News - 1)  Via Eolake Stobblehouse, news that the U.K. Kindle Store lists Kindle Fire HD 7" without Text to Speech. 2) DigiTimes reports shipment delays for the Kindle Paperwhite. 3) Wal-Mart stops carrying the Kindle. 4) Barnes & Noble introduces its n

News - A closer look at a sometimes overlooked member of the new Kindle family, the $159 Kindle Fire. It's a great Fire for reading, because of its half-inch narrower width, and it offers Text-to-Speech which will not be available on the Kindle Paperwhite

News - My thoughts on the Kindle Fire HD 7" on the topics of audio quality, size, the new and improved Text To Speech lady, WhisperSync for Voice, and Immersion Reading. Also: a quick look at $69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Sha

This is a special edition of The Kindle Chronicles podcast, filed from Santa Monica, California, and devoted entirely to today's Amazon press conference at which the following new Kindles were announced, all ready for pre-order: Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G fo

News - 1) The Verge has a purported photo of the next Kindle Touch, but something looks fishy about it to me. Too white a background. We'll see, in Santa Monica on September 6 at 10:30 a.m. PT. 2) Yes, we have no Kindle Fires, Amazon announces. 3) Now we

News - 1) Amazon sends out invitations to a press conference in Santa Monica on September 9  September 6 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time. I'll be there, of course, eager to see what new Kindles will be announced. 2) Amazon announces that it is opening a new I

News - 1) The State Department backs away from a $16.5 million Kindle deal (PDF). 2) Have tablets already overtaken dedicated eReaders as the preferred way to read eBooks? Jeremy Greenfield analyzes the data. 3) I love the new Sony Reader PRS-T2's Evern

News - By the time you hear this episode, we may have already heard an official Amazon announcement of new Kindles, but meanwhile here are some other good stories: 1) New York Times Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus metaphorically falls off his chair d

News - Since I created this episode earlier in the week than usual, I'm not including news that might be stale by Friday. Tech Tips - Why you might, from time to time, find that a book published through Kindle Direct Publishing has a smaller font than y

News - Amazon announces that second-quarter earnings fell by a whopping 96 percent compared with last year's quarter, but the stock price goes up. Stephen Windwalker explains why. Tech Tips - All about X-Ray on the Kindle Touch, including a video clip