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By: ScrollMotion releases in-app purchase, has sold over 200,000 e-books on the iPhone

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:55:54 +0000

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By: Mockerfab4

Mockerfab4 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:52:42 +0000

I love the Kindle for iPhone. Another great and useful app that I use quite a bit. The Kindle to me, while is a cool device, is just another big bulky device that does only 1 thing well. When my iPhone does multiple things well – phone, music player, web browser, email and NOW reading device.

Perfect for long plane rides, and it’s an app that doesn’t eat up alot of the battery life (like listening to music or playing a vid). So you can enjoy reading for hours. And when you travel a bit like myself, and have no access to the internet, reading from my iphone is perfect. I don’t have to carry around multiple books or magazines, or another device. I just read from my iPhone.

I love that the Kindle is tied into Amazon.com’s huge library of ebooks, which makes dowloading and ordering super easy and FAST. And downloading the books is seamless. Order it, type in your pwd, use your 1-click settings and then Bam, imported into your Kindle. And the features on the iphone for Kindle are so much better than the eReader app (which I’ve also used).

By: iPhone App Demos

iPhone App Demos — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:31:43 +0000

We just did a demo of this app and it’s really useful, check it out: http://tinyurl.com/bcz9r5

By: Amazon transforme l’iPhone en lecteur de livre numérique (aux Etats-Unis) « Toujours Connecté

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:30:45 +0000

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By: StephanieInCA

StephanieInCA — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:10:34 +0000

My biggest concern about the Kindle, aside from it’s weird, book-buring-esque name, is that it compromises the integrity of the written word. A printed book may be unwieldy, but you know that once it’s on your shelf, not one letter is going to change. Can’t say the same for the Kindle. Also, when I spill coffee all over a book, I’ve only ruined that particular book :)

By: *Stina

*Stina — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:39:57 +0000

I live in Japan, with an iPhone through the Japanese carrier. I downloaded Kindle easily. I already had my Amazon account established from back home California, but the AppStore didn’t deny me the Download because of my Japanese carrier…

I do find it troublesome, though, trying to get books that I’ve downloaded elsewhere for free into the Kindle for iPhone App… through the Amazon site and the iPhone/iTunes setup. Lame.

Back to eReader.

By: Pablo Gavilán » Blog Archive » Leer en el iPhone vs. leer en el Booken Cybook

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:08:14 +0000

[...] más en su carrera hacia la dominación del formato digital de libros. Ha salido la aplicación Kindle para el iPhone, desde la que puedes descargar ebooks y leerlos directamente en el iPhone. Además, una vez [...]

By: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:20:14 +0000

Don’t knock reading on the iPhone until you’ve actually done it. While I’m sure some will find it unpleasant in practice, most people who complain about it without trying it find it’s actually just fine and their fears are blown away by the end. I’ve read thousands of pages, at least twenty meaty books, on my iPhone thanks to apps like BookShelf and Stanza and it has been a pleasure.

I’ve been reading books on mobile devices (like a grayscale WinCE device years ago) for a decade now and the “eBook revolution” that so many people claim is going to happen, is ancient history for me.

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:07:29 +0000

No, I don’t think Amazon gets it. Both hardware and content are pretty expensive – not the classic razor-razor blade model.

By: Thursday - “ | Boogster's Blog

Thursday - “ | Boogster's Blog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:41:06 +0000

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By: sync

sync — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:04:47 +0000

E-books are suddenly everywhere…

After a few years of being a very niche product for the early-adopter, e-books and their corresponding gadgets – the e-book readers – are set to explode onto the market….

By: Allan Hoving

Allan Hoving — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:53:29 +0000

what i really want to know is whether Apple will come out with an eReader or other table size device. the store Geniuses look silly cradling laptops. Woz’s modbook may be in the ballpark size wise.

By: Morning Bits « South By Texas State

Morning Bits « South By Texas State — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:10:35 +0000

[...] Speaking of new apps, Amazon launched an iPhone app for the Kindle. The app is free and allows users to download and read e-book purchased on Amazon. The download is free and opens in a small window that asks for your Amazon account info. It brings up your archived books and adds your iPhone to the Kindle page for free. The app allows you to scroll back and forth, jump between sections, change text size and add bookmarks. John Biggs of TechCrunch reviews the app here. [...]

By: Magda

Magda — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:34:58 +0000

I’m about to buy it :)

By: Daily Crunch: The Trouble with Kindles Edition

Daily Crunch: The Trouble with Kindles Edition — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:46 +0000

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By: Alan Hoskins

Alan Hoskins — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:02:25 +0000

Amazon Kindle application for your iPhone!…

I am a person who has never really took the time to sit down and read a book in one sitting (I have only ever read one book cover to cover in on go and that was Flowers for Algernon). I always read a bit here and a bit there whenever I can, but rarely…

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:07:26 +0000

Couldn’t agree more, the thing keeping me from the ebook movement is the pricing. The best thing about the Kindle for the iPhone is it will introduce more competition and drive pricing down, or will create new models for renting books.

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:06:32 +0000

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By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:05:33 +0000

“I’m beginning to think Amazon is paying you to do free marketing for them.”

Please read that sentence out loud and ask yourself “does this make sense?”

By: Mark T

Mark T — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:55:05 +0000

Placing the Kindle content on a expensive USD$3K phone is in keeping with the price of the Kindle and its content. I agree that the authors should get paid for their work, but in these days I am using the library rentals for my best seller reading.

The content is digital, it did not require typesetting, binding, shipping, stocking etc. Just the Author’s imagination/knowledge and Editor’s diplomacy. This is the same paradigm that the music industry just went through.

Amazon: Please lower the price of the Kindle, USD$360 does not help in replacing a pulp novel with a silicon one. The payback is way too many books to read within the product’s lifetime.

Amazon: Who in the rest of the world uses Sprint ? Wasn;t that a railroad’s communication’s division ? How about a GSM version for both the US and the rest of the world.

Amazon: How about a short term lease of books? I have no desire to construct a digital bookshelf, think of all the bits that could be recycled. Our Silicon budget could be managed and we could save the free world. We could rent the book, with a terminating license, this would be the equivalent of a rental library. With a lower priced Kindle, and lower priced rental book, I’ll bet it would sell Kindles and Titles like hotcakes.