News - Item 1: Amazon’s Scott Ambrose Reilly moves from running the company’s digital music division to managing business development for Kindle periodicals. Stephen Windwalker in his new iPad Nation Daily blog urges Reilly to open up the Kindle blogging platform to the whole family of Kindle devices, not just the Kindle itself. Item 2: ConsumerReports.com does an balanced and thorough job of comparing the iPad and the Kindle. Item 3: Carolyn Kellogg of the Los Angeles Times notices that the iPad’s iBooks app looks more like a traditional book than the Kindle does.
Also: Social media evangelist Bryan Person has uploaded Part 2 of our conversation about the iPad and Kindle, and I’ll post it soon at The Reading Edge.
Tech Tip – Following up on an e-mail from listener Jonathan Bloom, I share some navigation tips taking advantage of the Kindle’s versatile five-way controller.
Interview – Cali Lewis, the happy, shiny Geek Girl who hosts GeekBrief.TV, has been a loyal fan of the Kindle since the beginning, when the original Kindle renewed her reading habit. She’s also a keen experimenter with the iPad, so I was very glad to have a chance to visit with her by Skype on April 12, 2010, about where things stand with the Kindle in the first weeks of the iPad Era.
Content – A classic science fiction novel, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is now available on the Kindle.
Comments – Ron Mertens tips me off to a report by DisplaySearch estimating that Amazon sold 3.3 million Kindles last year. Rho ponders the iPad. Brett McNeill says listening to the Kindle Chronicles is like talking tech and literature with a friend over coffee. A blogger who goes by Dizzle takes exception to the “absurd snobbery” of my suggestion last week that Robert Scoble has abandoned the Kindle for the iPad because he only skims his reading material, as opposed to Kindle fanboys like me who immerse themselves in books. Point taken, and I’d love to hear more from Dizzle, whose snarky and well-written blog is titled “i drank the kool-aid clutching my dixie cup of apple goodness.”
Production Note at 11 p.m. Mountain Time: Darlene won her bet, and I dutifully delivered a five-dollar bill to her quilting studio on my way out the door for the DOC training.
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