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How Would You Explain the Kindle to Charles Dickens?

Tasked with the assignment of explaining something modern or internet-related to to someone who died before 1900, Rachel Walsh decided to demonstrate the Kindle to Dickens. Creating 40 mini books of Dickens’ favorite titles, they were placed inside a hardback. “I made the book start to finish over five days, and it took about 35…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Google Won’t be “Doing a Kindle” and Selling Ad-Supported Chromebooks

It’d be so easy for them! But alas, Google has “no plans at this time” to follow Amazon’s route of selling a product for $20 less (well, we’d hope for more of a discount obviously), with ads displayed on the screensaver. [The Telegraph] https://gizmodo.com/this-sponsored-gadget-is-the-beginning-of-the-look-fre-5791056

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Perfect Music Service

Google Music is here, promising the magic of the cloud. Is it the perfect way to consume music digitally? Well, that’s what they want us to believe. Google Music isn’t perfect. You’re limited by what you already have (and plan to purchase in the future). If your library is big, it could cost a small…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Video-On-Demand: A Complete Guide to All the TV and Movie Downloading Services

Stop watching movies and TV shows according to Hollywood’s schedule! With video-on-demand, you can watch TV whenever you want, wherever you want, and you don’t even have to remember to program a box to record it. Here’s MaximumPC’s take on the major online VOD services available today. Amazon Instant Video What Is It? Amazon.com‘s online…

Tech News Michael Brown - MaximumPC

Would you buy a science fiction novel published by Amazon.com?

Amazon.com has been redefining the way you buy books for ages now — and next up, they may be publishing the books you read, as well. Amazon Publishing just launched its fourth and biggest imprint, Montlake Romance. And the company has already said it plans to move beyond romance into other genres, including science fiction.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

A new month is upon us! Warmth! Fresh air! Smiling children! Tax refunds! Flowers! And plenty of gadgets—tablets and smartphones and dongles, oh my!—crave. Here’s our newest of the best of the Bestmodo. For the full list of Gizmodo favorites, head over to the complete Best Gadgets In Best T-Mobile Phone: The 4G, Tegra 2-packing…

Commerce Sam Biddle

There’ll Be No New E-Ink Displays For the Kindle and Other Ereaders This Year

Ereaders are as good as they’ll get for now—at least, in regards to the displays used in them, as E Ink (the company which supplies displays to Amazon and Barnes & Noble) told CNet not to expect anything this year. Sri Peruvemba, the vice president of global sales and marketing at E Ink, told CNet…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon’s Tablet Said to be Shipping Later This Year

Not only is Amazon’s Taiwanese-based components manufacturer Quanta Computer rumored to be readying their mysterious tablet for later this year, they’re also said to be using touchscreen Fringe Field Switching (FFS) LCD displays from E Ink, the same company that supplies Amazon with their Kindle screens. [Digitimes via SlashGear] https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon’s 69 Cent Songs: The Best Reason Yet To Ditch iTunes

Amazon’s dropped the price of popular new tracks on its online store to 69 cents, compared to its usual 89 cent pricepoint. (Best joke in the comments wins respect; terrible puns will be met with serious scorn.) Amazon’s also selling 1500 albums for $5 next month. Amazon’s clearly playing hardball against Apple, who’s doing the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Spotify Breaking Into Streaming Movie Service?

The Swedish streaming music company Spotify is looking to start offering movies, too, says Techcrunch. The service probably won’t be available until fall, but subscribers will get to view movies before they’re available for anyone else. TC also says the movies will be watchable worldwide. [TechCrunch]i

Commerce Max Behrman

Amazon’s Shipping the Ad-Supported Kindle a Week Early

Pre-ordered one of those slightly-cheaper ad-supported Kindles? Good news! Amazon’s said they’re sending them out a week early, from tomorrow. For the uninitiated, this Kindle costs $25 less than regular ones, but comes with the occasional advert on its screensaver. [All Things D] https://gizmodo.com/this-sponsored-gadget-is-the-beginning-of-the-look-fre-5791056

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Are Two Tablet Screens Really Better Than One?

Sony announced their dual-screened S2 tablet today. It’s not the only twin-screen tablet, but considering recent ill-conceived efforts from the likes of Acer, Toshiba and Kyocera, we’re a little skeptical. With the S2, Sony’s basically cut a 10-inch screen in half and stuck a hinge in between. How much of a benefit can two screens…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Calling the Internet Police

Life in the cloud is all well and good until a server goes down. Tweetage Wasteland’s David Pell posits on the pitfalls of entrusting our offline lives to online services. A few months ago my friend Hudson was working on a new and promising internet business. He hired contractors for most of the work –…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola

How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon

Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly, published in 1992, is supposed to be a great book for developmental biologists. But no matter how great and how rare it is (it’s out of print), a new edition probably doesn’t cost the $23,698,655.93 it was listed for on Amazon. The used book sells for only $35!…

Commerce Casey Chan

Case Logic’s Water Resistant Kindle Case

The Kindle is the perfect vacation and leisure gadget, except for two things: the sea and bath tubs can really put the hurt on it. And, second only to a light, there’s almost no more important accessory for a Kindle than a water-resistant cover like this one from Case Logic. Like Thick plastic, easy to…

Reviews Brian Lam

Kindle App for Android Gets Updated to Support Android Honeycomb Tablets

The Kindle app for Android is now optimized for Android Honeycomb tablets. Newspapers and magazines look much better on the larger screen, there’s a better word look-up feature, and you can pause and resume downloads. [Android Market]

Commerce Casey Chan

When the Amazon Cloud Goes Down, Your Favorite Internet Time Sucks Go With It

Amazon’s EC2 cloud storage service had some problems while we were all sleeping last night (Read: IT CRASHED), causing a few websites we’ve come to know and love to take a brief nap (Read: THEY CRASHED). EC2 is Amazon’s scalable data center, which lets companies pay for more server storage and bandwidth on the fly,…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Soon You’ll Be Borrowing Kindle Ebooks From Your Local Library

Amazon’s announced—but not yet activated—a new service that will let you take out (read: download) ebooks from your local library and enjoy them on your Kindle or Kindle app. Kindle Library Lending is not an entirely new concept; Amazon’s partner, OverDrive, is already compatible with a slew of other ebook readers and tablets. But what…

Commerce Brian Barrett

When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your Kindle, Your Back Issues Disappear Too (Updated)

Consider this to be your dismaying PSA of the day: Apparently, if you’re a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to stop subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—for good. That’s right—there is no way to retrieve what you already paid for and supposedly, already own. To top it…

Commerce Davey Alba

Will HP Beat Apple and Google to Streaming Music?

Google Music! iTunes Live! While rumors have ebbed and flowed about streaming music from Cupertino and Mountain View for well over a year now, is it possible that HP is going to beat both to the punch? That’s the word according to PreCentral, who obtained a slide in an HP presentation that details the HP…

Commerce Brian Barrett

How Would You Explain the Kindle to Charles Dickens?

Google Won’t be “Doing a Kindle” and Selling Ad-Supported Chromebooks

The Perfect Music Service

Video-On-Demand: A Complete Guide to All the TV and Movie Downloading Services

Would you buy a science fiction novel published by Amazon.com?

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

There’ll Be No New E-Ink Displays For the Kindle and Other Ereaders This Year

Amazon’s Tablet Said to be Shipping Later This Year

Amazon’s 69 Cent Songs: The Best Reason Yet To Ditch iTunes

Spotify Breaking Into Streaming Movie Service?

Amazon’s Shipping the Ad-Supported Kindle a Week Early

Are Two Tablet Screens Really Better Than One?

Calling the Internet Police

How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon

Case Logic’s Water Resistant Kindle Case

Kindle App for Android Gets Updated to Support Android Honeycomb Tablets

When the Amazon Cloud Goes Down, Your Favorite Internet Time Sucks Go With It

Soon You’ll Be Borrowing Kindle Ebooks From Your Local Library

When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your Kindle, Your Back Issues Disappear Too (Updated)

Will HP Beat Apple and Google to Streaming Music?

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