Amazon Kindle - Oprah's Kindle Rescue and Kindle $50 Coupon

The Kindle - Amazon's Wireless Reading Device has been rescued by Oprah Winfrey.
Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos and his company's revolutionary Kindle e-book reader were the stars of Fridays Oprah Winfrey Show.

Oprah said that the Amason Kindle was her new favorite thing in the world. She went on to say that it would pay for itself and good for the environment (saves paper) among other things.

Shopper's who enter coupon code: OPRAHWINFREY will get the Amazon Kindle for only $309 (a $50 Discount) . I'm sure this will help to give the struggling Kindle a boost.

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Barnes & Noble Social Networking - My B&N - books, film and music

It looks like Barnes & Noble is getting into the Social Networking game. They announced the launch of"My B&N". My B&N is a social-networking feature that allows site users to create personal pages focusing on their interests in books, film and music.

After building your profile on My B&N, you can choose an avatar and pen name, choose your favorite local stores, you advanced list feature "Essential List", Share what you reading, and participate in Online book discussions.

The information can also be shared with Facebook and other online networks.

5,000 More Titles available on Amazon Kindle

Amazon.com and Simon & Schuster announced today (5/30/2008) that they will make 5,000 additional titles available for the Amazon Kindle over the course of 2008. Kindle books overall are starting to grow as a percentage of Amazon's overall sales (Currently 6%).

In case you were wondering, the Kindle is a portable reader that can downloads books, blogs, magazines, newspapers and more wirelessly. The Kindle reader itself will run you about $359.00.


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Borders.com - Magic Shelf & More (launched today)

Borders broke away from Amazon (after 7 years) and launched their new Online eCommerce Site today.

Here's the details on some of the best features:

Magic Shelf™ Technology - This feature allows customers to view book, music and movie titles on an actual shelf like you would in an actual store. You can also personalize your shelf, by selecting categories of interest. The magic shelf will instantly show you book, music and movie titles uniquely picked for you.

Exclusive Video Programming - Some of these include "Borders Book Club” (featuring best selling authors), “Live at 01” (recorded in store event), “Borders Kitchen” (bringing you the hottest chefs), "Borders Open Door Poetry” (featuring great poets reading their work) and more.

I've played around with the site and it looks pretty well put together and well thought out. It will be interesting to see how well the Magic Shelf finds unique picks for me. Like most personalized sites, I imagine that it will take Borders.com some time to get to know me. Only time will tell. :)

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