Category: Kindle Books
Publishers Claim Credit For Success of Kindle Editions & Other eBooks
Owing perhaps to the impressive holiday sales figures for the Kindle, Nook, and others at the end of 2010, an announcement from the Association of American Publishers has confirmed that…
Amazon is Bringing Their Kindle to the Library
Over the past few months, comments have been made repeatedly about the potential for the Kindle‘s lack of library compatibility being a deal breaker when it came time to make…
Kindle vs Nostalgia: Why Books Aren’t Harmed By eBooks
As somebody who both loves having a Kindle and who is proud of his fairly extensive physical library, it can be infuriating to hear people talk about their perception that…
How Much Value Do Kindle Singles Bring to the Table?
Kindle Singles have been something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. They occupy a strange space in the eBook marketplace. While there’s obviously a place for good short fiction…
Kindle Book Recommendations: Romance
The theme of the day is Romance books for the Kindle! Specifically, romance books revolving around crazy supernatural types of things. I understand that’s the big thing these days, after…
Is Harry Potter Finally Coming to the Kindle?
After years of adamant refusal to consider the idea of releasing electronic versions of her amazingly popular Harry Potter series, there are rumors circulating that J.K. Rowling is giving serious…
One (Bad) Way To Get Yourself Noticed As A Kindle Author
When writing a book that you intend to put out through something like the Kindle‘s self publishing platform, there are always going to be complications. There’s a reason that publishing…
Kindle Book Recommendations: Health
While presenting these recommendations, I’ve gotten a lot of responses about non-literary Kindle books. Admittedly, I’ve questioned throwing anything like that up here, but I figure that since people are…
4 More Dictionaries: German, French, Italian and Spanish
You asked and we listened… We are releasing 4 more translation dictionaries for Amazon Kindle: German-English translation dictionary with 336,620 words and word forms (conjugations, declensions, etc) French-English dictionary with…
Kindle Books and Lending: The Complicated Relationship
Over the course of the eReader race so far, one of the biggest points of contention has been the potential for book lending. For quite a while, this was a…