Welcome to the BlogKindle.com weekly news round-up!
Every Sunday we compile a list of our favourite stories from the past week, we also bring to you our selection of Kindle and Amazon related links from around the web. Compiled from blogs, magazines, main stream media and other sources, we hope these links will give you a definitive overview of what’s happening regarding the Kindle and what the Kindle community is talking about.
Why Sony lost the battle of the e-book – Financial Times
The Book on the Shelf – Washington Post
Will electronic readers take hold in the classroom? – Honolulu Advertiser
E-Book Readers: Changing the Way We Read – Fox Business
The marriage of human thought and paper – The Salt Lake Tribune
Kindle. Or Kindling? – Portfolio.com
We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000 – TechCrunch
Estimates put Amazon Kindle sales at 240,000 – Geek.com
Amazon Kindle Sales Living Up To Projections, Surprising Some – Huffington Post
Despite flaws, Kindle a $100m success for Amazon – Ars Technica
Amazon May Have Actually Sold A Bunch Of Kindles (AMZN) – Silicon Ally Insider
Matt Mullenweg Loves His Kindle [podcast] – Mashable
Amazon swallows AbeBooks – Tech Radar
iPhone: Understudying the Kindle? – Ignis Fatuus
First thoughts on my Kindle – TeleRead
Will Kindles become as big as iPods? – Fresno Bee
Random Ebook Thoughts From A Jetlagged Mind – Book Square
My new favorite toy – dewumpy @ wordpress.com
Wired: Is Kindle overly hyped? – SFN Blog
How I Met and Married My Kindle – Spontaneous Derivation
Kindle Monitors All Activity? – MobileRead Forums
Yet Another Shortsighted Kindle Perspective – Kindleville
No, Amazon Doesn’t Want to “Do Away with the Book as We Know It” – Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog
Buy This, Not That: Amazon Kindle vs. iRex iLiad – Slash Gear
Why Newspapers Should Go Digital for Profits – A Print Decision – Mosnar Communications, Inc. Public Relations Blog
Do You Own a Kindle? – Geek Sugar
kindle in the UK – MobileRead Forums
Amazon Kindle and divorce – PumpingPages
Is the print book destined for death? – Mitzi Szereto’s Weblog
An Amazon Kindle – cellphone combo in the future? – eReader Central
Kindling the flames of e-book controversy – Tech Lunch
Amazon Kindle Competes With iPhone App Store – HTLounge
The Amazon Kindle – some first thoughts – universitydiary
Kindle: Crap or Awesome? – Oh so random…
Rancho Mirage library offers new device for ‘electronic’ reading – The Press Enterprise
Kindle Sales Surprise! – Mover Mike
Amazon Kindle: On Fire or Burned Out? – Gadget Spice
Would you consider going back to paper books? – K.indled
How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit – Micro Persuasion
The Kindle: Redefining the Reading Experience (Is This Blasphemy?) – erin straza
Haiku Contest : Win a Kindle – Surpass Hosting
Kindle Impressions – Ruminations
Is Kindle the One? being an account of 1983 Buicks and other heresies – for.theloveofbooks.com
Kindle .azw1 file – MobileRead Forums
Print IS Dead (Well, To Some Of Us. OK: Me!) – Mike Cain 2008
New Kindle! – Mr. Grouchypants
[Not a] Disadvantage of the Kindle: Sometimes Instant Is Not Good (But You Can Return It) – Spontaneous Derivation
Not with the DOJ – kindle formatting
But it’s not like it’s the iPod of reading or anything…..or is it? – temporus @ livejournal
Breaking Dawn Delayed for E-book Readers – Publishers Weekly
As an author, I’m very excited about Kindle. It’s going to move publishing into a whole new area, giving back control to many of us who have lost control over their product, to say nothing of the endless frustrations of placing said product. As a reader, it offers me more choices in how I wish to actually read a book. I’ve written a recent blog about this very issue, naysaying the naysayers who are fearful that the print book is dead. Indeed, giving authors and readers more choice can only help not hinder the world of books.
I’m pleased to be publishing on the Kindle platform and I look forward to a long and fruitful relationship to enhance the one I already have with Amazon for my print editions.
Viva Amazon!