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It seems the last week that most RSS subscribers have not received any updates.  I believe that it is now fixed.  Please glace back at the last week and see if there are any posts that you would like to read. https://bookwi.se

The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, and regular Amazon Kindle are now both available in Canada.  Both are available for immediate shipping. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is $139 CDN and the Amazon Kindle (4th Generation Kindle) is $89 CDN. Earlier Bookwi.se gave initial impressions and then a full review of the Paperwhite. Also a review of a … Read more

Lilliputing (a great little tech website) is reporting that Amazon has purchased Ivona Software, which specializes in text to speech software.  Currently it offers 44 voices in 17 different languages. I am surprised that Amazon is expanding its reaching into text to speech after it removed the feature from its e-ink kindles.  The newest Kindle … Read more

It is always odd to me how little people pay attention to blog posts past the initial headline and first paragraph or two.  I have seen about a dozen variation of “Amazon is Testing Kindle Book Rentals” over the past couple days.  They all link back to this post, which does show a kindle book … Read more

Last week in my review of the Wrinkle in Time Graphic Novel, I mentioned that I had read the comic book version of the book God’s Smuggler as a child.  Today I ran across a blog post about a new line of Christian Comic books and in the comments one person linked to an archive … Read more

In 2012 Bookwi.se posted 1009 posts (so far) from seven different contributors.  Today’s review was the 600th overall book review. There were about 110,000 page views at the blog.  And another 120,000 views in the full post RSS or Email. Also there were about 105,000 spam comments. As of right now there are 33 people … Read more

The New York Time books section had an article yesterday about Independent book stores.  And it was actually fairly up beat.  The summary is that, even though there were no big breakout books this Christmas, independent books stores are actually doing fairly well.  And the Kobo partnership with independent bookstores to sell Kobo ereaders and have people … Read more

Amazon Announced its best selling books of 2012 lists today. It is interesting to see the minor variations between the print and kindle versions of the list.  For instance, the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid was #1 in the Kids & Teens Print list, but #16 in the kindle list.  (I presume because it … Read more