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Amazon's Kindle Back In Stock

In a statement on Amazon's homepage, CEO Jeff Bezos says the company now has Kindles back in stock.

eBook Sales Up, Amazon's Kindle Eyed

Amazon remains mum on the issue; there's no telling if we'll ever find out how many Kindles the company's moving.  There has been a documented rise in eBook sales, however, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to connect A and B.

Amazon CEO Apologizes For Kindle Delays

Amazon.com CEO, Jeff Bezos has issued an apology on Amazon's home page for failing to ships its Kindle electronic book reader on time.

Amazon Tries to Strong-Arm Kindle-Related Sites

Jason Schramm registered the domain KindleReport.com a while ago to report on Amazon’s ebook, the Kindle*.

Amazon Acquires Audible For $300 Million

Some acquisitions are real headscratchers, leaving onlookers wondering why one company bought the other or how so much money became involved.  It seems pretty reasonable, though, that Amazon has put around $300 million towards the purchase of Audible.

Steve Jobs Says You're Out of Touch

That's right. As you're reading this, let me be the first to tell you, you're hopelessly out of touch with the world according to Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. 40% percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

Some of the Most Innovative Products of the Year

PC World has a list of the 25 most innovative products of 2007. While most of them are actual gadgets—the iPhone, the Kindle, and various other pieces of hardware—many of them are web apps. Among the most interesting picks: 1. Google Gears—heralded as a step toward the browser as a desktop 9. Facebook API—duh. 17. Zoho Notebook—compiles all kinds of information and enables you to share it

Amazon Kindle's Extra Features Discovered

When the Amazon Kindle first came out, we kind of laughed at it; limited by battery life and with a $400 price tag, it allowed you do nothing more than read separately purchased books.  Now, we're still not ready to embrace the thing, but it turns out that the Kindle is a little better than most people previously believed.

Kindle DRM Down the Tubes

Yet another DRM goes down the tubes, this time it is for the kindle, while the reviews have been mixed, most folks who got their hands on the kindle like it, but as usual wish that it could do more than it was originally designed to do.

Amazon's E-Book Reader Widely Ridiculed

I wouldn’t mind keeping over 200 books close at hand, and I’d prefer not to need a large suitcase to do it.  But Amazon’s new e-book reader is nonetheless looking less and less appealing as the analyses roll in.