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Rumor Smashed: No New Kindle This Year

Despite the rumors, it looks like there will be no sunny retirement for the current Kindle. From Amazon's chief spokesperson to the New York Times:
One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of the Kindle this year. A new version is possible sometime next year at the earliest.
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4:00 PM on Thu Aug 28 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,378 views, 18 comments

Latest by pharago: yep, fugly as hell, and f-expensive too, it should be, well, like beer more »

Kindle Review

Review Addendum: Using Amazon Kindle on Vacation

Although Wilson tested the Kindle in bed, on the toilet, I had the chance to use it on vacation and found myself reading a great deal more than I usually do. Unlike regular books, which cause me to fall asleep pretty readily after less than 50 pages, I'd finish about 300 pages in a stretch, with no eyestrain in dark rooms or in the sun. I suppose it felt a lot more like reading on a computer or handheld. Bezos set out to build something better to read than a book, and by vacationing standards, I think he's easily met that goal on his first try. That's my quirky experience, at least, being the type of person who hates stockpiling physical media of any sort. Of course, I found lots of other things I liked and disliked about specific to using a Kindle on vacation. More »

8:06 PM on Wed Aug 27 2008
By Brian Lam
9,014 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: @selianth: @IchabodCrane: While Ichabod is correct that books in the public domain (eg, in US any book copyrighted before 1923) can more »

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Kindle Rumors Say Next Version Coming Fall Will Be Thinner, Cheaper, Much More Stylish

The $100 discount on the Kindles may be Amazon's way of clearing out the first-gen to make room for the now all-but-certain second-gen this fall. Business Week says that Amazon's hired a guy from frog design for the next version, which will have a better screen, thinner body, fewer UI annoyances and (obviously) be better looking. The price point is supposedly somewhere around the $249-$299 range, which might be right near the sweet spot that mainstreamers will start to pick one up as an impulse buy. That is, if mainstreamers ever really read anything. Students, on the other hand, would be a gigantic market for a Kindle Education Edition. [Business Week]

1:45 PM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Jason Chen
5,488 views, 39 comments

Latest by Camperton: @Zlevee: You can highlight, clip and save. more »

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Kindle Gets $100 Discount in Amazon, Chase Promotion

The Kindle is currently getting a $100 discount if you get the Amazon Rewards Visa card and buy a Kindle with it: that's a 28% discount on the list price of $359. Good for you if you're about to buy a Kindle, and obviously will push the sales of the Kindle. It also raises a couple of questions: is the Kindle not selling as well as Amazon would like, hence the large discount, or is this tied to ditching stock before the possible Kindle 2.0 update we've mentioned before, and that's gathering momentum online? What's your take on this, chaps? [AlleyInsider via NewLaunches]

10:49 AM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,819 views, 26 comments

Latest by Gizmog: It might be a matter of clearing stock, but more likely it's a ploy to get people to try Amazon's more »

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How to Transplant a Sony Reader Display Into a Dying Kindle

The mad scientist behind this hack was faced with a problem. His beloved Amazon Kindle had a shattered screen and was all but dead. Distraught, he thought to himself: "what if I could sacrifice a Sony reader and perform and unholy cross species screen transplant? Yeah, it just might work because the e-ink screens on both devices are nearly identical." More »

7:50 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,131 views, 16 comments

Latest by markarian: Has anyone found the Holy Grail hack yet of tethering to the Kindle's free EVDO? more »

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Esquire Expects You to Hack Their E-Ink Cover

I was not impressed with Esquire's E-ink cover idea, but Joel Johnson at BBG has interviewed the Esky overlords and changed my mind a bit. Surprisingly, Esquire expects us to buy these mags and hack them. Second, Ford advertisements, also in E-ink, displaced some of the cost of production. That's good news for us. I still think its wasteful when they could do the same thing through Amazon or Sony's e-books for far less, but this interview goes a long way towards convincing me to buy one when they hit stands. A lot more at [BBG.] More »

4:33 PM on Wed Jul 30 2008
By Brian Lam
19,415 views, 26 comments

Latest by DeadWriter: A history of memorable gimmicky magazine covers: First cover in 3d. First holographic cover. First cover with LEDs. First cover with E-ink. Soon- First cover more »

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Sony Opens Up More E-Book Formats For Reader

A firmware update scheduled to drop later this week will allow Sony Readers to use the .epub format, an open standard (with DRM support) that has the backing of several major book publishers. This means you'll be able to get books from sources other than Sony's own Connect store, which currently only has one third the titles of Amazon's Kindle store. The Kindle, however, currently uses the Mobipocket format for its Kindle Store books, and does not yet support .epub. [AP]

9:08 AM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By John Mahoney
2,375 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: Anyone know if this will work on first generation eBooks? And, if some of you want to put whatever onto your more »

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On Esquire's Stupid E-Ink Cover

I love stupid gimmicks, don't get me wrong. But this cover is one of the worst ideas I've heard from a publication in awhile. Said the editor to the NYTimes: “Magazines have basically looked the same for 150 years,” Mr. Granger said. “I have been frustrated with the lack of forward movement in the magazine industry.” Maybe you should like, invest in putting premium content on your website, or in E-books sold on Amazon instead of spending six figures to design a battery small enough to fit into an magazine cover that will only last 90 days, without any major refreshing of content. They might as well have used one of those hologram stickers found in 25-cent vending machines in the 80's. More »

4:17 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Brian Lam
13,994 views, 61 comments

Latest by n/a: Regarding the stupid article Esquire did on Banksy; there's precedent for that. In the '70s Esquire did an article purportedly more »

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Rumor: Amazon Kindle 2 Coming This Fall

CrunchGear's got it on good authority that the next year or so will see not only an update to the current model—making it thinner and lighter—but also an altogether new model with dimensions something like a piece of loose leaf paper. They should come out in October and sometime next year, respectively, though no word on pricing. To try to sway the youth market, it's said the new Kindle will come in trendy new colors. [CrunchGear, that is not a photo of the Kindle 2]

9:20 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Matt Hickey
10,732 views, 51 comments

Latest by n/a: @knickers: I think the lack of backlighting on an eInk screen is actually an appealing feature - backlighting can cause more »

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Kindle's Bright Idea: College Textbooks

Here's one really smart idea that will convert a few Kindle-haters: textbooks. Princeton University Press join Oxford, Yale and the UC in putting some of their titles into e-book form, allowing students to bypass the used book store and directly download their textbooks onto their Kindles. You'll save a few bucks for the digital version, plus shipping costs and shipping time. And if you figure out a way to hack it, that's like, free textbooks dude. Whoa. We see this extended to concerned parents of elementary school kids who've been complaining about how many textbooks they have to lug from home to school and back. Then again, maybe that's why your kids are so fat. [Yahoo Buzz via CSMonitor]

5:40 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
6,890 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: My alternative to insanely expensive textbook costs (I spent over $1700 on textbooks my freshman year, and this was by more »

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Ballmer Predicts Death of Printed Media

Little known fact (that we just made up): Steve Ballmer once had a newspaper thrown through his front window. After eating the newspaper delivery boy and his entire family , Ballmer sat down with to chat about the future with The Washington Post. And among other things, he pegged a date for the death of printed media: 10 years from now. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,125 views, 79 comments

Latest by hakubak: oh my freakin' lord... You're right. I'm not being sarcastic. This is the dumbest thing I've ever done. I actually got more »

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Amazon Kindle Price Reduced to $359, Now Back In Stock

The Kindle is back in stock and it's now available for a reduced price, dropping from $399 to $359. Maybe that will help Amazon to achieve those crazy $750 million in sales by 2010. [Amazon—Thanks Françoise]

8:00 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jesus Diaz
3,114 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: Oh, I forgot to say, if you send a file to your email instead of directly to your kindle, it's more »

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First Year Kindle Sales vs. iPod, Palm Pilot and Other Famous Gadgets: How's It Doing?

Amazon's Kindle might pull in $750 million by 2010, growing from an estimated 189,000 units this year to 2.2 million in the next couple, according Citi analyst Mark Mahaney. But how does that stack up against other important gadgets in their first year of life? Silicon Alley Insider has done the hard work for us. Considering that Kindle is a gadget type that the mainstream has had no basic interest in until now (e-reader) and that it's been perpetually out of stock, it's not doing too shabby, though it's had a serious hype advantage over some of those gadgets. I have the feeling Kindle 2 is where it's really gonna be at. [Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks Dan!]

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7:40 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By matt buchanan
12,518 views, 42 comments

Latest by n/a: @snitch29: I doubt it was an accident. more »

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Analyst Predicts $750 Million Worth of Kindle Sales by 2010

It looks like Amazon's foray into the world of gadget making is going to be a profitable one indeed: CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney claims that in less than two years, the e-book reader is going to pull in a whopping $750 million. For those of you keeping track at home, that's a shitload of money. More »

5:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,798 views, 38 comments

Latest by phoghat: @scoobydoo: When audio books started getting popular Audible gave away iPods if you signed up. this was a sizable investment more »

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Kindle Finally Back in Stock on Amazon

At last! Amazon is finally restocked with Kindles, after Jeff Bezos' front-page confession that he was fresh outta e-Books. $399, folks. [i4U]

8:22 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By AddyDugdale
3,191 views, 29 comments

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Penguin to Launch Ebooks Alongside Regular Releases

The international publisher, Penguin, has decided to hop onto the ebook bandwagon, by promising regular book launches to be held in conjunction with their ebook counterparts. Unfortunately, the prices will not be lowered for the ebook varieties, but Penguin will offer direct downloads from their website. More »

8:30 PM on Sat Apr 12 2008
By Haroon Malik
3,809 views, 23 comments

Latest by bosskev: @shawn_dude: Linux. Penguin. At least I think that's supposed to be the connection. more »

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ECTACO's jetBook E-Book Reader "Will Change the Way We Read Forever!"

According to ECTACO it won't be the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader that changes the way we read—it will be their new jetBook. Why? Well, first of all it is red and everyone knows that red is the color of learning. Second, it features a 5-inch, high-res TFT display, an MP3 player, bookmarking capability, multi-language support and an SD expansion slot. There is no word on how much memory is built-in, but we do know that the device will set you back $349.95 and there is no e-book store. So, you are on your own when it comes to finding content. [ECTACO via Gearlog]

6:10 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Sean Fallon
5,766 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: jetBook has a comparison between it, the Sony Reader and the Kindle. See the info below[www.jetbook.net] This actually seems like a more »

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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours

If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the "first sale" doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though. Four students at Columbia Law School's Science and Technology Law Review looked at the particular issue of reselling and copying e-books downloaded to Amazon's Kindle or the Sony Reader, and came up with answers to a fundamental question: Are you buying a crippled license to intellectual property when you download, or are you buying an honest-to-God book? More »

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1:00 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By matt buchanan
35,765 views, 62 comments

Latest by n/a: the kindle is way overhyped more »

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