After last month’s Kindle 2 price decrease, everyone was wondering when or if Amazon would do something similar for the bigger Kindle DX. Now they have, but in a much more dramatic fashion. The Kindle 2 dropped in price, but otherwise remains the same. The DX, on the other hand, doesn’t even look the same [...]
Kindle DX
All Target stores to stock the Kindle starting June 6th
Update: Even though your local Target might have the Kindle on sale starting this weekend, you might want to wait until August when an improved model is rumored to arrive. Target’s experiment with being the first brick-and-mortar store to sell the Kindle was a success, so the company is expanding it to all locations, according [...]
How to turn off Amazon's automatic backup of your annotations
I wrote earlier about the needless concern over Amazon’s new “Popular Highlights” service, which anonymously collects highlights from customers’ Kindle ebooks and combines them into one giant pool for everyone to browse. I still say that in the world of online privacy, this is harmless; if you’re really concerned about a website keeping data on [...]
Getting started with Kindle, Part IV
Here’s the last installment of the Kindle 101 getting started guide, and if you’ve made it this far then you already know how the Kindle works and how to get started. Today’s final part addresses some of the most frequently asked questions new Kindle customers have. I also offer a few tips and tricks for [...]
Getting started with Kindle, Part III
Part 3 of the Kindle 101 guide is more fun than the other parts, mainly because I drew pictures. Below are a few examples of how the Kindle system works, including buying, deleting, and bookmarking Kindle ebooks. Part 3 of 4: How it all works I made flowcharts! You can register up to 6 [...]
Getting started with Kindle, Part II
Today, in Part 2 of a 4-part Kindle 101 series, I want to explain how to get started. If you think you have to spend hundreds of dollars to start buying and reading Kindle books, you’ll be happy to know that’s no longer the case. Part 2 of 4: Getting started So you’ve decided [...]
Getting started with Kindle, Part I
Every week the ebook market seems to grow more confusing, so I thought it might be a good idea to provide the most basic of introductions to the Kindle — the sort of stuff that Kindle vets take for granted but that newcomers would like to know, like how it all works and what you [...]
Giant-sized Kindle DX looks awesome, comes at a giant-sized price
Well, I was hoping to see some sort of subsidy announcement today from the newspapers when Amazon announced its big-screen Kindle DX, and while the New York Times did say that they’ll do just that at some point later this year, it will be in a limited capacity, meaning only offered in areas where daily [...]