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Kindle App For BlackBerry Is A Stupid Idea

In my hate-post against ereaders last week, I claimed that Amazon’s protecting itself with its iPhone Kindle app, as the ereader market won’t last as long as people think. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-hate-ereaders-and-doubt-theyll-ever-hit-the-main-5423233 I’m not sure the rumored BlackBerry and Mac Kindle apps will do much for the Kindle or ereader industry as a whole, either. It’s still…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Delicate and Mild Dealzmodo: Free 2-Day Shipping on Kindle

Sometimes the deals we post are so flashy and impressive, it can be overwhelming. Here’s a deal that won’t necessarily make you buy something you ordinarily wouldn’t, but is a nice discount if you’ve already decided on the purchase. Amazon, who saw the best-selling month yet for its Kindle, is in turn offering free two-day…

Commerce Dan Nosowitz

New DoubleTwist Release Supports Nexus One, Adds Amazon MP3 Store for Windows

PC owners now have access to doubleTwist’s Amazon-linked music store, and all doubleTwist users will have support for the most talked about phone of the moment. Not a bad day’s worth of updates! https://gizmodo.com/doubletwists-amazon-mp3-store-one-less-reason-to-bothe-5376195 The doubleTwist-Amazon venture has been available for Macs for about a week, and looks like it will deploy the same easy-to-use…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Amazon Has the Kindle and Barnes & Noble the Nook…So What About Borders?

We’ve all heard about the Kindle. And most of us know about the Nook. And while Borders is not selling a dedicated eBook reader of their own, they have just doubled down on digital distribution. While Borders already sells electronic books (in ePub format), they’ve bought a fair chunk of eBook retailer Kobo. What’s this…

Commerce Mark Wilson

Walmart’s Grand Anti-Amazon Strategy: Drive-Thru

The epic retail struggle of our time, brick and mortar and yellow smileys versus, um, internets—Walmart and Amazon. Sam Walton’s blue behemoth roars with lower pricing. But now it has a new kill tactic: Drive-through. Wait, what? https://gizmodo.com/walmarts-war-on-amazon-could-obliterate-the-publishing-5383188 Yes, according to the WSJ, Walmart’s new anti-Amazon strategy is a drive-through window to pick up stuff…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

The Fight for eBook Publishing Rights

For the past 15 years or so, most authors who’ve signed with publishers have explicitly defined their ebook publishing rights. But who owns the rights to the bazillions of books published before ebooks existed? There’s a battle raging (okay, it’s actually being handled rather quietly through proper legal channels) right now between publishers and authors…

Commerce Chris Jacob

How To Suck Newspapers Straight to the Kindle, Free and Automatically

Gadget Lab has a simple tutorial on setting up a Mac to automatically beam your Kindle any web-based content, conveniently stripped of any ads. If I had a Kindle, I’d try this. But I’m with Kat. [Wired]

Commerce Mark Wilson

Inside Amazon’s RV Wonderland: Where Your Christmas Is Packed and Shipped

We saw one of Amazon’s UK centers yesterday, but it’s nothing like this center in Coffeyville, Kansas, populated by dudes in RVs, no doubt lured by the promises of this epic promo video. But man, the jobs looks pretty rough: https://gizmodo.com/santas-real-workshop-amazons-gargantuan-distro-centers-5422694 During the peak holiday season, for $10.50 an hour during the day, or $11…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Why I Hate Ereaders, And Doubt They’ll Ever Hit the Mainstream

It started with Sony. Like most poorly thought-out format ideas from the Japanese titan, 2004’s Librie ereader promised a revolutionary new way to perform an act you never realized needed an overhaul. Reading. Books, in the paper and ink form, have been around for over a thousand years. You can bet your prized copy of…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon Disc+ on Demand: Buy a DVD or Blu-ray Movie, Stream It Instantly

This is awesome and just plain makes sense: With Amazon’s Disc+ on Demand, when you buy a DVD or Blu-ray movie, you’ll be able to stream it instantly via Amazon On Demand. So far, they’ve got this going for a few hundred titles it looks like, and it’s restricted to the US, but hopefully it…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Santa’s Real Workshop: Amazon’s Gargantuan Distro Centers

Kids imagine that their Christmas presents come from a huge, crowded workshop full of elves at the North Pole. In reality, they come from huge, crowded warehouses full of workers in the ‘burbs. These insane shots come from Amazon UK’s distribution center, but you can be sure that there are a bunch more just like…

Commerce Adam Frucci

Books, and the iTunes Problem

Ransacked by the internet and teetering on the edge of the real ebook revolution, the publishing world is understandably afraid of what’s next. But their skittish plans to shoehorn digital books into the old publishing cycle are stupid. And doomed. Simon & Schuster sees what’s happening: Real people are buying ebooks now, and the market,…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Cute Blonde in Cute Video Singing Cute Song Convinces Me to Buy Cute Kindle

Jeff Bezos, you trickster. Here I was, resisting the urge to buy one of your Kindles, and then you throw at me Annie Little and her cute “Fly Me Away.” I want my life to move in stop motion.

Commerce Jesus Diaz

Audible Menus and Giant Fonts For Blind and Vision-Impaired Kindle Users in 2010

After an acrimonious decision earlier this year to let authors determine text-to-speech availability in their e-books, Amazon has vowed to roll out new Kindle features for blind and vision-impaired readers in 2010. According to a post on their site, the updates include audible menus and a new super size font for easier navigation. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/photos-and-video-from-the-national-federation-of-the-bl-5202554

Commerce Kyle VanHemert

eBeam Whiteboard Delivers Notes to Kindle, for the Kid Who Forgot His Glasses

In elementary school, I was that kid who always had to sit up front when I forgot my glasses. Think of all the time I could have spent goofing off! If only I had those notes delivered to my Kindle… Luidia’s eBeam whiteboard has been around for a while, the one that takes a snapshot…

Commerce Chris Jacob

Ereaders Are a Nazi Scheme, and More Bizarre Theories From Ebooks’ Sworn Enemies

There is a discussion to be had about whether or not ebooks are bad for writing, reading, and bookselling. There is also, apparently, a discussion to be had about whether or not ebook proponents are just like the Nazis. Let’s start with Sherman Alexie, author of a fair number of popular (and quite good!) books,…

Commerce John Herrman

Can My iPod Make This Airplane Explode?

Listening to an iPod or reading a Kindle during takeoff isn’t dangerous. It’s time the airlines stopped pretending that it is. For years we’ve been told that gadgets produce EMI—electromagnetic interference—that cause glitches in an aircraft’s avionics. A cellphone could interrupt communication between pilots and the tower for a crucial second, or a child’s Game…

Commerce Joel Johnson

Amazon To Open Physical Store in UK?

With Best Buy opening in the UK soon, could Amazon be planning a walk-in store too? Sounds pretty crazy to us, considering its doing so well already without the massive overheads a central London store would bring. UPDATE The Sunday Times has reported that Amazon’s currently looking for “bricks-and-mortar stores” to open up in, hopefully…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Unconfirmed: Amazon’s Secret Underground Play in the Retail Space

Is Amazon prepping the U.K. for a British retail chain invasion? Possibly, says a report in the Times today. Indeed, says the source, as part of a move that goes against the shrinking retail space, Amazon would open a number of branded retail stores there, and soon. It’s not entirely crazy. As we reported earlier…

Commerce Jack Loftus

Amazon’s Bezos Compares Nook eBook Sharing to Sophie’s Choice

Meow! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is on the warpath against Barnes & Noble’s Nook, specifically its eBook lending feature. In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, he pulled no punches with some masterful hyperbole: Updated. “The current thing being talked about is extremely limited. You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t…

Commerce Jack Loftus

Kindle App For BlackBerry Is A Stupid Idea

Delicate and Mild Dealzmodo: Free 2-Day Shipping on Kindle

New DoubleTwist Release Supports Nexus One, Adds Amazon MP3 Store for Windows

Amazon Has the Kindle and Barnes & Noble the Nook…So What About Borders?

Walmart’s Grand Anti-Amazon Strategy: Drive-Thru

The Fight for eBook Publishing Rights

How To Suck Newspapers Straight to the Kindle, Free and Automatically

Inside Amazon’s RV Wonderland: Where Your Christmas Is Packed and Shipped

Why I Hate Ereaders, And Doubt They’ll Ever Hit the Mainstream

Amazon Disc+ on Demand: Buy a DVD or Blu-ray Movie, Stream It Instantly

Santa’s Real Workshop: Amazon’s Gargantuan Distro Centers

Books, and the iTunes Problem

Cute Blonde in Cute Video Singing Cute Song Convinces Me to Buy Cute Kindle

Audible Menus and Giant Fonts For Blind and Vision-Impaired Kindle Users in 2010

eBeam Whiteboard Delivers Notes to Kindle, for the Kid Who Forgot His Glasses

Ereaders Are a Nazi Scheme, and More Bizarre Theories From Ebooks’ Sworn Enemies

Can My iPod Make This Airplane Explode?

Amazon To Open Physical Store in UK?

Unconfirmed: Amazon’s Secret Underground Play in the Retail Space

Amazon’s Bezos Compares Nook eBook Sharing to Sophie’s Choice

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