Forgive me if this has been already covered elsewhere, but does the Kindle 1 work with the bookmark syncing with the iPhone? I just read somewhere on the net that would have me believe it didn't, which would severely put a cramp in my buy a Kindle 1 on ebay cheap plan if so....

What's Twitter good for? Knowing that your life of quiet desperation is shared by the rich, powerful, or merely well-read, for starters. Steve Case, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Corddry deserve twitty pity: New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones economized. Children's Hospital star Rob Corddry stab...

I ordered a Sony Reader three weeks ago from BooksonBoard. Although the website showed it in stock, an inventory glitch left them one short on their blue readers meaning mine became backordered. I was told last week that a shipment was due in last Friday and that my Reader would be overnighted due t...

I was thinking about creating reading lists or collections on the Kindle. I know that the Kindle/mobi format supports links to the web from within a book. For example the feedbooks book that links to its own books. Is there a way to code these links so that they refer to a local file (a book) instea...

Well I finally got my Kindle 2 and also downloaded the Kindle App for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. I did a review of both of them for ExtremeTech. From the Kindle 2 review on ET: So should you spend $359 for a Kindle 2? Is it worth the money? Well so much of the answer to [...]...

Usability guru Jackob Nielson has given Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader the once over. His conclusion: perhaps unsurprisingly, the device is great for linear reading - think books, and in particular novels - but falls down badly when consuming non-linear content, such as electronic versions of ma...

"Over time, Bezos explains, E-books will be the only way people read books. And while the notion may sound far-fetched, he has a pretty good record of predicting the future. Early on, Bezos understood the key to success wasn’t just what Amazon sold, but how they sold it." - ABC News ...

Here’s an excerpt from UK publication The Bookseller. Amazon’s Genevieve Kunst has urged “all publishersâ€� to get digitising if the UK is “everâ€� to see the launch of the Kindle device. … But Kunst explained: “We launched in the US with 90,000 e-books available - we waited unti...

For several hours now, Amazon has been advertising a used Kindle in "very good condition" for just $175, plus the costs of shipping ($5.99) and a charger (missing). Another Kindle, likewise in "very good" condition, is going for $185 and shipping ($5.99) from a five-star seller w...

The logic goes like this. Let zillions of books get published, and the best ones will find readers—with or without Big Media around to spotlight the best ones. Nothing like reader-written reviews to identify the best books and push them to the top of the charts, eh? But as a sales-booster, wha...