The Luddite Society are to hold a Kindle Burning party on Thursday to symbolise the destruction of what they see as the end of paper based books.
"Kindles are an affront to every good thinking honest citizen," said Ned Ludd, who is the elected hea...
For the first time, Kindle, the electronic book reader from Amazon, had a stand at the London Book Fair this year. On the stand were a number of best selling authors who have come out to support electronic book readers.
"Our mistake," said Kindle...
If the rumor mill is correct, Apple will be launching its iPad 3 on Wednesday, March 7, at a major press event. Customers are thrilled, but the older iPads aren't!
Apparently it's a severe case of sibling rivalry. As one of the older iPads state...
The author of a controversial book based on the construction of fake Facebook profiles is to face charges of copyright infringement after calling the book Fakebook.con. Facebook are using the US/UK extradition treaty that recently saw Richard O'Dwyer...
For once, the two gadgets see eye-to-eye. Ida iPad (the head of the Apple iPad labor union) and Katie Kindle (the head of the Amazon Kindle labor union) totally agree. There's a fantastic, but neglected, market out there to deal with the latest fas...
Self-described Tea Party activists in at least two states threw their Kindle ebooks onto bonfires over Halloween weekend to protest a book they call both offensive to their patriotic feelings and a danger to the country.
Gold Hill, OR, November 1,...
At Amazon's Wednesday morning press conference in New York City, it wasn't only the long-awaited tablet computer (the Kindle Fire) that was introduced. It was also THREE other new Kindles.
Amazon had also brought along some earlier Kindles (fir...
Trying to set up his new e-reader, an Amazon Kindle, caused a local man's head to explode yesterday.
Presbytery Clauswitz, 51, of Lymphnode Acres, was rushed to St Wayne's Hospital with serious head injuries after the incident.
His wife, Nancy,...
Once upon a time, book censorship standards were strict, and authors had to watch their plots and their language. Not anymore. That's why the latest trend is the forthcoming publication of ebook "restored" versions of print works from the 50s and...
When Amazon announced this week that it would be selling a new Kindle model "Kindle with Special Offers," one with advertisements, for $114 ($25 cheaper than the standard Kindle), the news was greeted enthusiastically by some. But not by all.
Th...
No wonder there aren't enough iPad 2s to go around. An unnamed Apple official, who has spoken to the press on the condition of anonymity, admits what had only been a rumor: that many of the new iPads are disgracing the company and are in no conditi...
Gold Hill, OR - It was a cold, wet January afternoon along the banks of the Rogue River in southern Oregon, just perfect for what self-described Tea Party activist Trapper Christian called a "good, old-fashioned book burning." What he threw onto the...
The British Libraries Association have undergone a major re-branding to compete head to head with Amazon's Kindle.
"It's a major initiative," said Rowena Reddalot, High Priestess of Librarians. "Kindle's marketing policy is to highlight their posi...
Yep, the name says it all. The new Barnes & Noble Nook Color is an electronic reader that will present books in COLOR.
Present Nooks can hardly wait to greet the new addition to their family. At a NY press conference, the stats on the ex...
Kindles, Amazon's electronic readers, are in a snit. They are appalled that Amazon has announced, ". . . later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle...
The finance world was stunned on Tuesday to learn that Barnes & Noble, which owns 720 bookstores in the U.S., was considering selling the company.
Nooks, B&N's electronic readers, were shaken to the core by the announcement. "Who know...
There were cheers and jeers when Amazon introduced a new Kindle on Wednesday. The jeers came from the older model (Kindle2) electronic readers; they feel that they may now be put out to pasture.
Many of the older Kindles were too upset to talk...
Kindles were ecstatic this week when they read in The New York Times that Amazon had announced that, " . . . for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books."
To celebrate, Kindles stop...