kindle

I've been playing with my new Kindle Fire for the past 24 hours, and I have to say it's a nice little device. The display is nice and crisp. Video streaming from Amazon worked great, or maybe I was just really excited watching episode one of Felix the Cat while walking around my house...[read more]

Yesterday's Times features a blog post about the Kindle. There's a lot wrong with the post (which hopefully has been corrected by the time you read this) and I thought I'd point out two useful lessons. Nick Bilton, the author of the post, also did the graphs, and as a former newspaper art director, he has no one else to blame for the...[read more]

Some book publishers don't like the Kindle. Either they're afraid of it or they've crunched the numbers and they don't like what they see. (Some days, 95% of the top selling Kindle titles are free... demonstrating that digital goods with zero marginal cost and plentiful substitutes tend to move to zero in price.) Worried about the medium...[read more]

By 'better', of course I mean better customers, better prospects, better sneezers, better at spreading the word. Here are two interesting lessons from the book industry: Kindle readers buy two or three times as many books as book readers. Why? I don't think it's necessarily because using a Kindle leads someone to read more books. I...[read more]

In an interesting move, Amazon have now made it possible to publish your blog direct to the latest Kindle device. All you need to do is sign-up as a Kindle publisher (and yes, it is ANOTHER new and separate Amazon account), supply your RSS feed details and a picture of your blog, and off you go (well, really, just wait 24-48 hours). So...[read more]

Amazon will apparently make some announcement tomorrow (Wednesday) that has been claimed to be a new version of the Kindle aimed specifically at newspaper readers. Until it has an official name, I will call it the Kindle++. My personal wish list for the Kindle++ actually has nothing to do with size of screen. I find that the Kindle 2...[read more]

My seven-year-old goes to a private school here in Dallas, and while he is the in the advance reading group, his teacher won’t allow him to check out any book he wants from the library. I was surprised. He wants to read historical non-fiction (don’t ask me why), but the content is clearly above his 4th grade reading level. As a...[read more]