Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales

Tuesday, 29 December 2009  via manilatimes
On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard-copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.

Amazon also said that its e-book reader, the Kindle, "has become the most gifted item in Amazon's history."   

 

Continue reading here   http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/tech-times/8636-amazon-christmas-day-e-book-sales-beat-print-sales

E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry

You can read lots of books on Amazon's Kindle -- but the device's interface design isn't exactly on the cutting edge.

 By Marion Maneker  Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 27, 2009

The evolution of publishing from print to digital has caused a schism in the reading world. There are now two constituencies: readers (and writers) on the one hand, and the publishing world on the other. And they don't want to hear each other.

Readers want books that are plentiful and cheap, publishers want to preserve their profit, and authors want a larger share of revenue. The conflict has created a strident internecine battle inside the publishing industry. At issue are the price and timing of e-books, and who owns the rights to backlist titles. While publishers, agents and Amazon.com bicker, there is little time for conceiving new content that satisfies customer demand. If the book business doesn't tune in to that demand, it could wind up as a transitional source for the e-readers. Continue reading here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122403326.html?hpid%3Dsec-tech&sub=AR

Using Amazon’s Kindle in the Philippines

There are plenty of free ebooks online as well you can read on the Kindle.
From the unlawyer blog:  The latest Kindle firmware update, Version 2.3, has a PDF reader already built in, so an updated Kindle can now read PDF files without being first converted into an AZW file.

On the negative side: since my Kindle 2 is associated with a Philippine address, I can only make purchases from the international section of the Kindle store. The selections are somewhat less due to what I think are Amazon’s limited rights to sell certain e-books outside of the United States. Plus, they cost more to boot – I suppose to help pay for the cost of sending all that data through a foreign mobile phone network. I might as well mention that certain elements of newspapers and magazines, like graphics and pictures, are omitted from the downloaded material if purchased from said store.Continue reading here   http://www.unlawyer.net/?p=3025

My note:  There are plenty of free ebooks online as well you can read on the Kindle. 

 Check out some at my postinghttp://kindlephilippines.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-can-find-more-than-ten-thousand.html

Amazon’s Kindle customers aren’t getting any happier about the end product.

From MY Times blog:  A quick perusal of the comments show customers repeatedly griping about poor screen quality, unattractive device design and the constraints of digital rights management software on books and newspapers. Mr. Bezos may be right when he says an e-reader is better than a book, but the customer satisfaction suggests why so many companies are rushing in to compete with his Kindle.  Continue reading here http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/is-amazon-working-backwards/?ref=technology

E-readers and e-books: The new bestsellers & Amazon Kindle FAQ

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 E-readers and e-books: The new bestsellers

Amazon's Kindle to get audible menus, bigger font

Nook faces Amazon Kindle in snail-paced race

Not Yet the Season for the Nook

Showing off the Nook

Amazon Kindle FAQ

Publishers plan rival to Kindle format

Amazon Kindle officially selling like hot cakes - Gadgets
Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books

Amazon Kindle Comes to iPhone in Over 60 Countries

Five Magazine and Newspaper Publishers Introduce Their Digital Newsstand

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Taiwan Plans to Roll out E-readers in Schools & Amazon Kindle FAQ

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Taiwan Plans to Roll out E-readers in Schools

Did Kindle Sales Get a Boost from Nook's Fumble?

Amazon Kindle FAQ

Nook faces Amazon Kindle in snail-paced race

Amazon's Kindle to get audible menus, bigger font

Amazon Kindle officially selling like hot cakes - Gadgets

Publishers plan rival to Kindle format

Showing off the Nook

Two Publishers Delay E-Books

Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader arrives with wrinkles

Not Yet the Season for the Nook

Does the Amazon kindle have a backlight and does it hold a SD card?

No real e-book readers have a back light. Backlight cuases eyestrain, so instead they use e-ink. This makes them much, much easier to read on a bright sunny day though. If you need a light at night, you can use a clip on light.

The Kindle 1 has an SD slot, but the Kindle 2 does not. You don't really need it as it holds 1500 books and archives ALL your Amazon books for you for re-download as needed.

Newer books you'll have to get from Amazon. You can get older books from any site that offers e-books without DRM (though some may need converted first). For public domain books I recommend Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net. I think they're both formatting better than Google books.

No real e-book readers have a back light. Backlight cuases eyestrain, so instead they use e-ink. This makes them much, much easier to read on a bright sunny day though. If you need a light at night, you can use a clip on light.
The Kindle 1 has an SD slot, but the Kindle 2 does not. You don't really need it as it holds 1500 books and archives ALL your Amazon books for you for re-download as needed.

You need this light to use the Kindle for reading in the dark, it doesn't have backlight:
http://www.amazon.com/review/RV3IIPVW8NO6W?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

It doesn't have SD card, but 2GB internal memory. And you just need to get the books directly from Amazon.

Does it have a backlight?
The Kindle does not have backlight for easy reading with your eyes. Read here and you'll know:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/tag/kindle/forum?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&ref_=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp&cdThread=Tx164P1YL79AI6U
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you can find more than ten thousand free books for the Kindle. So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://manybooks.net/
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Review  written by a person who has tried Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, and some other ebook readers. It is also the best review I've ever read about ebook readers:

Soul of the e-reader; Kindle 2 gets closer to delivering the promise., February 23, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3QM7LGL62MZ4X?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

The Dinosaur & the Kindle, May 6, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/review/R9J54TZ1541OR?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Buy Amazon Kindle 2 now or wait for Kindle 3? & How much will it take for Kindle 3 to come out?

Comments replies

Their next release will be the international DX early next year. No one knows when the K3 will come out, and it could be a year or two. Are you that patient? If so you're better than me! There's not even an announcement yet let alone a release date, though I'm sure its in the works.

IMO, the K2 is better than the Nook and the store is certainly better so Amazon already has B&N beat unless they can figure out all the problems they're having with the Nook software.

Oh and just so you know, you can read PDFs on the Kindle. Either natively or converted. I prefer conversion because they you can highlight, etc.
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I own the Kindle 2 and I do think the Kindle 2 is a mature product that is worth to buy. It has price cut recently and it is now selling at a good price. When Kindle 3 comes out, it must be selling at a higher price, so you'll need to wait even longer.

This is a review from a top reviewer and a book lover, see how she says:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i…

BTW, there are some websites like these two, where you can find more than ten thousand free books for the Kindle. So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://manybooks.net/

Reviews of the Amazon Kindle 2

Review  written by a person who has tried Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, and some other ebook readers. It is also the best review I've ever read about ebook readers:

Soul of the e-reader; Kindle 2 gets closer to delivering the promise., February 23, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3QM7LGL62MZ4X?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

The Dinosaur & the Kindle, May 6, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/review/R9J54TZ1541OR?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

you can find more than ten thousand free books for the Kindle. So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://manybooks.net/

you can find more thanyou can find more than ten thousand free books for the Kindle. So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://manybooks.net/ So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://manybooks.net/

Does the Amazon kindle have a backlight and does it hold a SD card?

No real e-book readers have a back light. Backlight cuases eyestrain, so instead they use e-ink. This makes them much, much easier to read on a bright sunny day though. If you need a light at night, you can use a clip on light.

The Kindle 1 has an SD slot, but the Kindle 2 does not. You don't really need it as it holds 1500 books and archives ALL your Amazon books for you for re-download as needed.
Newer books you'll have to get from Amazon. You can get older books from any site that offers e-books without DRM (though some may need converted first). For public domain books I recommend Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net. I think they're both formatting better than Google books.

No real e-book readers have a back light. Backlight cuases eyestrain, so instead they use e-ink. This makes them much, much easier to read on a bright sunny day though. If you need a light at night, you can use a clip on light.

The Kindle 1 has an SD slot, but the Kindle 2 does not. You don't really need it as it holds 1500 books and archives ALL your Amazon books for you for re-download as needed.

You need this light to use the Kindle for reading in the dark, it doesn't have backlight:
http://www.amazon.com/review/RV3IIPVW8NO6W?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

It doesn't have SD card, but 2GB internal memory. And you just need to get the books directly from Amazon.

Does it have a backlight?

The Kindle does not have backlight for easy reading with your eyes. Read here and you'll know:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/tag/kindle/forum?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&ref_=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp&cdThread=Tx164P1YL79AI6U

The Age of the Internet Tablet Is Nigh

December 10th, 2009 from Mashable web:    Much like the eReader space has been heating up (with a host of new entrants like the Nook and Que taking on Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader), the tablet device form factor race has seriously begun. Rumors have been flying about both an Apple Tablet and the Microsoft Courier, and now two new companies may have plans to bust out a tablet device: Dell and Asus.

Dell’s forthcoming tablet is still officially in the rumor stages, according to Pocket Lint. It will reportedly run AndroidAndroid and have a 5-inch screen, making it more akin to something like the Archos 5 Internet Tablet than either the Apple Tablet or the Courier, both reportedly featuring bigger screen real estate. Asus, too, who kicked off the wildly popular netbook craze with its line of Eee PCs, reportedly has plans to release an Eee Pad tablet device.

 

Continue reading here  http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/age-of-the-tablet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

 

Not Yet The Season For a Nook

Every one of the Nook's vaunted distinctions from Amazon's Kindle comes
fraught with disappointing footnotes. Read the story here
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue.html?ref=technology

Amazon Kindle e-book reader is great to bring with you when you travel

Amazon Kindle e-book reader. It really is a great thing to bring around when you travel. It is smaller than a netbook but can store hundreds of books. One of the big advantages with Amazon is that it has a backup of all the books that you bought. Even if you lose a book, you can get another copy and all the books that you bought from them can be restored to you.

The 10 Best Books of 2009 & Taiwan to invest $65 million in e-book industry

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

 Some reflections on reading and e-readers

Nook In-Store Sales Are Delayed

Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text

Book Learning, Reading your kindle in the bathtub

Taiwan to invest $65 million in e-book industry

E-Readers: They're Hot Now, But the Story Isn't Over

Books are having their iPod moment this holiday season. But buyer beware: It could also turn out to be an eight-track moment.

While e-reading devices were once considered a hobby for early adopters, Justin Timberlake is now pitching one on prime-time TV commercials for Sony Corp. Meanwhile, Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reading device has become its top-selling product of any kind. Forrester Research estimates 900,000 e-readers will sell in the U.S. in November and December.


WSJ's Geoffrey Fowler joins the News Hub and discusses the "format wars" and other pitfalls to avoid when buying an e-reader this holiday season.

But e-reader buyers may be sinking cash into a technology that could become obsolete. While the shiny glass-and-metal reading gadgets offer some whiz-bang features like wirelessly downloading thousands of books, many also restrict the book-reading experience in ways that trusty paperbacks haven't, such as limiting lending to a friend. E-reader technology is changing fast, and manufacturers are aiming to address the devices' drawbacks. Continue reading here
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704328104574519851557848662.html

E-Readers May Hold More Surprises & Amazon says Kindle sales hit monthly record in Nov Yahoo

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E-Readers May Hold More Surprises

Amazon says Kindle sales hit monthly record in Nov Yahoo 

Barnes & Noble Delays Nook by One Week

Amazon Kindle boosts battery life, adds PDF reader

To compete with the Nook, the Amazon Kindle patches some holes in its feature list.

Courtesy of Amazon.com  Thanks to a software update, the Amazon Kindle will now enjoy better battery life and PDF support.

As shoppers draft their holiday wish lists, Amazon made a move today to nudge potential e-reader buyers into asking Santa for a Kindle.

A free software update will now patch up one of the frustrating holes in Kindle’s feature list and increase its battery life.

The e-readers can now get up to a week of power when its wireless antenna is turned on. Before, Kindles lasted about four days. This update makes the wireless features more energy efficient, so there is not a similar boost in the two-week battery life enjoyed when the connection is turned off. Kindle’s chief competitor, the Barnes and Noble Nook, will run for 10 days with wireless functions disabled.  Read more here http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/24/amazon-kindle-boosts-battery-life-adds-pdf-reader/

Kindle for PC Beta Brings E-Books to Bigger Screens

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Kindle for PC Beta Brings E-Books to Bigger Screens

Did Kindle Sales Get a Boost from Nook's Fumble? & Barnes & Noble Delays Nook by One Week

Barnes & Noble Delays Nook by One Week Barnes & Noble has delayed its retail debut of the Nook e-reader by one week. Click the headlline to read more

 

Did Kindle Sales Get a Boost from Nook's Fumble? Amazon knows about supply shortages, but this time the Kindle may benefit from its competitors' inventory control issues.  Click the headlline to read more

Is there an e-reader shortage?

Is there an e-reader shortage?
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