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TKC 55 Nicholson Baker

News – Rupert Murdoch is still talking tough about a possible break with Amazon over the Wall Street Journal’s Kindle edition, despite a price increase in May and a bigger share of the revenue for News Corp.  Also, Sony announces two new Readers, one costing only $199 and the other featuring a touchscreen. Tech Tip [...]

Posted 07 August 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (17) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

TKC 54 Ian Freed

News – Interview with Justin D. Gawronski, a plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon in the wake of “the Orwell situation.” Clues to what improvements may lie ahead for the Kindle, gleaned from an online Amazon survey. Nicholson Baker pens a mainly unfavorable review of the Kindle in this week’s edition of The New Yorker.

Tech Tips – How to do math on your Kindle 1 or 2. How to go directly to web links from an item on your Kindle home screen.

Interview – Amazon’s Kindle VP Ian Freed.

Kindle Content – Finding an Anthony Trollope novel at Gutenberg.org and making it pretty with http://www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/index.html – from David Emberson’s excellent guide to the Kindle, The Kindle 2 Cookbook.

Comments – Paul Levin on Kindle bashing, Suzanne Levin on the DX, Jesslyn Hendrix on the major upgrade to Calibre, Mary McManus on lust for the Apple tablet, and an audio comment from Oregon urging you consider asking for a price rebate on the Kindle 2 even if you bought one more than a month before the price dropped by $60.

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Show notes: http://TheKindleChronicles.com

Posted 31 July 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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