We won't jump the gun on what we find on the Amazon website (at least in this case) until an announcement is made, but it is too pretty a picture not to share a screen shot from a page that is, after all, now available to any of Amazon's 114 million customers. Back on March 15, in a post entitled What's in Store for the Kindle in 2010 and Beyond?, I shared a numbers of ideas for new Kindle initiatives, including this one: Re-integration of Kindle content with Amazon Associates: Originally, beginning with the Kindle launch in November 2007, Amazon paid a...

How many books are there in the iPad's iBooks Store? How many of them are free? And is the total number growing or declining? I'm not sure how many ebooks there are, but for now at least, there's more than one story. It has been widely reported, since late March, that the iBooks Store would open, and did open, with a total catalog of about 60,000 books, of which about half (30,000) are free listings from Project Gutenberg. This has been the story from Apple's friends at Gizmodo, reported here: The official Apple way to get ebooks for the iPad, the iBooks store has...

Over at iPad Nation Daily, Stephen Windwalker has an article about a $0.99 app that will read thousands of free audiobooks on your iPad, iPhone or Touch. The app is called Audiobooks and has a bookmarking feature, sleep timer, advanced search and, for the iPad, a web browser. The books are from the LibriVox project and there are over 3,200 of them. From what I gather from the article they are mainly classics. Check out Stephen's article for more info....

Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from Stephen Windwalker's Kindle Nation Daily. For the full text go here. PB ... It is stunning news that the Nook outsold the Kindle in March, after a November-December Nook roll-out that was the second coming of the Ford Edsel. Only one problem: it didn't happen. The report on which these Nook-beats-Kindle stories are based is a report from PVI, the Taiwan-based company that provides e-ink displays for both devices. PVI said that it had shipped more manufacturing units of the Nook than of the Kindle to the U.S. in March. Well,...

Originally posted at Kindle Nation Daily 3.18.2010 The new Kindle for Mac App, like earlier apps for the PC and other devices, allows you to download the latest edition of any Kindle edition blog to which you are a subscriber so that you can read it on your computer and keep it there as long as you like. This is a great way to save blog posts for future reference or research -- or simply, in the case of blogs other than this one, because of their great literary quality. It can also be useful if there is a blog post...

Originally posted at Kindle Nation Daily 3.17.2010 I've been a David Baldacci fan for over a decade, and I've easily read over half of the books he's published since his stunning 1996 debut with Absolute Power. From everything I've heard he's a decent guy -- among other things, in addition to spinning a great yarn, he's a national ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and he funds his own literacy foundation, the Wish You Well Foundation. I'd love to keep reading his books on my Kindle, and I probably will do so. Since I and many other Kindle Nation readers...

Motoko Rich, in a piece for the New York Times today, has done a well-researched and elegantly tidy job of illuminating and calculating the costs involved for publishers in publishing books in traditional hardcover as well as ebook format. It's well worth a look if you've been wondering what the real numbers are behind the recent ebook pricing controversy. Here's how her numbers play out for a $26 hardcover: $26.00 Suggested retail price $13.00 Wholesale proceeds to publisher $3.25 Production, storage & shipping $0.80 Pre-press: cover design, typesetting and copy-editing $1.00 Marketing $3.90 ...

Should we file this one under "The Count" or "The Miscount?" Only time will tell. In a 154-word piece that runs today under her byline and the headline "So Far, E-Books Aren’t Making Sales Waves," the New York Times' Phyllis Korkki leads with this paragraph: The publishing industry’s alarm over the electronic book isn’t based on current use. Last year, less than 2 percent of all books sold were e-books, according to Bowker, which tracks the industry. Korkki goes on to compare that 2 percent figure with other figures that seem to have been spoon-fed her by Bowker: * 35 percent of all book...