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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…
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…
Douglas Adams, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #10
Douglas Noel Adams is best known for the science fiction comedy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Originally radio broadcast series, they later inspired “a trilogy in five parts” as well…
Herbert George Wells, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #9
Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G.Wells, is by right referred as “The Father of Science Fiction”, as he has greatly influenced much literature after him, especially popularizing such conceptions…
See Your Notes and Highlights Online
If you’ve made notes or highlights in your Kindle books, you can now see them online at http://kindle.amazon.com/ At the moment the service if quite limited. You can see your…
Wireless Data Costs – Kindle Economics #1
Recently MediaShift blog mentioned some interesting numbers related to Kindle wireless data pricing: > Avg. file size = 1.2MB > Bandwidth cost = 12 cents MB > Selling price =…
Frank Herbert, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #8
Frank Herbert, the author of epic Dune, influenced science fiction no less than the “Big Three” (Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Arthur Clarke), mentioned in the previous posts. Most notable…
Amazon sues Discovery Communications Back
Roughly two months after Amazon was sued by Discovery Communications for patent infringement related to Kindle Amazon is suing Discovery Communications back also for patent infringement. In this case patents…
iPhone Kindle Application Updated
Today Amazon has released 1.1 update for the iPhone Kindle Application. There are several new features and they are all good: Landscape reading is now supported. All you need to…
BlogKindle.com now available on Kindle Store
BlogKindle.com is now available as subscription and can be wirelessly delivered directly to your Kindle along with 4,400+ other blogs currently in the blog section of Kindle Store. Since Amazon…