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Book Business Magazine hosted my Kindle webinar, and I had a lot of fun with the presentation. If you missed it, you can still watch it via this archive link which also lets you download my slide deck. We received quite a few questions from attendees and I wasn’t able to address them all during the session—so I thought I’d try to tackle a few via a blog post.

"In the first move by a major American publisher to publish iPhone-ready (and friendly) reference material, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has rolled out applications for four of its reference titles. The titles, which can be purchased in Apple’s App Store range in price from $29.99, for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, to $8.99 for Wall Street Words." - PW.

New Kindle not out until early 2009 August 29th, 2008 Amazon spokesperson Craig Berman tells the New York Times that the rumors about a new Kindle are just that … rumors. “Don’t believe everything you read,” Mr. Berman said. “There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle.

Any writers care to share dollar sales stats—-either through direct dealing with Amazon or reports from publishers? Mitzi Szereto, an erotic writer, talks about $30 in K-earnings from a series and seems to think that it is a promising start. Mike Cane would disagree.

Amazon’s next-generation Kindle e-book reader may be significantly thinner than its predecessor. It may boast an improved screen and a more intuitive interface. It might be a little less ugly. It could even be “the device Amazon wanted to release in the first place,” as some reports have claimed.

by Rick Warren (used by permission from purposedrivenlife.com) Find out more about this author here. CommentRead…

Amazon's Peeps Dispel New Kindle Rumors Fri, 08/29/2008 - 2:00am by geeksugar 77 Views - 1 comment About that cheaper, thinner, more stylish Kindle we were all hoping for? Yeah, doesn't look like it's going to happen . . . at least not this year, anyway.

My hopes and dreams of a cheaper college experience have been crushed!  Wait…I already graduated college.  Stinkin’ film school, Emerson to be exact.  I won’t say it was a complete waste of time…oh right, the story.  Amazon’s chief spokesperson squashed any possibility of a cheaper, retooled Kindle emerging.  To quote: “Don’t believe everything you read,” Mr.

So we now know that, unless an Amazon rep is outright fibbing, there will be no new Kindles this year. Writing for Wired’s Gadget Lab blog, Charlie Sorrel came out with this wish list for Kindle 2.0 features before they got the memo. Sorrel’s five Kindle wishes are: Sex Appeal (i.e.

It turns out the rumors about a new, redesigned Kindle was wrong. Craig Berman, Amazon.com’s chief spokesperson, told the New York Times: “One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of the Kindle this year.