Amazon has announced the first Kindle tablet PC and the first touch-screen Kindle e-Readers. Highlights Three new e-Ink Kindle models, two of which have a touch-screen Larger screens, smaller bodies (no keyboards) Lower prices – with optional on-screen ads. $79-$189 Kindle Fire – a color, touchscreen tablet device for $199 See more details and my… Continue reading Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch Released
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Loan Kindle Books? Yes You Can!
So, One of the frustrations about the Kindle has been that you can’t share books with your friends and family. Now, Amazon has at last announced that you can lend Kindle editions of ebooks Usual caveat: Publishers have to allow this feature and most of the big ones won’t. Yet. 1 Loan Your Kindle Books… Continue reading Loan Kindle Books? Yes You Can!
Kindle FAQs
With the release of better and less-expensive Kindles I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people who know I love mine and are wondering if they should be getting one. So here, I present my answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions I hear about eReaders like Kindle. If you have any other questions, leave… Continue reading Kindle FAQs
Should I Buy A Kindle 3?
Another generation of Kindle is here, Kindle 3 and now you’re asking yourself, “Should I buy a Kindle 3?” With the new, wi-fi only Kindle 3 priced at only $139, how much longer are you going to be able to resist? (The Kindle 3 wireless version, with free 3G connectivity AND wi-fi, is still $189.… Continue reading Should I Buy A Kindle 3?
How To Become A Best-Selling Novelist on Kindle
While the big publishing houses seem to be missing the point with Kindle, authors are not.
A whole host of authors – from traditionally published to newbies – are self-publishing their books on Kindle, climbing the best-seller charts and writing about how they’re doing it.
Kindle Software Update
[Updated 9/28/11: Want to read about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch? Click here.] Now I’m sure that this is a coincidence, given that Barnes & Noble’s new ereader the Nook comes out today, but I just got an email from Amazon saying that my Kindle now supports PDFs. And you can rotate the screen,… Continue reading Kindle Software Update
Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech
…The Author’s Guild should consider that as the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech technology advances, it might just be that it gets people MORE used to listening to their books, and increases demand for high quality audio books.
Create Your Own Kindle eBooks
If you have PDFs, HTML docs, word processor documents that you’d like to carry around on your Kindle, you can either pay 10c a doc to have Amazon convert and email them to your Kindle OR you can use this handy, free method.