Amazon Kindle Delays to end soon - Bezos on Kindle Waiting Times

The media buzz over Jeff Bezos’ apology letter for Amazon Kindle Delays amazes me. For anyone wondering about Kindle delays i.e. Bezos: “We hope to be able to announce to you within the next few weeks that we’re back in stock and that when you order a Kindle, we’ll ship it to you that very same day. That’s [...]

The end of the book world as we know it?

DETROIT - Borders could become the latest victim of the credit squeeze, announcing Thursday that it may put itself up for sale. Rival Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, saw fourth-quarter profits drop 9 percent as the industry struggles with intense competition from discounters.
Read all about Borders’ woes on Yahoo News. 
Wow - i can’t imagine a world without Borders. [...]

Free Books from Harper Collins Publishing - Browse Inside Free Books

A big thanks to DBA guy for pointing this out so we don’t have to wait till monday - there are three free books available now (and links are in this post itself - hard to miss). Plus preview chapters for a lot of other books.

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Kindle Cases from WaterField Designs available in three models - Kindle Travel Case, Kindle Slip Case, and Kindle Sleeve Case

Edit (on Feb 8th) - apparently there are complaints on the mobileread forums because you can’t read the kindle while in the case - ummm - wow, yeah i guess after looking at the specs and pics in detail - that might be true. So will someone from the company please clarify + users be aware that these are [...]

Amazon now has 100,382 books available at the Kindle Store

Nice update from the Amazon Kindle Blog - Over 100,000 Books Now Available

Kindle NowNow won’t answer technical support questions - Details

Before I go into my personal stance on this, here’s part of an email from someone affected by this and it includes the email he got from Amazon asking him not to answer Kindle questions on NowNow.
I’m one of the volunteers at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - A service that Amazon has to preform tasks that [...]

Amazon-Audible Future - a great post from the NY Time blog

some really good points in this post from the NY Times blog and some analysis on Amazon’s Audible acquisition. I didn’t know the audibook industry was $923 million a year.  I especially like the ending thoughts.