The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle
Authors: Bruce Grubbs,Stephen Windwalker
The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle
Tips, Tricks, & Links to Unlock Cool Features, Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content, and Help You Get the Most Out of Your Kindle
Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle
Updated April 2012
Compatible with:
Kindle Fire software 6.3
Kindle Touch software 5.1.0
Kindle basic software 4.0.1
Kindle Keyboard software 3.3
Kindle DX software 2.5.8
The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle:
Tips, Tricks, & Links to Unlock Cool Features, Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content, and Help You Get the Most Out of Your Kindle
By Bruce Grubbs and Stephen Windwalker
Kindle Edition Published by Windwalker Media
Arlington, Massachusetts
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Bruce wishes to thank everyone who made this book possible, including Elaine Ewing and Peter Levine, who both did an excellent job of copy-editing, and Duart Martin, who has strongly supported all of my book projects. I'd also like to thank the contributors to the Kindle Boards, the Amazon Kindle forums, all the Kindle bloggers, and others who have generously shared their tips and tricks with the Kindle community.
Steve wishes to thank all the citizens of Kindle Nation who have shared ideas, criticisms, and questions over the past four years – without you, neither Kindle Nation Daily nor my contributions to this book would be possible. And big thanks to Bruce for your invaluable contributions to this book, and to all my Kindle Nation Daily colleagues and partners.
With most of the books that I have published about the Kindle, I am well aware that readers want to charge up their Kindle, turn it on, download some books, and start reading. The purpose of my books is usually to make the experience richer by sharing information about how to get most out of the Kindle and how to find the best books at the best prices.
But the clash of forces that have been at war, mostly behind the scenes, in the Kindle revolution has had a dramatic effect on the availability of and the prices we pay for ebooks, and those changes have just begun. The machinations that led to the April 2012 U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust action against Apple and five of the six largest U.S. publishers will provide case study fodder both for law school and business school students for decades to come. The more you know about them, the more savvy an ebook consumer you will be. And while it is a fascinating story
qua
story, it is also no exaggeration to say that, if you have purchased any Kindle books at prices above $9.99 since April 1, 2010, you are likely to be a material party to the anti-trust action with a chance to benefit from a restitution fund that could grow to hundreds of millions of dollars.
So fasten your seatbelts, and here we go….
Apple. Hachette. HarperCollins. MacMillan. Penguin. Simon & Schuster.
One of the most innovative tech companies in the world, and five of the Big Six publishers,
That’s what we used to call them. Then, starting early in 2010, we all tried to come up with new names for them. Apple and the Apple Five. The Agency-Model Price-Fixing Co-Conspirators. The Greedy Dinosaur Publishers. But none of our phrase-making efforts had any special felicity.
