Technology

The New York Times reports that Amazon will unveil a new, larger, Kindle, this week. The larger screen sized Kindle will be optimized for newspapers and textbooks. Click here to read their article. Engadget.com has released the first pictures of the… more »

Mysteria is a website that allows the user to enter a search for a Kindle book on Amazon. What? you say. Doesn't Amazon have the same capability on their website? Yes, but what Amazon doesn't yet provide is the capability to reply to you if and when t… more »

This weekend, Amazon.com apparently added the word "gay" to its adult filter. The effect of this is that any books meeting the "adult" criteria do not show up in bestseller lists or some search results. Word spread very quickly once it made it to Twitt… more »

Amazon has released a free iPhone application that serves as a mobile Kindle. For iPhone users that do not own a Kindle, the application is still useful. It is an e-reader that has access to the 240K and growing number of books available for the Kindle… more »

An article on the Kindle 2, in the Wall Street Journal, includes this quote: "They don't have the right to read a book out loud," said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law… more »