Amazon’s 3G Kindle Leaps China’s Great Wall of Censorship
Chinese users of Amazon’s Kindle get an unexpected bonus along with being able to read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo—they can use the device’s Whispernet 3G powers to leap over the Great Firewall of censorship. Amazon’s Kindle 3G Whispernet service is pulling a fast one on the Chinese censorship-happy government, and giving Chinese Kindle…
Amazon Will Let You Loan Kindle Books to a Friend — But Publishers Can Turn It Off
Amazon will add a neat new feature to its Kindle e-book program later this year, designed to let you loan Kindle e-books to your friends, either via Kindle devices or the Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad, Android, etc. Sounds great! We’ve been hoping for this for a long time, because this is how people…
Amazon’s Secret: Incest In The Kindle Ad?
I had to know. What exactly is the story that the woman’s reading in Amazon’s Kindle ad? It appears briefly on the screen before the camera pulls back to reveal the beach. But now I’m almost sorry that I asked… Last week I interviewed the author who wrote the book, Where the God of Love…