amazon kindle fact bits
The Kindle is already able to read more than just Amazon DRMed content, it can handle a number of formats.
The Kindle only allows the reading of Amazon DRM-protected content.
Non-DRM Mobi books, like free e-books found online in Mobi format, or files you convert to Mobi files, are already supported on Kindle.
The Kindle has a built in cell receiver so that you can wirelessly browse, preview and purchase books using one-click.
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In the spotlight: stephen king kindle
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amazon kindle news
What's Happening at the Library: Websites for free e- and audio books
Assistant Director Angela Turner, told me about a website that will be of interest to anyone who uses a Kindle e-reader and likes a bargain. It s called Pixel of Ink, www.pixelofink.com, and it s devoted to steering Kindle users to free and discount priced e-books. ...

A dickens of a time with a 200th birthday
NEW YORK The visitors have been coming at a steady trickle, reverent, bemused, squinting at the crabbed handwriting in the anguished letters from his American tour ("They will never leave me alone ... I shake hands every day ... with five or six hundred people"), the missives on mesmerism, philanthropy, storytelling, Christmas books and his own manic energy. ...

Live webchat: Amanda Hocking
The author will be here between 1pm and 2pm on Tuesday 24 January . Post your questions now Twenty-seven year old Minnesotan Amanda Hocking is a self-publishing phenomenon . After failing for years to interest mainstream publishers in her work, she brought out her Trylle triliogy as an ebook in 2010 - and has since sold over 1.5m books and made $2.5m, achieving the sort of stratospheric success ... ...

Local libraries see high demand, changes in industry for ebooks
Did you get a new e-reader for the holidays thinking you'll be reading new releases free from your library even quicker than checking out the actual book? Well, that won't be case. With the rise in popularity of e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad and Nook from Barnes & Noble, local libraries are seeing a major increase in the demand for e-books, but there's not enough of a supply ... ...

An E-Book Armistice; S--- Editors Say
Today in publishing and literature: Nobody wins when readers battle over e-books and print, another juicy memoir from basketball coach Phil Jackson is in the offing, and the 'S--- Girls Say' parodies have crossed over into the realm of publishing. ...
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