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POPSHot Electronic Christmas Gifts...the clock is ticking I can't believe that it's now weeks ( not months) until Christmas. Need all the help I can get. For everyone else stuck for ideas, I'm sticking to electronic christmas gifts for my brother and might go for an amazon kindle for my sisters
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POPSKindel Book Reader Buy an Amazon Kindle 2 ™ eBook Reader from Only $247. Order Yours Now! Enjoy hundreds of books, blogs and newspapers from a device that can fit into your pocket. Read in direct sunlight with no glare, access countless books at discount prices and even listen to mp3s and Podcasts on the Amazon Kindle 2 eBook reader.
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POPSNew Kindle International Wireless Specifications Below, I’ve listed the specifications for the new Amazon Kindle International Wireless Reading Device. Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required
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POPSAmazon Kindle International Ebook Reader Review The new Amazon Kindle International ebook reader will now allow you to travel and download books, magazine, newspapers and more all around the world. From Iceland to Japan and many places in between with available 3G wireless or EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution) /GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) coverage, you can now read and download new material at the push of a button.
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POPSKindle International: It's Here At Last! At last – Amazon have finally released their Amazon Kindle International Wireless Reading Device. Yes, you read that right – there now is an Amazon Kindle International. It’s not just for lucky Americans any more. The availability of the Kindle International Wireless is one of the two important announcements that Amazon revealed recently. Here’s how Amazon describes the latest addition to its roster of wireless reading devices:
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POPSMy Splendid Concubine Book My Splendid Concubine is the love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want to the world to know about. He was the only foreigner the Ching Dynasty and the Emperor of China trusted
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POPSIs Amazon In Trouble? Barnes and Noble just revealed their new online digital bookstore with over 700,000 titles. Unlike Amazon's Kindle only policy, the digital books offered by Barnes and Noble will be readable on most popular handheld devices, including your iPhones and Blackberries.
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POPSAmazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Amazon appears to have deleted other purchased e-books from Kindles recently. Customers commenting on Web forums reported the disappearance of digital editions of the Harry Potter books and the novels of Ayn Rand over similar issues. Amazon’s published terms of service agreement for the Kindle does not appear to give the company the right to delete purchases after they have been made. It says Amazon grants customers the right to keep a “permanent copy of the applicable digital content.”
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POPSAmazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances,” Mr. Herdener said. Customers whose books were deleted indicated that MobileReference, a digital publisher, had sold them. An e-mail message to SoundTells, the company that owns MobileReference, was not immediately returned. Digital books bought for the Kindle are sent to it over a wireless network. Amazon can also use that network to synchronize electronic books between devices — and apparently to make them vanish. An authorized digital edition of “1984” from its American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was still available on the Kindle store Friday night, but there was no such version of “Animal Farm.” People who bought the rescinded editions of the books reacted with indignation, while acknowledging the literary ironies involved. “Of all the books to recall,” said Charles Slat
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POPSSome E-Books Are More Equal Than Others As one of my readers noted, it’s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we’ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table. You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony? The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none other than George Orwell. And the books were “1984” and “Animal Farm.”
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