The Kindle Chronicles

News - New subscriptions available for the Kindle: USA Today and Narrative Magazine .  Also, new Kindle market intelligence from The New York Times .  A million Kindles sold?  Not according to Mark Mahaney in August. Tech Tip - How to put content on your Kindle in the middle of Wyoming. Click here to see a map of Whispernet coverage. Interview - Starbuck , the online name for an Army Captain, Blac...

News - Rand McNally introduces a Road Atlas specifically designed for the Kindle. Featuring a brief telephone interview with Joel Minster, Rand McNally's senior vice president and chief cartographer. Tech Tip - Will DeLamater of EduKindle creates a sort of Kindle App - Notepad . Interview - Joshua Tallent of Kindle Formatting talks about how to format books for the Kindle, Digital Rights Managemen...

News - Publisher's Weekly puts Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on its cover as "Person of the Year." Tech Tip - No worries, yet, about ever being charged 10 cents when you convert a .pdf or other document to Kindle format for your Kindle via email. Interview - Steve Shaw, creator of the Kindlelicious blog . What's on his Kindle: Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bea...

News - Via Mike Elgan and HotelChatter.com , we learn that the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City is loaning Kindles to guests.  Jan Zlendich of The Kindle Reader blog notes that 46 of the 50 titles on Bookmarks Magazine's list of the 50 best books of 2008 are available for the Kindle. Tech Tip - Amazon Mobile on the iPhone/iPod Touch is pretty neat, but you can't use it yet to order a Kindle...

News : The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas.  Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0 ? Should Amazon say so ? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than 10,000 Kindle NYT subscriptions (thanks to Abhi for the tip ), and Kindle NowNow is GoneGone .  Tech Tip : Try pdfdownload.org for a one-click way to move web content to your Kindle.  The results won't alwa...

News - In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle. Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky's motherload of Kindle tech stuff. Interview - Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing at E Ink Corporation, interviewed at the company's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.  The audio podcast contains excerpts of our conversation, and this video has the full interview. Quote - "Senior Moment" by D...

News : Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout. Tech Tip : How to put [20,000] 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) - 1.    Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable. 2.    In your computer's web browser, go to MobileReference 3.    In the main area of the web site, not...

News : Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert's Kindleville blog. Tech Tip : From David Emberson's Kindle Cookbook , a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through books 1/20th at a time. Interview : My wife's opinion of her Kindle improves during her first month of use, despite her biggest fear coming true.  NOTE: If you know some great sources for contemporary mystery w...

News : The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon. Tech Tip : What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen? Interview : Dave Emberson , author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You . Quote : Technology Review' s editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the next president. Comments : Stephen Windwalker , Kesler Woodward , and Li...

Kindle News : Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way , including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also , Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle format. Tech Tip : From The Kindle Cookbook by David Emberson, how to put the MobileRead guide on your Kindle for free book downloads.  (Other good Kindle guides mentioned: Decoding the Kindle by Jim Cheshire...

Interview: Abhi, creator of the Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers , talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you join and participate in his social network before the end of October. Kindle Quote: The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad. Kindle Comment: A promising overture from someone at Amazon...

Kindle News: Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2? Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group. Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner. On her Kindle: War and Peace by Tolstoy, Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov from MobileReference and the blogs Opinionated and An Unamplified Voice , an opera blog. Kindle Quote: Mmm-good: Campbell Soup fares p...

Kindle News: Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle. Tech Tip: How to find out there's no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map. Interview: My wife, Darlene, opens her Kindle and starts using it. Quote: The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield. Comments: Bob Boyken, Sang-Won Kim, Heather Hollick, and Linda.

Kindle News: Amazon passes a milestone with 180,000 titles available in the Kindle Store. Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep. Interview: Jim Cheshire , author of Decoding the Kindl e. Kindle Quote: from Spirit House, a Vincent Calvino Novel by Christopher G. Moore. Kindle Comments: audio from Bryan Person , comments on the show notes page from Greg...

Kindle News : Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies . Tech Tip : My 79-year-old mother's clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn't pan out, but I did learn about the expanded location tool from Jim Cheshire 's new book, Decoding the Kindle .   Interview : Andy Ihnatko , technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times . Kindle Quote : from Mc...

Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain.  Jim Cheshire's Decoding the Kindle is released. Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which begins on one screen and ends on the next. Also, Jan Zlendich's tip for helping your Kindle make it home if you leave it somewhere. The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" : Heather Hollick of Chapel Hill, Nor...

Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko's possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, "How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn't." Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle on cruise control.  (Hat tip to chelsea etitameh on the Kindle  Korner Yahoo Group. ) The "What's On Your Kindle?" Interview: Jan Zlendich of Tucson, Arizona, created The Kindle Reader blog while she waited...

Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week's The Tech Beat .  This led John C. Dvorak to increase the warmth of his Kindle assessment compared with his initial scoffing on This Week in Tech just after the Kindle was introduced.  (Note to social-network sav...

The "What's on Your Kindle?" interview this week is with Joe Wikert , creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wiley & Sons .  Here is some of what's on Joe's Kindle: Subscriptions to The New York Times and Time Magazine Samples of Predictably Irrational , Obsessive Branding Disorder , and Nice Guys Can Get the Corner O...

This is the .mp3 version of episode 5 featuring an interview with Joe Wikert.

This is the .mp3 version of Episode 4, which features a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with Bill Bulger, 74, in active retirement after serving for 17 years as president of the Massachusetts State Senate and seven years as president of the University of Massachusetts.

This week's "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview is with Bill Bulger , 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts.  We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her husband a Kindle.  His book is not in Kindle version yet - click on...

This is the .mp3 version of this week's episode featuring a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with author Stephen Windwalker.

Kindle News : Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France , as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago. A rosy view of the Kindle's future sales and one not so rosy . One thing NOT to do with your Kindle. A Free Webinar , "Leveraging the Kindle - How to maximize the Kindle's benefits to your readers and your business," by Joe Wikert s...

The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman , who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash , Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts.  His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript.  What's on C.C's Kindle: subscriptions to The Boston Globe and...