My Kindle Stuff

When the Kindle 2 was announced, then began shipping a year ago, I happily gave my Kindle 1 to my daughter.  She has been cheerfully downloading both books and knitting patterns (for on-the-go knitting) since then. About a week and a half ago, she announced that it had died. When we contacted Amazon, we eventually [...]

(Update 9:20PM 1/31/2010) – Well, Amazon gave into MacMillan’s demands for higher prices.  For the full story see the NYT article here.  It remains to see what, if any fallout there is for the publisher or the ebook industry as a whole.  Certainly, publishers own their content and can set the pricing for it, but I [...]

This morning I was greeted by the below email from Amazon:
Dear Kindle User,
We’re sending this note to remind you about proper attachment and use of your Kindle cover and about Amazon’s Kindle warranty. You can view instructions and illustrations here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200390460
ATTACHING THE COVER
To install the Kindle, open the cover and lay it on a flat [...]

From Amazon Press Release:
SEATTLE, Jan 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — (NASDAQ: AMZN)–For the past two years, Amazon has welcomed authors and publishers to directly upload and sell content in the Kindle Store through the self-service Kindle publishing platform. Today, Amazon announced that it is inviting software developers to build and upload active content that will [...]

A lot of folks are clamoring for a Kindle 3.  Some want to bring the current crop of Kindles (US, Int’l) up to par with the nook, others to add multi-usage functionality and the rest seemingly because they believe that hardware should refresh every year.
I’m not in any of the above camps.  As far as [...]