Podcast Solutions, the “complete guide to podcasting” co-authored by award-winning podcaster (and Kindle fan) Michael Geoghegan, is now available on the Amazon Kindle. Geoghegan is the creator of wine podcast Grape Radio (for which he won a James Beard award), and the behind-the-scenes Disney podcast, among others, and creator-facilitator of the Podcast Academy. We first […]

John Markoff at the New York Times writes that there’s evidence that Apple is working on a Kindle-killer.  According to Markoff, his contact at a search engine company has “spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a display somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook. Is it the iPhone 3.0 or the NetMac 1.0?” […]

Last year, we called the Kindle “this year’s Zunetanic, an over-hyped iPod-wannabee.” A little harsh, maybe, but the prediction is panning out to be true.  Since then, Amazon has dropped the price for the Kindle, announced a lot more books for the device and sold in modest numbers, leading Amazon to admit that the device was […]

A lot of tech analysts, including TechCrunch and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, have been talking up their estimates of Kindle sales, and positioning Amazon’s device as the iPod of ebooks. Unfortunately for Amazon, the numbers being thrown around by TechCrunch & Citi appear to be bogus. According to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Amazon […]

Citi analyst Mark Mahaney is bullish on the prospects for Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader. He estimates that Amazon (AMZN) will sell 378,000 units this year, double his initial guess. And he thinks instead of being a $750 million business that accounts for 3% of Amazon’s sales in 2009, the Kindle will be a $1.1 billion […]

Amazon.com and Simon & Schuster today announced that Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 additional titles available for Amazon Kindle in 2008. When added to books already available on Kindle, these Simon Schuster titles represent the vast majority of sales from the publisher’s catalog. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo also offered incentive for other publishers for […]

Amazon has quietly dropped the price of its Kindle book reader, the device it recently said was selling better than it expected. The Kindle electronic book reader had been $399; now it lists for $359. We’ve been skeptical about the Kindle’s prospects since it was introduced. While it’s a big name book reader, it has […]

Citi analyst Mark Mahaney says the Amazon Kindle could be an iPod-like hit within two years, contributing 3% (750 millsion) to Amazon’s revenue. Here are Mahaney’s reasons: The Kindle doesn’t suck. Mahaney likes the Kinde’s automatic downloading feature and slightly lower-price books ($9.99 vs. $18 for the physical books). The current Kindle is a 1.0 […]

During Amazon’s Q4 2007 earnings call on January 30th, CEO Jeff Bezos had some interesting remarks about sales of the company’s Kindle portable book reader: Kindle is, in terms of demand, outpacing our expectations, which is certainly something that we are very grateful for. It’s also on the manufacturing side causing us to scramble. We’re […]