Amazon’s reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out , we can only imagine what the nation’s largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear] More  Read More →

Once you’ve purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. This regular Kindle Reader feature points you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web. Free e-book selections for this week include two free sci-fi novels you won’t want to miss, a first person narrative of life on board... 

Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer’s eye and generate interest in their work. Here’s a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview. ON NPR’S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (31 AUG 2010): Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life,... 

Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don’t have to. Recent genre fiction releases in sci-fi, romance and western fiction include: SCIENCE FICTION The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton. Del Rey. Print Length: 704 p. Kindle edition $14.74. Text-to-Speech: Disabled. “Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target... 

News – 1) Scattered reports of Kindle 3 freeze-ups and crashes echo my own experience.  Late-breaking news from Abhi indicates Amazon may be working on a software fix soon.  2) Sony announces three new Readers. 3) Staples to begin selling Kindles. Tech Tip – Via A Kindle World , I learn about an easy way to convert Google …  Read More →

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the September 3rd issue include: Freedom , by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Print length: 576 p. NOVEL. EW’s slant: “…a deep dive into a fascinating family that feels very real, and fully grounded in our time.” Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech:... 

Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer’s eye and generate interest in their work. Here’s a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview. ON NPR’S MORNING EDITION (27 AUG 2010): 101 Places Not to See Before You Die , by Catherine... 

The Kindle 3 ’s new Pearl e-ink display (right) appears to provide greater contrast and a sharper image than its predecessor. Although this is not a microscopic close-up of the two screens, the difference is noticeable. [ Kindle World blog via Crunchgear ] More  Read More →

Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don’t have to. Recent genre fiction releases in fantasy fiction include: Bearers of the Black Staff: Legends of Shannara by Terry Brooks. Del Rey. Print length: 384 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled. “The horrors of a war-ravaged world again invade a hard-won peace in Brooks’s... 

Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don’t have to. Recent releases in mystery fiction include: Fragile by Lisa Unger. Crown. Print length: 336 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled. “Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who... 

News – 1) Early reviews of the Kindle 3 are uniformly positive, including judgments by David Pogue ,  Wired Magazine , Fast Company , and The Telegraph . 2) The Jackal backpedals with Random House, putting a premature end to a Kindle exclusive on some great backlist titles. 3) Amazon touts record sales of the Kindle 3 without saying how many they sold.  4) J. A. Konrath reports that he sells 60 times more of his books at the Kindle Store... 

Soon a brand new Kindle 3 will be arriving at my home. This is my third Kindle. Both my original Kindle and Kindle 2 have already found good homes with other eager readers. Those who purchased the first Kindle had no simple way to arrange books by subject. Owner-created collections were added to the Kindle 2 and DX with the latest software 2.5 update, too late for me to use them effectively on the Kindle 2. So how do you use the collections feature?... 

Amazon’s not one to give exact—or even general—sales figures for Kindle. But just as the previous generation ebook reader was the best-selling thing on the site , so too is Kindle 3. In fact, it’s the “fastest-selling” Kindle yet, which tells us pretty much nothing since we don’t know how fast the others sold. More  Read More →

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. – Tracy Kidder. Nonfiction encompasses a wealth of reading possibilities – history, essays, memoirs, scientific research, travel guides, cookbooks – essentially everything that is based on fact, real events and real people. Recent nonfiction titles for the Kindle that you might have missed: Zoo Story: Life in the Garden... 

I’ve been reading on and exploring a new Kindle Free 3G +WiFi for three days now, using an Amazon review copy that arrived here in Maine on August 18.  This video presents what I think is so great about the Kindle 3, as well as one disappointment I have in it. I had already pre-ordered my new Kindle 3, so I plan to donate the review Kindle to EBooksForTroops as part of our new project to donate used Kindle 2′s to U.S. soldiers on active...