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Brooke Burke Wins Dancing: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 26, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Brooke Burke, Ecommerce, Warren Sapp, Mediabytes, Blockbuster, Amazon, Dancing With the Stars, Holiday, Cd, Shelly Palmer, Kindle, Comscore, Atlantic Records, Media News, Set Top Box, Lance Bass, Digital Sales, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Brooke Burke took home the crown on Dancing with the Stars. While this was a lock from the beginning, the real shock was 300 pound, former defensive...

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40,000 E-Books a Day

Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Iphone, Lexcycle, Literature, Ipod, Apple, Kindle, Ereader, Writing, Stanza, Digital, Ebook, Book, Reading, Ebooks, Media News
Hugh McGuire

That's how many e-books are getting downloaded through Stanza, the simple e-book platform for the iPhone/iPod.

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Kindle Now A Year Old, But Is It A Success?

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: E-Books, Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Technology, Green Technology, E-Book Reader, Business News

Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader celebrated its first birthday yesterday. How was its first year? Amazon doesn't share sales figures, so we don't...

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Despite "Oprah Effect," Kindle Sales Won't Meet Expectations, Analyst Says

Wired | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Oprah Boost, Amazon.com, AMZN, Kindle, Oprah Bump, Oprah Kindle, Oprah, Amazon, Business News

Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney downgraded Amazon's stock to "Hold" from "Buy" in his latest report, despite a surge in shares since Q3 earnings report...

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On Books and Ebooks

Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Iphone, Literature, Publishing, Kindle, Writing, Ereader, Books, Digital, Reading, Ebooks, Sony, Media News
Hugh McGuire

Reading an ebooks is just "another way" to be reading, it's not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy. I prefer to talk to people face-to-face, but I recognize the utility of the telephone.

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How Much Will The Oprah Bump Do For Kindle?

EcoGeek | Megan Treacy | Posted 10.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Amazon.com, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Kindle Code, Kindle, Oprah Kindle, Digital Devices, Green Technology, Amazon, Green News

But can Oprah do for the Kindle what she's done for her book club selections? Even with the promotional discount, the gadget costs more than $300 and...

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Oprah Endorses Amazon's Kindle: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 27, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Oprah, Budget Cuts, Microsoft, Silverlight, Mediabytes, Cell Phone, Steamboat Ventures, Shelly Palmer, Watch Instantly, Kindle, Dan Beldy, ABC News, Fighter Jet, Media News, Netflix, Cox, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Dan Beldy, Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures told me at lunch that he is thinking about putting together a consortium to lease their own fight...

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What Publishing Can Learn From Music

Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Meet the Press, Publishing, The Economics of Book Publishing, Kindle, iPhone Applications, Digital Downloads, Books, E-Books, Media, Digital Devices, Sony, Ipod Stanza, Media News
Hugh McGuire

Book publishing is late to the digital party so it can look to all the many mistakes the music business made in the past decade, and decide how to move into the uncertain future.

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Newsweek Articles On Candidates Become E-Books For Amazon Kindle

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Newsweek Kindle, Newsweek, Media News

It would seem to be a magazine's dream in these straitened times: Take something you have already published and sold, repackage it and distribute it w...

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iPhone Stanza E-Book Reader: Kindle Killer?

Epicenter | Chris Snyder | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone E-Book Reader, Kindle, Apple, Mobile Devices, Iphone Stanza, E-Books, Digital Devices, iPhone Apps, Amazon.com, Business News

Stanza, iPhone's free e-book reader application, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and is installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies...

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Candidates' Wives' Books Exclusively On Amazon Kindle

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 09.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Michelle Obama Book, Amazon.com, Michelle Obama, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Cindy McCain Book, Cindy McCain, Business News

New biographies of potential first ladies Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama will be released exclusively on Amazon's Kindle (AMZN) e-reader, months befo...

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Why Book Publishing Is Dead (Part One)

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Kindle, 2011: Trendspotting, Book Editing, Small Publishers, Laermer.com, Mariah Shriver Oprah Winfrey, Mcgraw-Hill, Laermer.com Stephen King, Philip Roth, Punk Marketing, Penguin-Putnam, Grisham, Business News
Richard Laermer

It's starting to make little sense why I would write something that while widely read could be given out in a "cleverer" format.

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About Kindle

Robyn Blumner | Posted 08.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Books, Paper, Amazon.com Kindle, Media News
Robyn Blumner

Amazon claims to be able to intuit what I would want to read, so why can't it figure out that I don't want a Kindle and actually resent the thing? I am not "platform-agnostic."

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Amazon Kindle Could Enjoy Explosive Success: Citi Analyst

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Amazon.com, Kindle, Amazon Kindle, E-Book Reader, Kindle Sales, Ebook Reader, Kindle Store, Holiday Gift Ideas, Business News

Initial skepticism about Amazon's Kindle is being replaced by euphoria: Citi's Mark Mahaney, who was already bullish on the e-book reader, declares th...

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Amazon Kindle Sales Living Up To Projections, Surprising Some

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Huffpost Books, Jeff Bezos, Books, Kindle Sales, E-Books, E-Reader, Technology, Business News

Newest data point on Amazon's Kindle sales, which Amazon says are great but won't ever quantify: TechCrunch cites "a source close to Amazon with direc...

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Textbook Downloads -- Green or Not?

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: The Green Life, Kindle, Money, College, Budget, Books, Free Textbooks, Beer, Environment, New York Times, Green Living, Facebook, Students, Reading, Personal Finance, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Four years' worth of college textbooks use the paper equivalent of yields from at least six 40-foot trees.

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Amazon Kindle Review: It'll Make You Smarter and Richer, Kind Of, But Not Really

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Huffpost Books, Kindle, Books, E Ink, E-Books, Tech Reviews, Technology, Amazon.com, Business News
Dave Burdick

I could hand this to my friends or my parents and feel confident that they could read with it -- it might be easier to use than an iPod (but, importantly, it's not easier to use than a book).

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Esquire Demonstrates How to Make Green Technology Really Wasteful

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Kindle, Green Technology, Electronic Paper, E Ink, Esquire, Kindle Display Technology, Amazon, Green News
Dave Burdick

Imagine my dismay when I read today about the amazingly un-green way in which Esquire, to which I subscribe, will be employing the E Ink technology next month.

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Kindle User Defends E-Book Reader, Makes Suggestions To Amazon

Seth Godin | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Kindle Upgrades, Books Are Not Dead, Kindle for Women, Kindle Features, Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Oprah Books, E-Books, Books for Women, Sustainable Publishing, Oprah's Book Club, Paperless Publishing, Green Publishing, Technology for Women, Kindle Review, Print Is Dead, Amazon, Business News

Might be of interest to investors, readers, writers, designers, marketers, etc. Or not... Two months ago, I got a Kindle. It's a fascinating device, ...

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See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Read Me

David Misch | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Digital, Technology, Reading, Books, Amazon Kindle, Huffpost Books, Kindle, Living News
David Misch

Reports that Amazon's Kindle book-reader is actually a reasonable substitute for a book bring us one step closer to the death of bound paper. How does that make you feel?

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The 2008 Audie Awards: Listening Up, Reading Down

Tom Alderman | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Grover Gardner, Tall Grass, Einstein, Kindle, Audible.com. iPod, Jeff Bezos, Audie Awards, Jeffrey Archer, Stephen Colbert, The Chopin Manuscript, Scott Brick, Yuri Rasovsky, Sweeny Todd and the String of Pearls, Lorelei King, Biltmore Hotel, Caedmon Records, Jim Dale, Amazon.com, BookExpo America, I Am America and So Can You), Books-on-Tape, Prisoner of Birth, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Tree of Smoke, Audio Publishers Association, Harry Potter, Inspired by the Bible Experience, Dylan Thomas, Dune, Media News
Tom Alderman

Audio book production has come a long way from the early books-on-tape, flat-read days.

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CON GAMES: Read All About It -- Books Can Go To Hell

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Jeff Gomez, Media, Kindle, Print, Books, Ebooks, Literary Culture, Print Journalism, The Decline of American Civilization, Media News
Michael Conniff

The power of books is in their content, not in their print wrapper. But the history of media is the story of evolution and survival, so books are likely to survive in some form beyond a conversation piece.

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On Reading

Mikita Brottman | Posted 12.02.2007 | Media

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Books, Electronic Books, Amazon E-Book, Nea, Reading, Amazon.com Kindle, NEA Reading, Media News
Mikita Brottman

If Americans are actually reading fewer and fewer books, who's to say that's so terrible?

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Kindle: Prettier Than Books (And Smarter, Too)

Bill Barol | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Bezos Kindle, Amazon.com, Kindle, Amazon.com Book, E-Book, Amazon.com Kindle, Business News
Bill Barol

I may end up lusting after the Kindle, Amazon.com's e-book. But there's something unattractive about Amazon's introductory strategy.

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Why Amazon's Kindle Is No iPod

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business

Read More: E-Books, Kindle iPod, Amazon E-Book, Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Business News

Newsweek's Steven Levy previews Amazon's (AMZN) new $400 Kindle e-book in 4,757-word cover story. Amazon, he says, believes it has created the "iPod o...

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