mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 14 2008 | amazon, kindle, pricing, web 2.0
I'm looking forward to reading Sarah's book on Web 2.0 companies. Strangely, the Kindle version is MORE EXPENSIVE than the hardback? How can that be?
Hardback: $17
Kindle: $20If the book were a "best seller" - it would sell for $10 on Kindle. But I don't see how Amazon justifies selling the Kindle version for more than the hardback price.
Sarah is rumored to be planning a book tour - hopefully coming to Seattle as well.
Quoted: Amazon.com: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0: Sarah Lacy: Books
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2008 | kindle, review, books, amazon, reader
My friend, Ken Moss, wrote an excellent review of the pluses and minuses of the Kindle. I added a comment from my experience living in a multi-Kindle household.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2008 | kindle, pdf, mobi, conversion
Amazon is now supporting an "experimental" PDF converter to Kindle format.
You can send directly to you Kindle via attachment at:
<name>@kindle.com
(this costs $0.10)
or, have the converted file emailed to your PC (for download to Kindle - e.g., when you are not getting radio reception, or are too cheap to pay the 10 cents) at:
<name>@free.kindle.com
(The converted file will be sent to your registered Amazon email address).
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2008 | ebooks, kindle, mobi, pdf
Quoted: Mobipocket.com sells electronic books, or ebooks, for all PDA and Smartphones (and for your PC): Read them on your Windows Mobile Blackberry Palm Symbian ( Nokia Series 60 1st 2nd 3rd edition, UIQ 2, UIQ 3) or Pocket-PC .
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2008 | books, kindle, pdf, mobi, conversion
Mobi-Pocket files can be created from PDF's and then downloaded to the Kindle.
This article was written before Amazon started supporting (experimentally) PDF file conversion for the Kindle. Anyway, there are some advantages of doing the conversion yourself rather than using Amazon's email-conversion service.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | kindle, amazon, cake
The making of a Kindle cake!
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | amazon, kindle, blog, ereader, books
Kindle's currently take up to 6 weeks from the time you placed your order (people receiving them today, ordered them around Feb 1).
Sounds like the Christmas backlog is soon to be cleared, and Amazon expects to begin shipping the same day as they are ordered.
Quoted: Amazon.com's CEO says the company is finally ramping up production of its electronic book reader as customers continue to face long delays in receiving it. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on News Blog.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | kindle, reverse engineering
Great blog about reverse engineering the Kindle!
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 29 2007 | kindle, amazon, hacks
Some Alt key sequences on the Kindle to get debug info, show your current location (using cell-phone triangulation), Mine Sweeper.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2007 | kindle, ereader, startups, amazon
The development team for the kindle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, based in Cupertino.
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