ebooks
Keith Peters compares the font rendering of a Kindle, iPad, newspaper, magazine, and a paperback book under a USB microscope. I wonder how many years before e-ink becomes indistinguishable from paper media.
Amazon’s strategy is as sensible as any I can think of for the Kindle–make it more like a book and even less like an iPad, thereby catering to all the folks who want the equivalent of a relatively cheap, highly portable digital paperback rather than the costlier do-it-all device that is Apple’s tablet. For all [...]
The New York Times published an article yesterday which tells you just about everything you need to know about the state of the Kindlesphere. On e-book sales: Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In [...]
Almost all of my writing starts in TextEdit. I’m an unabashed champion of it and I think it does not get nearly the credit it deserves. I have it set to default to plain text, 90 characters x 50 lines, Menlo 12pt for my font after a long flirtation with Droid Sans. Patrick Rhone has [...]
I was surprised to see a fair amount of coverage this weekend in mainstream news channels of Jakob Nielsen’s recent study on iPad and Kindle reading speeds which concluded people read content on paper faster than content on e-readers. I am not so sure this study is all that important.
One of the two big changes of the new Kindle DX that was announced yesterday is a graphite case. Is this to make it lighter? Look sexier? Most likely, no. It is going to improve the readability of the text on the e-ink screen.
It’s rather interesting that Amazon seem to be utilizing every method possible to clear up Kindle 2 US stock and Kindle 2 stock. We have $189 Kindles and a $150 Kindle deal at Woot and a $139 refurbished Kindle 2 US deal at Amazon. Amazon seem intent on sending out as many Kindles as they can. Combine that [...]
Kevin Rose walks through five items on his wish list for Amazon and Apple to add to the Kindle and iBooks, respectively. He nails a key point — e-readers are Internet-connected devices, however we’re still talking about bookmarks and highlights as opposed to new features that would dramatically enhance the reading experience. Every idea here [...]
This was the ad that greeted me yesterday when I visited Amazon’s home page. As far as I can remember, I’ve never seen this ad before, but it’s possible it has just been out of circulation for a while. That said, no doubt in my mind it is designed to be a subtle jab at the iPad.