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Amazon's Kindle 2.0 Tour

2009-02-26T04:56:33-08:00

Hollie Dustin

Amazon Kindle 2.0

2009-02-26T04:18:30-08:00

The new Kindle 2.0 has arrived! Wow...the design is sleeker, there's a lot more storage, the battery life is longer, and...you can download your choice of 240,000 books in less than 60 seconds!

Here is the latest and greatest information on one of the coolest gadgets to hit the market. Those of you who don't own a Kindle will be especially interested - version 2.0 is the only one available for purchase now unless you want to buy a used version 1.0 reader.

So what makes the Kindle 2.0 special?

For starters, you'll never run out of things to read. You can choose from over 240,000 titles offered for sale by both WhisperNet and Amazon. There are also more than 7,000 books you can download for free - all of which are classics now considered to be part of the public domain.

Kindle 2.0 has a "Read to Me" feature that will translate the text into speech. We're curious to hear exactly how that will sound, but it's sort of intriguing.

The screen on the Kindle 2.0 is much improved over the one that was on the original version. Your page will be crisper, clearer, and easier to read.

The Kindle 2.0 has a really sharp design. It's small and compact and reports say that it's thinner than the average iPod and iPhone. This is really important to today's technologically oriented crowd. Why replace a book with a bulky piece of machinery?

Kindle 2.0 has an instant dictionary feature which makes it easy for you to look up words you don't know without having to get up, grab a big dusty book, and stray even further away from your reading.

The price? $359...that's a small investment for something that you'll be able to use for a really long time and, hey, we're saving trees while we're at it!

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5,000 New Kindle Downloads

2008-06-05T08:18:14-07:00

Simon & Schuster Inc. will now offer 5,000 more books for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader,whcih brings the total of available books available for download to 125,000.

Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos was at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles and reviewed the benefits of the Kindle.

Amazon had temporarily sold out of hard copies of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," the new tell-all book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. But, it could easily be downloaded to the Kindle.

"That's one of the great things about electronic books," he said. "They never go out of stock."

Sales of Kindle downloads are gradually increasing, now being 6% of total Amazon sales.

The good news...Amazon has reduced the Kindle's price by $40 to $359!

Kindle launched last November and sold out in hours, and reappeared in April, with a plentiful supply. Get yours now!

The Convenience of The Kindle

2008-05-23T18:46:31-07:00

Amazon Kindle - known to some as the 'Ipod of digital literature' is a breeze to use - even for the less tech-savvy among us. The Kindle is a handheld, portable reader, and it allows the user to auto-download the digitized versions of myriad pieces of literature in the space of a minute or less. Newspapers, magazines, and even popular online blogs may also be downloaded with the ease of the press of a button. Given all these amenities coupled with the simplicity and beauty of its streamlined, light weight design, the Amazon Kindle also presents a nice opportunity for the smart consumer to take advantage of its easy-to-read, low-power electrophoretic screen. At $399, the Amazon Kindle is incredibly easy to use from the minute of purchase.

Convenience not only for the reader, but for the writer as well

In much the same way that blogs challenge the institutional giants that are newspaper conglomerates and print magazines, the Amazon Kindle also allows the self-publishing author the option to conveniently upload his or her work - and then charge money for it. The egalitarian concept of the matter can allow the aspiring author the opportunity to completely circumvent the publishing industry and some of its more difficult aspects - and again, all with the ease of an upload, which can happen in less than a minute.

Wireless Access Anywhere - Even Without WiFi!

Unlike WiFi, the Amazon Kindle takes advantage of the very same high-speed data network - known as EV-DO - which makers of advanced cell phones have also tapped into, to their great advantage. As a result, you can download the book you want no matter where you are! In addition, there are no monthly wireless bills, so all you need to worry about is finding the book you want, clicking, and enjoying! It couldn't be simpler.

Free Wireless Access to Wikipedia, No Matter Where You Go

Anytime you need to look something up on the world's largest, most extensive and most frequently updated encyclopedia - Wikipedia - you can do so from anywhere, and again all with the click of a button on your Amazon Kindle!

Email Your Word Documents for Review on The Go

Whether for work or leisure, Amazon Kindle allows you the option to email your personal Word documents to the Kindle itself, so that you can conveniently view them while on the go!

And Best of All, an Electronic Device that Matches the Convenience and Simplicity of a Book

For all its advanced technology and its amazing, comprehensive wireless package, the Amazon Kindle best meets the expectations and demands of savvy consumers not only because it is so convenient, but also because of its simplicity. Indeed, one might say that the print book is great because it suits its own purpose - its key feature is that it disappears once you begin to read it. But amazingly enough, the Kindle manages to do the same. Many electronic devices have come before the Amazon Kindle, but none have come so close to replicating the experience of reading a book - with all the convenience that that entails, and with a lot of high-tech sophistication seamlessly integrated into the Kindle experience as well.

The convenience of the Kindle has translated into widespread, lightening-speed sales. Though Amazon does not reveal sales numbers to date, the demand for the sophisticated device quickly exceeded its supply upon its debut, so it's important to order promptly so that you can secure your Kindle as soon as possible!

The Extensive Content of the Kindle

2008-05-15T08:59:46-07:00

Amazon's new, amazing electronic book device that's fast becoming the Ipod of electronic books - is many things, not the least of which is an extensive source of content storage, including audio components in the form of MP3s, JPEG images, and so much more. Here we present a brief overview of the types of content the Amazon Kindle is able to hold - electronic books are only the beginning!

The Amazon Kindle's internal memory is able to hold up to 200 non-illustrated titles at any one given time. Its users can download content in a variety of formats as well. For one, the Kindle can auto-download content in its own Amazon proprietary Kindle format, known as AZW. It can also display unprotected Mobipocket - MOBI and PRC – or plain text content as well. To make data conversion as easy and accessible as possible, Amazon offers a free email-based service the can convert JPEG, BMP, PNG, HTML, and DOC (Microsoft Word) documents to AZW with the ease of a few clicks of the mouse. Additionally, as mentioned above, the Kindle also is able to store audio data, both in Audible 2, 3, and 4 audiobooks, or in the form of MP3s, which can be rapidly sent to the Kindle via USB, or with the help of an SD card. The Kindle's capabilities are virtually limitless!

At any time, Kindle users are able to access and download a wide array of content through the Amazon Kindle store.

The Kindle store can be accessed using Whispernet, via Sprint's EV-DO network, which is always available free of charge and can be reached even in remote areas in which standard WiFi is not available.

All new releases and New York Times best sellers are offered for $9.99, much cheaper than the typical hardcover book in its first round of printing. Certain classic pieces of literature, however, may sell for as low as $1.99, and many books are available for absolutely free. If you're not sure whether or not you'd like to buy a particular novel and you'd like to learn more about it first, you can also download the first chapters of many books for free.

Subscriptions to newspapers and magazines are also available for download directly into your Kindle.

A subscription to a newspaper is typically as low as $5.99 per month, and magazines can be downloaded for as little as $1.25 per month. Blog subscription is an option as well, and subscribers to popular blogs on a variety of topics – The Huffington Post could be one example - may pay no more than $0.99 per month.

If a Kindle user has a document in a certain form that he or she would like to convert to another, the user can send the document to a conversion service for free if it's transferred to a personal email account. If the Kindle-formatted file is sent to the device itself directly, it only costs $0.10. Additionally, users may also transfer any converted documents from a PC to the Amazon Kindle using an SD card or USB cable.

The Kindle also provides all-hours Wikipedia access for reference purposes at no extra charge. Furthermore, the device comes equipped with its own electronic editions of the New Oxford American Dictionary, as well as a digital version of its own owner's manual.