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Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon & Shuster

Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Simon & Shuster, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Image Gallery: Waterfield Designs cases for U810 and Celio REDFLY

Waterfield Designs makes some of the best carrying cases I have ever tried. In my search for a case for my Fujitsu U810 UMPC I discovered a couple that fit and one that also fits another new device I plan to purchase soon. by Matthew Miller

Tags: product photos, waterfield designs, laptop bag, carrying case, kindle, umpc, ultra portable

Image galleries 2008-03-31

Stop the Kindle hype!

The current meme about the Kindle is that Amazon's e-book reader is a monster success and is heralding the end of the hardcopy paper book. If that notion wasn't strange enough, some industry observers point to Amazon's purchase of Audible as another boost for its content platform. The fly...

Tags: Subway, Device, Apple iPod, Audible Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Audio Book, Kindle, Digital Music, E-books, Digital Media, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Could Amazon be a threat to Apple and the iPod?

So, Amazon has decided that it's DRM-free MP3 music store will go international over the next year.  Should Apple be worried? I've always been impressed by Amazon - here's a company that's worked hard at perfecting the process or taking money from customers and giving them what...

Tags: Apple iPod, Wired Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-28

More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?

This is a replay of a conversation with my father who spent most of his life as a media executive (though not with any company that I've ever worked for). Dad: Oh, you have the Kindle? Me: Yes. It's pretty neat. Raises a lot...

Tags: Media Company, Advertisement, Screen, RSS, Industry, New York Times Co., Amazon.com Inc., Content, Kindle, Times, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?

As you can see from this past Friday's "unboxing" video, I received for review a Kindle ebook from Amazon. In that video and its accompanying blog post, I had some initial thoughts on the Kindle and now that a full weekend has passed I have a lot more to...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Kindle, Montag, Fahrenheit 1981.4, E-books, Personal Technology, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Unboxing Amazon's Kindle

A look at Amazon's Kindle out of its packaging. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Larry Dignan, product photos, Amazon, Kindle, E-book, Amazon Kindle

Image galleries 2007-11-20

Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?

Amazon on Monday officially rolled out its Kindle e-book, which downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers via a wireless connection. The Kindle view our Kindle unboxing gallery, which looks a lot less clunky in person than via pictures, features 90,000 books via the Kindle Store. New releases...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Technology, Kindle, Kindle Store, Cellular Phones, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

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No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings

Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink

Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire. The electronic ink...

Tags: Electronic Ink, Mobile, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Summer reading for kids

A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included all of the usual suspects from Bradbury to Asimov to Pratchett to Douglas Adams. However, the...

Tags: Kid, Slashdot, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web

It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...

Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-07

An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link

Associated Press upset a lot of people with its new policy of restricting the use of its news stories in blogs and other web sites. But I have a proposal that could benefit everyone that creates content that is re-used or quoted by others. My proposal is...

Tags: Associated Press, Internet, Web Site Development, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-21

I'm a dad and almost a grad...what's on my wishlist?

Technically I won't be graduating until August when I wrap up my master's thesis, but I'm pretty close. The four kids hanging around my house asking for food and money probably qualify me as a dad, too. So the question is, as a geeky guy deserving of some...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-08

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?

Steve Ballmer told the Washington Post yesterday that, In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down -- my opinion. Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no...

Tags: Textbook, Wiki, Networking, Network Technology, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-06

News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security

Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...

Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon

Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with SimonThe Kindle - and new writersThe news from Amazon, Mr. Bezos and the outlook for the Kindle is particularly interesting for new writers: for now it seems, electronic readers are providing traditional content but with the lowering of overhead costs (and for the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Simon

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Amazon Kindle back on the market

Amazon Kindle back on the marketkindleI just bought a kindle for my wife for mothers' day, and while I was debating on whether or not to purchase it, I do recall thinking, "boy, this decision would be easier if I could get my hands on one and use it a...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Amazon preps pay-per-view movie service

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6--Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider--Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...

Tags: Movie, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28