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19 unusual facts about Amazon Kindle


Annie Little

Annie Little is an American singer-songwriter, and actress who co-wrote/sings the songs, and performs in the animated stop-motion commercials for the Amazon Kindle.

BiblioVault

Besides making more than 25,000 file deliveries annually to e-retailers, such as Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iBooks, Google Play, etc., BiblioVault also fulfills ebooks directly for 25 member presses, via the Chicago Distribution Center's online shopping cart and several other independent press shopping carts.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

This effort has been successful enough that most of her titles and virtually all of the newer books are available in Kindle editions, and for her to have co-authored the "how to guide" referenced in the bibliography.

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

As well as a 1,152-page print edition, the Commentary is available in digital form as an e-book for Amazon Kindle, and as a Bible software add-on for products including Accordance, Logos, QuickVerse and WORDsearch.

Douglas Anthony Cooper

The novel became a surprise bestseller when it was accidentally published in Amazon Kindle format by Doubleday.

Fluid Football

Fluid Football is a mobile association football game developed by independent studio Chromativity and published by AppyNation for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and BlackBerry devices.

John C. Edmunds

His book "Brave New Wealthy World" is currently one of the top ten books in comparative economics in Amazon's Kindle Store.

Justin Richards

His novel The Skeleton Clock was made available later that year in electronic formats only (for the Amazon Kindle and for other Ebook readers).

Kerry Wilkinson

In the final quarter of 2011, Amazon UK announced he was their top-selling author for their Amazon Kindle chart - and that he had sold over 250,000 ebooks.

Marcus Ashley

Marcus Ashley is an American actor, singer, songwriter and producer who writes, sings and performs the songs featured in the commercials for the Amazon Kindle.

Michael Patrick Cronan

He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design that became known as the "Pacific Wave", and a recognized corporate identity designer, acknowledged for the naming and the identities of TiVo, Verio, the Indigo, Onyx and Crimson computer lines for Silicon Graphics (SGI) and naming Amazon Kindle.

Parallel Universes, a Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time

On November 16, 2010, Linda Morabito Meyer provided an early version of the book in Amazon Kindle electronic format, with the ability for the public to update the book through Amazon.com at no charge, as Morabito Meyer’s investigation into her past was completed.

Peter W. Kaplan

On November 6, 2009, Kaplan appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, where he discussed the future of newspapers with regards to the Internet and mobile devices such as the Amazon Kindle, and Apple's iPad.

Political positions of Richard Gordon

He has stated on several occasions in the presidential campaign that he plans to allocate around P 85 million for a project aimed at providing 17 million students with an Amazon Kindle, a device that allows a user to read electronic books as well as other digital media.

Stephen Windwalker

His 2008 book on the Amazon Kindle, The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle, sold over 55,000 copies and appeared continuously in Amazon's Kindle bestseller list throughout most of 2008.

Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing

The collection was initially released in early 2013 as serial episodes available on the Kindle e-reader.

The Bull and The Ban

"The Bull and The Ban" is a 2012 paperback and Amazon Kindle book featuring interviews transcribed from both Spanish and English regarding the Ban on bullfighting in Catalonia in Spain in 2010.

The Valley Library

Librarians at Valley Library began using text messaging in March 2010 to communicate with some library patrons, and earlier started to loan out Amazon's Kindle reader.

University of Chicago Press

In 2013, Chicago Journals will be offering e-book editions of each new issue of each journal, for use on e-reader devices such as smartphones, iPad, and Amazon Kindle.


HelpNDoc

HelpNDoc allows the writer to create a single source text which it then converts to a number of target formats such as HTML Help, PDF, RTF, HTML documentations as well as EPUB and Amazon Kindle compatible E-books.

Murali Chemuturi

His sixth book Success in Life through Personality Engineering co-authored with Ronda Lee Roberts was published by CreateSpace of Amazon.com along with a Kindle edition.

Publishing

As of early 2011 Amazon's Kindle reading device is a significant force in the market, along with the Apple iPad and the Nook from Barnes & Noble.