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By Sean Silverthorne

Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…(Wrong!)

I would have bet my beloved iPhone at the start of 2008 that two products doomed to failure were the electronic book Kindle and the follow-me technology Twitter. Sure as Hillary Clinton was going to win the democratic presidential nomination, Kindle and Twitter were soon to join the Newton, iSmell (photo at left), and the Free-PC on the Technology Pile of Irrelevance.

Joe Wikert on Google search for Kindle, Reader

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:30:38 GMT

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Google Trends is one of my favorite analysis tools, and it's totally free. It can tell you how popular a search term is and it's particularly useful when comparing two or more related phrases.

Every so often I like to compare the phrase "Amazon Kindle" with "Sony Reader" to see who's winning the search battle. You can see for yourself by either clicking the image to the left or clicking here to see the full results on Google Trends.

Selling more books on iPhone than Kindle?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:20:35 GMT

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iPhone eBook Sales Beating Kindle Sales -- Publisher (AAPL, AMZN)

Henry Blodget | December 27, 2008 10:53 AM

Jorge Pinto of PintoBooks weighs in on the iPhone's new eBook offering. He says he's selling more eBooks for the iPhone than the Kindle (which may have something to do with the lower price).

Enjoyed reading Dan Frommer's article describing the iPhone as a viable challenger to the Kindle. As a small niche publisher with more that 50 titles in print (all copyright protected), I have been looking at ebooks for a long time. I try to get from my authors / agents electronic rights to use them at the right time.

NYT piece on Kindle with some new info

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:01:42 GMT

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Many Kindle buyers appear to be outside the usual gadget-hound demographic. Almost as many women as men are buying it, Mr. Hildick-Smith said, and the device is most popular among 55- to 64-year-olds.

Amazon’s Kindle version of “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ” by David Wroblewski, a best seller recommended by Ms. Winfrey’s book club, now represents 23 percent of total Amazon sales of the book, according to Brian Murray, chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide.

Even authors who were once wary of selling their work in bits and bytes are coming around. After some initial hesitation, authors like Danielle Steel and John Grisham are soon expected to add their titles to the e-book catalog, their agents say.

More Readers Picking Up Electronic Books

Capt. Burke Gets Another Kindle

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:06:46 GMT

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Looks like I got a brand-new Amazon Kindle to replace my old one free of charge from Amazon.com!

For those of you that read a lot of books and newspapers (and I'm one of them), the Kindle really is the device for you. Particularly back in the US where you can get books and newspapers delivered to you automatically over the Kindle's wireless transfer feature. Now I don't have to surf around to buy a copy of the NY Times or the Wall Street Journal...I just get it on my Kindle, along with hundreds of other books.

While the book selection is limited for now, I think I can really see this being the way of the future. Nothing can quite beat the feel of a paperback, but for carrying around a book collection on the go, you'll want the Kindle.

Performance in the desert is still under scrutiny, though. I had a screen issue with my old Kindle (although I suspect it wasn't related to being in Kuwait), but Amazon replaced it for free, so the warranty is definitely a plus on this device.

Silicon Valley Insider rich thread on year 1

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:03:55 GMT

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Kindle A Year Old, Hasn't Changed Reading... Yet (AMZN)

Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader celebrated its first birthday yesterday. How was its first year?

Let's open this thread up: What's your take on the Kindle's first year? Wish list for next models?

Random House doubles # of digital books

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:12:10 GMT

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Random House To Double Size Of Its Digital Book Catalog

With consumers pulling back on in-store book purchases lately, Random House may be picking a good time to ramp up its ebooks offering. The publisher is expected to increase the number of ebook titles it has to 15,000 from the current 8,000, the LAT reports. Although ebooks represent just 1 percent of total book sales, that could change as both publishers and consumers adjust their habits in the current economic climate. Wider adoption of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle could help too, although the dismal financial picture could depress growth there as well. Matt Shatz, Random House’s VP for digital operations, is crediting the Kindle with driving ebook sales’ growth by triple-digit percentages this year. He declined to offer the LAT any specific figures, indicating that the revenues and sales units are still comparatively small.

Kindle 2 in early Q1

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:22:53 GMT

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Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled to be released in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources now say it’s tentatively scheduled to go on sale in “early next quarter.”

The images that surfaced of the new Kindle in October are real - it’s a longer device but not as thick as the original Kindle, and fixes some of the button issues that plague users (like accidental page turns). A larger-screen student version is still scheduled for the first half of 2009.

Amazon is slow to turn new versions of the Kindle, which isn’t surprising given that this is their first foray into actual devices. I still think they’d be better off licensing the platform and letting the factories in China iterate more often on the Kindle - from what we hear a bunch of new ebook products are about to hit the market, and some of them may be real competition to Amazon.

Random House to digitize lotsa books

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:23:39 GMT

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Random House to digitize thousands of books

NEW YORK (AP) — With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.

PC World abandons print edition

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:28:58 GMT

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PC Magazine dropping print for online

NEW YORK (AFP) – PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only.

US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the United States behind Time and Newsweek, announced earlier this month that it was abandoning print for the Web and the 100-year-old newspaper the Christian Science Monitor announced plans recently to do the same.

Library loans a Kindle

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:26:55 GMT

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May We Kindle Your Interest?

Have you ever wondered if you would like reading an e-book? Are you looking for an easy way to take lots of books when you travel? Or do you just like checking out the latest cool gadgets?

Jackson Library has purchased one of the Amazon Kindle e-book readers and is making it available for people to try out. There are currently 5 books available on our Kindle – The Post American World by Fareed Zaharia, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Made to Stick by Chip Heath, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Mark Reiter. We will be loaning the Kindle for a two-week period and this will give you an opportunity to check out the technology and see if it might work for you.

Ian Freed interview TechFlash

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:24:19 GMT

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Q&A: Ian Freed of Amazon Kindle on ebooks, blogs, and Jennifer Aniston

Amazon.com is putting a lot of marketing muscle behind its electronic book reader, the Kindle, ahead of this year's holiday season (the company recently secured a coveted endorsement from Oprah). I sat down with Ian Freed, Amazon's VP for Kindle, to talk about the device, how it's faring, and competition in the ebook space.

People absolutely love the ability to think of a book and get it in under minute. That is the key feature that really causes people to think about Kindle as a new way to read. Whether I’m at a friend’s house and they mention an interesting book, or I run out of things to read when I’m waiting to get on an airplane, I can literally think of something and get it in under 60 seconds. That seems to be the common theme that we hear from customers all the time.

Oprah Effect

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:02 GMT

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US: Influential TV star Oprah endorses Kindle and drives up traffic

On October 24, Oprah Winfrey endorsed Amazon's electronic reader, the Kindle. As a result, Amazon's website has seen a surge in traffic and the blogs are all buzzing about it.

According to Ad Age, Amazon.com saw web-page visits increase by 6% on the 24th. Eighty percent of blog posts about the Kindle since the 23rd have mentioned Oprah's endorsement and there was a 479% jump in search traffic for the word "kindle" after the show.

In addition, there was a 15,458% bump in web traffic from Oprah.com to Amazon.com between October 23rd and October 24th.

Google Book publishers deal

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:10:59 GMT

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Book Publishers Take Leaps Into Digital

PARIS — Long after other media joined the digital revolution, book publishers clung to the reassuringly low-tech tools of printing press, paper and ink.

Among the few bright spots were sales of so-called e-books, read on devices like Amazon’s Kindle, on personal computers or on mobile phones. Wholesale sales of e-books were up 55 percent from a year earlier.

Seattle PI report of Beuneman's Amazon visit

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:38:58 GMT

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Amazon: Kindle Isn't That Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works

Peter Kafka | August 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Amazon still won't tell anyone how many Kindles it's sold, or how many it thinks it will sell. But it's distancing itself from blockbuster numbers thrown out by TechCrunch and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, according to a new report.

McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Beuneman spent time with Amazon (AMZN) managment this week and sent out a note Friday. The Seattle Post-Intellige

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Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…(Wrong!)

Joe Wikert on Google search for Kindle, Reader

Selling more books on iPhone than Kindle?

iPhone eBook Sales Beating Kindle Sales -- Publisher (AAPL, AMZN)

Henry Blodget | December 27, 2008 10:53 AM

NYT piece on Kindle with some new info

Capt. Burke Gets Another Kindle

Silicon Valley Insider rich thread on year 1

Kindle A Year Old, Hasn't Changed Reading... Yet (AMZN)

Random House doubles # of digital books

Random House To Double Size Of Its Digital Book Catalog

Kindle 2 in early Q1

Random House to digitize lotsa books

Random House to digitize thousands of books

PC World abandons print edition

PC Magazine dropping print for online

Library loans a Kindle

May We Kindle Your Interest?

Ian Freed interview TechFlash

Oprah Effect

US: Influential TV star Oprah endorses Kindle and drives up traffic

Google Book publishers deal

Seattle PI report of Beuneman's Amazon visit

Amazon: Kindle Isn't *That* Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works

Peter Kafka | August 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Amazon: Kindle Isn't That Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works