The Kindle Personal Document Enhancements - How it all works - Update from Customer Svc

AMAZON'S EMAIL TO "PAST USERS" OF THE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS FEATURE

Introduction
  As many now know, since Sept. 30 and with the Kindle Keyboard software update to v3.3 on Oct. 13, Amazon has made notable, long-requested improvements to the Personal Documents feature, upgrading personal documents that you send to your Kindle, from 2nd-class status to having the regular features that Kindle books have.

See Update with email from Customer Svc.

Those first-class features include sync'g your reading between devices, having them archived at the Amazon servers, and showing their titles in your Kindle's Archived Items folder when the personal document is no longer on the Kindle, for future re-downloading to any of your Kindles as needed.  (You can also disable the archiving & sync'g features.)

Personal docs are, generally, any file that is not a Kindle book and they're usually files we've personally put on our Kindle -- either by transferring them from computer to the Kindle, via the USB cable that comes with our Kindle's power cord or by using our email to send the file to our Kindle (which is given a "Kindle email address" for that purpose, in the form  [your nickname]@kindle.com .

  For example: My Kindle 3 address is andrysk3@kindle.com -- and no one can use it to send documents to my Kindle unless I approve that person's email address for doing that.  Approval for others to send docs to your Kindle  can be registered by you at your amazon.com/manageyourkindle page.

Any file that we send to our Kindle by email goes to the Amazon servers where it is converted to Amazon format before Amazon gets it ready for download to the Kindle.

  Once you've made that special nickname-email address for your Kindle, you can specify that you want to send a personal file to your Kindle email address WITHOUT using the "3G" cellphone network feature.  Why? - because there is a 15c per megabyte fee to use 3G for sending personal docs to your Kindle.  (See 'What are "3G" and "WiFi?".)

  Amazon pays for 3G cell-phone type data-access and they charge back 15c per megabyte of a file for that reason.
   Sending files via WiFi networks doesn't incur a fee, as WiFi is local to us, in our home, or at work, or at a cafe or other public place that allows access to one, and Amazon doesn't have to pay for that.

   The new Basic Kindle with No Keyboard and No TouchScreen is WiFi only, so there's no way to incur a fee with that.

When would you find yourself using 3G instead of WiFi?
The Kindle 1, Kindle 2, and larger DX models use ONLY 3G  wireless access for downloading books or for going to the web.  The Kindle 3 (UK: K3) ("Kindle Keyboard") uses both 3G and WiFi.

Making sure you send the file for free
The TWO ways you can get the file to your Kindle without using 3G are:

1. Send it to [your nickname[@free.kindle.com (note the "free" part in the link) which will let you download the converted doc file or book using a WiFi wireless network at home, office, or a place like McDonald's or Starbucks instead of using 3G wireless  OR
   
   
2. When Amazon notifies you that your converted emailed-file is ready for download but you have no WiFi network access, download it to your computer at the manageyourkindle page and then transfer the file to your Kindle by using the USB cable.  In the past we've been able to download it from the link given in the Amazon email-notice that the converted file is ready.

In both cases, you've emailed a personal document file to Amazon for conversion to Kindle format so that it can be on the Kindle.  That sending of the file:

1. makes your personal doc eligible for the regular features which include sync'g between devices, archiving on the servers, and
   
   
2. you can choose to download it to the Kindle via WiFi or to your computer via USB cable, specifically designated for your Kindle, as mentioned.

THE AMAZON EMAIL ABOUT THE NEW FEATURES
Instead of doing a PR release on the newer Personal Document features,Amazon sent an email on Oct. 14 to anyone who was "a past user of the Kindle Personal Documents Service"

'Your documents are now automatically archived in your Kindle library (you can control this from the Manage Your Kindle page at www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle). '

  That means that Amazon will back it up on their servers -- and this will be on a Kindle Cloud that can hold up to 5 gigabytes of your personal documents so that you can re-download them as needed at any time.

' Archived documents can be re-downloaded from your archive to the all-new Kindle and Kindle Touch devices, as well as Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3rd Generation--requires the latest software update v3.3 from www.amazon.com/kindlesoftwareupdates) -- you will be able to find and download your documents from any of these devices that are registered to your account. '

  I did see that a personal file I sent to my current Kindle Keyboard IS sendable from the manageyourkindle page, personal-documents section, to my Kindle 1, 2, and DX-Graphite as well as the later ones although the file doesn't show up in the "Archived Items" folder on those older Kindles nor do they seem to do sync'g (they're not said to be included for new features at this time anyway).

  It's good that we can download the personal docs to each and every Kindle though.

' Now (just as with Kindle books) Whispersync automatically synchronizes your last page read, bookmarks and annotations for your documents (with the exception of PDFs) across devices '

They did not specifically mention Kindle 1, 2, or the DX for the whispersync'g or for downloading from those Kindles' Archived-Item folders rather than doing manageyourpage-sending to those devices.

' We expect to extend these features to Kindle Fire and Kindle apps (such as Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for Android, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for PC, and Kindle for Mac) in the coming months '

That is definitely good news.

' You can control these new features from the Manage Your Kindle page at www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle where you can see a list of your archived documents, re-deliver documents to your Kindle, delete any document from archive, or even turn off archiving for your account.

Learn more about the Kindle Personal Documents Service from our help pages at www.amazon.com/kindlepersonaldocuments. '

Examples of personal documents
  I often highlight items from webpages and copy them to Word docs and then send them later to my Kindle so I can read them offline.
  These will now be archived and redownloadable as needed and sync'able with my newer Kindles.

  Also, non-DRM'd *.mobi or *.prc books that you download from various free-book sites will be considered personal documents also.

  Question I have:  Is an instapaper, sendtoreader, sendtokindle, or readability document sent to your Kindle also kept on your Amazon server area?
  I haven't tested it.  Maybe some of you have and you can add your personal findings to the Comments area.

But I read one paragraph that I don't quite know how to interpret.  It mentioned that all this does not include documents that involve automatic distribution to your Kindle. (I'll have to find the wording again later.)


PDFs
These will get the benefit of the features ONLY if a copy of a PDF is converted to an Amazon format, losing its original-layout but usually more readable if it's not a document with complex layouts.
  You can just send these to Amazon as you would any personal document BUT, for PDFs, you need to put the word "Convert" into the subject field or Amazon dosn't convert the PDF file to Amazon format but instead will let it through as is, since we often want to just have the original PDF and layout.


ANOTHER WAY TO AVOID ANY DELIVERY CHARGES FOR PERSONAL DOCUMENTS
At "Managing Your Kindle Content page's Personal Document Settings, you'll see Whispernet delivery options.

  CURRENTLY, I was taken to this page for "Kindle Keyboard" options because right now it was the link used for costs incurred with current models -- the Kindle Touch models aren't released yet.

  The Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3) has 3G (as well as WiFi) and, as we've noted, there are fees for that, although this page doesn't mention that there are NO fees for WiFi use instead, and this omission has confused people who felt they could find no free method.

  On that Kindle Content page, you'll see "Whispernet Delivery Options (for 3G Kindles only)
They use "Whispernet" on that page to mean 3G wireless sending.
  There they add:

' Whispernet delivery is disabled by default.  You can change your preferred Whispernet delivery option for personal documents by clicking "Edit" under "Whispernet Delivery Options" and enter preferred settings. Click "Update" to compete[sic] complete change. '

They show an example of (un)checking the box for
  "Enable delivery to my Kindle over Whispernet.  Fees apply."
REMEMBER that, here, "Whispernet" is used for the 3G use although they often say instead, "Whispernet with 3G support" -- so it is all quite confusing as the Help pages are going through changes.

But you'll note that you can ALSO, if you enable 3G sending, LIMIT the cost to you by specifying the maximum amount to be charged for a delivery. A normal novel can cost 15c but a large Pdf could be many times the size and cost.  So, those without WiFi in their area or with older Kindles that have "only" 3G wireless can still send over the air but it will cost you unless you DISABLE 3G-sending or "Enter a maximum allowed per document delivery charge" to equal $0.00 or whatever you feel is reasonable.


Kindle Cloud storage space in addition to Amazon Cloud space
Note that while all Amazon customers are given general Amazon Cloud space of 5 gigabytes for storage (and streaming, if in the U.S.), Kindle customers get an additional 5 gigabytes for personal documents.
  Kindles are able to store anywhere from 1.5 to 3.2 gigabytes of books, but you can keep most of it on the Kindle Cloud and the performance/speed of your Kindle will be better.


Privacy
  Those who prefer privacy of their personal docs can just DISABLE personal document archiving on the manageyourkindle page.

  Personal docs that you put on your Kindle without sending them via email to Amazon will not be archived on the servers and they won't, then, be sync'd either, when you're reading them on various devices and apps.

Let me know where I've not been clear here or if you have personal experiences with sending personal docs that you'd like to share.  Many of us have long wanted to be able to sync our non-Kindle books and other personal docs and now there's free backup also, so this is all very good, although there seems a mountain of info about what's involved.

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UPDATE - I had written Amazon that the personal doc pages were confusing and got some interesting replies - the first one saying it would take them a couple of days to look at it to do a summary and then a reply by another person who gave some clear answers that confirmed my understanding.

Commenter Joe G, was hoping the interpretation was right (so was I) so I'll include most of what Amazon's CS emailed reply said.  (BOLD facing to highlight a point is done by me, not by the writer.)

' Hello,

I'm sorry for any misunderstanding regarding how our Kindle's Personal Document Service works.

To avoid a fee, ensure your Kindle is connected via Wi-Fi.

...Download of your personal documents from Archived Items is currently only supported on Kindle Keyboard [Kindle 3], Kindle and Kindle Touch... '

  As Joe said, many regulars found that they could not tell from current Help documentation what the fee situation was, as the clarity that was there before has not been there on the new pages, re how one might avoid fees via WiFi. This customer support statement is clear though.  Caution: It's from one customer rep but Janice V was unusually clear in her statements and I've no reason to believe that there is any fee associated with WiFi accessing of personal documents.

Janice V. added the following, which I've seen on the help pages but which also may be of interest to readers here>

' Documents must be 50MB or smaller.  No more than 25 attachments can be sent in one e-mail. If you're sending multiple files, you can compress them into a single zip file.

If you choose to not archive your documents and your Kindle is not connected wirelessly, we store your document for 60 days and attempt to deliver to your Kindle once it restores wireless connectivity.  Personal documents not delivered within this time period will be deleted. '

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Kindle News Roundup: Reactions to Kindle Cloud Reader and Price-Fixing Lawsuit

FIRST, two reports by Joel in the Comments area of the Kindle Cloud Reader announcement story, who has found that:
  1. he can run "multiple" instances of the Cloud Reader (reading one book while another is open for reference) and
  2. the Cloud Reader counts as one 'single' device.  He has the Kindle Cloud Reader app running on 3 PCs and one Linux box so far.

  I noted that my Kindle App for PC is shown on my ManageYourKindle as a total of 3 Kindle-compatible devices, one each for my desktop, a laptop and a netbook.  Cloud Reader acts as a true Web device then, as there's no installation and you can access the Web and your spaces on it from any Net-connected devices, so it's similar.

"Time to Rethink Every Website in the World"
TechCrunch's Cyan Banister, in his story titled, "Time to rethink every website in the world," writes (after opening with an assessment of "holy sh__") that another news analyst had written about the new reader but:

' ... he didn’t point out what an amazing technical advancement this is for all of us.  To me, it hardly matters that it looks great on my iPad. The coolest part is that it works beautifully OFFLINE.

Gmail and a few other sites have creaky offline modes, but they aren’t nearly as cool as what Amazon has done.  (For instance, Gmail doesn’t even have an offline Outbox.)  What Amazon has built is a sneak peek at our Internet future and this will change everything. '

ITWorld
ITWorld's Brian Proffitt points out that while it's not a true iOS [Apple] app, you can set the shortcut as an iPad, say, home screen icon, so it does have a direct way to the Kindle Store, in effect.

  [Tangential note by Andrys/Kindleworld:]
  100% of rival vendors' profit (net revenue), not 30% of that.
Almost all the news-sites have reported this new Web-app capability as a way to evade giving Apple 30% of Amazon and Barnes & Noble profits -- but, actually, since Apple itself created the 'Agency' model, which had Big5 publishers alloting online bookstores 30% of an ebook sale and taking 70% for themselves, Apple would actually have been trying to take 100% of Amazon's or BN's book-sale profits from sales on the iPad app.  We can see one reason why Apple does so well, profit-wise.

  That 100% of profit grab is a huge reality in it that many don't understand that it wasn't 30% of profit but 30% of a book sale.

 It's not similar to taking a fee for a lemonade stand in a mall.  It's telling the lemonade stand vendors, 'Sure, sell, here, but we want 100% of your profits if we let people try your wares here.'  There was no way the bookstore vendors would go for that.

  Taking a cut from sales from applications on a computer operating system
  Besides, others have made the point that Microsoft's computers do not insist on a 30% profit from products sold by websites using their "devices."
[End of side note]

  Chrome and Safari were chosen first, Proffitt opined, because it was the only way to get the new Web-based app onto an Apple device at a time when that became very useful.  Chrome and Safari browsers share a basic source in Webkit, and what works in one browser will tend to work in the other.
  As has happened in the past, more features will be added as it goes, and more browsers will be included, since at the moment neither Firefox nor Internet Explorer work with the Kindle Cloud Reader.

  Proffitt predicts browser wars, with each offering features the others don't have, and developers will have to keep making adjustments to their web applications, probably with browsers that have larger market share getting first attention.  Not in the initial case though!


Web apps galore
Bloomberg Businessweek's Om Malik focuses on the many Web-apps coming out of the cloud-space.

  We've already had Google's web app for books mentioned here in early December, at the same time that the competitive Amazon announced their Kindle for Web, which was meant to include full books eventually and now does, as Cloud Reader.  Amazon has finally changed that product page to show former Kindle for Web as Kindle Cloud Reader now.

  Malik also mentions Pandora's relaunching of its website for tablets in July.

  Twitter just launched an HTML5-based Web client that he feels is "as fantastic as the dedicated app itself."

  WalMart launched an HTML5 version of its VUDU video-streaming Web app, which streams not only to web browsers but also to TVs, Blu-ray players and game consoles.  However, as with normal websites, VUDU streaming is available only in standard definition.


Walmart's iPad-Optimized Movie Streaming
Mashable's Sarah Kessler shows how VUDU's Web app works and also mentions that the Financial Times released a web-based app in June and avoided the Apple app store, while ebook/ereader seller Kobo has announced it's also building an HTML5 ereader app.

The Globe and Mail's Associated Press story by Peter Svensson reports that
  "The site already works with PC browsers, but the Flash technology used doesn't work on the iPad. Instead, Vudu is using “Live Streaming” tools from Apple to reach the tablet.

  "Vudu.com's business model is similar to Apple's own iTunes. It rents out movies for $1 to $6 for a 24-hour or 48-hour viewing period.  It also sells them for $5 and up, which allows viewing any time. Its claim to fame is that it has many movies on the same day they're released on DVD."

Well, that particular new Web app was of interest to me because it is competition for Netflix, which has been steadily increasing its rates and of course it's also competition for Amazon's video-streaming.

  Svensson ends by saying that while the VUDU site will also work with iPhones and iPod Touches, navigation would be difficult as the Web app is designed for tablets.  The movies even stream over 3G, "but the image quality will suffer" and would also eat a lot of the monthly data allowance of any iPad plan.


What does it mean for Apple?
CBSNEWS techtalk references The Atlantic's Rebecca Greenfield whose harshly worded report (titled, The Beginning of the End for the Apple App Store) is surprising.

 First, I've not read The Atlantic for some time but to see the words "lame" and "stinks" is quite a change from the magazine I've read earlier.  I don't entirely agree with her headlined' take since I know Apple's app store will be affected negatively but not to the extent she predicts, but it's an entertaining, eyebrow-lifting read

If nothing else, what we've seen does look like the strong beginnings of a fairly huge media-vendor rebellion against Apple's policies.


THE LAWSUIT against Apple and the Big5 Publishers
IT Government's Grant Gross (delivered by Compuworld) writes that:

" One consumer advocate said the lawsuit makes sense. 'I have long been concerned about the apparent monopoly power Apple has been able to exercise through its Apps Store,' said John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog. 'I believe the plaintiffs in this class-action suit have a very strong case and [I] am pleased they brought the action. '

  "Apple didn't want to enter the e-book market at the prices Amazon.com offered, Berman said.  Instead of competing with Amazon, 'they decided to choke off competition through this anti-consumer scheme, he said.

  "The European Commission and several U.S. state attorneys general are also investigating e-book price fixing. "

  The question of "collusion"
InformationWeek's Thomas Claburn points out some factors in the accusations of "collusion":

' The complaint goes on to allege that the publishers were able to force Amazon to switch from the wholesale model to the agency model because each knew other publishers had also agreed to adopt the agency model to work with Apple.

What's more, the complaint says, if the publishers had not conspired to set prices, consumers would have voted with their wallets and bought books elsewhere. And that's apparently what happened: Random House, the only large U.S. publisher that didn't switch to the agency pricing model last year, saw its ebook sales surge 250% in the U.S. in 2010 and 800% in the U.K.

But in March 2011, Random House switched to the agency model because, the complaint states, Apple refused to carry its titles in its iBookstore.

Apple, the complaint asserts, conspired with its publishing partners to "cut into Amazon's substantial share of the market for ebooks and to prevent Amazon from emerging as a serious competitor to its mobile platforms for distribution, storage, and access of digital media." '

Getting back to the Kindle, specifically
Sys.con Media's Udayan Banerjee (CTO of NIIT Technologies, with 30 years' experience, focusing on emerging technologies) writes today about why he bought a Kindle and why not iPad or Galaxy, or any device with color, touch, easier browsing etc.  He writes from India and often is in the U.S.  It's a straightforward report of a more personal nature, and he ends it with "I just wish that I had a magic wand which I could use to transfer all my physical books into the Kindle."

 That would be true of any good e-Ink e-reader, but most of us who already have e-readers will recognize the wish, not that I don't still get paper-bound books as a B&N member who still values going to the brick and mortar within a mile of my home and hope it stays around.



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Amazon was ready for Apple's No-Buy-Here. Kindle Cloud Reader arrives. - UPDATE

AMAZON KINDLE CLOUD READER BEATS APPLE RESTRICTIONS

That was Electricpig's headline last night, which was to the point.

Kindle for Web to the Rescue
Should Kindle Cloud Reader be sporting a cape?  For now, it can fly only in Google Chrome browser and in Safari, but it's very slick, not faster than a speeding bullet but pretty smooth.  All my book covers showed up instantly and I could choose to download any to read offline instead of reading them online from the 'cloud.'

 If you're on Windows and don't have the Chrome browser yet (or if you're on a Mac and want to try Chrome), download it here and then browse to your CloudReader (at read.amazon.com).

On February 24, this year, while the e-reader world worried over Apple's ax falling on rival ebookstore apps, I wrote "Why Kindle books will be readable & sync'd on Apple devices no matter what" -- and the killer reason was Amazon's work on Kindle for Web, which Amazon demo'd December 7, promising that the ability to read full books was coming soon.   What it touted:

' Kindle books can be read ... anywhere you have a web browser.  Your reading library, last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights are always available to you no matter where you bought your Kindle books or how you choose to read them. '

The Home page of the live Cloud Reader (formerly known as Kindle for Web), which is accessed via Chrome or Safari (the latter, for the iPad) has the Kindle Store icon at the right top.  Try getting rid of THAT Buy Button, Apple :-)

The Kindle Cloud Reader is just another tab on the browser, so when I go somewhere else on it (to the touch-optimized Kindle Store, for one thing), I have to remember to go 'back' on the browser to the Cloud Reader's "Kindle" home page, called "Cloud."  It's not separate as the other Kindle apps are.

Also, this will be an additional "device" when you do the initial setup (in that most books can be read on up to 6 devices on your account (publisher decides how many) though your account may have many more devices than that).

There are a zillion articles on this quietly released feature already.  Electricpig's points out immediately that

' Amazon has quietly outed a way to get round Apple’s restrictions on iOS in-app purchases: the Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader.  We thought Amazon had simply acquiesced to Apple when it killed the store link in its Kindle iPhone and iPad apps but it had a Plan B in the works.

 The Kindle Cloud Reader is a totally web-based version of the eBook reader app that works with Chrome and Safari and comes optimised for the iPad.  The iPhone isn’t supported yet but that can only be a matter of time. '

 They said it "works like a charm.  The ability to switch between the Kindle Store and your library on the iPad is also a treat.

TechCrunch points out that Amazon hasn't said anything about it yet but it's already live.  I didn't know about it but received an alert from Corneliu Dascalu while I was browsing Twitter. (Thanks!)

So it's ready for PCs, Macs, Linux and Chromebooks (not Android yet, but Buy Buttons work on the Android).  TechCrunch's MG Siegler adds that though the iPad is very much supported :-), the iPhone currently is not, so for now, keep using the Kindle for iPhone.

  Since Cloud Reader is optimized for the iPad, it feels, to Siegler, like a native app though it's not, and you can (somewhat slowly with a whirling timer) "swipe back and forth to move between pages."  Since you can read from the cloud or instead read a downloaded book offline "thanks to the magic of HTML 5 (or a Chrome browser extension), it looks and works great," Siegel says.  "It's ready to go and it's very good."

Reaction overall, in a quick browse of news stories, is very favorable.  I'm enjoying reader comments too.

Gadget Lab's Charlie Sorrel opens his story with

' Angry and outraged that Apple forced Amazon to pull the link to the Kindle e-book store from within its Kindle iOS app?  So was Amazon, but instead of just sitting and whining about it like you and me, Amazon decided to do something.  Behold, the Kindle Cloud Reader, a web app that behaves just like a slightly slow native app. '

He considers it 'clunkier' than a regular Kindle app but "sleeker than some actual hardware e-readers.

And here's some advice -- "long press a book cover thumbnail to save" -- plus the info that the app automatically caches any book you're reading, for a smoother experience.

  You can't search within a book, but you can use the browser 'Find' to do that, for now.  However, the Chrome browser gives you the number of Finds and then you have to next-page until you come across them in yellow or orange.  It doesn't go directly to the words.  No notes or highlights can be created, but you can see the ones you've done, by clicking on the right-hand column header-icon that toggles the display of annotations.

  Going back to my Cloud Reader's Library, I went to see the two books I'd downloaded and got a spinning wheel in the center of the browser that might have continued until the end of time, it seemed, but pressing the Refresh icon at the upper left fixed that.

Sorrel adds that a request for a sample gets you one loaded up right there in the store area and looks like the regular reader but you have to read it then and there (which I don't think I mind) but the downside is you can't choose to send it to your library to read later.

Google 'cloud reader' to see much more on this.


UPDATE - Since Kindle Cloud Reader doesn't have a dictionary yet, here's a reminder that Windows users can install a great little free dictionary, WordWeb.  Here's what you get:

FREE VERSION
The comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary includes:
Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
5000 audio pronunciations
150 000 root words
220 000 word senses
Fixed web reference tabs

See full details in the blog article from May 3, 2010.

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