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TKC 137 Seth Godin

News – 1) Random House belatedly joins the “Apple 5″ publishers in adopting the Agency Model of e-book pricing, just in time to gain a brief but prominent mention by Steve Jobs at the iPad 2 press conference on March 2, 2011. Click here for video of the press conference.  BusinessInsider offers reason to hope [...]

Posted 05 March 2011 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

TKC 133 Stephen Baker

News – 1) Apple rejects Sony‘s e-reader app for the iPhone, which could mean changes in the way the Kindle for iPad and other Apple devices functions, regarding e-book purchases. Covered by the New York Times, Digital Daily, and Tecca.  2) You can now buy a Kindle at any of the Fred Meyer stores. 3) [...]

Posted 05 February 2011 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (14) ° Also tagged: , , ,

TKC 109 Craig Findlay

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.”

Posted 21 August 2010 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

TKC 94 Ken Clark

News – My Kindle was updated wirelessly with the 2.5 software, so I’m bringing you my hands-on impressions of the six major enhancements it contains.

Tech Tip – How to use the new Daily Refresh capabilities of your Kindle library in the cloud.

Interview – After working by e-mail and phone for two months on the creation of E-Books for Troops, Ken Clark and I finally had a chance to meet in person here in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, May 3. After our planning session, we finished up by doing this week’s podcast interview.

Content – Is Google finally getting serious about launching Google Book Editions this summer? Stephen Windwalker has his doubts, despite a Google guy’s guarantee at a panel discussion in New York City.

Posted 07 May 2010 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

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