Kindle Content

Amazon Launches Kindle Singles

January 26, 2011

Amazon has just announced the launch of a new project called Kindle Singles which is never before released content from popular writers. Amazon contacted writers, scientists, business leaders, historians and others to produce content that would be between 5,000 and 30,000 words – the Kindle Single. These Singles would allow a “single killer idea” to [...]

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New Books From The Onion Now Available For Kindle

December 9, 2010

Amazon announced that The Onion has created five ebook collections exclusively for the Kindle. The Onion is a national publication and website that delivers satirical news. 1.8 million readers read their publication weekly and they get over 10 million hits to their website each month. The collections are “Americas Finest Tech News,” “Chronicles Of The [...]

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Michelin Driving Tours Available On Kindle

April 7, 2010

Here’s another Kindle exclusive. Amazon has announced that Michelin driving tours are now available exclusively on the Kindle. At this time there are three tours available. The three available tours are California Driving Tours, Florida Driving Tours and New England Driving Tours. The tours can be downloaded for $3.99 to your Kindle, Kindle DX, iPod [...]

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Amazon Adds New Languages To The Kindle's Digital Text Platform

February 19, 2010

Here’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 [...]

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U.S. Government Budget For 2011 Available For Free Download

February 11, 2010

For 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 [...]

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More Kindle Exclusives

February 11, 2010

Amazon 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 [...]

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Harvard Business Review Short Cuts Available On Kindle

January 26, 2010

You 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 are broken [...]

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Instapapers Kindle Feature Improved

January 22, 2010

Instapaper 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 [...]

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