...Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they’re being offered there. What’s more, Amazon is getting this not by expensive, proactive scraping the Web, like Google has to do; they’re getting it passively by offering a simple caching service, and letting Fire users do the hard work of crawling the Web. In essence the Fire user base is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, scraping the Web for free and providing Amazon with the most valuable cache of user behavior in existence. .... This is the first shot in the new war for replacing the Internet with a privatized merchant data-aggregation network.

Wow. e-readers like #kindle and #nook growing even faster than #iPad. #mainstream>geeks

One reason why publishers will be reinvented even in the face of a self-publishing torrent on #kindle

The long version of my Forbes interview about #DRM-less #ebooks, #kindle, and the persistence of tinkering.

E-Book Wars: The Specialist vs. the Multitasker @nytimes hammers on $AMZN for not releasing #kindle numbers vs $AAPL

Cooking for Geeks now #5 on the #kindle bestseller list. #47 overall. W00t

Really enjoyed this Jeff Bezos interview with @charlierose Especially good once you get past the #kindle product bits

Stieg Larsson first author to sell more than 1 million #ebooks on #Kindle via @slashdot

.@alleyinsider: "Whoa! Did The #Nook Have Better Sales Than The #Kindle In March?" My comments:

Fabulous analysis of the $AMZN/$AAPL/Macmillan #ebook fight Great debate in the comments too. #kindle #ipad #toc