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New Kindle for PC app fuels growth of downloads of public domain classics and commercial freebies
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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Amazon’s new Kindle for PC App , launched early Tuesday morning, is a smash hit. The Kindle Store bestseller list is proof, even if you must read a few tea leaves to appreciate this. The PC App is free, and people testing it are filling their PC hard drives with dozens of titles from among the 19,890 free book ...1 day ago -
Kindle DX not for suitable for the blind says advocacy group
SlashGear —
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By all accounts, the Amazon Kindle DX has been wildly successful for Amazon.com. The eReader has sparked a gob of new competing products and is selling very well around the world. There was a push by some to get the Kindle DX into universities for use instead of textbooks. The National Federation for the Blind ...2 days ago -
Universities: Kindle DX Doesn’t Make the Grade
GottaBeMobile.com —
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Remember those universities experimenting with replacing textbooks with Kindles? Well, at least two of them aren’t giving the Kindle DX a passing grade. The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University are calling for improved features, including accessibility for blind students. A Beta News article put ...2 days ago -
Amazon launches Kindle reader for PCs
TECH.BLORGE.com —
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Amazon has officially launched a “Kindle for PCs” app that will allow you more opportunities for reading your recently purchased e-books. Taking the opposite path to the one chosen by Barnes and Noble, Amazon has finally released an e-reader that will [...]4 days ago -
Amazon Kindle for PC available for download
MobilityMinded —
Authority: 489
This morning Amazon announced the availability of Amazon Kindle for PC application, which allows you to read Kindle books on your home computer or notebook. According to the Amazon Kindle for PC product page the application is currently only available in BETA for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. However ...4 days ago -
Amazon Kindle clones from China – half the price, wi-fi and no DRM!
Tech Lahore —
Authority: 516
I’ve been holding back. I told you about the Apple Tablet clone a couple of days ago, but now I’ll come clean with the whole story. Boeye doesn’t just do Apple Tablet clones… they also do Amazon Kindle clones! Both the DX and the Kindle 2. I tried both of them at GITEX in Dubai, [...]4 days ago -
Seen Kindle ads?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Authority: 663
I did on Comast, and, yes, Ondigo, it was horrible . Interesting, isn’t it—how Amazon is advertising on the tube, after having focused so much on its Web site and word of mouth. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.5 days ago -
More Grades for Kindles in College
Mobility Site —
Authority: 633
Remember that experiment which gave Princeton students Kindle DX Ebook Readers in place of printed text books, as reported on by myself and CTitantic ? As you may recall, neither students nor professors were too happy with the Academic Ebook experience. Well, the experiment continued at the University of ...1 week ago -
E-reader market no more than 25M units at current prices? Plus other stats—and Sony Readers vs. p-books as pick-up bait in bars
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Authority: 663
The e-reader market will be no more than 25 million at present prices, according to Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Research whom the Washington Post quotes today. Ah, but won’t costs drop a lot in the next year or so? So who typically buys dedicated e-readers right now? “…a 47-year-old ...1 week ago -
Stuck Between a Nook and a Kindle
EveryJoe —
Authority: 157
One of the items on my Christmas wish list for last year was an Amazon Kindle . I still don’t have one, and probably for the better because they’ve come out with a larger format version in the Kindle DX. Now there’s another player in the market with Barnes & Noble releasing their eBook reader, the Nook. ...1 week ago -
Why there will be fewer Kindle firmware updates in the future
Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog —
Authority: 487
Personally I’m used to updating software. Pretty much every week one or another piece of software on my PC updates – be it Windows itself, the antivirus, iTunes or whatever. I’ve subconsciously come to expect the same from Kindle. And at first Kindle firmware did update quite frequently:February 23 (day zero) ...2 weeks ago -
Unicode Font Hack v0.2, now for Kindle International too!
Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog —
Authority: 487
I’ve create Unicode Font Hack that also works on Kindle 2 International. I’ve also reorganized the files to minimize download times. Each device/font combination can now be downloaded as separate file. That file would contain only update binaries. Source code for all binaries can be downloaded separately. I’ve ...2 weeks ago -
Kindle DX Tips
The Kindle Warehouse —
Authority: 110
I’ve finally created a Kindle DX Tips page. I’ve mentioned that I was going to do this for a while now in the newsletter and I finally got around to doing it. Sorry for the delay. The tips include Kindle DX shortcuts, how to use the DX as a calculator, how to use Text-to-Speech, how to change the screensaver, ...2 weeks ago -
The Kindle Lets You Carry All Of Your Books With You
Blog Your Site —
Authority: 459
If you love reading then the Kindle eBook gadget may be the most perfect gift you can give to yourself. The Kindle allows you to carry every book you own with you everywhere you go and if you want to read a new a book that you don’t yet own, you can easily download it [...]2 weeks ago -
Kindle DX International Possibly Launching In 2010
The Kindle Warehouse —
Authority: 110
While sales of the International Kindle 2 have been going quite well for Amazon, many readers outsite the U.S. have been asking when the Kindle DX will be available internationally. There may be some good news for those that are looking for the large screen Kindle. I was reading a post over at ...2 weeks ago -
With growing Apple tablet excitement, misguided Kindle whining returns
Gravitational Pull —
Authority: 99
We’re coming up fast on the 2nd anniversary of the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader . Yet despite the many improvements and price cuts in KindleWorld, we’re still subject to the same weird, off-base complaints we first heard back before anyone even had even gotten their hands on one . Recently, my ...2 weeks ago -
ePub is kickstarting the e-book biz: 1.6 million ePub titles available from the Internet Archive alone
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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ePub and the group behind it can vex me— a lot . I agree with Paul on such matters as the long-delayed ePub logo. Look, IDPF , where’s the logo contest you promised to announce at Frankfurt? Furthermore, I hate the way proprietary DRM de -standardizes ePub or any other format. What a laugh when Sony brags ...2 weeks ago -
Amazon spokesperson affirms that Kindle app for Mac is being ‘worked on’
KIJO —
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Dont pretend you didnt see this one coming -- just days after Amazon confirmed that a Kindle application was indeed coming soonish for the PC , a company spokesperson has now stated that a Mac version is also in the works. With the explosion of e-reader competition, its no shock to see Amazon branching out in an ...2 weeks ago -
Amazon spokesperson affirms that Kindle app for Mac is being worked on
Engadget —
Authority: 877
Dont pretend you didnt see this one coming -- just days after Amazon confirmed that a Kindle application was indeed coming soonish for the PC , a company spokesperson has now stated that a Mac version is also in the works. With the explosion of e-reader competition, its no shock to see Amazon branching out in an ...2 weeks ago -
Amazon spokesperson affirms that Kindle app for Mac is being ‘worked on’
F-Default —
Authority: 543
Don’t pretend you didn’t see this one coming — just days after Amazon confirmed that a Kindle application was indeed coming soonish for the PC , a company spokesperson has now stated that a Mac version is also in the works. With the explosion of e-reader competition, it’s no shock to see Amazon branching out ...2 weeks ago
