The second half of my interview on Dec. 31, 2008 with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan. Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles. Click here to download Part 2.
News – New subscriptions available for the Kindle: USA Today and Narrative Magazine. Also, new Kindle market intelligence from The New York Times. A million Kindles sold? Not according to Mark Mahaney in August. Tech Tip – How to put content on your Kindle in the middle of Wyoming. Click here to see a map [...]
News: The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas. Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0? Should Amazon say so? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than 10,000 Kindle NYT subscriptions (thanks to Abhi for the tip), and Kindle NowNow is GoneGone. Tech Tip: [...]
News – In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle. Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky’s motherload of Kindle tech stuff. Interview – Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing at E Ink Corporation, interviewed at the company’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The audio podcast contains excerpts of our conversation, and this [...]
News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout. Tech Tip: How to put 20,000 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) – 1. Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable. 2. In your computer’s web browser, [...]
News: Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert’s Kindleville blog. Tech Tip: From David Emberson’s Kindle Cookbook, a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through books 1/20th at a time. Interview: My wife’s opinion of her Kindle improves during her first month of use, despite her biggest fear coming true. NOTE: If [...]
News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon. Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen? Interview: Dave Emberson, author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn’t Tell You. Quote: Technology Review’s editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the [...]
Kindle News: Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way, including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also, Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle format. Tech Tip: From The Kindle Cookbook by David Emberson, how to put the MobileRead guide on your Kindle for free [...]
Interview: Abhi, creator of the Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers, talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you join and participate in his social network before the end of October. Kindle Quote: The Nigger of Narcissus by [...]
Kindle News: Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2? Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group. Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner. On her Kindle: War and Peace by Tolstoy, Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov from MobileReference and the blogs Opinionated and An [...]
