While I was in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Len Edgerly, host of the weekly Kindle Chronicles podcast. His interview with me went live today, you can listen to it at this link: TKC episode #78.
Len and I discussed the KindleBoards site and our community [...]

Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, I finally got to meet the folks from M-Edge. M-Edge, as you know, is the fine maker of eBook covers, cases, sleeves, and stands, and has a great line-up of Kindle products.
M-Edge gave us our first look at its new Guardian case – a waterproof, [...]

Editor’s note: today we welcome guest blogger Edward Patterson, who has started a worthy service in honor of our troops.
Operation eBook Drop has astounded me. If anyone would have told me that after three months nearly 290 authors would be participating offering a huge library to the troops, I’d have said — go away!
Here’s the [...]

In a welcome bit of news, Amazon announced today that it’s working on a solution for improving the ways that eBooks can be organized on Kindle.
Right now, all of your downloaded eBooks are presented on your Kindle’s home page. They can be sorted in three ways: by most recently accessed, by title, or by author. [...]

Author Boyd Morrison – writer of three novels self-published through the Kindle Store – has just struck a book deal with Simon and Schuster. Boyd’s novel The Ark will be published in hardcover in summer 2010, and will be followed by a 2nd book featuring adventurous engineer Tyler Locke. Foreign rights to the books have [...]

Amazon has dropped the price of Kindle 2 to $299. This is a drop of $60 from the $359 price that it has had since its February debut.
Judging from the response in our forums, this brings the price down to an level of attractiveness for a lot of new Kindle buyers – not to mention [...]

KindleBoards members started receiving their new Kindle DXs yesterday. The earliest arrival was member andyadler who received his DX at 10 am. He did note he lives in Louisville, KY, which is the central shipping point for many Amazon deliveries. I am in Maine and mine arrived at 10:38 am and was out of its [...]

Shipping emails for the Kindle DX were sent from Amazon this week, to the intense interest of all who ordered the latest Kindle reader – including me.
I chose SuperSaver shipping, and my projected arrival date is June 22 to June 26. Others who arranged for overnight shipping are seeing arrival dates as early as June [...]

This has not yet been announced by Amazon, but a KindleBoards member who happens to be a college professor learned that Amazon plans to open a Kindle DX textbook store, on or about July 1st.
She wrote to the publishers listed in Amazon’s May 6th press release, and one of those publishers leaked the news to [...]

Today was national Kindle & Koffee meet-up day, with Kindle owners appearing in Starbucks or other coffee houses around the country at 10:00am local time.
KindleWidow and I showed up at the Bellingham Starbucks at Holly & Railroad, along with our daughters. We enjoyed some coffee (cocoa for the girls – it was a cool spring [...]