Kindle 3 spoof
Here is a fun video from CollegeHumor.com which pokes fun at the upcoming Kindle 3:
Amazon confirms that the Kindle DX will ship on June 10th
Amazon announced today that the new Kindle DX will begin shipping on June 10th, ending any speculation of a late summer/early fall release.
Amazon’s latest e-reading device will ship on a first-come, first-served basis, so those of you who were quick to place your order should get your hands on the super-sized e-reader shortly after the 10th.
The 9.7 inch, PDR capable e-reader was unveiled by Amazon on May 6 and was expected to ship in the “summer” — summer has come early a little earlier than most thought with many analysts predicting a late summer/early fall release date.
The Kindle DX retails for $489.00 (that includes free shipping) and is still available for pre-order. Amazon has been able to fix its supply chain so there shouldn’t be any shortages, and none are predicted anyway.
Visit the Amazon Kindle DX page on Amazon.com to learn more about the Kindle DX or to pre-order.
Kindle Image of the Day #3 – Amazon Kindling
Image from oskay @ Flickr
Introducing the brilliant Amazon Kindling — the wireless wooden e-reader (with no electricity required).
This fabulous Kindle spoof was made by Rob from Cockeyed.com, the highly entertaining DIY/science/prank/investigative journalism site.
The Kindling features one page from adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, père and no functioning controls — and that’s why we love it!.
The Kindling was put on eBay and was sold for an impressive $103.50, however we are a little saddened that another Amazon Kindling ended up as firewood!
Published on June 2nd, 2009 in Image of the Day
Performance Criteria: Droid Wars I by Mandy M. Roth – Free Kindle Book
Performance Criteria: Droid Wars I by Mandy M. Roth
What do you get when you have an IQ that is off the charts, the inability to let go of someone you love and a lot of spare parts? The man of your dreams, of course. Dr. Aeron Braxton is on the verge of unveiling her newest creation–a droid who can pass as either human or Vanos.
An alien race took the man she loved away from her, but her revenge is at hand. Aeron has rebuilt Brad into a living… continue reading.
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Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian – Free Kindle Book
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite. Lucan Thorne despises the…continue reading.
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Serial by Jack Kilborn – Free Kindle Book
Serial by Jack KilbornRemember the twin golden rules of hitchhiking? # 1: Don-t go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy. # 2: Don-t pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be raving nutcase. So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a ride to Nutcase #2? When two of the most twisted minds in the world of horror fiction face off, the result is SERIAL, a terrifying tale of hitchhiking gone terribly wrong. Like a deeply twisted version of an -After School Special,- SERIAL is… continue reading.
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3.5/5 Amazon rating from 51 reviews.
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Jeff Bezos says that a color-screened Kindle is “multiple years” away
Despite recently releasing the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that Amazon is indeed working on a color-screened Kindle, however he confessed that the device is still “multiple years” away from being released. Bezos also went on to say that “I’ve seen the color displays in the laboratory and I can assure you they’re not ready for prime time”.
Speaking at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, Bezos revealed the disappointing news in front of an enthusiastic crowd during a question-and-answer session.
Bezos has also put to rest fears that another Kindle hardware update is just around the corner. It’s safe to assume that it will be at least a year before another Kindle hardware update is introduced, this will instil confidence in customers to buy the Kindle 2 now without fear that the device will become obsolete in a few months time.
I think most people, including us at Kindliest.com, have come to realise that color e-ink is clearly not yet ready for prime time (as Bezos put it), so it’s not surprising that Amazon seems to agree. At the present time color e-ink displays are too expensive and too slow at rendering images, therefore it looks like we will stuck with black-and-white Kindle’s for quite a while.
Source: AFP
Will Kindle will save the book in 2009?
2008 was a tough year for the publishing industry, but whatever else happened in the publishing industry, 2008 will be remembered as the year e-books caught on.
Amazon sold out well before the holidays and established a two month waiting list for the Kindle, it’s down to 4-6 weeks now, which leaves open the possibility that we might see the announcement of Kindle v2 before Kindle v1 is back in stock.
A lot of people have been claiming that the e-book marks the death of the book, but im not convinced, I actually think that the e-book will save the book.
There’s a nice analogy I like to use to explain what I mean; In the same way that the car saved the horse, the e-book will save the book.
Think about it, before cars, horses were the primary mode of transport for thousands of years, this led to widespead suffering of horses and distreadment of the animal. When the car came along, and horses were no longer needed for transportation, horses took on a new role, horses became a passion, they became well looked after and well cared for.
In the same way books todays are the primary form of reading, wheather its books, novels, manuals, manuscrips, textbooks.
In the end people will say well tyhe story you read is more impostant thn what you read it on,
I think the in the future we will see a slipt of uses, information books and pleaure books.
ebooks will step into the indormaion role, for everday use, like textbnooks, maunals, and books,
whilst books will remain for the passion , well they will become a passion for novels and storeis.
It makes sense to slip it this way, with the informaion books in digital format, they can be easily updated without buying another voulium, and since many prople
the second makes send on readon paper, where you can feel the book, and got those book reading purisits who insit a book must be read on apaper, this is it.
Published on March 19th, 2009 in Kindle Thoughts
The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. by David Carr – Kindle Book of the Week
In his fabulously entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans wrote: “There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth.” David Carr’s riveting debut memoir, The Night of the Gun, takes this theory to the extreme, as the New York Times reporter embarks on a three-year fact-finding mission to revisit his harrowing past as a drug addict and discovers that the search for answers can reveal many versions of the truth. Carr acknowledges that you can’t write a my-life-as-an-addict story without the recent memoir scandals of James Frey and others weighing you down, but he regains the reader’s trust by relying on his reporting skills to conduct dozens of often uncomfortable interviews with old party buddies, cops, and ex-girlfriends and follow an endless paper trail of legal and medical records, mug shots, and rejection letters. The kaleidoscopic narrative follows Carr through failed relationships and botched jobs, in and out of rehab and all manner of unsavory places in between, with cameos from the likes of Tom Arnold, Jayson Blair, and Barbara Bush. Admittedly, it’s hard to love David Carr–sometimes you barely like the guy. How can you feel sympathy for a man who was smoking crack with his pregnant girlfriend when her water broke? But plenty of dark humor rushes through the book, and knowing that this troubled man will make it–will survive addiction, fight cancer, raise his twin girls–makes you want to stick around for the full 400-page journey. -Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com Review
Get The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. by David Carr for your Kindle.
Book Details:
- ISBN: 1416541527
- ISBN-13: 978-1416541523
- Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster
- Pub. Date: August 5, 2008
Kindle Edition
The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. by David Carr is available on the Kindle:
- Print List Price: $26.00 – Save $11.70 (45%) with the Kindle edition
- Kindle Price: $14.30, includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
– 4/5 Amazon Rating from 158 customer reviews- Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,856 in Books – #3,960 in Kindle Store
Published on March 1st, 2009 in Book of the Week
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott – Kindle Book of the Week
Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with “dead-looking skin and… marble eyes” (actually Golems) storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality. Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex’s prophecies: “The two that are one will come either to save or to destroy the world.” Mayhem ensues, as Irish author Scott draws on a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gun—Dr. John Dee—against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins (Sophie’s powers are “awakened” by the goddess Hekate, who’d been living in an elaborate treehouse north of San Francisco). Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month. Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels. Proceeding at a breakneck pace, and populated by the likes of werewolves and vampires, the novel ends on a precipice, presumably to be picked up in volume two.
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Book Details:
- ISBN: 0385733577
- ISBN-13: 978-0385733571
- Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
- Pub. Date: May 22, 2007
Kindle Edition
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott is available on the Kindle:
- Print List Price: $16.99 – Save $1.80 (20%) with the Kindle edition
- Kindle Price: $7.19 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
– 4.5/5 Amazon Rating from 84 customer reviews- Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,983in Books – #880 in Kindle Store
Published on February 22nd, 2009 in Book of the Week
