Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.
The number of tech titles available on Kindle gets a big bump. But the market is still broken in many respects. Read about the difficulties in formatting for Kindle and the inability to get publisher updates through Amazon (or Apple for EPUB books).
U of M Press will publish monographs only in digital form with an option for POD. The money quote "I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,"
just announced a clampdown, informing libraries they may have to stop allowing
users to download ebooks remotely and instead require them to come to the
library premises, just as they do to get traditional print books – arguably
defeating the object of the e-reading concept.