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TKC 126 Peter Tighe

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 [...]

Posted 17 December 2010 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

TKC 65 Stefaan van Gerven

News – Google Editions is coming to a cloud near you, by June 2010. Click here for Abhi’s analysis. A Kindle DX – International is also coming, sometime next year. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney revises his Kindle sales estimates upward. Brett Arends of the Wall Street Journal, bucking the conventional wisdom, argues for a sell on Amazon and a buy on Barnes & Noble.

Tech Tip – Courtesy of Mike Detlefsen, you might try Bookit, a FireFox plug-in that enables you to create eBooks with Calibre. Not that I could get it to work, but you may be more successful.

Interview – Stefaan van Gerven is product manager for embedded speech at Nuance Communications, which provides the Text to Speech capability of the Kindle 2 and DX. I spoke with him in Belgium via Skype and phone on October 13, 2009 . He tells how embedded speech works. As a footnote, I discovered that my Kindle DX can pronounce Obama’s name correctly, but the Kindle 2 can’t.

Content – Check out Books on the Knob for bargain Kindle books and lots more.

Comments – Warwick Head on Oberon Design, James Garland, ProlificProgrammer, and Rick Askenase on Disney Digital Books.

Posted 16 October 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

33 Eric Collins

News – Mike Elgan and Andy Ihnatko on the new Kindle iPhone app, two new rumors about the Kindle 3 (will have WiFi and may be introduced as early as April), a stealthy firmware update for the Kindle 2, and a troubling problem with the text readability on the Kindle 2. Tech Tip – Exploring [...]

Posted 06 March 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , ,

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