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Trading up? You can donate your used Kindle 2 to deployed military personnel
Earlier this year, Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles partnered with Ken Clark to create a non-profit group called E-Books for Troops. Its purpose is fairly self-explanatory: to provide free ebooks, and devices on which to read them, to deployed … Continue reading
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Tagged charities, donations, Kindle 2, military, non-profits, not for profits, overseas, support, troops, used kindles
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Kindle 3 pre-orders sold out; next wave ships September 4th
Just a quick note that both the $189 and $139 Kindle 3 models are now listed as sold out on Amazon.com, even though they don’t ship until August 27th. Amazon now says that new pre-orders will ship “on or before … Continue reading
Kindle 3 early reactions: smaller, faster, better
Everyone spent the past few days going nuts over the new Kindle. Admittedly, this upcoming third generation model looks pretty nice based on Amazon’s description: the company says it’s fast, light, almost pocket-sized, and bordering on mass-market affordability. But does … Continue reading
Bezos predicts Kindle book sales will surpass paperbacks within a year
USAToday sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to talk to him about the Kindle and the accompanying bookstore. Bezos is suprisingly candid about several issues. Some highlights: On the recent news that Kindle books are outselling hardcovers on Amazon: … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, bezos, ebooks, interviews, kindle, predictions, sales figures, strategy
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U.S. Copyright Office okays stripping DRM on some types of ebooks
Update: I may be getting too excited; readers over at Teleread say this was already possible, and today’s announcement just affirmed that it will remain an exemption for the next three years. The Copyright Office is handing out a whole … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking, circumvention, copyright, copyright office, cracked, disabled, dmca, drm, ebooks, exemptions, fair use, kindle, library of congress, loc, loopholes, text to speech, tts
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Updike, Nabokov, Borges and other literary giants finally hit the Kindle Store
Update, 24 Aug 2010:Wylie’s agency has made-up with Random House and is canceling this deal with Amazon, so never mind. Original post below: Up until now, some of the biggest names in Western literature–Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Hunter S. … Continue reading
Posted in authors, books, business, ebooks, news, publishing
Tagged agents, Amazon, canon, classics, ebooks, exclusive, kindle, literature, publishing, wylie
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Amazon says it now sells more ebooks than hardcovers
The rate of ebook adoption in the marketplace is increasing rapidly, at least for Amazon. The company announced yesterday that it sold an average of 43% more ebooks than hardcovers in the second quarter of 2010, and that number jumped … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, earnings, ebooks, ebooks vs print, kindle, numbers, reports, sales, sales figures, stats
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