Some thing’s you just can’t Google for answers

In today’s news, Google has decided to heed the advice of the Federal Trade Commission.  They have decided to create a formal privacy policy for their Google Books service.  This is only four days before the G-book Search settlement is set to be approved. (or rejected).
This is interesting, it looks like Google is trying to [...]

Amazon calling Google Books out…

Amazon is objecting to the Google Books Settlement, so much so that the actual judgment has been postponed until September 8th to allow for them to rally a war cry that will end Google’s endeavor to give us all free open source editions of public domain books.  Really? Do they think they are the [...]

Kindle 1.2 and other rumors

Taking a break from Windows 7 for a moment to broadcast breaking (not so much) news.   There are rumors afoot that there is a 1.2 firmware update for the Amazon Kindle.
I have been reading over at BookSummit, the Kindle Forums on Amazon and some Yahoo groups about this. 
I have version 1.0.8, and so I am [...]

Converting documents for Kindle

I have been doing some research in to how to convert books for Kindle, and other e-book readers like the Sony PRS systems.  So far I have been able to convert both PDF and Word Documents as well as some of my old MS Reader books.
Let’s go through the history of this…
According to Wikipedia, the [...]