We’ve officially released a new companion software for Feedbooks users with Windows: News Stand. Thanks to this software you’ll be able to automatically synchronize your subscriptions (RSS feeds, newspapers) to your favorite reading device. See Help page. Download latest version here. Moderator's note: I'll give it a try, Hadrien. Sounds intriguing. - D.R....

Amazon, not another news site, forced Humayun Kabir's old Kindle News to give up the domain name of kindlenews.info. The giant bookseller e-mailed the New Zealander that a site serving as an Amazon affiliate could not use the sacred Kindle name in its domain. Humayun's site, shown in an early Blogspot incarnation, will now be called e-BOOKvine.com.  Humayun tells me he "decided to transfer the domain to Amazon" because "otherwise they'll cancel my account." I'd agree with Amazon when the possibility of confusion exists, but no one could have mistaken Kindle News for an official Amazon operation---not...

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 is catnip for many new e-book fans . But face it, Amazon at its worst can be a mean, bossy company---as shown by a greedy insistence on a new Kindle format. Not to mention its being able to snoop inside your K machine to see if you're a good boy complying with the terms of service. So could Jeff Bezos' people be the ones who used trademark law to scare the Kindle News site into changing its domain to e-BOOKVine.com? Or was it a rival news site? That's right. When I accessed kindlenews.info just now, I was...

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...

Quick! Who are the six biggest suppliers for Amazon's Kindle e-book store, which has 90,000+ titles (books and otherwise)? According to Kindle News, the companies are: Tayor and Francis: 14,976 titles. Springer: 12,640. The public domain: 7,380. Harper Collins Ebooks: 3,231. Fictionwise: 2,130. Oxford University Press: 2,021. Not as much representation as you'd expect from, say, Random House or Simon & Schuster, eh? Read Kindle News' full post for more names and stats. I'm delighted to see this breakdown. Thanks to KN's Humayun Kabir! Gang, what does it mean when Jeff Bezos would love to make the...

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...