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 →

Craig Findlay and his son, Cam News – 1. Blogger Keith Peters takes a VERY close look at the Kindle and iPad screens.  2) Amazon updates its Kindle for PC app. Andrys Basten comments.  3) The expected shipping date for new Kindles slips again, to September 17. 4) Stephen Windwalker is finishing up his latest Kindle Nation survey. 5) The IRS gives unusually fast approval  to the 501(c)(3) application of E-Books for Troops , making it... 

Photograph copyright James Duncan Davidson News – 1: Amazon announces stunning new data showing the Kindle has done quite nicely during the first three months of the iPad Era. Mike Kane says Kindle is now the new standard for eBook formats. Also weighing in on the news are Stephen Windwalker , Andrys Basten , Bufo Calvin , and Abhi . 2: Literary Agent Andrew “The Jackal” Wylie makes good on his threat to create his own publishing... 

News – 1. A study by Jakob Nielsen finds that participants read more slowly on a Kindle or an iPad than on a traditional book. Abhi raises some reasonable questions about the findings. 2. A 2006 Amazon patent comes to light and may cause problems for the Barnes & Noble nook and the Alex by Spring Design. 3. James Patterson reportedly becomes the first author to sell a million …  Read More →

News – Item 1: Seth Godin ’s free advice for Amazon with reaction from Abhi and a followup interview by The Wall Street Journal . Item 2: A slippery slide on e-book market share at Steve Jobs’s WWDC keynote sparks controversy and a suggestion by Stephen Windwalker for what Jobs should have said. Tech Tip -  Via Kes Woodward , a reminder of the joys of Instapaper and a new resource, Longform . Interview – John Just ,... 

There’s a good post on the Nook forum where users are talking about what features they’d like to see in the next version of the Nook. Amazon should steal some of those ideas – they’re good and a few are marvellous. What’s Sauce for the Goose Here are the ideas that were interesting – Ability to add notes and highlights to a PDF.   Ability to delete items forever via…  Read More →

Fujitsu has taken a major step forward by improving the contrast ratio, the refresh speed, and the brightness of its color eReader technology. It’s amazing that Fujitsu are able to evolve their color ePaper and bring those improvements to market faster than PVI/eInk can evolve its black and white ePaper. This latest color eReader screen from Fujitsu will be released in Japan in Fall 2010. Fujitsu Color eReader improvements –... 

After Apple announced that 1.5 million ebooks had been sold in the first month on 1 million iPads you’d think it wasn’t a very significant sales channel for ebooks. However,  Publishers beg to differ .   Publishers claim iPad is the #2 ebook seller and then sales double, triple Notice the interesting and impossible details revealed (when you piece them together …  Read More →

Given how the press are fawning over the iPad this might seem a strange, contrarian question. It isn’t. It’s very valid because there’s a big contrast – January and February – Something magical is going to arrive.  March - Look it’s pretty and it does a lot of things. April – The WiFi version of the iPad is good and it isn’t necessarily better for reading than the Kindle. It’s in people’s... 

Consider what the Press and people who don’t read have been predicting – When the Kindle first came out (end 2007) – No one’s going to buy Kindles. No one reads any more. People can just read on their PCs. $399 is too expensive. In mid 2009 – No one’s buying Kindles and that’s why Amazon hasn’t released numbers. People will just read on their iPhones. $299 is too expensive. Right Now – No one’s going to... 

Let’s start with a free romance novel for your kindle (a very, very short one) – Colters’ Wife by Maya Banks. Rated 4 stars on 8 reviews. More a short story than a novel. It’s got quite an interesting set of (contrasting) reviews – Reviewer 1: Crude: offensive sexual content. Stopped and deleted after the first chapter. Reviewer 2: the sexual contact was actually pretty tame compared to the first book. Reviewer... 

It’s pretty annoying to always have the iPad compared with Kindle and Nook and to hear all sorts of strange things – iPad is the best-selling tablet – selling more than the Kindle tablet. iPad is going to become the #1 eReader. Kindle was the best tablet before the iPad came out. There are two main ideas that are…  Read More →

It’s a little bewildering to see the post topics at the official Kindle forum – Might the 2.5 update bin file slip out as a torrent or to Rapidshare, etc?  Show me your collections! 2.5 — if it’s now a full release, why can’t we download it? Does any K2 owner have the 2.5 update? question for those that have the update We have Kindle owners creating their collections even before getting the update, people …  Read More →

Lots of interesting things going on today -  The Static of the Spheres by Eric Kraft is sky-rocketing up the charts (up 44,110%). It’s just $1 – Not sure if it’s a novel or a short story. Teleread has a post by Rich Adin claiming that Steve Jobs is going to snooker the Agency Model 5  next April when their 1 year contract with Apple runs out. It’s probably true. If the iPad becomes a significant ebook channel Steve... 

Stephen Windwalker at the Kindle Nation blog makes a very good point - perhaps we should think of our libraries of Kindle Books as legacies to pass on to favored heirs. Let’s start with what already exists. Kindle’s Shared Account Feature Amazon lets you add multiple Kindles to your account in the Manage My Kindle page. There isn’t really any limit specified in terms of how many Kindles you can add (neither on the page nor...