News – iRex Technologies teams up with Best Buy and Verizon to form the newest challenge to the Kindle’s dominance of eBooks. Engadget gets its hands on an iRex DR800SG and is not impressed.  Other smart commentary here and here. Meanwhile, A

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Here’s what the process is like for checking out one of the 10 Kindles available at the Belmont, Mass., Public Library. Filmed on September 16, 2009. Click here to download this video extra.

News – Stephen Windwalker’s prediction that the new Dan Brown blockbuster would sell more Kindle copies than print on the Amazon Store looked like an eerie foretelling this week. Motoko Rich of the New York Times asks if this is the second com

After my interview with Dr. James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass., I learned more details of the school’s new high-tech library.  Bruce Lemieux, Director of Technology, and Susie Carlisle, Dean of Faculty and Academics, de

News – Ted Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, will not be issued in eBook format when the hardcover is released. Tech Tip – a good way to save a few keystrokes when you are looking for things on your Kindle 2 or DX. Interview – Dr. Ja

News – Amazon makes amends to those whose copies of 1984 were removed from Kindles in a copyright snafu. No word yet on whether this rumor of a Kindle launch in Europe will turn out to be true. Tech Tips – New firmware is apparently out for th

News - Sony announces its Daily Edition model, available sometime in December.  Why “Is it a Kindle Killer?” is the wrong question, according to Scott D. Anthony in a Harvard Business Publishing piece.  The DE will have a cool connection to

This is a fanciful Kindle piece in the style of a fable for children, created and recited by Bufo Calvin, my guest on Episode 58. Click here to download this episode.

News - An analyst named Jim Friedland offers bullish Kindle sales estimates, and Steven Windwalker has more via TeleRead.  Also, Rupert Murdoch gets his way. Click here for reaction on Amazon forum. Tech Tip – From Bufo Calvin’s Frequently As