News – 1) Bloomberg, citing someone who knows, reports that Amazon will sell more than 8 million Kindles in 2010. 2) Publishers Weekly issues a disparaging report on Apple’s iBooks store. Tech Tip – My wife Darlene offers three suggestions for new Kindle users: 1) form a group of friends and/or family to share an [...]
News – 1) Amazon sort of announces record Kindle sales for the holiday season so far. If you do the math, the Kindle is selling faster than the NookColor. 2) Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan tells C-Span she reads briefs on her Kindle. 3) The Android platform is the first to receive a major new [...]
News – 1) Google finally launches its much-delayed Google eBookstore, as reported by The Washington Post, A Kindle World, and Kindle Nation Daily. Independent bookstores such as my favorite, the Tattered Cover in Denver, jumped on the e-wagon, enabling me to buy an e-book from the TC for the first time, but not for my [...]
This is the video of my interview on November 22, 2010, with Drew Shikoh, 14, an avid reader and Kindle enthusiast from Chattanooga, Tennesee. A lightly edited audio version of the interview appears in TKC 123.
As we approached the end of our travels in South Africa and Botswana, Darlene and I talked Kindle on the porch of our cabin at Tau Game Lodge, located in Madikwe Game Reserve at the northern border of South Africa. This is the recording of our conversation on Friday, November 12, 2010. Among the books [...]
Note: This episode was recorded in Cambridge, Mass., before we left on our trip to South Africa and Botswana, and was set for advance posting on November 12, 2010. Tech Tip – Jim Jones from Omaha discovers a handy tip for turning off Text to Speech on the Kindle by pressing a single key on [...]
Note: This episode was pre-recorded in Cambridge, Mass., before we left for our trip to South Africa and Botswana, for delayed release. Tech Tip – Listener Wayne Scott tells how to listen to your favorite podcasts on your Kindle and refers us to this tip which enables Linux computers to automatically treat the Kindle as [...]
News – 1) A paper company launches a PR and ad campaign promoting–you guessed it–paper. 2) A leading Apple blog declares the iBooks Store “one big failure.” 3) Christopher Sutton takes us behind the scenes at filming of the latest Kindle customers video. Tech Tip – Andrys Basten on the best way to restart your [...]
News – 1) Amazon announces “Kindle Singles,” prompting the best Kindle headline of the week, “Honey I Shrunk the E-Book” at the WSJ’s All Things Digital Blog. Who will be the first journalist to take advantage of this new form? How about this one? Maybe Ezra Klein foresaw something like this two years ago. 2) [...]
News – 1) Harvard Library Director Robert Darnton, my guest on last week’s show, says the gathering he hosted last weekend was a success, because a clear consensus emerged in support of creating a National Digital Library, as reported in this post by The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2) Amazon updates the Kindle for iPad/iPhone/iPod [...]
