Can you print an e-book from Kindle when it's connected to your desktop machine with USB? In general, no, you can't---but you can do so by copying text in "My Clippings." Here's how: First, you need to highlight the text you want to copy while reading a book on the Kindle. You'll see a box around the highlighted text. This will copy the text to a file on the Kindle in My Clippings. Now connect your Kindle to your computer through the USB, and copy the My Clippings file to your computer. Open the file and print it....

The Kindle E-Book and Amazon blog has charted estimates of the average Kindle arrival times associated with order dates. The numbers come from this thread within the Amazon Kindle forum pages: Where do you live, when did you order, and when did it arrive? "One takeaway," the blog says, "is that if you're buying a Kindle you might as well order an Amazon Kindle now since it takes approximately six weeks to arrive. The other big takeaways are: 1. It'll take approximately between 35 and 50 days to get your Kindle. 2. The median is around 40-44 days so...

Igor Skochinsky is the reverse engineer guy who hacked the file system of the Kindle, and discovered hidden features that Aamazon didn't want to reveal. He also wrote a program to generate Mobipocket PIDs from Kindle Serial Numbers so that you can read your previously purchased Mobipocket e-books on the Kindle. The program is freely available from his blog. Igor plans to work on the Kindle further, and later, on Sony reader. Here is his short interview with Kindle News: Humayun Kabir: Why did you decide to hack or reverse engineer the Kindle? Igor Skochinksy: I...

Is Amazon going to open the Kindle platform in near future? The answer is probably "NO." We consumers lack the ability to get the inside information, but we can guess that the decision to make the Kindle a closed platform was done by Amazon itself, not publishers. Book publishers might have encouraged Amazon to use DRMed. But does DRM per se have anything to do with a closed system? NO. Adobe's Bill McCoy has recently written: Kindle is far more closed even than iPod, which started out and have remained primarily players for MP3s, easily made from...

Moderator's note: Welcome to our latest TeleBlog contributor, Dr. Humayun Kabir of Kindle News! Humayun does not own a Kindle but will be getting one---and for the present article, he has much better qualifications, as a Senior Lecturer in Finance, at Massey University in New Zealand). Yes, I'll be asking Amazon for its side. In fairness to Amazon, I have heard that the Kindle is making publishers more sensitive to geographically related copyright issues. Still, could that be used to justify the higher prices of Mobipocket e-books and fully explain the gap? I doubt it. Please note one other possible...