Kindle Review – Kindle Fire Review, Kindle 4 Review

First, two books that ought to be free soon (Standard Disclaimer – it’s not guaranteed, just very likely) -

1. The Almost True Story of Ryan Fisher: A Novel by Rob Stennett.  
2. My Name is Russell Fink by Michael Snyder.  

These should be free sometime soon.

Next, some Kindle book deals -

1. Amberville (with free bonus material) by Tim Davys.  
2. Sweet Dreams (The Justice of Revenge) by Aaron Patterson.  
3. Stone Maiden by Ann Aguirre.

The Dearth of News

There seems to be a huge dearth of kindle related news this week. Looking at Google News all we get is talk of kindle for blackberry, Apple matching Amazon $9.99 prices, and the rumor that Amazon will start giving away free Kindles with Prime memberships.

Those are items that wouldn’t even get much coverage during a week with lots of news. It seems that everyone is waiting for the launch of the iPad in March and the Kindle 3 (whenever that happens).

There’s a certain slowness to February this year.

We have a lot of things piling up – Kindle Apps, iPad, new eReaders, color ePaper - and over the next few months we are going to see big and small news items seize the limelight.

Fewer iPad articles

It’s somewhat refreshing to see a drop in the number of iPad articles.

There are still rumors and occasional good analysis – However, the number of articles has dropped a lot. It’s interesting that there are more articles claiming the iPad won’t succeed now and also more articles with a negative tone. There’s almost a silent conspiracy to predict negative things for the iPad.

The most interesting rumor is that iPad preorders will be available sometime soon – perhaps as soon as the end of the month.

What would be really interesting is to get numbers on iPad sales and changes in eReader sales patterns -

1. Do eReader sales go down? 
2. Do iPad sales trend to 1 million in the first year? 10 million in the first year?
3. Do eReader sales go up? It’s unlikely but not impossible.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.

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