Wired: Listening Post: Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Data

Posted on 3 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Amazon launches user-editable music database: "To get the ball rolling, Amazon has included music information from its retail site as well as data from the Internet Movie Database and Musicbrainz ... As with Wikipedia, users can edit this information, but not directly. All changes must be vetted by Amazon staff before appearing on the site."

Jack Schofield: Is the Kindle ebook reader becoming Amazon’s iPod? | Technology | The Guardian

Posted on 15 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has just doubled his projections for Kindle sales to 378,000 units for this year, 934,000 next year and 4.4m in 2010. "Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world," he told Citigroup clients."

TechCrunch: We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000

Posted on 2 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"240,000 Kindles have been shipped since November, according to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the numbers."

Times Emit: Enriched.

Posted on 10 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"For all the talk of digital innovation, ... the picture in the UK publishing industry still feels like one that is failing to get anywhere new very quickly ..."

New York Times: Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled

Posted on 6 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"The Readius will be introduced in England, Italy and Germany this fall, and in the United States early in 2009... The price is not yet set, but ... Readius would be more expensive than the Kindle, which now is selling for $359."

Portfolio.com: E-Ink Newspapers? When Car’s Fly

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Amazon has come closer to creating the newspaper of the future than any newspaper company." (shame about the shocking apostrophe in the headline)

BusinessWeek: Reading the Kindle with Your Morning Coffee

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Review of the Amazon Kindle: "Print devotees will likely find Amazon's newfangled e-reader an imperfect substitute for the old-fashioned newspaper—even if it saves trees."

PC World: Polymer Vision Readies Rollable E-Book, Cell Phone

Posted on 23 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"the Readius will operate almost worldwide, as it works with the HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3G (third-generation) service favored by European, Asian and some U.S. operators."

Telegraph: Shane Richmond: Hands-on with Amazon’s Kindle

Posted on 8 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Russell Baker from Amazon ... was tight-lipped about when the device is likely to go on sale in the UK but suggested that it would come here eventually - unlike the Sony Reader."

Snarkmarket: "The iPod Moment"

Posted on 8 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"... reading all this talk about the “iPod moment” for books .... [W]asn’t the deeper surprise/lesson of the iPod that Apple had essentially invented a need where none had formerly existed?"

Wired Gadget Lab: E-Book Readers At A Glance

Posted on 24 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Currenlty available e-book readers compared. "Old crappy ones not included".

BBC News: Amazon Kindle sells out on debut

Posted on 23 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Amazon's Kindle e-book reader has sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular."

ZDNet UK: Amazon: No Kindle for the UK yet

Posted on 20 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Amazon.com has unveiled its much anticipated e-book reader — the Kindle. However, the device won’t be available in the UK anytime soon, the company claims." Wireless system not compatible, it seems

Howard Owens: New Amazon reader great for books; for newspapers, maybe not so much

Posted on 19 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Our industry has a long history over scheming for inkless paper delivery, but I’m not sure consumers are as eager to experience a newspaper on a device such as this as some hope."

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