amazon kindle

I wrote a few days ago about the new program Amazon is offering to bloggers: Fill out a form, get approved, and sell your blog content on the Amazon Kindle platform. (In brief, Amazon pays you 30-percent of the price THEY set for your blog, most starting in the $1.99 a month range.) Now, two [...]

Amazing, fantastic, fun, exciting . . . news from Amazon:  Bloggers can now (once approved) sell a subscription to their blogs on the Amazon Kindle platform. You can now publish your blog (or any RSS feed) for sale on the Amazon Kindle store and Amazon will share revenue with you for every Kindle user who [...]

My Kindle 2 arrived a few days ago, with a slender Amazon box, holding a heavy black sleeve interior packaging and a carton cradling the slimmest Kindle imaginable. I’d seen photos, of course, but was surprised how lightweight the new Kindle really is. To be honest, I never had a problem with Kindle 1′s size [...]

Amazon announced today that there are now more than 185,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines available for immediate download. As a Kindle owner, I can tell you there are things about the Kindle that I don’t like (i.e. no back-lighting) but they’re fabulous when it comes to portability and pricing. Because I travel so frequently [...]

Popular Mechanics announced its picks for the 2008 Breakthrough Awards awards in what the publication called The 10 Most Brilliant Gadets of the Year. Amazon’s Kindle was #3, behind Microsoft Photosynth and Spore. Using the 10.3 ounce Kindle you can read almost any popular book, newspapers from all over the world, or Internet blogs from [...]