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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Sunday, Mar 1
Amazon-Mobi DRM vs. a first novelist: DRM delays Diesel eBooks’ promo of ‘The Solomon Scandals’
As a reader who wants to own e-books for real, I’ve had reason aplenty to loathe DRM. The e-bookers at Amazon insist that books in its Mobipocket format be distributed with DRM even when publishers object. And that’s hitting Twilight Times Books and me in the pocketbook.
Friday, Feb 27
Kindle store bestsellers: From free to DRM-free?
The fact that the Kindle Store versions of these public domain titles are now layered with Amazon’s DRM guck is, of course, ridiculous on its face. But Kindle honcho Ian Freed has said that Amazon will announce soon that its Kindle Store offerings will be available on other hardware device...
Thursday, Feb 26
Russ Wilcox on E Ink
Technorati Tags: e-ink,e ink,Russ Wilcox,Xconomy,Amazon,Kindle,Sony,e-books,Hewlett Packard On Xconomy.com, Wade Roush has a comprehensive and lengthy interview with Russ Wilcox from E Ink. In its three pages, the interview covers a great deal of ground. It looks at the eleven-yea...
Monday, Feb 23
Tim O’Reilly: Kindle needs open ePub-style standard to survive
Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like ‘epub,’ which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years." - Tim O’Reily in Why Kindle should be an open book, in Forbes. The TeleRead take: It’s hard to tell how things will shake out,...
The Digitizers: Joshua Tallent, the Kindle e-book designer to beat all Kindle e-book designers
JT: Most of my clients have heard about the Kindle but not about other e-book devices or formats. As a matter of fact, some have never seen a Kindle—they just know they need to put their content on it. The majority have tried to publish on Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) themselves and run...
Friday, Feb 20
How Many, How Many I Wonder, But They Really Don’t Want to Tell
the reasons why Amazon has yet to respond directly to customer demands for user-defined content folders; Amazon’s commitment to continuing support for Kindle 1 owners; But let me focus here for a moment or two on those elusive Kindle sales numbers.
Thursday, Feb 19
iRex DR1000 series to get Adobe support for PDF, ePub and accompanying DRM
This could hurt Amazon/Kindle if competitors can smoothly blend in the modules and avoid Amazon’s closed approach in regard to formats and in other areas. Letting the Kindle format run on different hardware platforms—which Amazon plans to do—is a long way from what Adobe is up to.
Wednesday, Feb 18
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...
Sunday, Feb 15
Podcast: TeleRead Audio: Ingram Digital’s Frank Daniels III talks to Karen Holt on e-newspapers vis-a-vis e-books, E prices, DRM and other topics
So what’s Ingram Digital up to these days in the area of e-books? Among the topics: –Kindle vs. iPhone. The device "that’s going to prevail has not been invented yet." In fact, he’s doubts that the industry will standardize on a particular device the way the Apple iPod dominates music.
Friday, Feb 13
Looking beyond the ‘Text-to-Speech’ Kindle Kerfuffle
Amazon has labeled the Read-to-Me feature "experimental," which means that it reserves the right to discontinue it at any time. When the original Kindle was launched 15 months ago, its "experimental" features included the free 3G Whispernet wireless web, which was a great selling poin...
Sunday, Feb 8
Counting down to Amazon’s Kindle press conference
Kindle owners are the best salespeople for the Kindle. Amazon Associates currently pays website owners 10% of its revenues for the Kindle and its content whenever their links lead to completed Kindle transactions. It would be stunningly simple for Amazon to equip every shipped Kindle wi...
Saturday, Feb 7
Kudos to Amazon on Kindle update! Job well done!
Amazon deserves a lot of praise for making the firmware update on the Kindle so easy. After reading a TeleBlog post on the update, I turned on my Kindle’s wireless, and within a minute I got a message saying that my Kindle would be updated to new firmware. The Kindle then proceeded to download t...
Well-hyped Kindle 2 will probably diss the ePub standard—and meanwhile the snoozin’ IDPF even lacks an ePub logo
Come on, IDPF. ePub is a holy cause, potentially a way to make e-books as easy to buy as audio CDs without one giant Amazon-style company dominating the content or technology with a proprietary approach. Doesn’t the IDPF have any marketing sense on this issue, when Amazon is trying to make "K...
K2 will probably diss the IDPF’s ePub standard—and meanwhile the snoozin’ IDPF apparently doesn’t even have an ePub logo
The 1.2 firmware (for Kindle 1) is now available for download. It includes image zoom, which is nice, but it also includes ‘Greek characters and monospace fonts.’ This probably means that the Kindle 2 won’t include ePub, because the only reason for adding monospaced fonts is to better suppo...
Firmware upgrade as a Kindle 2 sales-promoter: New tweak to help DRM-trapped K1 owners move books to K2?
Detail, in case this isn’t clear already: The opinions on the Kindle and proprietary DRM—piled atop unencrypted Mobipocket—are my own and not Stephen’s. At any rate, I think Amazon could compete even if the Kindle weren’t so bloody-proprietary. It’ll be interesting to see if the new K re...
Friday, Feb 6
Of "appgazines" and saving newspapers
In light of the problems that papers have been going through with dwindling advertisements, and the New York Times considering charging for its content again, the idea of doing something to "save" your paper is pretty timely—but Isaacson does not quite have the right answer. He thinks th...
Kindle format ahead for cellphones—plus speculation on the Kindle as an ANTI-e-book device
One world, united under Mobipocket? Jeff’s Kindle-DRMed e-books to be readable on PCs, other machines? That’s what the TeleBlog reported last June from BEA, and now something similar might indeed be on the way. Amazon says it’s "working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader...
Tuesday, Feb 3
Opinion: Sixteen free Harlequin novels: A Valentine for romance fans
The free Harlequin titles will be available beginning today to all iPhone and iPod Touch Stanza users. Stanza for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store or from http://www.lexcycle.com.
Monday, Feb 2
Tracy Falbe: Why I haven’t added my e-books to the Kindle store
In general, I’m very excited about e-books. The digital medium is clearly the future of publishing. Paper books will continue to have a place as well, but ebooks offer a chance for greater business efficiency in the publishing industry and opportunity for small players to effectively ent...
Psst! Amazon looking for a Kindle marketing director—plus a K-related lawyer. Can we change Amazon from within? Engineers needed, too
The company is also seeking the right lawyer to handle Kindle-related issues, among others. More opps for change, in the copyright area? In addition Amazon is looking for software engineers for the Kindle. If these links don’t work, just key the word Kindle into Amazon’s job-search datab...
Will the Kindle 2.0 e-reader advance the ball?
I’m past the look-and-feel issues. Yeah, the buttons are awkward and the device looks like it came from Coleco in the 1980’s. It’s not an elegant product and it probably never will be. But rather than fixing the clunkiness I hope Amazon works on two more important issues: Openness — This is a bi...
Sunday, Feb 1
Do kids need ’shelves and dust’ to benefit fully from ‘books’? NYT columnist skeptical about e-books—even if she owns a Kindle
I also wonder if decorating the Heffernan apartment with scenes from books—in some cases, maybe illustrations downloaded from sites like Wikipedia, my source of the image from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—would help get the e-versions on the minds of kids. The right books
Sunday, Jan 25
Fun while it lasted: Illegal Harry Potter copies were on sale in E via Kindle store—plus further thoughts (on publishing’s technophobia)
Here at TeleRead, we’ve made similar points for years. Just when will publishers grow up—not just on availability and price issues but also on DRM, another reader-repellant? Many houses could also be more aggressive in the fight against eBabel. Take a look at Diesel eBooks’ listing for C...
Thursday, Jan 22
‘Oprah slow to Kindle—fans left out in the old’—but could an E-Book Week show make ‘em happy again?
The Read an E-Book Week angle: How about Oprah doing an e-book show to educate her audience on the e-book pickings out there on the Net—including free sites like Feedbooks and Manybooks, both of which offer Kindle-readable formats among others? And how about non-Amazon stores like Fict...
Wednesday, Jan 21
Mobipocket now running on Blackberry’s Storm and Bold—but what about the iPhone? Dirty format-tricks from Amazon?
Progress! But it doesn’t eliminate an increasingly troublesome issue. Just when will Amazon, the owner of Mobipocket, wise up and give us Mobi on the iPhone? Wrong move. The Mobi/iPhone void sends an unwitting message that Amazon does fear the iPhone.
Monday, Jan 19
Why Amazon should try a ‘Radiohead Experiment’ on the Kindle
Then there’s the PR opportunity for Amazon, publisher and author. Imagine how much free publicity this would generate. It would probably open that author up to new customers who’ve never read his/her previous work. But for Amazon it’s an opportunity to generate a lot of buzz about a prod...
Saturday, Jan 17
A TeleRead review of ‘Tokyo Zero’: Free e-book offers amusing romp down Vonnegut-like rabbit hole
On this wildly amusing romp down a Vonnegut-like rabbit hole, you don’t learn this until you’re 93 percent of the way through the novel (commercial POD title from Amazon; free e-book from Horne and the multiformat Manybooks.net). Dickensian coincidences
Wednesday, Jan 14
Kindle “find” function unearths poor editing
And Follett is far from the only author guilty of the practice. A few years ago, before the Kindle, I read a Pulitzer-prize-winning book that had a cliche - the SAME cliche - on almost every other page. I’d reveal it, but I can’t yet do the trick to prove my point; it’s not digitized for the Kindle....
Sunday, Jan 11
E-text: A threat to concentration?
“The Kindle will only serve to worsen that concentration deficit, for when you use a Kindle, you are not merely a reader—you are also a consumer. Indeed, everything about the device is intended to keep you in a posture of consumption. As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has admitted, the Kindle ‘is...
Wednesday, Jan 7
E-book review: Emperor Dad
Emperor Dad Google Books preview (free but incomplete) Amazon: $19.95 (Paperback), $11.96 (Paperback), $3.96 (Kindle) iPhone App Store: $4.99 (encapsulated appbook) Mobipocket.com: $4.95 (encrypted Mobi) BooksOnBoard.com: $4.18 (encrypted Mobi)
Wednesday, Dec 31
Memo to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff, As 2008 comes to a close I find I’m less of a Kindle advocate than I was earlier in the year. My new iPhone is partially to blame. After all, it’s one of the reasons I wrote this critical post on my other blog yesterday. It’s not just about the iPhone though. Amazon is [...]
Monday, Dec 22
It’s tough to choose an e-book reader
For what’s it’s worth, I’ve never actually seen a Kindle in the wild. Furthermore, the DRM and hacked proprietary Mobipocket format are down right offensive to anyone who has built up a catalog of ebooks over the years. The same is true for the Sony Reader, except that Sony got smart and jumpe...
The tech-and-lit chasm: The Nation predicts the iPhone—even if it already exists
So, gang, what do you think of this observation—tucked away in a Nation piece on the future or nonfuture of certain publishers? On the other hand, any future successful e-book reader, whether the Amazon Kindle or something else, will surely have ads; but then again, if any one device real...
Music survey shows risk of locked-format approach like the Kindle’s
Oprah’s all agog over the Kindle, now out of stock. But what will her fans think when they can’t enjoy Kindle-DRMed books on new devices that they buy in the future? A press release fro the Consumer Electronics Association might offer some lessons for Oprah and Amazon:
Sunday, Dec 21
Two ‘must-reads’ for e-book biz people: The glories of simplicity and interactivity
Consumers are begging for simplicity, and the e-book business is not yet giving it to them. Not even the Kindle, Oprah’s “life-changer,” is up to snuff here. Amazon favors a proprietary DRMed format, alas. Best to drop the DRM and use nonencrypted ePub, so that Kindle buyers can own their Kin...
Saturday, Dec 20
Try to do this, Kindle! O’Reilly releases colorful guide to iPhone—ePub-based APP for the phone itself
The book is actually an iPhone app based on the Stanza e-reader from Lexcycle, which, to my knowledge, has this same limitation because of the shortcomings of the iPhone OS. Technorati Tags: David Pogue,iPhone: The Missing Manual,O’Reilly Media
Thursday, Dec 18
E-book store is as important as the e-books themselves
One of the things that makes the Kindle such a good reading experience is that it is so convenient, and easy, to order books from Amazon - be it on line or directly from the Kindle itself. Thwarted by my obviously niche market taste, I head over to Amazon.com to see what the US gets that the UK does...
Thursday, Dec 11
Format-tortured reader: Could I buy a broken Kindle, then purchase K books to convert for my Nokia N810?
Just in case Jeff Bezos still hasn’t gotten Joe Wikert’s message on the need for nonDRMed ePub and PDF options for Kindle Store customers, here’s a MobileRead post from an owner of the Nokia N810. For legal reasons, I won’t link to the post or recommend that you imitate its author. But I hope th...
Kindle Store should provide DRMless PDF and ePUB as options—and a Bezos statement might offer hope
“The Kindle is DRM agnostic.” Jeff Bezos supposedly said that, according to this Medialoper post. Keep in mind that he’s CEO of Amazon, and that the company that has built a pretty solid DRM fortress around the Kindle—at least for Kindle content you buy from Amazon. As paraphrased, Bezos rep...
Thursday, Dec 4
The e-book numbers battle: How Sony can surpass the Kindle’s 190K items—via wise use of alliances and tech
Tech isn’t necessarily going to stand still for Amazon and its Kindle—that’s the point we made earlier this week. But what about the number of books available for the Kindle vs. a big rival, the Sony Reader? Some just-out statistics suggest that Sony has more of a chance on the content front t...
Is Amazon sitting on the Mobipocket iPhone client after all?
We also know that Amazon owns Mobipocket, and uses the Mobipocket file format in their Kindle e-book reader. The fact that Amazon has a vested interest in pushing its Kindle ahead of competitors, and that the iPhone platform is one of very few e-book reading platforms set to give the Kindle...
Wednesday, Dec 3
The Kindle vs. the Plastic Logic device: Could PL’s king-sized screen, ruggedness and wireless crush the K machine?
Why Amazon needs Kind 2.0, from two ZDNet bloggers, is a response to—guess what?—Why Amazon Doesn’t Need Kindle 2.0 in Forbes. Wireless issue: The Plastic Logic machine will have wireless, as noted. I don’t know if this will be WiFi or a Kindle-style approach that lets you hook into a bookstor...
Tuesday, Dec 2
The mysterious case of the missing iPhone Mobipocket client
One oft-heard refrain of posters on the Mobipocket forum is the paranoia that Amazon, who is now Mobipocket’s parent company, does not want Mobipocket available on the iPhone. They think Amazon fears loss of sales to its Kindle (which also uses the Mobipocket file format) if encrypted Mo...
Will e-book tech stand still for Amazon’? And what about this estimate of 400,000 units sold?
In Why Amazon Doesn’t Need Kindle 2.0, has a Forbes writer unwittingly provided ammo for those of us worried about Amazon’s excessive clout in the e-book world? What’s more, keep in mind the efforts of Lexcycle (Stanza’s developers) and eReader to make e-book buying Kindle-simple on the...
Sunday, Nov 16
Q&A with Ian Freed of Amazon Kindle
Eric Engleman of TechFlash has published a Q&A with Ian Freed, the guy at Amazon who is responsible for the Kindle. You can read the whole thing here. Related: Kindle might be open to non-Amazon apps someday, says Kindle VP. Technorati Tags: Ian Freed
Friday, Nov 14
Kindle might be open to non-Amazon apps someday, says Amazon Kindle VP
Non-Amazon apps might legally run on the Kindle someday, according to Ian Freed, the company’s VP for Kindle. He says more consumer choices would result. Great, if it happens! On Stanza vs. Kindle The issue of Kindle-exclusive books
Thursday, Nov 13
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...
Saturday, Nov 8
‘10 Linux-powered e-book readers’
In 10 linux-powered e-book readers, the Bohol tech source site lays out the pros and cons of the Kindle, the Sony readers, the Cybook and other linux-powered E Ink Machines Related: The linux-oriented OpenInkpot project developing free open source apps for E Ink machines.
Kindle gripe: Expiring book samples in some cases
Amazon, I have two questions for you. First, do you really think providing unlimited access to sample content will hurt Kindle edition sales? Second, do you also honestly believe you’ll sell more Kindle content by time-bombing samples like this? (The answer to both questions is "no," b...
Saturday, Nov 1
Good news for e-books: Cheaper Asustek hardware, just US$200 next year—and meanwhile the iPhone market keeps growing
Gizmos like the Kindle and the Sony Reader still cost hundreds of dollars, rather steep for devices intended mainly for book-reading. But sooner or later, as E Ink and the rest drop in price, we’ll see $100 machines. Meanwhile, the news is good for thrifty people who favor the multi-use appr...
NYT writer reviews Kindle, yawn, yawn: When will the Times get serious about e-books and write about the grubby stuff?
The Kindle is Oprah-hot right now, and Heffernan’s review is lively and well-written. But when, oh when, will the Times seriously take up grubby issues such as eBabel and the need for ePub? Or the perils of DRM lock-ins? Enough of this Kindle fixation! The Kindle itself, by the way, is a prim...
Friday, Oct 24
Will ebook readers reduce book sales - Yes, says J. Esposito; No, says our J. Wikert
First: J. Esposito, in Publishing Frontier, says: One of the unintended consequences of the Kindle and its brethren (desirable for readers, more woe for publishers) is that it will reduce the number of books that are actually sold. This will happen not because of piracy (with the propriet...
Friday, Oct 17
Using Amazon DTP and Kindle to reach new audiences - Neil Simpson at The Guest Corner « Amazon Kindle, Books & Amazon News Blog
The use of the Kindle as a DTP tool is extremely interesting, especially since it has a built-in distribution mechanism. Here is an excerpt from the above blog about using the Kindle to do just that: One of the under-appreciated aspects of the Kindle is how it has the potential to open up not...
Thursday, Oct 16
Kindle launch in UK delayed ’till after Christmas
Thanks to author Richard Herley for the following info. Below is an excerpt from The Bookseller. The author is wrong, however, in stating that Amazon is looking for WiFi partners. This is made clear later in the article when she talks about Amazon speaking with “carriers”. It’s a pity whe...
Wednesday, Oct 15
Harvard Medical School used Kindles to deliver course documents
Our integration on the Mycourses educational website enables any Word or PDF document to be delivered to the Kindle wirelessly. There is a cost which is clearly explained to the user (10 cents per document to Amazon). Those that don’t want to pay the 10 cents can download documents to their P...
Wednesday, Oct 8
Watching Books
Editor’s Note: Richard Curtis is a longtime literary agent and founder of ereads.com, a new ebook publisher. In addition to his literary/publishing blog, Curtis has published several book titles about publishing: How to be your Own Literary Agent, Business of Publishing (ebook) and M...
Thursday, Sep 25
Opinion: Info snacking vs. book-reading: Kindle hurting books and other long texts despite Bezos’ original hopes?
So for some strange reason, I’m finding the Kindle experience to be more useful when it’s focused on shorter length, more time-sensitive content. Jeff Bezos has spoken before about our current culture’s tendency towards "information snacking", or spending more time with shorter-len...
USA Today hates iRex Digital Reader 1000S: $749 ‘kludge’ isn’t ‘user friendly’ enough
It isn’t just the prices, which start at US$599 for the iRex Book Edition (now out for stock—some hope here?). Nor generic e-book problems such as DRM and eBabel. So there you go, gang. There’s a lot more to iRex—both the machines and the company—than the USA Today article by itself would sugge...
Monday, Sep 15
Opinion: Kindles in the classroom: World history teacher is sold on the K machine
Moderator: Anyone else out there with Kindle stories from the classroom? - D.R. JW: What’s your vision for how you want to utilize the Kindle in your classroom? JW: You’ve undoubtedly been using a Kindle both in and out of the classroom for a bit now. What sort of content are you reading on it?
Thursday, Sep 4
Opinion: Joe’s Kindle Webinar, Part II: Quick info on piracy, retail sales and other topics, including K use outside U.S.
Can you put things on your Kindle that aren’t just products from Amazon? How secure is the content on a Kindle? Are there any piracy concerns? Do you ever think Amazon will ever sell the Kindle in retail spaces? For example, what about an airport vending machine like the Sony Reader?
Saturday, Aug 23
A comprehensive review of iPhone e-book options
This is the other major free e-book reader for the iPhone. It supports HTML, rich text, PDF, DRM-free LIT, DRM-free MobiPocket, Palm Doc, and the IPDF’s “ePub” format, among others—several more formats than Bookshelf, so far. And it’s free. The question is, do you get what you pay for?
Sunday, Aug 17
M-edge Leisure Jacket for the Kindle - Review
Why is it that, so often, cases that come with products are really poor. That certainly is the situation with the Kindle case, which is bulky and allows the Kindle to fall out of it easily. If you want to secure the Kindle in the case you have to use a built-in elastic band that covers the scroll wh...
Wednesday, Aug 6
Opinion: Wired, Eric Flint, the Kindle, and “Changing” the “Game”
But is this expectation realistic? Eric Flint, Baen author and ebook evangelist, doesn’t think so. Paper books are far too entrenched, and have too many cases where they are better than ebooks, ever to go away—even when as many people own ebook readers as TVs or DVD players. Flint predicts t...
Wednesday, Jul 23
Opinion: Myebook, LinkIn, the N.Y. Times and social networking: Shared comments ahead for Kindle fans, other e-bookers?
I’m using the Kindle as the device example but this applies to any sort of e-book model. Layered content will be part of the evolution from print to better e-content, but social networking functionality will be equally important. Without taking these sorts of giant leaps forward isn’t a...
Monday, May 19
Sony and the perils of proprietary e-book formats—and the promise of cellphone e-books
Uh-oh. Sony’s Timebook Town is winding down efforts in Japan to deliver e-books to PCs and the Librie dedicated e-book reader, which in fact is no longer even made. Pity the people who spent good money on the Librie expecting that Sony would support it forever. Photo below is of Librie.
Thursday, May 15
Podcast: How ePub beats obsolescence
Tie to e-books: Obsolescence The case for ePub as a consumer format, and its similarity to web content These “pundits” also imply that ePub was developed by a few “lone wolf techies” oblivious to the publishing industry needs, and with no input at all by publishers.
Thursday, May 1
Opinion: No, Mr. Murdoch; that was a movie, this is a book
Before consolidations began, back in the days when publishers generously dotted the landscape of America, there was a lot of truth in the assumption that the only author who resorts to self-publication is an author whose work isn’t good enough to attract a “real” publisher. This is clear...
Saturday, Apr 26
Books online: A stern warning, apropos of the Kindle dilemma
Don’t equate the Kindle with other e-book devices. The Kindle is a product of a company which came into the world proclaiming “Earth’s Biggest” Web catalog. This device comes to us from a Web company, founded on Web technologies, fed by Web communities and Web shoppers. There’s no doubt Kind...
Friday, Apr 18
2008 U.K. launch for Amazon Kindle or K II? Mid-’08 for Readius rollable E Ink reader? Q3 for Sony Reader?
Will a Kindle or even a Kindle II e-reader hit the U.K. later this year? Will the Redius—an e-reader and GSM mobile phone combo shown here, with a five-inch rollable E Ink screen—appear in Britain in mid-2008? Kindle II—or just fun speculation?
Friday, Apr 11
Opinion: The economics of the Kindle, revisited: Should a professor buy a $400 e-reader?
So let’s start with the typical American reading, or claiming to read, four books a year. For fun, I went to the Amazon web site. It’s not nearly as much fun a bricks and mortar store, but book lust may still be fed even online. I compared Kindle books prices to standard paperbacks, using the sale...
Sunday, Apr 6
Opinion: DRMed Kindle e-books vs. unshackled music in standard MP3 format: When will the media ask about the obvious?
OK, great, but why isn’t the Times pressing Amazon on the obvious? Why is Amazon so keen on nonDRMed music while steadfastly “protecting” e-books in the Kindle format in rather obnoxious ways? Is it because Amazon views DRM less as protection for publishers than as protection for the pro...
Wednesday, Mar 19
‘Latest FAIL in eBooks’? Or a viable rival to the Amazon Kindle—in the form of a wireless e-book reader?
But wait! Could a Discovery e-book tablet, a concept shown here, be on the way to make trouble for the Kindle with new book-optimized distribution technology? So might we have, in effect, the seamless equivalent of the Kindle’s EVDO-based wireless network?
Friday, Feb 29
Opinion: Kindle pros and cons—from Microsoft program manager Scott Hanselman
Microsoft Senior Program Manager and Wiley author Scott Hanselman is a former Sony Reader user who is now a Kindle convert. In this blog post Scott covers everything he loves about his new Kindle. He’s so right about the one reason the Kindle exists: “To extract money from my wallet.”
