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April 26, 2012
Get the New Issue of Seattle Weekly on Your Kindle or Kindle Fire!
That's right, Seattle Weekly now delivers! After a free, two-week trial, it's just $1.99 a month to get all the Weekly's articles, features, columns, and listings delivered to your Kindle or Kindle Fire. Join your friends who have discovered the joys of the E ink edition. And, don't forget, Seattl ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Pens Letter to Shareholders, Touts Innovation
In a letter to shareholders dated today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos - apparently taking a break from pulling shit up from the bottom of the ocean - provided a glowing assessment of his company and its prospects moving into the future.
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April 5, 2012
The New Issues of Reverb Monthly and Seattle Weekly are Available Now On Your Kindle and Kindle Fire!
Yes, yes, yes, Reverb Monthly -- SW's music magazine -- is still available in its usual places online and tucked inside the print edition of the current issue of Seattle Weekly. But if you want to keep all the issues together for easy reference to reviews of every new local release, the latest rant ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
The New Issues of Reverb Monthly and Seattle Weekly are Available Now On Your Kindle and Kindle Fire!
Yes, yes, yes, Reverb Monthly -- SW's music magazine -- is still available in its usual places online and tucked inside the print edition of the current issue of Seattle Weekly. But if you want to keep all the issues together for easy reference to reviews of every new local release, the latest rant ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Get the New Issue of Seattle Weekly on Your Kindle and Kindle Fire!
The new issue of Seattle Weekly is out on the racks, and available online. But if you're one of the millions of Americans who have cottoned to the idea of taking your news and literature on Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Fire, you get get the Weekly there, too. For several weeks, the Weekly has been av ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Hey! Don't Forget That You Can Get This Week's Issue of Seattle Weekly (Featuring the Voracious Dining Guide) On Your Kindle and Kindle Fire!
That's right! As we told you a couple weeks ago, Seattle Weekly is now available for subscription on your Kindle and Kindle Fire. So if you want to have a copy of this week's inimitable Voracious Dining Guide to keep as a reference all year on your favorite eReader, hustle on over to the Kindle Stor ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Seattle Weekly Is Now Available on Your Kindle and Kindle Fire!
Dearest Weekly Readers: We're excited to announce that Seattle Weekly is now available on Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Fire! This is the Weekly's second product available to Kindle users: Our music magazine, Reverb Monthly, has been available for several months. If you're a Kindle or Kindle Fire user ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Don't Tell Jonathan Franzen, but Amazon Looks to Open Real Stores Here and Nationwide
You may recall a recent post on Jonathan Franzen, one of America's most important essayists and novelists, who thinks Amazon is ruining the world. The much-acclaimed author of Freedom and The Corrections is most alarmed by e-books like Amazon's Kindle, which he says are creating a world where instan ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Barnes & Noble Goes To War With Amazon
Barnes & Noble is waging a desperate battle to remain relevant and viable in a world where cheaper online rivals and discount bookstores are threatening its very survival. The country's largest traditional bookseller now says it will no longer sell in its 700 consumer stores any books published by A ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
A Message to Reverb Monthly's Kindle Subscribers
Due to a technical error, Reverb Monthly's Kindle subscribers were originally sent the December issue's content inside the issue labeled "Jan. 1." The error was caught quickly, and Amazon tells us that subscribers saw a pop-up message alerting them to the need to re-download the current issue. Some ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Hey, Don't Forget to Pick Up the January Issue of SW's Music Mag, Reverb Monthly
The January installment of Reverb Monthly is hidden inside the current issue of Seattle Weekly (and availalble independently at a number of bars/clubs/nail salons around town) and on the web here, and on the Kindle and Kindle Fire. Per usual, we've reviewed every local record that we could get our ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Get a Kindle or Kindle Fire for Christmas? Subscribe to SW's Music Mag, Reverb Monthly!
If you're among the millions of Americans who got a Kindle or Kindle Fire for Christmas (or giftted one to yourself), you're just now beginning to enjoy the quiet of the eReader. While you're considering which publications to add to your subscription list, be sure to give Seattle Weekly's Reverb M ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Seattle Weekly's Reverb Monthly Now Available on Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Fire!
You can now subscribe to the Kindle and Kindle Fire edition of Seattle Weekly's Reverb Monthly.Reverb Monthly, Seattle Weekly's new music magazine, is now available on the world's most popular e-reader, the Kindle, along with Amazon's new tablet, Kindle Fire. The Kindle edition includes every ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Airport X-Ray Scanners Might Ruin Your Kindle
It's been a while since Americans have had new reasons to fear and/or hate airport X-ray and scanning technology. Let's rectify that, shall we?
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November 11, 2011
Amazon Loses $5 on Every $79 Kindle It Sells, Analyst Says
Love Amazon? Buy the the Kindle e-reader! It's a great deal at $79. Hate Amazon? Buy the Kindle e-reader! You may help put the company out of business.
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November 7, 2011
Comment of the Day: Kindle Swindle Is Bad PR
On Friday we shared with you the tale of zombie-novel author James Crawford and his book Blood Soaked & Contagious--particularly the hellacious trouble Mr. Crawford had when he tried to sell the book via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. One reader put into perspective the trade off between ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Amazon Sells Author's Book for Free on Accident, Then Offers Him $0 to Compensate
For a few thousand fans of independently-published books about zombies, Christmas came early this year. That's because author James Crawford's book Blood Soaked & Contagious was recently reduced from $5.99 to free. More than 6,000 people downloaded the free flesh-eater book. The only problem ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Amazon Is Already Selling 50,000 Kindle Fires Per Day
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, Amazon will have sold another three Kindle Fire tablets. And the device isn't even available yet.
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September 21, 2011
Free Kindles Available Now at Seattle Public Library
In perhaps the most subtle move thus far in its war on physical books, Amazon announced today that it would be giving Kindles to some 11,000 libraries across the country to be loaned out for free--starting right here at the Seattle Public Library.
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May 26, 2011
Amazon and Barnes & Noble Use Stupid Math to Magically Double Kindle and Nook's Battery Life
On Tuesday, shoppers in the market for a new E-reader tablet would have seen graphics and advertisements that said the Amazon Kindle has a one-month battery life. By Wednesday, those same graphics and ads would have showed the device's battery life had suddenly doubled. A technological break ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Amazon Looks to Make Libraries Obsolete With Kindle Lending Program
Libraries are on their way to being only utilized by high school field trippers and homeless people in need of a shave. And who's leading the traditional literary lending establishments down the road of obscurity? Why, Amazon of course.
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April 12, 2011
Amazon to Offer Discount Kindle (That's Crammed Full of Ads)
How much is the fact that your Kindle doesn't try and sell you toothpaste worth? Because if it's worth $25 or less, then Amazon has quite the deal!
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March 22, 2011
Microsoft, Despite Making No Tablet Computers, Sues Barnes & Noble for Patent Infringement Over Its Nook Tablet
Sure, Microsoft doesn't actually make any form of tablet computer. But as anyone who follows the company will tell you, it owns the licensing rights to everything imaginable, including several tablet designs. Now Barnes & Noble is finding out what happens when a piece of technology sold by a ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Portland Book Store Offers to Trade Real Books for "Soulless" Kindles
Face it, dude. You and your corporate-owned Kindle are ruining print. Never mind that downloadable literature has single-handedly kept books and book authors competitive in the digital age. The point is that old school books, like vinyl turntables, fixie bicycles, and retro coats, show that y ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Kindle Is Top-Selling Product of All Time on Amazon
Amazon sold 13.7 million items in one day on Nov. 29. About 9 million of those were Kindle 3's. That makes it the No. 1, all-time, super-best-selling thing on Amazon ever.
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December 20, 2010
Today in Sex: Give the Gift That'll Get You Laid
You've got 4.5 shopping days until xmas, and though it's been said that it's better to give than receive; giving and then receiving a little something yourself has its good points too. Like for instance, I happen to know that if I shell out for a large flat-screen, it'll be hump-city at my ho ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Inconceivable! Some Kindle Titles Now Cost More Than Hardcovers
Like a lot of industries these days, book publishing is struggling to deal with the massive change wrought by the internet and new mediums like the Kindle. Unfortunately for people who like to read books, the people who publish them have settled on a strange new strategy going forward: screw ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Are E-Readers Greener Than Books?
Let's say you're the kind of person who likes to read and cares about the enviro...wait. This is Seattle. Let's just assume those things. Here's a question you might have asked yourself before: are e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad better for the environment than books?
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August 16, 2010
Kindle and iPad Displays Under a Microscope
A lot is made about the difference between Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad when it comes to price and features. But equally important for an e-reader is what it actually looks like when you read on it. That's long been the Kindle's strength -- an ability to recreate the actual reading experi ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
The Hold Steady's Craig Finn On the Kindle, the A.C., and the 10 Commandments
Craig Finn, second from left, performs with the Hold Steady at Showbox at the Market on Wednesday August 18. Jaill opens the show.In a couple of weeks, Craig Finn, frontman of the boisterous Brooklyn ensemble the Hold Steady, will turn 39. "I really was worried about 30 when I was 29," he sa ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Amazon's Kindle Means the End of Meeting Cute With Books
OK. Maybe that headline is a little hyperbolic. But this Slate piece makes a decent point: if the future means a world where people carry more Amazon Kindles than books with actual spyable spines, then it also means a world in which we'll no longer be able to "know them, or judge them, or lov ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
I Have Officially Bowed to the Information Age
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.Last Christmas, my wife bought me a Kindle. To be honest, I had to sort of fake that I was stoked to get this present. As most of you probably know by now, I am an old ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Why Book Publishing Will Have to Change or Die
Digital books don't get returned.Is Amazon's Kindle a harbinger of doom for the hardcover? Is Apple's iPad? These and other pressing questions continue to vex the world's brightest minds. But when it comes to the question of, "Is publishing going to have to change or die" the answer should b ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Elliott Bay Books Reopening
Digital books don't get returned.Is Amazon's Kindle a harbinger of doom for the hardcover? Is Apple's iPad? These and other pressing questions continue to vex the world's brightest minds. But when it comes to the question of, "Is publishing going to have to change or die" the answer should b ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
iPad? Amazon Knows Not of This iPad You Speak Of
The Kindle is already starting to look a little homely, no?Apple sold somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million iPads yesterday. So how did Amazon respond to the introduction of a product that may kill its beloved, first-generation e-reader? This screencap from last night says in the mo ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
iPad Reviews Say Amazon's Kindle Soon to Be E-Relevant
Steve's is prettier.The greatest product in the history of anything comes out this Sunday. Before you buy an iPad, you can read what a bunch of lucky tech writers have to say after spending weeks toying around with it. Among their many conclusions: Apple's new e-everything is serious troubl ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
Amazon Delivers Death Blow to Independent Book Stores, Offers Publishers More Loot
Apple's tablet is putting the squeeze on Amazon's Kindle, and a head lock on independent book stores.Here's a wholly unoriginal thought: book stores, especially independents, are screwed. Yes, this is same Chicken Little wail that's been recycled ever since Amazon introduced it's first itera ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Is the Rumored Apple iSlate Aimed at Amazon's Kindle?
Will Bezos be laughing when the iSlate arrives?With the holiday shopping season but a memory, with Amazon likely to report impressive year-end sales, how are retailers, consumers, and electronics manufacturers going to keep busy during the January doldrums? Rumor-mongering, that's how. Appl ... More >>
News
December 30, 2009
Amazon's Supply Chain
When you’ve got the monopoly, you set the records.
Blogs
December 28, 2009
Why the Amazon Kindle's Christmas Day Record Isn't That Impressive
This is what Christmas morning looked like for millions of new Kindle owners.Tech writers stuck with the unenviable job of working this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift from Jeff Bezos: On December 26th, Amazon issued a press release proudly trumpeting the fact that o ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Hardly a Kindle-Killer: Barnes & Noble's Nook Cooked by Tech Critics
The Kindle: Very much alive, and possibly in better shape now that its biggest competition got trashed.Good news for Amazon. The two biggest kingmakers in tech have just reviewed the Nook, Barnes & Noble's e-reader answer to the Kindle. Their verdicts: Just like Kindle, only not as good. Wal ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Amazon to Open British Brick-and-Mortar Stores?
Buy the Kindle AND interact with another human being.If you're world leader in e-commerce, why might you make a go of it in the physical world? That's the question being posed now that Amazon is reportedly scouting out shop locations in Britain. The Times of London says that "Amazon wants to ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Jeff Bezos on How He Reads His Kindle in the Bathtub
Nothing says "moving product" like a picture of this guy floating in Epsom Salts.File this one under the category "Things You'll Instantly Regret Visualizing." In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos revealed his secret for using his Kindle, the electro ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Amazon Declares Sales Dominance for Product No One Else Can Sell
"We're number one! We're number one! And there is no number two!"You've got to love the Amazon PR department. The company is crowing about its sales of the Kindle electronic reader (also prominently flagged as one of the company's designated bestsellers). Meanwhile, following the sales push o ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
Blind Can't Use Amazon's Kindle, Schools Say
The future of reading should probably include blind people too.According to the National Federation of the Blind, Syracuse and the University of Wisconsin are expected to announce today that they won't hand out Amazon's Kindle to students until the e-reader is more accessible to the visually ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
Meet Kindle's Evil Twin!
It is on, Jeff Bezos! Smaller corporate rival to Amazon, Barnes & Noble is announcing today a rival electronic reader device to the successful Kindle. The Nook, as it's called, will compete with Kindle at the same price point, $259 (per the NYT). Amazon has been coy about breaking out its sa ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
B&N's Nook: First Look
Tech site Gizmodo is all over the supposed Kindle killer from Barnes & Noble, called Nook. So thanks to them for first reporting what Jeff Bezos' ninja spies probably already know, having crawled up the side of B&N HQ using suction cups and stealth. Before, we were guessing. Here's what we kn ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
You Gonna Take That, Bezos?
He is Bezos; hear him roar.As Steve Ballmer is surely proving at the Microsoft meeting today, CEOs these days are more and more like professional wrestlers, screaming and jumping around and taunting one another in the press. Today, Turtleneck Jobs tells Jeff "The Cackler" Bezos that the Kindl ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Beware, Bezos: Sony Unveils Potential Kindle-Slayer
Jeff B. brandishes the (endangered?) deviceCould the Kindle be in trouble? Sony released the third of its Kindle-challenging readers today, a $399, 7-inch wireless device called the Daily Edition. The new device won't be sold until December and likely can't yet compete with the Kindle in book ... More >>
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