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Send to Kindle for Mac

Sending and reading your personal documents on Kindle is now easier than ever.

We are excited to announce “Send to Kindle for Mac”, adding another convenient way to send documents to your Kindle devices and supported apps from Finder and many other Mac applications. From Finder, simply drag and drop one or more documents on to the Send to Kindle icon on your Dock or launch the application and drag and drop one or more documents on to it. From Finder, you can also control-click on one or more documents and choose Send to Kindle. From any other application that can print, select Print and choose Send to Kindle.

You can also simply archive documents in your Kindle Library for re-download later. Your last page read along with bookmarks, notes, and highlights are automatically synchronized for your documents (with the exception of PDFs) across your Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Android.

 “Send to Kindle for Mac” is available for free download at www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/mac.  Send to Kindle for PC application is also available for free download at www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/pc. As always, you and your friends can continue to send documents to your Kindle by e-mailing them to your Send to Kindle E-mail address.

 Learn more www.amazon.com/kindlepersonaldocuments.

Guest Blogger: Andy Serwer on "All About Steve"

Andy Serwer is the managing editor of Fortune magazine. He was kind enough to contribute the following on All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple from the Pages of Fortune.

Andy Serwer: Fortune has covered the epic career of Steve Jobs every step of the way, culminating in the magazine's naming him CEO of the Decade in 2009. So when he announced his decision in August to step down from that role at Apple, I decided we should give readers the chance to revisit the remarkable narrative as Fortune has reported it over three decades. Senior editor-at-large Brian Dumaine gathered up 46 major feature stories and read them over a weekend as the deluge of Hurricane Irene buffeted his home in New York. He was struck by how many different turns Jobs had in his career. "It was like reading a history of modern infotechnology through the life of one man," he recalls. At his recommendation, we chose 17 classic stories spanning the years 1983 to 2011 for our new anthology, All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple, From the Pages of Fortune. In serial form, it's the tale of a cultural icon who revolutionized computing, telephones, movies, music, retailing, and product design.

The stories show in unparalleled detail that this was no straight shot at success. Jobs befell all manner of intrigue, brick walls, and pitfalls before his ultimate vindication. Our earliest story in the collection, "Apple's Bid to Stay in the Big Time," from February, 1983, reminds us of Apple's ups and downs: "Apple has yet to prove it is capable of repeating its success." A decade later we have Jobs and Bill Gates sitting down together to assess the computing landscape for Fortune. Next comes Jobs's banishment, then his return, and then finally Jobs sets about proving Apple's capacity for reinvention. In our story about the creation of the iPod, "Apple's 21st-Century Walkman," in November, 2001, we reported, "About the size of a pack of cigarettes, the iPod is more than just a portable sound machine… The progeny of an eight-month crash-development project, the iPod also vividly illustrates how Apple's engineering and software skills could make it a force to be reckoned with in the consumer electronics business." And how.

All these stories are the product of deep reporting. In many cases our writers spent hours interviewing Jobs and plumbing his mind. Veteran Apple watchers and award-winning journalists such as Brent Schlender, Adam Lashinsky, and Peter Elkind interviewed dozens of Apple employees and insiders. The stories lay out with unique insight the career of a man with relentless drive and a single underlying passion--to carry out his vision of how all of us would use technology. In the end he was proved right a billion times over, and his company became one of the most successful enterprises on the planet.

*****

All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple is available now, only on Kindle.

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine

Mark down Wednesday, February 16th as the day Science Fiction writers and fans collectively said, “I told you so.”

In a special “man vs. machine” Jeopardy match, an IBM computer named Watson (which speaks in a cold, calculating monotone) beat two of the game’s all-time best players. The artificial intelligence spectacle, reminiscent of Deep Blue’s defeat of chess master Garry Kasparov, aired over the last three nights on television.

At the end of the three-part match Watson had a final score of $77,147, handily outsmarting opponents Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, who scored $21,600 and $24,000 respectively. In case you’re wondering, IBM is donating its $1 million dollar prize to charity.

For those interested in the story behind the story, Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything by Stephen Baker takes readers through the remarkable saga. The book is a delightful romp through the programming and education of Watson (how do you teach a computer to understand wordplay, puns and irony?), the quirky history of the show Jeopardy, the drama and challenges of creating the tournament, and other related oddities such as why Watson needed a face and one hand.

The book Final Jeopardy is also about the future of knowledge. How might intelligent machines fit into our everyday lives? How will they disrupt it? If Watson can win such a difficult game, might its heirs soon be able about to replace call centers, school teachers or blog writers?

Here’s my question for Watson: Are you going to put my line of work in jeopardy?

--Paul Diamond

Enhance Your Reading Experience at Shelfari.com

It’s easier than ever to join Shelfari.com, the social network for book lovers who want to interact with other readers and share their book collections.

Shelfari.com now lets you enter with your Amazon.com Sign In. At this global community of book lovers, that's powered by Amazon, you can:

• Build a virtual shelf of books that you’ve read or want to read, and easily add your past Amazon.com book purchases.
• See what your friends are reading.
• Search, rate, review, tag and discuss books.
• Interact with authors and the Shelfari community of readers.
• Join or create book groups and start discussions.
• Read or contribute Book Extras--spoiler-free, informative factoids on books and authors which are accessible to both Shelfari and Kindle users.

Enhance your reading experience at Shelfari.com, or check out one of the community’s favorite titles, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Guest Blog: The Onion Announces Five Exclusive News Collections

At America's Finest News Source, we are experts in the ever-evolving technology on which you fickle readers demand to view your hard-hitting news. That's why we've arranged with Amazon to offer five new special editions of some of our finest articles, delivered straight to your Kindle.

Take a look back at the Onion's coverage of this generation's most prominent newsmaker in Chronicles of the Area Man. We are already widely regarded as providing the best and most groundbreaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America's Finest News Source.

For generations, the Onion has covered the writing world as much as we've contributed to it. The Finest Reporting on Literature, Media, and Other Dying Art Forms is an informative and important anthology of such vital Onion stories as "J.K. Rowling Ends Harry Potter Series After Discovering Boys" and “Reading-Is-Fundamentalists Slaughter 52 Illiterates."

America's Finest Tech News offers a complete journey through the future's past with cutting-edge tech coverage, including "New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable" and "'I Am Under 18' Button Clicked for First Time in History of Internet."

Since 1993, the Onion has had the distinct pleasure of featuring one of America's premier scribes, Jim Anchower. For the first time, we present a roundup of his finest works, including "You Gotta Be Careful with Fireworks" and "My Weed Connection Is Dried Up," in The Best of Jim Anchower.

Lastly, The Best of Herbert Kornfeld chronicles the exploits of the Onion columnist who tragically lost his life to white-on-white violence in 2007. In his day job, Herbert Kornfeld served as the accounts receivable supervisor of Midstate Office Supply--Wisconsin's oldest wholesaler and retailer of office supplies and business machines. Kornfeld wrote with an unflinching passion, never more evident than in columns like “What Y'all Heard About tha CPA Convention Be LIES" and “Keepin' It Real in tha Midstate Crib."

These Kindle-exclusive collections of Onion articles should make the perfect gift for the literate and tech-savvy friend or relative. So, likely no one you know.

Browse all five exclusive new books from the Onion.