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Easy content-sharing to your Kindle

Some years ago, Amazon made my blog available as a subscription option for Kindle users. It would cost you 99 pence a month; in return, you’d get all my content delivered to your Kindle device (or Kindle app on your PC, smartphone or tablet) as it was published. Amazon’s now introduced something perhaps more interesting – a ‘send to Kindle’ button for websites that lets you share specific content to your Kindle rather than get everything including things that might…

The Kindle’s days are numbered

Whenever I’m on the tube in London, one thing I notice is the number of people quietly absorbed in reading a book or other text content on a Kindle as the crowded trains speed their way through the tunnels beneath the city. Amazon’s near-ubiquitous ebook reader has changed the reading habits of millions of people worldwide, and disrupted an established industry to attain a leading position in the shift to digital as the maker of the hardware platform on which…

Get your Kindle at Tesco

Amazon have done pretty well in sales of the third-generation Kindle wireless reading device since it was launched in August 2010. And last month, they reported that sales of e-books have now surpassed sales of paperbacks in the US. In the UK, you can buy a wifi or 3G/wifi Kindle directly from Amazon (of course) and from retailer John Lewis. Now, add Tesco to the list as this huge display I saw today at a Tesco Extra store in Reading…

Subscribe to this blog with your Amazon Kindle

Do you use an Amazon Kindle, the wireless reading device launched in the US by Amazon in November 2007? If you do, I’m pleased to let you know that this blog, NevilleHobson.com, is now available in the Kindle store where you can subscribe and so have all the content with you wherever you use your Kindle (still no sign of the Kindle yet in the UK, though, nor anywhere else outside the US). The availability of my blog in the…