Tag Archives: Susan Orlean

TKC 151 Susan Orlean

News – 1) The Kindle could account for 10 percent of Amazon’s total revenue next year, a top financial analyst opines. 2) The Great Kindle Sunshine Deals sale is chasing away the high-cost-ebook blues.  3) Apple blinks, sort of. Tech Tip – Text-to-speech controls only a Mother could love? Not really, but in a special [...]

TKC 148 Julia Adams

News – 1) Amazon announces that it is selling more Kindle titles than hardcover and paperback titles combined. John C. Dvorak says they must be, ahem, cooking the books, and he wants to see the numbers.  Mike Shatzkin says Amazon’s comparisons are apples-to-apples, unlike other attempts to measure the inroads of e-books as a share [...]