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Kindle Hacks

Posted Tue, 07/21/2009 - 09:21 by Sam Rose
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http://kindlehacks.blogspot.com/

Just logging this for future findability

Richard Adler's picture

Amazon pulls purchases copies of George Orwell novels from the Kindle

Posted Sat, 07/18/2009 - 10:01 by Richard Adler

Several posts today reporting that Amazon has not only pulled copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from their sales list, but also pulled them from Kindles themselves.

Sure sounds like a PR disaster to me.

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More about that $9.99 Kindle ebook price

Posted Wed, 07/15/2009 - 09:31 by Richard Adler
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http://booksquare.com/tis-better-to-lose-a-sale-than-sell-an-ebook/

I don't plan to belabor this issue, because it's perfectly obvious how this is going to turn out for quixotic thinkers like Robert Gottlieb. But once again, Kassia Krozser has some insightful things to say:

Richard Adler's picture

Here comes the ebook deluge

Posted Sun, 06/07/2009 - 01:14 by Richard Adler
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_ereader_and_ebook_market_rea...

So, after all the bromides about how much everyone loves the book as we know it, there are already signs that the book trade may have a lot in common with the music industry after all:

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people download books. film at eleven

Posted Wed, 05/13/2009 - 07:18 by Richard Adler

A boomlet of hysteria this week as the New York Times discovers books can be copied too. Shock and horror!

Nothing terribly new to see here. Cory makes his argument, LeGuin is outraged, and Slashdot and Booksquare weigh in.

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New Kindle DX falls short?

Posted Mon, 05/11/2009 - 02:12 by Richard Adler
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http://theroot.com/print/11314

This really is getting tiresome. It appears even the allegedly pdf-friendly Kindle DX may still have problems converting files due to Amazon's insistence on its own proprietary format. I haven't had a chance to see the DX directly, so I have to withhold judgment for now, but I have to say, if the reviewer is correct, I wouldn't be surprised.

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Kindle owners find out about DRM's ever-present threat - Ars Technica

Posted Mon, 04/20/2009 - 09:55 by paulbhartzog
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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/amazon-kindle-incidents-high...

if DRM is a waste of time, then why are people still willing to use DRM devices?

I think that what is inevitable here is NOT the end of DRM, but the evolution of DRM into something that is so convenient and loose that most people will still use the devices. At which point, only the true-believers will avoid DRM.

This is common in technology evolution, as most people will put up with any injustice or bad design as long as they get some minimum of satisfaction.

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kindle inevitable

Posted Fri, 04/17/2009 - 07:26 by Richard Adler
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http://consumerist.com/5213774/amazon-can-ban-you-from-your-kindle-accou...

That $360 device only works so long as Amazon decides it will work.

Well, yes. There's a shocker for you.

I'm putting this one up for the sake of complete-ism, I suppose. Because it's not like any of us didn't see this one coming right from the start.

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Finally! : Disability activists gather to protest removal of text-to-speech on kindle

Posted Thu, 04/09/2009 - 14:11 by Richard Adler
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/protest-kindle-drm

I can't believe it took this long for a protest to happen. This was the real issue regarding text-to-speech as I saw it. Yet the press notably failed even to mention it at the time:

You may remember a few months ago, when The Authors Guild claimed (falsely) that the text-to-speech feature violated copyright law, and forced Amazon to disable it.

Now, the people who would have benefited most from the new feature — the blind, and others with reading disabilities — have made it clear that they're not going to stand for it.

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Been waiting for a Kindle post like this

Posted Mon, 03/30/2009 - 09:59 by Richard Adler
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/03/until_quite_recently_i...

Most accounts of the Kindle seem to fall into two categories: either the tech journalists evaluating it as a consumer product, or book trade people evaluating what it might do to current business models and practices. Relatively few are considering the Kindle as readers, and then going from there. Which makes Josh Marshall's post especially interesting, because he notes something about the Kindle (and the iPhone addon) that others rarely have, and then extrapolates from that to something that hits home for me, as someone who has a few thousand books himself.

Below are some quotes, and then a follow up comment:

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