KINDLE CLUB

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The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle (Kindle Edition)

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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Stephen Windwalker's latest book is the premier guide for Kindle owners -- written for serious readers rather than gadget heads, 51,000 words in length and newly packed with great tips. 192 "print" pages, including a detailed, link-enabled FAQ section. (Originally published in beta editions as How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips.)

If you’ve already purchased and downloaded it, you can get the latest iteration onto your Kindle at no additional charge with just a couple of clicks on your computer. Just go to "Your Media Library" under your personal Amazon account, pull down your “Kindle Books” list under the Downloads tab, find this book (clicking on the title will confirm your purchase and purchase date), and click on the right where there’s a “Send wirelessly to your Kindle” button. Also included, for Kindle owners who are considering giving another Kindle as a gift to a colleague, friend, or loved one: information on how to send this book **free** as the first book on the new gift Kindle, and a link to get the new Kindle for just $259!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. How to Use this Book
II. What is a Kindle?

What’s Inside the Kindle?
Why Did Amazon Launch the Kindle, and Which is More Important, the Chicken or the Egg?

III. Kindle Basics

Handling Your Kindle
Choosing Among Six Font Sizes
Kindle Keyboard and Menu Shortcuts
The Care and Feeding of Your Kindle's Battery
The Reset Button is Your First Tech Support Option
Access Wikipedia Quickly and Smoothly
Using "Locations" to Figure Out How Close You Are to the End of a Kindle Edition
Buying and Sampling Content for Your Kindle From the Amazon Kindle Store
Updating the Latest Version of Your Kindle’s Operating Software
Adding an SD Card to Your Kindle
Getting Help with Your Kindle
Managing Your Kindle Content

IV. The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap
V. How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email
VI. Using Google Reader to Read Your Favorite Blogs on the Amazon Kindle
VII. Traveling with Your Kindle

Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases
Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas or in a Sprint Wireless Dead Zone
Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide
The Kindle and GPS
Intriguing but Frustrating
Checking Sprint Wireless Coverage for the Kindle
Downloading Kindle Editions Via USB Cable

VIII. The Kindle as a Writing, Editing, and Publishing Device

Taking Notes on the Kindle
It's All in the Thumbs
Annotation within a Kindle Document
Google Notebook
Annotating Your Working Documents
Writing and Annotation to Email
Saving, Printing, Editing and Working With Your Kindle Clippings, Annotations, and Highlighted Text
20 Steps to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document: How to Use Kindle, Amazon and the Web to Market Your Book and Connect with Readers
Other Links for Publishing Content for the Kindle

IX. Projecting a Kindle Future

How Many Kindles? Estimating the Current and Future "Installed Base," and Why It Is Important
The Golden Age of Kindle 2.0 and Beyond
Kindle Reading Subscriptions
Kindle Buffet-Kindle Groups
Kindle Owners as Kindle Sellers
Kindle Content Affiliate Program
Shop the Amazon Store Through a Kindle Gateway
A Big Tent for Kindle Content Availability On Other Devices
Shop and Play Amazon Music and Audio
Kindle Tribes
“Living Books” on the Kindle
Other Fixes for Kindle 2.0 and Beyond
Folders and/or Labels
Size, Location and Configuration of Bars, Buttons, and Switches
The Kindle Display Screen
Writeable Screen
Adjustable Fonts
Go Global
Open the Kindle Store to Accessories
Green Tax CreditScreen and Keyboard Freezes
Gifts
Make the Kindle More Kid-Friendly
Real USB Port or Bluetooth for Hardware Connectivity with Memory Devices, Keyboards &c
X. 20 More Kindle Tips and Tricks
Link-Enabled Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Product Details
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 266 KB
Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press (hppress.blogspot.com); Revised 8.24.08 edition (December 19, 2007)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
Language: English
ASIN: B0011XW1E8

Terry Goodkind Hits the Kindle

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:27:00 +0000

By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly

In an exclusive deal with Kindle, Terry Goodkind's first novel, Wizard's First Rule, was released this week as a RosettaBooks e-book, available for purchase on the Amazon device only. Goodkind, who is published by Tor, has held onto his digital rights up until now; Rule, first released in print in 1994, marks the first of Goodkind's titles to appear in e-book.

Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of RosettaBooks, said the fact that Goodkind's work has never been published in e-book format is less surprising than one might assume. "A range of 'A' list commercial authors--Dean Koontz until recently, J.K. Rowling--have either held back or frozen their e-book rights," he said. Now, with the growing popularity of digital reading devices like the Kinde, Klebanoff thinks industry players are seeing, for the first time, the market viability of e-books. "Slowly but surely Kindle, Sony Reader and other [devices] are convincing publishers, and publishers are in turn convincing their bestselling authors, to release e-books."

When asked why Goodkind opted to be published in e-book by an independent, in Rosetta, Goodkind's agent, Russell Galen, said Rosetta "offered us much better terms." Klebanoff, who negotiated the Goodkind deal with Galen, added that he thinks the size of a publisher is also less important in e-book publishing. "Obviously Random House has a compelling argument when it comes to what it can do [in publishing] a phsycial book," he told PW. "But in e-book [publishing] the people selling the books are Kindle, Sony Reader and various other e-tailers. So, whether the title is fed by Rosetta or Random House makes no difference."

Why Kindle Must Support ODF

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:20:00 +0000

I'm not a Kindle user. In part, because it's not available in the UK, but also because it seems too closed in terms of its overall architecture. But it's clearly winning fans - and I think that's going to be a problem.

Why that might be is revealed by this interesting posting:

Reading .DOC and (some) .PDF files. This part of the Kindle's function turns out to be much more important than I anticipated.

Mine can't be the only line of work that involves an endless stream of material to read, often arriving as Word .DOC or Adobe .PDF files. I resist printing them out, and I resent the additional hours of sitting in front a computer screen to read them.

By moving them instead to the Kindle, (a) I have them all in one place, (b) I avoid lugging around, or forgetting, that much additional paper, and (c) I have them in a much nicer form for reading than the computer itself.

I think this is right: I, too, would be tempted by a very lightweight system with a high-quality screen specifically designed for reading electronic texts. But as the writer notes, Kindle is great for two main formats: .doc and PDFs. As far as I am aware, there is no support for ODF. Assuming Kindle catches on, that's going to be an increasing problem for those of us pushing ODF.

Maybe time to start a campaign for ODF support on the Kindle....

Kindle Tips and Tricks

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:53:00 +0000

Kindle Tips and Tricks
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jay_Sud]Jay Sud

Well I have bought this neat device and have been buying ebooks and have had great success with the ease at finding books there. When I got the Kindle I wanted to find any kind of modification, tips, or tricks for this device. After searching I found some things that I wanted to share with everyone.

1. It can be used as an MP3 player as it as a headphone jack and speakers. If you go to the site as i listed above it has MP3’s that can be downloaded to the kindle. The only thing is that you need to buy the software which is required for you to connect and purchase from their website.

2. A number of people have complained that it’s impossible to close the flap of the Kindle’s cover without pressing one of the navigation buttons. An easy solution: simply put Kindle to sleep before closing the cover. To do this, simply press Alt + the text key (aA) as though you were waking it from sleep. Putting Kindle into sleep mode also conserves battery life.

3. If you want to know the time while you’re reading, pressing Alt + T will briefly display it for you in the bottom left footer, where “Location” is usually displayed. Note that this features works only in the Reader.

4. Dropping your MP3 based podcasts into the (Audible) folder on your Kindle or SD memory card will allow you to see the podcast in Home. When opened, you can bookmark, pause, fast forward, etc., just like you do with an audiobook.

5. From the general Search box. Just start your search with the term below followed by your search term: @store - searches the Kindle Store, @web - searches the web, @wiki - searches Wikipedia, @help - lists these shortcuts above.

6. If you sort your Home screen by title or author, you can type a letter to jump to the first item that begins with that letter.

7 Getting to your home screen is very easy and can be accomplished by pressing the Home key on the bottom row of the keyboard.

If you are even contemplating on buying this piece of software I think its a must have. can anyone say lets go GREEN, no more paper being wasted

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$750 Million in Kindle Sales by 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Mark Mahaney - an Internet Analyst at Citigroup Investment Research - is predicting that revenue generated by Amazon from the sale of Kindle’s will be between $400m - $750m by 2010. That would account for 1% - 3% of Amazon’s total revenue, about half the projected revenue would be from the sale of Kindle devices and the other half from book sales after purchase. However, revenue is not profit and we don’t know what the profit margins are on the Kindle device.

Read the full statement by Mark Mahaney/Citigroup Investment Research below:

How Is Kindle Doing So Far In The Marketplace?

Our ability to answer this question is very limited. Amazon is the sole retailer of the Kindle and it has disclosed no information about its sales other than to say that it sold out in the first 5 1⁄2 hours. But we have pieced together four different clues to gain a sense of Kindle’s traction.

First, we note that Kindle has consistently been ranked among Amazon’s Bestsellers in its Electronics category. Ahead of the Apple iPod Nano, the Garmin GPS Navigator, and the Canon Powershot Digital Camera.

Second, we note that the Kindle has received a very large number of customer reviews. Per the exhibit below, we note that Kindle has received more customer reviews than any of the other Top 10 Bestselling items in Amazon’s Electronics category – 2,537 reviews as of May 12th – vs. 663 for the Apple iPod Nano 4GB Silver (3G), the #2 Bestseller. This is in part an unfair comparison. Kindle is a new product sold only on Amazon.com, while there are numerous versions of the iPod, and they are sold by numerous retailers. But still, the volume of reviews does indicate material traction for the Kindle.

Third, we see that the quality/tone of the customer reviews the Kindle is receiving is relatively positive. Below we compare the Star Rating Diffusion – 5 Stars vs. 4 Stars vs. 3 Stars etc… – for each of the Top 10 Bestselling Electronics Items on Amazon. What we see is that the Kindle actually receives fewer high scores than the other Bestsellers – 69% of its reviews are 4 or 5 Stars vs. an average of 80% for the other items. And it receives more low scores than the other Bestsellers – 22% of its reviews are 1 or 2 Stars vs. an average of 13% for the other Items. But for a Version 1 of a product “competing” against a several times iterated leading consumer electronics item like the iPod, a 69% Star 4 or 5 rating is relatively positive.

And fourth, we note that the most reviewed Customer Review of Kindle (“Why and how the Kindle changes everything” by Steve “eBook Lover” Gibson) has been reviewed by at least 27,000 people. Specifically, as of May 13th, 26,931 have read Steve Gibson’s review and actually commented on it by pressing the Yes or No button when asked if the review was helpful. And logically, there would be more people who read the review and didn’t bother to vote, although the voting step is hyper-easy. We believe that this helps provide something of a proxy for how many Kindles have likely been sold. We’d peg the number as somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 Kindles sold to date.

The numbers look about right to us, what do you guys think?

For Amazon to hit the $750 million in sales figure a few assumption have to be made. The figures are based on the assumption that sales will grow from 189,000 units by the end of 2008 then to 2.2 million units by 2010 and that Amazon will drop the price to about $300.
Source: Silicon Ally Insider

See a Kindle in your city

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:23:00 +0000

The Amazon folks are eager to get the word out about Kindle and they really want people to see a Kindle device, so much so that they want existing Kindle owners to go out and market the device for them! On May 19th Amazon requested that Kindle owners to go out and market the Kindle, actively encouraging you to meet stranger with your $400 Kindle device plus the value of books to meet a total stranger and “show off” - Amazon’s own words - sounds like a recipe for disaster if you ask me.

I wonder which smart alec at Amazon PR thought this idea up:

We’ve heard feedback that many Kindle owners love their Kindle and like showing it off. Some of you even said you have trouble reading Kindle in public because people always ask, “What is that?” We’ve also heard from prospective customers who would love to see a Kindle before they buy one.
We created the “See a Kindle in Your City” area to help prospective owners connect with Kindle owners to get a chance to see the device in person. We started with a selection of cities - find yours or start one for your city. Whether you want to meet at your local coffee shop, a public park, or your favorite watering hole is up to you. We hope you enjoy meeting your fellow Kindlers.
Please cut and paste the following link in your browser to go to the “See a Kindle in your City” discussions.

As Michael V. Accettura puts it “What an outrageous request from amazon!” - I couldn’t agree more, Amazon want us Kindle owners to do their job and market the device for them. How about you go out there Amazon, and show off the Kindle yourself? I could understand this request if Amazon was employing some kind of referral system where a sale would result in cash compensation or perhaps a couple of free Kindle e-books from the Kindle store, but Amazon aren’t even doing that.

User Diane point out this may be the perfect “steal a Kindle” opportunity for all technology loving crooks and looking through the forum, unsurprisingly, very few people have taken Amazon up on their offer to parade their Kindle around in front of strangers.

Finally to quote Micael V. Accettiura again “I appreciate the offer to become an unpaid pimp for the kindle, but no thanks amazon.”

Would you take your precious Kindle and show it off to a complete stranger?

Source: Amazon Kindle Customer Discussions

Kindle is a hit with readers but terrifying to publishers

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0000

The Kindle has been around since November 2007 and Amazon has yet released any sales figures. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Amazon has sold anywhere between 40,000 - 140,000 Kindle units per month and that e-book sales are on the increase accounting for 12% of title sales at Amazon.com. Whilst the Kindle hasn’t been a runaway success for Amazon, it has been a hit amongst readers and is slowly gaining acceptance amongst consumers.

Since its launch in 1995, Amazon has become a leviathan in the publishing industry, this spelt good news for the consumers, but not so good for the publishers. Amazon flexed its might in March this year by declaring that if publishers didn’t use Amazon’s in house print on demand wing called BookSurge then the “Buy” button on the Amazon page for their books will be removed. They could then only sell their books on Amazon through a third party.

This amounted to a antitrust suit being filed against Amazon in March of this year, the case is ongoing, Amazon filed for the case to be dismissed, the judge will decide on August 21st if the case can proceed.

The once mighty publishing industry is facing troubling times, with tighter margins on books and more competition from magazines and online publications, publishers are left with little option but to bow to Amazons wishes. Amazon’s cut is 65% when publishing book on the DTP and 25% when published on Mobipocket which gives Amazon even more power over the publishers. Removing their books from Amazon is not an option for many publishers simply because of the amount of revenue they will lose, precious revenue they cannot afford to lose.

The Kindle seems has tightened Amazons grip on the publishers, and as Kindle growth surges it will put the publishers in an even worse position.

Should You Buy a Kindle?

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:53:00 +0000

Today's Amazon Kindle status: IN STOCK for free two-day delivery!I blog about the Kindle so you'd be right in guessing that I think it's a marvelous device. It is not, however, a device for everyone. I was in a used book store not so long ago when a man pushed passed me on his way to the computer software/video game section. As he passed, I heard him say to a friend "I don't understand why all these people are interested in books when they could be playing video games." If you are that guy, you probably are not thinking of buying a Kindle.

If you are trying to decide whether or not to purchase a Kindle, try answering the following questions. The more "yes" answers, the more the likelihood that you and the Kindle will hit it off.

1. Do you like to read current bestsellers, classics, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, romance novels, popular science, biography, history and/or current affairs books for enjoyment? This type of book is readily available for the Kindle and bestsellers will usually save you a lot of money in Kindle editions. There are also so many free books for the Kindle that - especially if you prefer the classics - you would never have to purchase a single book from Amazon. On the down side, if art history, graphic novels, or photography books are what you enjoy reading most, the Kindle, with its emphasis on text, may not be your first choice. If you read primarily for work and that reading involves intricately-formatted PDF documents, the Kindle may not be for you either. I have successfully converted a number of PDF documents for the Kindle, but documents with multiple columns, tables and graphs can present a problem.

2. Do you enjoy browsing through book stores? Do you have a library card? The Kindle book store is open 24/7 and sample chapters are free. I love shopping in the middle of the night when I can't get to sleep.

3. Would you like to be able to control the size of print in any book you buy? The Kindle has six different type sizes up to the equivalent of 20 pt type on a computer and you can change the type size instantly with just one click.

4. Do you travel a lot and like the idea of carrying a whole library of books in one small device? The Kindle will hold approximately 200 books. Add a memory card and you can have hundreds of books at your fingertips.

5. Do you like the idea of having a dictionary built in to your book so you can quickly look up words that are new to you? The Kindle has The New Oxford America Dictionary built in for easy reference.

6. Do you live in an area covered by Sprint's national high-speed (EVDO) data network? If you don't know, check your coverage at http://www.showmycoverage.com/mycoverage.jsp?id=A921ZON. If you are not in the covered area, you can still use the Kindle by downloading books, magazines and newspapers and transferring them from your computer to your Kindle via the USB 2.0 cable included with each Kindle purchase.

7. Does the idea of using your Kindle as a free elementary web browser appeal to you? The Kindle includes a rudimentary web browser that can be very useful when you are out and about and far from your computer.

8. Would you use Now Now, the free Kindle reference question service? You send Now Now a question from your Kindle and get up to three different answers from Kindle researchers (these are the folks who work for Amazon's Mechanical Turk). Questions I've had answered include: "What is the current interest rate for US treasury bills and notes?", "How many US World War II veterans are still living today?" and "Ear buds for my iPod are marked 'left' and 'right.' Is is important to make sure I put them in the correct ear and if so, why?"

9. Do you like to listen to music while you read? You can transfer MP3 files to your Kindle and listen to them through the Kindle's speaker. You can also listen to audiobooks from Audible if you have a PC.

10. Does the idea of looking up information in the Wikipdia right from your Kindle appeal to you? Often when I'm reading, a question comes to mind that can be answered with a quick visit to the Wikipedia which can be searched through the Kindle's Whispernet connection.

11. Do you like the eco-friendly nature of the Kindle? No trees are cut down to create Kindle books and no trucks are needed to ship them to you.

12. Do you want to be the first kid on your block to buy what may be a collector's item of the future? Gee, I wish I'd kept all those comic books...I hope these simple questions have helped you in making the decision to purchase a Kindle...or not. If you are looking for an electronic reading device that is also an iPod, a telephone, a PDF reader, a television set, a radio and/or a dishwasher, the Kindle may not be for you. Otherwise, welcome to the world of the Kindle and happy reading!

What is Kindle?

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:48:00 +0000

Introducing Amazon Kindle

Kindle is an e-book (Electronic Book) reader created by Amazon.com, its a device which allows you to download books, newspapers, blogs and magazines wirelessly without a PC. And there is nobody better to tell you exactly what Kindle does than the people who made the device.

Three years ago, we set out to design and build an entirely new class of device—a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The result is Amazon Kindle.

We designed Kindle to provide an exceptional reading experience. Thanks to electronic paper, a revolutionary new display technology, reading Kindle’s screen is as sharp and natural as reading ink on paper—and nothing like the strain and glare of a computer screen. Kindle is also easy on the fingertips. It never becomes hot and is designed for ambidextrous use so both “lefties” and “righties” can read comfortably at any angle for long periods of time.

We wanted Kindle to be completely mobile and simple to use for everyone, so we made it wireless. No PC and no syncing needed. Using the same 3G network as advanced cell phones, we deliver your content using our own wireless delivery system, Amazon Whispernet. Unlike WiFi, you’ll never need to locate a hotspot. There are no confusing service plans, yearly contracts, or monthly wireless bills—we take care of the hassles so you can just read.

With Whispernet, you can be anywhere, think of a book, and get it in one minute. Similarly, your content automatically comes to you, wherever you are. Newspaper subscriptions are delivered wirelessly each morning. Most magazines arrive before they hit newsstands. Haven’t read the book for tomorrow night’s book club? Get it in a minute. Finished your book in the airport? Download the sequel while you board the plane. Whether you’re in the mood for something serious or hilarious, lighthearted or studious, Kindle delivers your spontaneous reading choices on demand.

And because we know you can’t judge a book by its cover, Kindle lets you download and read the beginning of books for free. This way, you can try it out—if you like it, simply buy and download with 1-Click, right from your Kindle, and continue reading. Want to try a newspaper as well? All newspaper subscriptions start with a risk-free two-week trial.

Kindle’s paperback size and expandable memory let you travel light with your library. With the freedom to download what you want, when you want, we hope you’ll never again find yourself stuck without a great read.

We’re very proud to introduce Amazon Kindle and we hope you like it as much as we do.
- The Amazon Kindle Team
If you want to find out more you can visit the official Amazon Kindle store;