Amazon Kindle 1st Generation News, Rumors & Updates

[In this feature, we highlight a handful of the best book reviews appearing over the weekend in major newspapers. Follow it here.] A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava. Reviewed by Paul Ford in the Slate Book Review. This...

Guest post by Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity, The $100 Startup, and coauthor of Do More Great Work. Last week I released my new book, The $100 Startup. It tells the stories of unexpected and unconventional entrepreneurs...

Author: George R.R. Martin 2005, Bantam Filed Under: Fantasy Find it on Goodreads C4 Ratings...out of 10 Language..... 6 Entertainment..... 6 Depth..... 6 “Disappointing” best summarizes the fourth installment in A Song of Ice and Fire. I was thrilled by...

[In this feature, we highlight a handful of the best book reviews appearing over the weekend in major newspapers. Follow it here.] . Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson. Reviewed by Christopher Kelly (New York Times). I actually...

From ReadWriteWeb.  More in the article. Paulo Santos (who is short AMZN) has a great post on Seeking Alpha about the nasty secret hidden in Amazon’s otherwise-strong Q1 earnings. The reason Amazon’s razor-thin margins look just the teensiest bit better is that sales...

Amazon customers in Ireland are being forced to do business with the Kindle store in the USA instead of the UK . This results in dramatically high prices and many customers are irate that they are paying close to 3X...

Guest post by New York Times best-selling suspense author Nelson DeMille.  Back in 1997, I wrote a book titled Plum Island that featured a character named John Corey. Corey was NYPD homicide, though when we first meet him, he’s sitting...