FYI for all you Amazon Kindle users/readers: I just soft-launched a brand new Wordpreneur subblog: Kindle Journal, featuring tips and resources for the Kindle.

There’s actually a Wordpreneur-ish idea related to this subblog that I’ll write about later or tomorrow. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, go check out Kindle Journal.

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Breaking News: Authors worldwide (no longer just the US) can now self-publish Kindle versions of their books.

Read Amazon expands Kindle self-publishing worldwide @ CNet »

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Looks like Amazon’s starting to go all out as Christmas fast approaches. They are now offering free 2-day shipping to make sure you (or your recipient) gets the Kindle before the 25th.

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If you’ve been holding off on your e-reader purchase, mainly to see if the Kindle-killer Barnes & Noble Nook is all that it’s cracked up to be, finally here’s a real world review that punches its way through the pre-sales hype and helps us make a decision whether to go Kindle or Nook.

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Just thinking out loud in this relatively short post.

After observing the consumer ebook market with the seeming success of the Amazon Kindle and the upcoming Barnes & Noble Nook, I think this brings up an interesting question for self-publishers. Namely…

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I’ve had my Kindle for about a couple of months now, and I’ve been reading up a storm with it. Now guess how much money I’ve spent on ebooks for it to date.

Yup, $0. The post title kinda took the mystery out of that.

But maybe you won’t know the answer to this one: Where do I get all the free ebooks from?

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I’m just getting started converting a few PDFs (with the Word source files) to the Amazon Kindle ebook format. Translation: No idea what I’m doing just yet.

I did, however, find a few “tutorials” online that I’ll need to pore through, probably over the Thanksgiving break. Here they are in case you want to do the same. (Comment please if you know of any others I should check out.)

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Forgot to mention this a few weeks ago when I first heard about it. Sorry about that. Here you go…

Amazon has released a free application for Windows PC (Mac version coming soon) that will let you read — and presumably acquire — Kindle ebooks on your computer. You are not required to own an actual Kindle.

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Just a few news tidbits on the very active ebook/ereader marketplace I thought you may be interested in and may benefit from seeing.

I was going to write something about my thoughts on the future of magazines using some info and observations from these news items as reference,but haven’t been able to sit still in one place long enough to get anything together (sorry about that).

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