Now when you hear about the latest gadgets, you don’t expect to see the older generation and baby boomer generation to be among the early adopters. But that is what has happened with the Amazon Kindle. To be quite honest, books are now competing against the Internet, games, and all kinds of other 21st century activities that were not available to our grand fathers. So it is pretty much given that the fairly older (wiser) generation would put more value on reading and learning new things as they go along. Kindle is unique as it satisfies both the gadget-crazed and fairly senior citizens at the same time. Amazon Kindle is cool and offers many hot features that any gadget fan would look for in a gadget (e.g. mp3 play, GPS, games). But at the same time, Kindle makes it convenient to buy books and read them immediately. In addition, you can change the font, use a dictionary, check Wikipedia, and do all kinds of neat stuff with Kindle. So instead of dealing with a useless gadgets that only appeals to teenagers or people in their 20s, Amazon has created a learning/reading tool that appeals to the people of all ages. Forget the early-adopter late-adopter mambo jumbo. When it comes to Kindle you are either an adopter or a laggard.

Amazon.com has released the following books for Amazon Kindle today:

• The Powers to Lead  by Joseph S. Nye
• Tribology on the Small Scale: A Bottom Up Approach to Friction, Lubrication, and Wear  by C. Mathew Mate
•   Homeric Hmyn To Demeter by Homer
•  Burn Zone  by James O. Born

I remember seeing Kindle go for $600 on eBay a couple months ago, but I wonder how many people actually paid that or more to get their hands on their Kindles. In your opinion, is it worth paying $500-600 on eBay to get Kindle in 2 weeks rather than 2 months?

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It sure seems like it, if not more. Silicon Alley Insider reports that Amazon might be selling as little as 10,000 eBooks a day for its Kindle gadget. I personally know a few people who started ordering eBooks way before they even got their Amazon Kindles, so to be perfectly honest 10,000 eBooks is not really that surprising. Now we all know that Amazon would be selling more books if A) they had more Kindles available so people didn’t have to wait freaking a year to get their hands on them and B) Should more titles become available, Amazon will be selling even more ebooks, so 15K-20K sales a day is not really out of question for Amazon.

Amazon.com has released the following books today. Check them out:

•  Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
•  At The Back of the Black Man’s Mind
• Casting Down Crowns (Erotic Feast) by Desiree Davidson
• The Cutting Season by Arthur Rosenfeld
• Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog 2005 by Joe Wikert
• The New Solution Selling by Keith M. Eades
• Slip of the Knife  by Denise Mina (Kindle Edition – Feb 13, 2008)

Looking for a cute bag for your Amazon Kindle. Look no further than WaterField. Waterfield has come up with a bunch of different Kindle bags to help protect your precious Kindle:
$27 for slip case
$39 for sleeve case
$49 for travel case

These are really cute so check them out! Kindle just got a little bit more attractive.

As we move deep into the digital publishing era, it is obvious that paper newspapers have so much trouble keeping up with their digital counterparts. Newspapers and magazines have been around for years, and it has become a habit of people to pick them up on their way to work or even receive it at work. However, with podcasts and audio newspapers around, consumers are starting to move away from traditional newspapers. Now with Kindle around, you can bet that many will relish the idea of subscribing to magazines and e-newspapers online and get them on their Kindle. Sure, it’s not audio,but not everyone likes audio. Besides, it’s not like you want to listen to every story that is out there, and with Kindle you get to just skim through the news. Now, I am not suggesting that eBooks will beat audiobooks or the other way around, but I find it hard to believe that papers can compete with either audio or e-books.