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 official that donations to the nonprofit are tax-deductible. Also, we launch Kindle 2 for Troops, a way that you can send in your Kindle 2 and we’ll distribute it to a soldier in Afghanistan. Thanks to Mike Cain, iReaderReview, TeleRead, and Stephen Windwalker for helping to spread the word!
Tech Tip – Allen MacDiarmid alerts me to a better way to highlight long passages on the Kindle, and also shares a shortcut for Text-to-Speech controls.
Interview (12:01) – Craig Findlay of Kelso, Scotland, is an avid Kindle user who is delighted with the opening of Amazon’s new Kindle U.K. store. In a Skype call from Maine to Scotland on August 18, 2010, we discussed the pace of e-book adoption in the U.K., the pricing of e-books, and more. Craig is going to take this creative writing course at Open University, the better to publish his own novel on Kindle some day.
Content – Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership by Lewis Hyde looks like a great read, and I have an interview scheduled with the author on September 2, 2010.
Comments – Judy Lin on Kindle gifting, Chris Baker on my Wolf Hall Tournament of E-Readers video, Amy Leigh on her 10 Kindle Cases You Can Build For Free post, Rick Askenase on the Kindle tipping point, Jean Remple on Bob Stein, and Steve Wisener on bundling e-books with print books.
You can help! Click here to give a thumbs up to my South by Southwest Interactive panel proposal, “Surviving the E-Book (or EBook) Revolution.”
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When will Kindle have embedded music
Posted 21 Aug 2010 at 3:52 pm ¶and/or video as a standard feature.
A friend has a print-published book
about musicals that I’d like to add
this feature to as an Amazon-available
ebook.
Don’t you mean my email ADDRESS is
Posted 21 Aug 2010 at 3:56 pm ¶never published, not my ‘email’….
otherwise you’d have no posts or
comments.
I want to correct something you stated. The Kindle date has “not slipped”. Every week it states if you order today, the expect delivery on XX date. This week the date happens to be Sept.17 if you order. Last week it was Sept 12, and previously it was an earlier date. The group of Kindle buyers that ordered the last week of July are expecting delivery on or about Aug. 27. It progresses from there in increments of ordering groups to Sept. 17th.
Posted 22 Aug 2010 at 9:58 pm ¶Ha! I just went to catch up on some older episodes here. Was surprised to hear my name right up front, and well presented description of the microscope fiasco!
Thanks!
btw, K3 micro-pics here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2750
Posted 08 Sep 2010 at 4:34 pm ¶Post a Comment