Amazon Kindle and other Electronic ebook readers

One of the reasons Kindle competitor claim their product is better than kindle is their compatibility with the extensive Google Free Ebooks library

While Amazon Kindle is not yet  compatible with the open ePub eBook format which gives Sony Ebook readers access to the entire Google Ebook Publick library, this library is mainly composed of public domain classics such as Jules Verne, Jane Austin and Mark Twain’s books.

But the key here is that these are public domain books which are equally available for Amazon Kindle users through the Amazon store. The problem is that Amazon seems to make it hard for Kindle users to find these books.

Here is a list of the cheapest Ebooks you can find on Amazon:

• Public Domain Books
• Free Kindle Ebooks
• Kindle Ebooks up to $3
• Kindle Ebooks up to $4
• Kindle Ebooks up to $8
• Kindle Ebooks up to $14
• Kindle Ebooks Bestsellers

Still the fact that you can get books through Amazon’s Whispernet gives the Amazon Kindle the advantage over it’s inmediate competitors, such as :

• • Sony Digital Reader Touch Edition – Black (PRS600BC) $290
  • Sony PRS-505 Portable Digital e-Reader System (Silver) $266
  • Bookeen Cybook Opus – eBook reader 400 MHz – RAM: 32 MB 1 GB – monochrome 5 $250
  • Libre eBook Reader Pro. (Black) $177
  • Sony Digital Reader Pocket Edition – Silver (PRS300SC) $195

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Today Amazon released another member of the Kindle Family, the Kindle Ebook Reader for PC.

After the release of the Iphone application it was only natural that a version for personal computers would be released. even though reading books on the PC somehow clashes with the portability of the concept of ebook readers, being able to read your book while on a trip without having to bring all your gadgets with you justifies the release of this small program.

Once you install the program you will be prompted to log in to you Amazon account, which will retrieve any Kindle books you already own as well as your notes and bookmarks. Alternatively there is a button to shop for book in the Kindle Bookstore which will take you to the bookshop in your browser where you can buy any books that you can later read either here, in your Kindle device or in you Iphone application.

The only problems this application seems to have is the lack of possibility of writing notes, though you can read the ones written in other Kindle devices, and also there is no search widget. Both features are said to be released in future versions.

Alla in all this is a bid from Amazon to boost the sales of their Kindle books and ultimately to increase the popularity of it’s Kindle Ebook Reader device.

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Amazon Kindle has begun shipping outside the US but what countries will benefit from this hyped ebook reader?

This is the list of countries where Amazon will be shipping the 6 inch screen version of Amazon Kindle, check the updated list in the official blog of Amazon Kindle here:

• Aland Islands
• Albania
• American Samoa
• Andorra
• Angola
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Armenia
• Aruba
• Australia
• Austria
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bermuda
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cape Verde
• Cayman Islands
• Central African Republic
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo
• Cook Islands
• Costa Rica
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Denmark
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Falkland Islands
• Faroe Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• French Guiana
• French Polynesia
• Gabon
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Gibraltar
• Greece
• Greenland
• Grenada
• Guadeloupe
• Guam
• Guatemala
• Guernsey
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Holy See
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Ireland
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jersey
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• Latvia
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macao
• Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Martinique
• Mauritius
• Mayotte
• Mexico
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Montserrat
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands Antilles
• Netherlands
• New Caledonia
• Nicaragua
• Niue
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Norway
• Palau
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Reunion
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Suriname
• Swaziland
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Tanzania
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Uruguay
• Vanuatu
• Venezuela
• Viet Nam
• Virgin Islands, British
• Virgin Islands, U.S.
• Wallis and Futuna
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

The list adds up to 169 countries so the list of countries that won’t benefit from Amazon Kindle is actually much shorter.

Out of the 169 countries about a 100 of them also will benefit from the wireless capabilities of the Amazon Kindle

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