Amazon this week launched an experimental feature for its popular platform and tablet for digital books, Kindle.

The function @ author provides a new form of interactivity, which by their nature can only be offered in an eBook.

Any answers will be presented by the author not in real time as they will depend on the availability of it.

Thus, the user can for example ask the author about the motives for creating a particular character, or the sources from which he picked up his inspiration. Amazon has developed guidelines for the kinds of questions that the reader can do.

It also requires the reader to speak briefly. As the function name implies, the system uses Twitter as a communication channel. Questions can not exceed 100 characters.

After marking a text or a paragraph, the reader may ask your question by typing @ author before the question. The eventual response of the writer will be emailed to the user.

Initially, Amazon has twelve writers who try to answer the extent of its possibilities. Apart from that, the Kindle will allow all stakeholders to respond or comment on the questions asked by readers. In case of too large a flow of responses, the user will always have the possibility to cancel the preferences of the software.

Image: Eight of the 12 writers participating in the initiative of Amazon Kindle.

With Kindle Scribe we have something clear that Amazon wants on their devices or applications to take notes so simple and easy, so do not rule out the idea that the physical keyboard is gone, and seeing it from a functional and educational sounds pretty well, and this also leave more space for a larger screen while maintaining the current size of the Kindle, or a smaller device that would work perfectly well in the educational field, especially in the university environment, where such devices are quite popular.

Of course, since no physical keyboard, the focus is on the pointer, which could indicate a virtual keyboard, handwriting recognition, or both, which would greatly facilitate its use. If it were to enable handwriting recognition, the Kindle become the perfect tool for taking notes, sketches or digital book perfect, making competition for the tablets.

Surely we later learn exactly what it’s all about the Kindle Scribe, but if we are sure of something, and that Amazon brings a bundle under his sleeve.

Kindle Scribe are the two words to play with and we’ll talk to you now. The first does not allow much discussion and could indicate a new team or service related e-books. The interesting thing comes in second, related note-taking or at least writing.

¿Keyboard out to go to handwriting?

Whether an application or a new device, it is clear that Amazon wants on their computers or applications can be more easily notes. If we think of Kindle and a new focus in education, the idea of a model in which the physical keyboard is not gone crazy.

I just personally do not use, and I would like that area of the current Kindle could be occupied by more screen, getting a smaller device with the same screen or better, display the same compact size of the current Kindle, an idea that would fit well in education, where the Amazon model offers more screen but with a disproportionate size.

Sn physical keyboard, the pointer gains prominence for two possibilities, either separately or together: handwriting recognition and / or on-screen virtual keyboard.

In the case of handwriting recognition, making notes and text notes on a Kindle or use as a digital pad as a team would leave him with much room in universities, with an alternative to the tablet, most likely in the short plane for interactivity and connectivity. The onscreen keyboard could be associated with that first function.

If this were true, Amazon should move to a Touch electronic ink technology, garden in which the company still has not ventured even though many of its theoretical rivals if they did, but with no luck so far.

Although it sounds like it would be absurd to be fitting to dedicate a site to complement a team so I would say that Kindlescribe be the name of a new device or brand that encompass the Amazon for new devices with touchscreen. Touch for “scribe” could mean the team notes in addition to a stylus.

Although no specific date has a launch pad for the family of devices that Amazon is expected to launch before the end of this year, this new track ensures that its launch is imminent. I doubt Amazon is betting on a tablet with stylus, but I would believe that a new Kindle annotation accessory is what you might be planning.

Prior to this news has been strong rumors about the arrival of tablets with the smile of the hardrware Amazon, which makes us believe that this domain does not necessarily interfere with the arrival of the family of devices called Android phones were first expect after the declarations of the same CEO .

Is that the trend of launching multiple computers (which Samsung seems to come exaggerating ) seems to be popular and considering the support given to Amazon Android comes with the app store, for example, it makes sense that the transactions entered arriving any time.

Now, if we remain mindful that this record of domain points to a new Kindle, the evidence that is about to be launched soon could be in the way that Amazon has released previously. I recently began going to sell for less than $ 99 Kindles restored , as happened last year and came out the Kindle 3G. So if it is true that new equipment will arrive in October, this record would be one of the missing pieces to finish putting this together.

For example, in a tablet that time frame is  much shorter, usually 4 to 6 hours, depending on what you do

The answer is simple: the Kindle  Canada´s screen has no LED backlight, instead it comes with a fixed background so as they mention, the charge can last up to two months, something amazing and impressive.

Perhaps one disadvantage is that you can not read at night unless you have your lights on.

For the period ended June 30, Amazon earned revenues of 9000 of $ 910 million, up 51 percent from a year and higher than the 9000 $ 380 expected by financial analysts.

Earnings per share were better-than-expected $ 0.41 per share, topping the $ 034 estimated by analysts, though not as high as the $ 0.45 earned the same period last year.

Operating earnings were $ 201 million, down compared with $ 270 million in the second quarter of 2010.  Its net profit fell 8 percent to $ 191 million or $ 0.41 per share, compared with $ 207 million earned last year.

The report adds that the Amazon Kindle Canada with Special Offers 3G, a model that displays advertisements, is the biggest seller in the history of the Kindle Canada with its $ 139 price.

“Low prices, a growing selection, prompt delivery and innovation are giving way to faster growth we have experienced in over a decade,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO in a statement.

Amazon also increased its workforce to 43 000 200 jobs, adding 5 000 300 new jobs in the quarter, one of the areas where the company spent over the period.

For the third quarter, Amazon expects revenue between the range of 10 000 11 000 300 and $ 100 million, while specialists will estimate a volume of 10 thousand 350 million dollars for this period.

Pay only for as long as needed, keep your notes, rent once and read everywhere.

With this new proposal, Amazon claims that students can gain up to 80% discount on the price of printed books, they can choose between 30 and 360 days of paying rent the exact time where you need the book, and expand its rent for just one day or buy it.

Also, the person will be able to read on PC, Mac, or mobile device Kindle. What’s more, you can access your notes and highlight them at any time, even after the rental expires in kindle.amazon.com.

But beyond that step, the page xataka.com remember that Amazon is preparing for the big launch of its Tablet mid-October.

This will make a perfect digital book and open the possibilities for its educational nature. For now, Amazon is not intended to give competition to other tablets Android or the iPhone 2, Apple, but to be an ideal medium for consuming content.

Through a statement, the company stated that after four years of introducing the Kindle Canada and the books in this format have surpassed sales of conventional books.

April 1, for every 100 paper books sold on Amazon, sold 105 books for Kindle.

This result is proof that the electronic book market is growing, a trend that leads Amazon.

The Kindle is available in several countries, but despite the global supply, there are many markets where you can buy an ebook is more complicated than getting a book of paper.

Amazon conventional books began in July 1995. Twelve years later, in November 2007, Amazon introduced the Kindle, a device that would revolutionize the market, starting with the sale of electronic books that year, a format that is now the most popular in the store.

In any case, it is important to remember that the ePub format has support for DRM so it is very possible that the downloaded books can be read only in the ecosystem Kindle reader, mobile and desktop version. What will be possible is to buy in any store ePub books and read them on the Kindle without going through tedious conversion processes.

The information is based on the data they have received four books, which confirm that soon able to publish their books in ePub. Amazon will not give up to continue publishing in MOBI / AWZ (its big bet) but will offer users the ability to download libors in the format they want. If finally confirmed the news, ePub would position as the most popular format for electronic publications.