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Nov. 2007: Amazon launches Kindle.One week later: Stephen Windwalker releases the first Kindle guide, and it spends 17 weeks as the bestselling title in Amazon's Kindle Store. Oct. 2008: Oprah Winfrey endorses the Kindle, which had sold a little over half a million units up until then. Kindle sells out a week later.Feb. 2009: Amazon launches Kindle 2, soon followed by the DX and Kindle for iPhone App.Sept. 2009: In a clear sign of the coming ebook revolution, downloads of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol outpace Amazon hardcover sales. Dec. 2013: According to projections by analysts at Tech-On, one of Asia's most popular websites, the worldwide number of Kindles and other ebook readers will reach 28.6 million.Today: On this day in 2009 or 2010, as you read these first pages of The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2, you are about to take your rightful place as a citizen of Kindle Nation and an active, informed participant in The Kindle Revolution.
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Nov. 2007: Amazon launches Kindle. One week later: Stephen Windwalker releases the first Kindle guide, and it spends 17 weeks as the bestselling title in Amazon's Kindle Store. Oct. 2008: Oprah Winfrey endorses the Kindle, which had sold a little over half a million units up until then. Kindle sells out a week later. Feb. 2009: Amazon launches Kindle 2, soon followed by the DX and Kindle for iPhone App. Sept. 2009: In a clear sign of the coming ebook revolution, downloads of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol outpace Amazon hardcover sales. Dec. 2013: According to projections by analysts at Tech-On, one of Asia's most popular websites, the worldwide number of Kindles and other ebook readers will reach 28.6 million. Today: On this day in 2009 or 2010, as you read these first pages of The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2, you are about to take your rightful place as a citizen of Kindle Nation and an active, informed participant in The Kindle Revolution.
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