As of Friday morning, February 27, three days after the Kindle 2 began arriving at the ship-to addresses of significant numbers of Amazon customers, I find it interesting to take a gander at the composition of the Kindle Store bestseller list. First, the explosive growth of the installed base of Kindles is stunning. The beta version of my new guide to the Kindle 2 has been out for five days and has climbed into the mid-teens on the Kindle Store bestseller list, but with daily sales figures that just last Fall would have placed it among the top...

By Stephen Windwalker, with apologies to songwriters Don Robertson and Howard Barnes and artists Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Les Paul and Mary Ford for the title of this post Even if I had never been a guest on the show, I'm sure I would make a regular weekly routine of listening to Len Edgerly's Friday Kindle Chronicles podcast. Today Len deserves kudos for landing and conducting an interview with Ian Freed, Amazon's vice-president for Kindle, and for utilizing the wisdom of crowds (in this case his growing subscriber list) in developing his questions for the dialogue. The postcast ordinarily runs about...

Editor's Note: We are happy to welcome Stephen Windwalker as a regular contributor to TeleRead. Stephen has been writing about Amazon’s strategic innovations since his niche bestseller on online bookselling in 2002, and his Complete Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle was the top-selling title in the Kindle store for 17 weeks in 2008, but on advice from Amazon’s attorneys Windwalker refuses to divulge how many books have been sold. Stephen is also publisher of the Kindle Home Page blog and the weekly Kindle Nation email newsletter. Paul Biba Far be it from me, just hours before the heralded...