...
Mon, Nov 16 | from TeleRead

Kindle to get folders? Apparently

Is Amazon about to address a gripe of many serious e-bookers—and give the Kindle folders, so people can organize their e-libraries better? Apparently. Fron the Kindle Facebook page: “Kindle Customers, We have heard from many of you that you would like to have a better way to organize your...
Fri, Nov 20 | from TeleRead

Quick Note: Nook sold out for the holidays

According to Engadget, via the NY Times, the Nook is sold out and the next round of readers will ship out around January 4. If memory serves, didn’t exactly the same thing happen to the Kindle 1? Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Fri, Nov 20 | from TeleRead

Quick Note: Random House Kindle sales skyrocket

Amazon Kindle Review has some interesting financial stats today. Random House’s Kindle sales in September, 2009, were $22.6 million, up from $2.9 million a year ago. The Lost Symbol was a huge part of this with 100,000 ebook sales in its first week. In the first half of 2009, Kindle ebook revenu...
Mon, Nov 16 | from TeleRead

Opinion: Quick test drive: Kindle for PC looks promising—but is no match for Mobipocket in flexibility. And how about ePub?

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