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 [...]

Press Release from Amazon this morning:
To make Kindle more useful for the blind, the Kindle team is currently working on an audible menuing system so blind and vision-impaired readers can easily navigate to books unassisted, in addition to listening to books as they can already do today with Read To Me. In addition, a new [...]

Update – The update is for all Kindle 2 users and can be updated manually from Amazon by downloading here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200324680

Wireless battery extended
PDF support added
Page orientation added (manual)

Amazon must want to save on wireless delivery of the update as it has gotten to the update page much quicker than has been usual for [...]

Just got this from Amazon.  The app is not yet ready, but you can sign up to be notified when available for download
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SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 22, 2009– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced “Kindle for PC,” the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC). The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) currently offers [...]

Overnight, Amazon changed the Kindle offerings to the Kindle 2 (International) and Kindle DX only.  Gee, could the nook have something to do with that?  I doubt it; this was probably a case of dropping the price of the K2 to get rid of inventory and keep to their claim of a single model for [...]