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Wednesday, Nov 12
Opinion: Kindle Magazines - Magazines & Journals available on the Kindle
There are only 18 magazines available on the Kindle. Nearly every magazine offers a ‘buy current version’ option - a great way to check out the magazine’s kindle edition without committing to a subscription. Lets take a look at Kindle edition magazines - Newsweek - #1 spot, $1.49 monthly pri...
Tuesday, Nov 11
Kindle Author? Give away your book to kindle and internet users before everyone is doing it
I’ll add more to this article in time. However, the Kindle is a new emerging market - get in here before it’s overcrowded. Right now, there is a huge opportunity to establish your brand and name. Soon, everyone will know about this, and users will be swamped in the deluge of people trying to gi...
Mobile sites for Kindle - Sites supported on Kindle Reader’s Experimental Browser
Sites that work on the Kindle browser (for the most part) are hard to come by. So here’s a giant list of sites you can access from your Kindle - it’s experimental and based off of sites that work for Phones. If a site doesn’t work for you, please do write in so I can update the list.
Monday, Nov 10
Kindle Book, Kindle EBook Giveaways - Books given away over the last year.
In summation - buying a Kindle Reader also means access to Free Kindle Book offers, some of which are exclusively on the Kindle, and some which aren’t (though they do read better on the Kindle than a PC or iPhone). At the Kindle Blog we specifically have a section for Free Kindle Book giveaw...
Thursday, Nov 6
Kindle 2.0 WishList + Kindle 2.0 Most Wanted List
A long time ago I’d written a Kindle 2.0 and Kindle 3.0 wish list. After all the recent news, and especially after seeing the Sony PRS-700 and PlasticLogic eReaders my wishlist for the Kindle Reader V2 is a little different. In fact I have two lists. Kindle 2.0 Most Wanted List Kindle 2.0 Wish List
Wednesday, Nov 5
Amazon Kindle Video Reviews round-up - Top Kindle Reviews on YouTube
I’ve never really seen any Kindle video in its entirety - that’s rather stunning since I’ve finished almost every Kindle article I’ve ever read. I think this has something to do with how I watch TV and the shorter attention span associated with TV and Internet video viewing.
Kindle Reader Insight - Is Amazon capturing the most profitable customers with the Kindle reader?
I think that 2. is explained by the fact that Kindle books are half the price, buying Kindle books is straightforward and impulse driven, and that owning the Kindle makes a purchase from Amazon much more likely. Kindle Owner Profile
Kindle 2.0 Release Date Probability Chart - Guessing Kindle 2 release dates
Amazon should announce a release date, allow pre-orders, and drop the price of the existing Kindle by $75 to $100. Doing this at least a month before the new Kindle releases would really help customers. It doesn’t really serve Amazon’s interests to have a bunch of Kindle owners feel they mis...
Sunday, Nov 2
Free Washington Post and New York Times for 4 days, Free Emissaries from the Dead: Andrea Court Series ebook
Also, EOS have a free ebook - Emissaries from the Dead - available in Microsoft, Adobe, and MobiPocket formats (choose MobiPocket for Kindle). Free ebook coupon code: EOS6, they do subscribe you to 2 mailing lists. Adam-Troy Castro’s short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, Neb...
Saturday, Nov 1
Oprah Kindle Effect = Kindle Out Of Stock, 2-3 weeks delay.
Amazon shows a 2-3 week delay in shipping. If you don’t mind waiting, you still have till end of Nov 1st to use kindle coupon: OPRAHWINFREY and get $50 off the Kindle. I’m going to buy one nevertheless (Edit: Just did - hadn’t factored in taxes - i’ll probably buy Kindle 2 too, when it come...
Thursday, Oct 30
Kindle to Kindle 2.0 Transition and how Amazon can ensure strong Kindle Christmas Sales
If you can’t wait for your Kindle fix till 2009, buy the Kindle Now. Remember to use the valid till Nov 1st Oprah Kindle code: OPRAHWINFREY for $50 off the Kindle. I personally would call up Amazon and make sure Kindle 2 doesn’t come out till end Feb 2009.
Saturday, Oct 25
Kindle Oprah Effect - Oprah’s Amazon Kindle recommendation and a few data points
Also, an endorsement for the Kindle makes the gap between the Kindle and the Sony even bigger. It really is Oprah + free wireless + Amazon’s store versus Sony’s new device. Increase in the Number of Kindle Owners and spread of the Kindle Gospel
Wednesday, Oct 22
Amazon.com Earnings - 3rd Q up 48%, Outlook lowered, Stock dives 13.6 percent
Bezos gave voice to that spirit while talking up the Kindle … “One of our competitive advantages at Amazon is that we are willing to plant seeds — if we think the seed is important — and nurture it for a long time,” Bezos said. Another Kindle related snippet from the call (this is Mr. Bezos respo...
Amazon Kindle and the Path of Least Resistance
The more options and more of an internet like experience Amazon provides the more it loses the customer’s focus. Perhaps in this case Path of least resistance includes tuning out distractions, and keeping the Kindle’s feature set narrow by conscious choice.
Amazon acquisitions - Casual Game Maker Reflexive, Fabric.com and stake in The Talk Market
Moving on to two acquisitions that I didn’t know about till now - Fabric.com - The Place to go when you sew. I don’t know enough about this and don’t fully understand the strategic benefit to Amazon from this acquisition (June 9th, 2008).Also in June 2008, Amazon took an equity stake in user gen...
Friday, Oct 17
Using Amazon DTP and Kindle to reach new audiences - Neil Simpson at The Guest Corner
One of the under-appreciated aspects of the Kindle is how it has the potential to open up not just a whole new world of interesting new content for readers, but a whole new world of readers for small publishers. As a small publisher, we have been thrilled with how effective and easy Amazon’...
Monday, Oct 13
Kindle Link Love - early October 2008
In Seattle, meanwhile, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says that after years of failed experimentation, third-party vendors — the foundation on which eBay was built — now account for about 29 percent of sales on Amazon. The company has endured and outlasted critics who long complaine...
An Interview with Steve Pavlina + 1st Chapter of Steve’s book: Personal Development for Smart People
If you want to jump right to the free 1st chapter (and introduction) -pdsp-intro-chapter-1. There’s also a kindle compatible version of Steve Pavlina’s book (converted from pdf, not formatted, not tested - let me know if it doesn’t work). The Kindle version should be available in a month o...
Friday, Oct 3
Sony’s new PRS-700 Reader has TouchScreen, Note taking, and Sidelight
Supported Formats include DRM Text : BBeB Book (Marlin)Image : JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMPUnsecured Audio : MP3 and AACUnsecured Text : BBeB, ePub, TXT, RTF, Adobe® PDF, Microsoft® Word (Conversion to the Reader requires Word installed on your PC). Updates everywhere (wired, yahoo,...
Tuesday, Sep 30
Do Apple outlook downgrades also apply to Amazon Kindle sales?
The truth is that the Kindle needs a lot of favourable factors to be able to experience exponential growth and become anything resembling the iPod of books. The current economic environment means that isn’t going to happen - Mr. Bezos and Amazon’s committment to the Kindle will be put to the...
Let’s Dream A Little - Kindle Author Sig Rosenblum’s guest post
Enter Kindle. The new book reader from Amazon will probably change all this, once it reaches critical mass, once there are many millions of Kindles out there. First, writers can–at the moment–present their books online through Amazon without paying a fee. The uploading process itself is r...
Tuesday, Sep 23
Top 19 Amazon Kindle Tips - Do You get the most out of Your Kindle?
Kindle Tip #7 - Official Help on the Kindle Kindle Tip #13 - Kindle WhisperNet Coverage Map. Will you have WhisperNet on your travels? Here is the Amazon Kindle Coverage Map. Kindle Tip #14 - Find a Kindle blog you like Kindle Tip #15 - Give Back to the Kindle Community and Fellow Kindle Owners
Tuesday, Sep 9
PlasticLogic demos touchscreen eReader at Demo ‘08 - People start touting it as Kindle killer.
Th Edit: I found that Joe Wikert beat me to this with a very good article on Plastic Logic and how the focus should be on content. I’m going to add in a bunch of information that he doesn’t cover while agreeing with his explicit premise that content available on the device is king and his [...]
Saturday, Aug 30
Amazon Kindle Sales Estimates - Best Case, Worst Case, and Assumptions
Here are the main figures I came up with - In the best case, the Amazon Kindle is on track to sell 570,000 Kindles by end of 2008. This includes the assumption that Kindle V2.0 is released before Christmas Season. I really think Amazon’s public denial of a new Kindle version is to sustain sales of...
Tuesday, Aug 26
Amazon buys Shelfari, makes my life a little too exciting
Basically, I feel that a social network focused around Kindle owners presents four very strong value propositions Its a direct value-add to every Kindle Owner as they get a community along with their Kindle (and it’s free).For prospective Kindle Owners it presents unbiased honest...
Tuesday, Aug 12
Opinion: Why aren’t textbooks free? AKA How the Kindle could potentially put textbook publishers out of business.
One of two changes is going to happen - Either, The Kindle is simply going to cut the textbook market down in size by offering cheaper textbooks; Or, and this is the scenario that truly fascinates meA combination of Professors and Students are going to use the Kindle (and/or other platform...
Tuesday, Aug 5
Opinion: Dissecting a typical ‘Kindle has zero prospects’ anti-Kindle article.
I’m going to dissect a typical anti-Kindle article - in this case one from Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com (which obviously adheres to a higher journalistic standard than the typical ‘it’s got DRM and it’s not designed by apple’ anti-kindle review by someone who’s never touched a kindle).
Monday, Jun 2
Self-Publishing for the Amazon Kindle: Brent Newhall on selling nearly 300 copies of his Kindle User Guide
I ended up saving the Guide as HTML, then hand-editing the HTML to be very simple. The Amazon site supports very basic HTML–essentially HTML 1.0–which required quite a bit of fiddling. If I had it to do over, I’d write it in HTML, then open the HTML file in NeoOffice and tweak the NeoOffice file.
Monday, Feb 11
The Kindle Decision aka the $400 Question - Should I Buy a Kindle?
There might be a few categories i’m missing here and will add these as more come up. If you fall into one of the above three categories, you can rest assured that like the overwhelming majority of Kindle owners you will love it - Go Ahead and Buy the Kindle at Amazon. Conclusion
Thursday, Feb 7
Asus EeePC in ‘Kindle’ mode + Thoughts on the EeePC in general
Really interesting post on the Eeeph Forum (courtesy member vicicasas) showing the Asus Eee PC being used as an ebook reader a la Amazon’s Kindle. That got me started. In “Amazon Kindle” mode. FBReader running fullscreen and rotated, with the Next Page key assigned to both the spacebar and t...
Sunday, Jan 27
Kindle Review from 'All the Best Bits'
BTW, I really think there should be some sort of round-up of most requested features and ideas for V2 of the Kindle. And then we should get that over to Amazon - I’m sure if they know that a bunch of Kindle forums and Blogs have gotten together to gather this information from actual Kindle affic...
Friday, Jan 18
Kindle PDF conversion - View PDF on Kindle
An attachment sent to your Kindle’s e-mail address (”name”@kindle.com) will be converted and delivered wirelessly to your Kindle for a charge of only ten cents per document. How to Use Stanza to convert pdf files for your Kindle on the Mac -
