One of the few drawbacks of the Kindle, Amazon’s ebook reader is that it only supports AWZ-books, and PDF MOBI. Fortunately, the latest rumors are that soon we will buy books in ePub format stores in the Amazon. Of course, the Kindle can read them without problems thanks to a software upgrade.

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.

Consumers are willing to swallow ads if the product is cheaper. Or so it shows sales of the new Kindle canada from Amazon that costs $ 25 less than the version WiFi not sponsored and 75 dollars less than the 3G model, and that in a few weeks has managed to be at the forefront of electronic products sold in Amazon.com online store.

The analyst firm In-Stat projected annual shipments of e-readers are placed at 35 million units by 2014

As usual, the company did not disclose actual sales figures, but the prominent position of the last device in the list of “best-seller” or tablets and suggests that neither the e-reader software for other devices have cooled interest in devices dedicated exclusively to electronic text. Some analysts and advance a new rush for low cost electronic readers that other vendors also offer advertising.

And all despite the strong competition they face this type-device. Applications ebook for iPad and theoretically Android could become tablets and smartphones, by virtue of its ability to multitask in a more attractive option for consumers. And the application itself for Amazon Kindle in PCs and mobile devices could kill hunger by its readers.

To broaden its scope, the Seattle be considering a jump to hit the market in tablet governed by Android “Honeycomb”, with the creation of two devices codenamed “Coyote” and “Hollywood.” Both models integrate Nvidia’s Tegra processors, but in different versions: Tegra 2 of the first dual-core and quad-core Tegra 3 for the second. Amazon has already established a wide customer base to sell the tablets and has launched its own app store

Drop into my fingers the product sales figures of digital visitors across the planet. Are information for that 3rd quarter of 2010 and you will find plenty of interesting components to evaluate.

The very preliminary, obviously, the common figures: two.seven million sets had been offered in only 3 months, moreover, are a great deal a lot much less conducive in the direction of the buy of this kind of gear, a minimal of within the northern hemisphere, doesn’t appear that all via we’re so exceptional summer time time of technologies as in other events, particularly Xmas.

The figure is even much more remarkable when you think about we’re talking about e-readers “pure”, ie not include tablets like iPad that last yr had extremely higher product sales figures. I say this simply merely simply because it offers us an concept of steadily expanding and definitely cease turning into integrated much more and much more visitors in the direction of the planet of digital, we’re talking about numerous countless individuals every yr to research (and when permitted to purchase) publications digital.

It’s also interesting to find out who will get the e-book to h2o within this market … as well as the winner is with out a doubt presently much behind Amazon’s Kindle Canada, which was completed within this time period with much more than 40% using the market, representing a portion using the cake truly moist (particularly when in contrast with 16% 15% and 8% to accomplish their immediate pursuers).

It’s obvious that Amazon is accumulating your gadget utilizing the fruits of the policy that’s proving to be extremely effective and has from my stage of see, 3 fundamental factors: the anticipation, the availability of the huge catalog of publications and really worth for cash real great.

And, obviously, many years of knowledge advertising on the web that tends to create your store is definitely an perfect location to purchase through which, inexplicably, nobody has “inspired” to create his individual library within the network.

The cost appears an essential component simply merely simply because the 2nd best-selling gadget was a virtually mysterious brand name, Pandigital, which retails for about $ 154 aggressive . In 3rd location is Barnes & Noble with Nook-again the importance using the catalog of publications, as well as the fourth and somewhat disappointing position is for Sony, which offers visitors higher quality but with out the backing of this kind of powerful stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Amazon does not reveal all “hot keys” that would be very useful for users. Here I have collected some most of the most popular and used ones.

Shortcuts for  Kindle Canada: General
alt + shift + G = screenshot

alt + G = refresh the screen

shift + alt + m = play minesweeper

alt + home = go to Kindle Store

alt + first line of letters on the keyboard = number 1-9

alt + shift + 1 to 9 = change space between lines (NOT letter size)

click menu to see the time

click menu on HOME to see available memory

Turn the Kinde Canada off by pressing the power slide for 7 seconds

reset your kindle by pressing the slide for 15 seconds — used if the screen goes blank

alt + R = Reload a web

alt + shift = highlight the Address bar in the web

alt + B = add and delete bookmarks

pad right / left = Go to next chapter / prev

Sym shift + = Toggle text to speech on and off

back = Disable text to speech

spacebar = stop text to speech

put cursor in the text where you want to start text to speech

You know you can use your Kindle Canada 3 as a calculator?

We use this method.

Alt + Q = 1
Alt + W = 2
Alt + E = 3
Alt + R = 4
Alt + T = 5
Alt + Y = 6
Alt + U = 7
Alt + I = 8
Alt + O = 9
Alt + P = 0

This is a much quicker way to enter numbers instead of using [Sym]

2 * 6

The result will appear in the first line of the screen.

Kindle Canada e-ink

E-Ink is the world’s largest company in terms of manufacturing and development of electronic ink displays designed specifically for e-book readers such as Amazon’s Kindle Canada.
They said from the company in a meeting with people from Cnet, this year there will be improvements in the new electronic ink displays but the improvements made in the processing of electronic book readers and also improved the firmware from readers .
For the future aim is to improve the video experience on their e-ink panels and now video playback would be at a rate of 15 frames per second and has set a goal of streaming video to reach 30 frames reaching per second. The biggest priority both in terms of the new generation of electronic ink displays is the video playback.

The Kindle 3 and Kindle DX are now available in Canada

The Canada Kindle is an electronic book reader (EBook) or portable device that can store and read digital books. Created by virtual store Amazon, it was released commercially in late 2007.

There are currently four devices:

* Kindle 1
* Kindle 2 U.S.
* Kindle 3 International (available in Canada) New 2010 model
* Kindle DX  (available in Canada) New 2010 model

Kindle has an electronic e ink display of 800×600 pixels and 8 grayscale levels. The device connects wirelessly to an Amazon owned network  calle Whispernet running through the wireless network (Sprint in the U.S.,  3G networks and EDGE / GPRS in the world) to download content.

From October 19th of 2009 Amazon  began shipping Kindle 2 international ereader to users outside the United States, including of course Canada.  These users may use the Wispernet  network anywhere in the world where mobile coverage is available.

The price of the Kindle 3 is $189.00 UDS for the U.S. version and international version. Each ebook title costs approximately $ 10 U.S. dollars and covers wireless transmission.

The Kindle 3 supports PDF natively;  in addition  Amazon provides a conversion service via e-mail to use documents in  doc, txt and html formats. The process involves sending the document by e-mail to Amazon, who then then makes a kindle-friendly version and sends them through the mobile network to the  Kindle ereader.

The Kindle reader allows free access to Wikipedia from the user’s country of residence.

So, where do you buy a Kindle in Canada? You can’t get it a a store, you can’t purchase it at the Amazon site in Canada, you need to go to the main Amazon store to buy it. Covers and accessories are available in the Canadian Amazon site however. And although it is available in Best Buy stores in the US, there is no Best Buy Canada Kindle available; Best Buy Canada doesn’t carry the Kindle line, so click on the following links to go to the oficial Kindle page at Amazon

If you are ready to buy a Kindle for Canada, or want  more details and technical specifications, click here to go to the main Amazon site for the Kindle 3 or here for the Kindle 3 DX

The Kindle ebook reader by Amazon has taken the world by surprise. Everyone wants one! Forgt about carying pounds of books in your bag, just slip in your Kindle and have access to thousands of books.

So… how do you buy one? Well for one the Kindle is not vailable in Amazon Canada. The ones you find there are sold by third parties and cost much more so it is not even worth it. The right place to buy it is straight from the Amazon Kindle international page. However, this can be a bit tricky to find, so here is a step by step guide on how to do it.

click here to go to the main Amazon site for the Kindle 3 or here for the Kindle 3 DX