DATE CORRECTION – In the audio I say it’s October 14 instead of August 14.  Must have been a touch of fall in the air yesterday…. News – Sony announces (and the New York Times scoops) plans to convert Sony’s eBook store to t

This is a recording of the discussion which I led today, August 8, 2009, at Podcamp Boston 4.  It was titled “Will the Kindle Save Reading?” and it was actually a discussion instead of a one-way presentation. An active participant in the fron

News – Rupert Murdoch is still talking tough about a possible break with Amazon over the Wall Street Journal’s Kindle edition, despite a price increase in May and a bigger share of the revenue for News Corp.  Also, Sony announces two new Read

Amazon's Kindle VP Ian Freed News – Item 1: My telephone interview yesterday July 29 (audio incorrectly has it as “yesterday.”) with Justin D. Gawronski, a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon in the wake of the O

2 UPDATES (7/26/09) – Courtesy of Andrys Basten – thanks, Andrys! 1.CORRECTION: Plastic Logic will be going with AT&T (not Verizon, as I say in the podcast) as it has European GSM while Verizon has only CDMA.  Amazon is with Sprint (not A

An amazing sequence of technical problems has resulted in my not having a podcast to upload today, which was going to be a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the show.  The MacBook Pro that I usually use in Cambridge to prepare the podcast died y

News – An Orwellian development rocks the Kindlesphere. Amazon changes its mind about replacing cracked Kindles. Encouraging data indicates that the $9.99 price for new releases is holding its own. Be sure to ask for your $60 refund if you bought a

UPDATE: In the podcast, I state the price change incorrectly, saying the Kindle is dropping from $299 to $259.  Not true! The price drop is from $359 to $299.  Sorry for the error…. (Thanks, Andrys Basten, for the heads up!) News - Amazon lowers

News – The Economist comes to the Kindle — thanks for the tip, Paul Biba — along with Foreign Affairs and the Detroit Free Press. More libraries offer Kindles. Hopes of a Kindle deal in Germany put on hold.  No sign here yet of the rumo

Intro – The view out my window during a big rain in downtown Denver. Taken and uploaded from the new iPhone 3GS. News -   Abhi analyzes a recently approved patent for an amazing new Kindle pen, via TechFlash. Steve Bain of Kindle Zen finds evidenc