My Kindle Stuff

(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 [...]

Want an alternative to the Amazon Kindle store?  Head on over to the Fictionwise Kindle store and click away.  All you have to do is register on the site. Once you’ve done so you can elect to have the books sent wirelessly to your Kindle–remember Amazon charges $ .15/MB, or you can move your purchases [...]

(Updated: 12/15/2009 – Kindle Book Deletion has been confirmed.  You can delete books from your account on the Manage Your Kindle page.  Also, you can add Kindle books to your Wish List via the Kindle store on your device or online.)
Thanks to Anarel on Kindleboards who noticed the new feature on the Kindle’s Manage Your [...]

Amazon has added a Shmoop Classics page for Kindlers. You can browse the “Shmoop Classics for Kindle ” page, or go to the much less friendly to the eye “All Shmoop Classics” Kindle page. If you go to the latter, you’d better know what you’re looking for because there is no [...]

Is it me, or does browsing for a Kindle book via the Amazon site pretty much suck?  (We’ll talk about searching later–yuck!) And it’s getting worse!  I hate to say it, but I’m blaming it on all the self-publishing, both for public domain and original texts.  In fact, that’s why I started this blog.  I [...]