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TKC 83 Stephen Windwalker

News – Amazon releases the Kindle for BlackBerry app. Lance Ulanoff worries about the screen size. Motoko Rich of The New York Times gets a scoop: Perhaps rumors of Apple’s opposition to discounted prices for bestsellers was a tad exaggerated?

Tech Tip – How NOT to uninstall your screensaver and fonts apps in order to update your Kindle 2 to the new 2.3.3 . I make some errors and am rescued by a member of KindleBoards, who pointed me to this folder of up-to-date tools for installing and uninstalling hacks. Thank you, Heather!

Interview – Stephen Windwalker’s Kindle Nation is the third-bestselling blog at the Kindle Store. He’s also just released a new, comprehensive survey of Kindle Nation citizens, which has information the major publishers AND Amazon ought to be paying attention to. I interviewed Steve in person on Feburary 17, 2010, in Arlington, Mass.

Content – EduKindle creator Will DeLamater is beta-testing a new tool for creating content for the Kindle with Wikipedia and other sources. It’s named eReadUps and you can submit a request to become a beta tester. Nice!

Comments – Richard Fischer, Heather Hollick, Marie Sotiriou with a podcast recommendation, Maurice Lawles, Bob Anderson, Brian Rupert, Craig Scarberry, Sean, and Bruce Kessel.

HOW TO WIN A KINDLE AND ACCESSORY – Click here to check out out my new Facebook “Reading Edge” page. If you become a fan, you will automatically be entered to win a 6-inch Kindle and one accessory from Octovo. The drawing will take place at noon Mountain Time on April 1, 2010. Thanks to Octovo for sponsoring this contest!

ONE MORE THING…. With this episode, I’m announcing that a fan of the podcasts on my Reading Edge Facebook page, Sergeant Andre B. Corbin, will be taking a complimentary Kindle and accessories with him when he deploys for active duty with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan next month, courtesy of M-Edge Accessories. I saw that Andre had expressed the hope he’d win the Octovo drawing for the Kindle on April 1st (see above), so I contacted Patrick Mish, CEO of M-Edge Accessories, to see if his company might be interested in donating a Kindle and accessories for Andre. Patrick quickly agreed, and they are working with Andre on the details, which I’ll have for you next week. Congratulations Andre, and thank you for your service!

Posted 19 February 2010 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

TKC 56 Steve Shank

News – Sony announces (and the New York Times scoops) plans to convert Sony’s eBook store to the EPUB format by the end of the year. More coverage here , here, and here. Abhi says “wow,” Paul Biba says, “fantastic,” and David Rothman chides the Times for underplaying the DRM part of the story. Also, via Andrys Basten, news of a generous couple’s donation of 10 Kindles for an experiment at the Belmont, Mass., public library.

Tech Tip – How to buy and feed a Kindle if you don’t live in the U.S. You might check out the “Using Kindle Outside North America” thread on the Amazon forum, as well as several links offered by a listener. Also, Len Charnoff has done a helpful tutorial video inspired by last week’s tech tip on Zoolert.

Interview – Steve Shank of Arizona is a Kindle fan with 35 years of experience introducing new technology, dating back to his days as an early employee of Apple.

Content – Stephen Windwalker’s useful new Kindle guide, Free: How to Get Millions of Free Books, Songs, Podcasts, Periodicals and Free eMail, Facebook, Twitter and Wireless Web with your Amazon Kindle, contains a way to download well-formated Project Gutenberg titles directly to your Kindle, using “Magic Catalog.” Steve is offering free chapters here.

Comments – Peggy Poellot, Dan Meyers, Larry Goss, and Charles Tay on last week’s Nicholson Baker’s interview, a hack to change the Kindle’s fonts, Len Charnoff’s poignant tale of The Family Kindle, and comments on the Podcamp Boston 4 session.

Posted 14 August 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

TKC 41 Stephen Windwalker

Intro – My mother and I take the train from Saco, Maine, to Boston’s North Station.  We have the same conductor I interviewed in Audio Pod Chronicles # 40.
News (1:56) – Amazon gets serious about charging for wireless conversions of personal documents for reading on the Kindle. Details in special bulletin of Stephen Windwalker’s Kindle [...]

Posted 01 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , ,

29 DeLancey Nicoll

News – Citigroup’s Internet analyst Mark Mahaney finds some real numbers that convincingly indicate Amazon sold 500,000 Kindles in 2008.   Joe Wikert of Kindleville is looking for someone to take over his blog who still believes in the Kindle.  Stephen Windwalker launches a new weekly newsletter, Kindle Nation .
Tech Tip – Via Stephen Windwalker, how [...]

Posted 05 February 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

3 Stephen Windwalker

Kindle News:
Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France, as well Dave Lester’s Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago.
A rosy view of the Kindle’s future sales and one not so rosy.
One thing NOT to do with your Kindle.
A Free Webinar, “Leveraging the Kindle – How to maximize the [...]

Posted 08 August 2008 † Len Edgerly § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,