Kindle Content
Amazon Adds New Languages To The Kindle’s Digital Text Platform
Friday, February 19th, 2010Here’s some good news for our international readers. Kindle has just expanded it’s digital text platform to authors and publishers who publish Spanish, Portuguese and Italian books. These new languages are in addition to the currently available languages of English, German, and French.
Amazon had this to say:
“A month ago we made the self-service [...]
U.S. Government Budget For 2011 Available For Free Download
Thursday, February 11th, 2010For those of you who may be interested, you can get the budget for the U.S. government for 2011. You can download it for free to your Kindle starting today. Here’s the link:
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 by Office of Management and Budget
This free version is by the “Office [...]
More Kindle Exclusives
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Amazon has announced that best selling author Gavin De Becker has made some of his books exclusive to the Amazon Kindle Store. The new Kindle exclusive books are The Gift Of Fearavailable for $7.99 and Just 2 Secondswhich is available for $25. Both are very highly rated.
From the Amazon news release:
“The nationally bestselling [...]
Harvard Business Review Short Cuts Available On Kindle
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010You will now be able to receive Harvard Business Review (HBR) “Short Cuts” on your Kindle. This is a service that is exclusive to Kindle owners (for three months) and lets you purchase individual chapters and summaries from the Harvard Business Review. Short Cuts are individual chapters and summaries from the HBR that [...]
Instapapers Kindle Feature Improved
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Instapaper has improved their Kindle periodical formatting. If you’re not familiar with Instapaper, it is a program that lets you mark articles that you might not want to read right now and lets you read them later on your Kindle.
This update changes the formatting to make the articles look more like they were made [...]