Author: Dzmitry
300,000+ books in the Kindle Store
I just noticed that as of 5th of June, 2009 Kindle store surpassed 300,000 books. I was about to brag about how close my prediction was when I noticed that…
George Orwell, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #12
George Orwell is a pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair; he is most known for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the concepts like “thought police” and “doublethink” derived…
Kindle Used By Library
Gerrit van Dyk from Shaping Libraries reports that his interlibrary loan office approved pilot program for loaning Amazon Kindles to faculty staff. The idea is to serve book requests that…
Aldous Huxley, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #11
Aldous Huxley’s books are often received with mixed emotions or even controversy. In 2006 Time magazine excluded Brave New World, Point Counter Point and Island from Best 100 novels list, which…
Scratched My Kindle 2
Couple of days ago I was rushing to an appointment and withing much thinking stuffed my Kindle 2 in jacket pocket. But I failed to consider the fact that my…
Kindle DX Release Date Contest Results
And the winner is Jay from Florida. He correctly guessed the Kindle DX release date. Here’s what he has to say about himself: I work in education and I am…
Kindle 3 Preview From www.collegehumor.com
If any of you were wondering what new features would be included in the device that will replace Kindle 2 – watch this video. According to Adam and his friends,…
Google Digital Bookstore by the end of 2009?
It looks like Amazon Kindle will see more competition in 2009. Google announced that it will start selling digital books by the end of 2009. Publishers and authors welcomed this…
The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien!
When I last checked Kindle Store none of the J.R.R.Tolkien books were there. There were some books about Tolkien himself and his writings but that was that. Oh, well I…
eInk Corporation Acquired by PVI for $215 million
Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire eInk Corporation (producer of electrophoretic used in Amazon Kindle and Sony PRS eReaders) for $215,000,000. PVI has been consolidating eInk related…