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Aug
13
Amazon Kindle: The Buzz Goes On
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The media buzz on the Amazon Kindle continues at mid-week, following a Citigroup analyst’s positive estimates of 2008 Kindle sales on Monday.
The Top Stocks Blog over at MSN Money staked out somewhat of a contrarian position. Under the headline, “Amazon’s Kindle unlikely to set world on fire,” the blogger noted that although some think the Kindle will have a first-year sales record comparable to that of the Apple iPod, “[o]thers believe it’s wishful thinking to assume John Grisham will ever be as popular as Jay-Z.”
After noting some features of the Amazon Kindle — ability to download books over the wireless Whispernet network, the glare-free screen and enlargeable screen fonts, the Top Stocks blogger held firm to the notion of print-and-paper books: “Doodling in the corners and turning the pages into a flipbook, alas, can still only be done in regular books.”
Jul
25
From Inside Higher Ed comes a report that university presses have started to make their products available via the Amazon Kindle. Princeton University Press, for example, will be trying some new when it releases a new book by Yale economist Robert Shiller: “Two weeks before print publication the book will be available as a Kindle e-book.”
The Kindle’s connection to Amazon, the article continues, “has given it a market that is attractive to many publishers — including university presses.” Princeton University Press plans to make hundreds of books available via Kindle by this fall, and Kindle publishing also figures into the plans of Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, and the University of California Press.
Books that rely heavily on illustrations will not likely be sold by the unversity presses via Kindle, according to the article. “Permission is so difficult to obtain for online books that most presses aren’t trying — and many believe that Kindle doesn’t yet provide optimal viewing for all illustrations.”
Jul
15
Christian Book Publishers Announce Plans for Amazon Kindle
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Several Christian book publishers have announced that they have committed to making the majority of their catalogs available to 
The book publishers include Augsburg Fortress, Crossway Books & Bibles, David C. Cook,Gospel Light, Group Publishing, NavPress, Strang Communications, Thomas Nelson, Tyndale, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Zondervan.
“Of the 135,000 books available on Amazon.com as a physical book and on Kindle, Kindle books already account for over
12 percent of units sold,” said Ian Freed,Vice President of Amazon Kindle. “We’re pleased that so many publishers are seeing this success with their Kindle titles, and that more publishers like the Christian book publishers are getting on board.”