- 9:41 AM Doug Aamoth - Everything starts at 10am Eastern. We’ll be up and running shortly.
- 9:54 AM John Biggs - Fairly small auditorium. Showing famous quotes about reading. Books are carriers of civilization.
- 9:54 AM John Biggs - Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- 9:59 AM John Biggs - One minute, friends.
- 10:00 AM John Biggs - To read is to empower.
- 10:00 AM John Biggs - Everyone probably thinks I’m a raving nymphomaniac – Madonna. You can google the rest of that one.
- 10:03 AM John Biggs - Just saw a Tweet: Want a Kindle 2? Order a Kindle 1 now:
- 10:04 AM John Biggs - No confirmation of the efficacy of that course of action.
- 10:09 AM John Biggs - Just starting.
- 10:19 AM John Biggs - Kinde 2
- 10:22 AM John Biggs - whisper sync – kindle 1 and kindle 2 AND OTHER MOBILE DEVICES will keep your current page across devices.
- 10:22 AM John Biggs - .36 inches. ultrathin
- 10:22 AM John Biggs - Pageturning buttons flex inward.
- 10:22 AM John Biggs - Faster screen update.
- 10:23 AM John Biggs - Longer battery life
- 10:23 AM John Biggs - 5 way controller.
- 10:23 AM John Biggs - 700 times more storage
- 10:23 AM John Biggs - We were down for a minute there. Thanks for sticking it out.
- 10:24 AM John Biggs - The screen changes are very speedy.
- 10:24 AM John Biggs - Much faster than in Kindle 1
- 10:24 AM John Biggs - The grey sort of melts in and out rather than that big black screen
- 10:25 AM John Biggs - Images coming. It’s EXACTLY what we saw today.
- 10:25 AM John Biggs - this weekend rather. He’s basically just giving a demo.
- 10:26 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:26 AM John Biggs - New feature:
- 10:26 AM John Biggs - Text to speech!
- 10:27 AM John Biggs - text to speech is pretty cool. Very listenable
- 10:28 AM John Biggs - Now video of kindle users.
- 10:28 AM John Biggs - Kindle 1 users trying Kindle 2
- 10:28 AM John Biggs - Very compact. Sleek, all enclosed. Thin, better than any book.
- 10:29 AM John Biggs - Really comfortable to hold.
- 10:29 AM John Biggs - I read more, I read faster.
- 10:30 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:30 AM Peter Ha -
- 10:30 AM Doug Aamoth - Info up on Amazon.com with letter from Jeff Bezos
- 10:31 AM Peter Ha -
- 10:32 AM Doug Aamoth - Product page (it’s $359):
- 10:32 AM John Biggs - Correction – 7X more storage, not 700.
- 10:32 AM John Biggs - Jeff back on stage.
- 10:34 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:34 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:36 AM John Biggs - Steven King on stage
- 10:36 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:36 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:37 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:37 AM John Biggs - Talking about how he made a story for the Kindle
- 10:37 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:37 AM John Biggs - He’s a big fan of the Kindle.
- 10:38 AM John Biggs - Lobster is an excuse to eat butter.
- 10:38 AM John Biggs - Writing stories gives an excuse to write a certain scene.
- 10:39 AM John Biggs - Steve wrote a story about the kindle for the kindle and Steve got a kindle out of it.
- 10:39 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:39 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:40 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:40 AM John Biggs -
- 10:40 AM John Biggs - Now he’s reading from the Kindle. The first e-book reading?
- 10:41 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:41 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:41 AM Doug Aamoth - “Read in sunlight with no glare”
- 10:42 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:44 AM Doug Aamoth - Special Opportunity for Kindle 1 Owners
Even though we’ve increased our manufacturing capacity, we want to be sure our original Kindle owners are first in line to receive Kindle 2. Place your Kindle 2 order by midnight PST on February 10th and you will receive first priority. - 10:44 AM Doug Aamoth - “If you have previously placed an order for Kindle 1, and have not yet received it, your order will automatically be upgraded to Kindle 2. You need to do nothing.”
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- 10:46 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:47 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:47 AM John Biggs - Books have a smell, one that gets better.
- 10:47 AM John Biggs - I will not comment on Mr. King’s writing.
- 10:47 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:48 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:48 AM John Biggs - Steve gets a pink kindle.
- 10:48 AM John Biggs - Really nice reading. This is so much calmer than an Apple event.
- 10:49 AM Doug Aamoth -
- 10:51 AM John Biggs - Novella is called “Ur”
- 10:51 AM John Biggs - by Stephen King. Kindle Pre-orders delivered the moment they’re available.
- 10:51 AM John Biggs - Today, new yorker is available.
- 10:51 AM John Biggs - Ships 24th for $359
- 10:51 AM John Biggs - Ships 24th for $359
- 10:52 AM John Biggs - Thanks for tuning in.
- 10:52 AM John Biggs - All over, friends. Look for more coverage and hands on shortly.
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Waiting for more information.
Thanks for being there for all of us, John!
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I’m on the waiting list and I can’t wait to hear the news about the new kindle.
Finally, Please let the price be $249 :)
Why do your postings read an hour ahead? Are you liveblogging this from Halifax?
I just hope that this time it is available worldwide…
The new Kindle is for sale on Amazon’s website already.
So much for ScribbleLive…your “live” blogging went dead at 11:09. I’m switching over the Engadget.
Cool, thanks for stopping by.
700 times more storeage? Do you mean 7 times?
charge via mini-usb?
Text to speech, Dragon it speech back to text. Copyright / format issues—-gone.
But will it read .pdf files?
Looks like the answer to this is yes, but not well. Plus, you need to email them to the device at $0.10 a piece or email them to a service that will convert them for free and email them back to you. Then you have to load them though the USB charge port. Apparently, the SD slot is gone.
This is a deal breaker for me.
I just bought mine. Says it will be delivered on 2/25.
If you have previously placed an order for Kindle 1, and have not yet received it, your order will automatically be upgraded to Kindle 2. You need to do nothing.
I hope that Amazon will be smart and offer the software update to the Kindle 1 owners as well and not take the Apple road by forcing people to upgrade their hardware to get new software (iPod 5th generation to iPod 5th Generation version 2).
ScribbleLive is working just fine for me!
As for Kindle 2- Beautiful. Just wish I had the money…Also there’s something special about having an actual library…Perhaps this would be more worth it if all my normal books came with an e version?
Yes.. Buy the book and get the e-version with it. Best of ALL worlds !
The one thing that I find interesting here is the newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Looks like this could replace a large pile of paper I have at home. Still not sold on the “book” concept yet as I still like the feel of my paper-based volumes :)
I own several print magazines and we’ve played with converting them to Kindle editions. In short, current eBook formats are extremely poor at rendering magazine layouts. For anything to be readable on the Kindle, Mobireader, etc, it has to completely be re-designed for the limited display capabilities of these devices. Anything beyond a simple in-line picture and text will not work. This, imho, is a huge step backwards that will assure that magazines will not be taking this device, or any ereader, seriously.
Also, our web site was approved for Kindle RSS delivery back when 1.0 launched. Three times Amazon dropped the ball in completing their side of the hookup. Granted, our name isn’t New York Times, but for having the lofty goal of getting all written material on their device, I’d say they’re falling fall short of that on the human side of the equation.
No cover comes with Kindle 2. They should have reduced the price.
Thanks so much! I can’t wait till February 24th. Already checked Amazon and everything is changed for the new Kindle.
What about folders?
Looks like the SD card slot is gone. Can anyone confirm? Looks like a great device, but it still doesn’t look like its what I want. I really want a document reader that can read ebooks, not an ebook reader that sort of reads documents. Needs native PDF at least. I’d want to be able to load up my docs on an SD card from work and read them on the train ride home.
Looks like a great device for book readers, but not what I’m looking for.
Just bought mine – will be delivered on the 26th.
No SD memory slot. Big mistake.
Can you guys load a demo of the text-to-speech feature? This might be a good gift for my sight-impaired grandparents if that feature works well.