Help Kindle Chronicles Podcaster Len Edgerly Put the Kindle on the Agenda at SXSW Interactive 2010

SxSW employs a democratic "Panel Picker" device to allow interested people to vote for the conferences they would like to see included, and Len has generously shared the following steps for Kindle Nation citizens who wish to cast a vote for his proposed panel, "Taming the Kindle: Guidan...

Around the Kindlesphere This Week

BlogKindle has a fun post referencing this very retro "new" Kindle case for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX from Busted Typewriter. I have two recommendations for the very imaginative entrepreneurs at Busted Typewriter: (1) get these listed on Amazon's Kindle Accessories page pronto! and (2...

Free Software Foundation Launches Campaign to Persuade Amazon to Go DRM-Free

Defective by Design, an anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative founded by the Free Software Foundation in 2006, has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading Amazon to remove digital rights restrictions from the books that Kindle owners purchase and download from the K...

Is It a Kindle World? 28 Million EBook Readers Projected by 2013

About 20% of those 28 million ebook readers will be Kindles.The 20 million other ebook readers will not spell problematic competition for the Kindle, because the vast majority of them, by the end of 2013, will come with Kindle apps or some other kind of key to the front doors of Kindle Stores...

Today's Kindle Freebies: 3 Public Domain Freebies That Are "Selling" Over 200 Copies a Day Each!

Three classics top the billing as the most popular among over 7,000 free "public domain" books in the Kindle Store, as of Monday, August 17, 2009: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and The Art of War. If you have any doubt about the value, for Kindle owners, of the value...

Amazon to Share Kindle Periodical Subscriber Info with Publishers

At some point in the last few days, Amazon began including this line in the "product detail" information display for all its Kindle newspapers and magazines: "Your name, billing address and order information will be shared with the publisher." I got a heads up early this morning from Andr...

Opinion: Available Now: indieKindle e-Book and Article Publishing Services for Authors

Stephen Windwalker, Author and Publisher of Kindle Nation Daily Kindle Edition Cover Image, $29.95 Author bio (based on notes provided by author): $19.95 Kindle Blog Publishing Package, $29.95 Kindle Article Cover Image, $9.95 Kindle Text Formatting, $9.95 plus $.01 cents/word

Not to worry: Pre-order Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol now for $9.99

Fears that the Kindle edition of Dan Brown's forthcoming blockbuster novel The Lost Symbol might not be released concurrently with the September 15 hardcover release date have been dispelled as Amazon is now accepting $9.99 pre-orders for the instant bestseller-to-be in the Kindle St...

Curious about Kindle sales numbers?

Joe Konrath's A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: You may already be familiar with Joe Konrath (or his alter-ego-de-plume Jack Kilborn) via Kindle Nation Daily, but in addition to being a fine author of suspense and horror fiction Joe is engaged very actively in experimenting with and thin...

Got Kindle DX Questions? We've Got Kindle DX Answers

The highlighting, bookmarking, annotation and clipping features that provide important functionality for other Kindle documents in an academic setting are virtually useless with PDF files, so that the promise of being able to use PDF files for academic courseware is unfulfilled.De...

Opinion: When asking an author if her ebook has also been published as a "real" book will be like asking a musician if her album has been released in vinyl

First, there have been people who got print deals after starting on Kindle, and here's one of the most thoughtful and interesting analyses of the most recent big deal: A Kindle Success Story: How to Promote a Kindle Ebook Between Morrison, Amazon, and his new publisher, they have endeavo...

The Romance of Submission

Lest I seem to be invoking some nostalgic "It's Morning Again in America" sepia tone of a glorious past, I recommend Jason Epstein's thoughtful and intelligent 2001 memoir of that era in the history of the publishing industry, Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future. Of course...

Would you like to help with a blurb for my bestselling new book on the financial crisis?

Such comments could become back cover blurbs, comments on the book's web page, or readers' comments in the front matter of the paperback edition. I would also welcome a brief review on Amazon or, if you have one, on your own blog. If you would like to write an Amazon review, short and sweet woul...

Opinion: Just bring your Kindle to your nearest indie bookstore today for ...

Okay, take a leap with me here. This idea involves indie booksellers actually marketing their stores to Kindle owners (or substitute another ebook brand here, provided that certain compatibilities exist) and inviting the Kindlers to bring their Kindle units into their neighborhood b...

What's new with the Kindle 2 software? Is Amazon taking specific steps to empower Kindle owners as Kindle sellers? Will Kindle owners be able to connect easily with the main Kindle store? Amazon’s Mobipocket Strategy Amazon Kindle 2 coming to the UK

What Amazon Customer Service Has to Say About Shipping My Next Kindle

Just as obviously, anyone with a Kindle order in the pipeline will have a chance to review the new Kindle 2.0 feature set before giving approval to the Kindle 2.0 shipment, and to cancel the Kindle order altogether if the new feature set is unappealing. So, if you want to be one of the first in lin...

Imagine: What if Amazon Announces an iPhone App for the Kindle Store on February 9?

Q. "In Asia, [there are] cell phone serials, cell phone comics, cell phone mangas, etc. I guess, first question, what have you learned from the mobile reading experience in Asia? Secondly, does that in itself put the Kindle in competition with the cell phone down the line as cell phones have...

Something New for Kindle Purchases: The Amazon Kindle Gift Card!

The newly introduced Kindle Gift Card addresses a pet peeve of Kindle 1.0 owners and their friends and loved ones, which is that -- unlike everything else on the virtual shelves of the Amazon store -- there has been no smooth and easy way to make gifts of Kindle content.

Exciting news: Getting in line for a 2nd Generation Kindle

Naturally, interest in the Kindle 2.0 is going to spiral upward over the next few weeks. If you want to be one of the first in line for a new Kindle 2.0 when the units begin to ship, the best thing to do today is to order a new Kindle from Amazon's main Kindle buying page, if you have not done so already.

The Feedback Is The Filter: Who Will Distinguish Quality In An Indie Publishing Future?

Have you ever wondered how, before the rise of the publishing industry and the New York Times Book Review, cultures managed to confer distinction on quality literary work? Who told the Beowulf poet, if not to keep "writing," exactly, then at least to keep composing? Who told an earlier ba...