I spoke with Peter Meyers, author of the just-published Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual, on February 16th by Skype. Since finishing the 280-page tome, he has returned to work on Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience. This is the first half of the interview. You will find the conclusion in TKC 185.
News – 1) Are there fewer Amazon Prime members than analysts thought? Anonymous sources tell Bloomberg that’s the case. 2) Laura Hazard Owens reports on Penguin’s decision to no longer offer additional copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase via Overdrive, the leading provider of digital content to libraries. Random House earlier raised its prices to OverDrive. A [...]
Since I will be away this week on St. John, USVI, I prepared an all-comments episode for you that will post automatically. I’ve organized my backlog of great tips, observations, and opinions that you have e-mailed to me mainly about the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire. Here are some links to topics discussed: The TWIT [...]
News – 1) Amazon updates the Kindle Fire software to version 6.2.1 . Consumer Reports and David Pogue are impressed. As is Stephen Windwalker. 2) Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch receive an update. Tech Tip – Why I had to reset my Fire to factory default, how to download a Project Gutenberg book [...]
News – 1) Jakob Nielsen pans the usability of the Kindle Fire and elaborates in an interview with David Streitfeld of The New York Times. Click here for Nielsen’s review of the second-generation Kindle back in 2009. 2) Meanwhile, Amazon reports that Kindles — Fire and others — are selling more than a million a [...]
News – 1) Released this week, the new Kindle Fire already has its first software update, to version 6.1. Andrys Basten has the story here. 2) AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is preparing a response to the Fire, namely a 7-inch “iPad mini” to be released early next year. 3) I offer my personal observations [...]
News – 1) Amazon announces the opening of its French Kindle Store and the first French-language Kindle. 2) Is the screen on the new $79 Kindle slightly more difficult to read than that of the Kindle 3, now known as the Kindle Keyboard? A listener, Father Moses, thinks so, and the question is getting talked [...]
News – All the news this week comes from Amazon’s press conference Wednesday, September 28, 2011, in New York City. From a seat in the front row, I had a chance to closely observe Jeff Bezos’s remarkably intense overview of the Kindle story to date. Afterward, we circulated among demo stands where the new Kindle [...]
