More Evidence of a Front-Lit Kindle
Send to Kindle About a month ago we wrote about the speculation that Amazon would be releasing a front-lit Kindle e-reader. Now we’ve got some more concrete evidence to go off of. Remember how the US...
View ArticleLatest Kindle Rumors: $149 Kindle Fire, a 10″ Kindle Fire, a New 7″ Kindle...
Send to Kindle As we get closer to and closer to an estimated mid-summer release date for a new batch of Kindles, the rumors are flying fast and heavy. The latest set of rumor comes from Digitmes...
View ArticleAmazon News in Brief: Skateboarders, Acquisitions, and Next Gen Kindle Fire...
Send to Kindle Here’s some important Amazon news that’s been floating around over the past day or so. Amazon Said to Add Social Features for Tablet Digital Games at Newsweek Google challenges Amazon,...
View ArticleAmazon Is Now Limiting 3G Internet Usage on the Kindle Keyboard (aka K3)
Send to Kindle One of the greatest things about the Kindle Keyboard (also known as the Kindle 3) has been unlimited free 3G web browsing on the device. Amazon is now limiting that usage, however. The...
View ArticleAmazon’s Kindle Fire Sells Out, Amazon Appstore Launches in Europe
Send to Kindle Amazon just announced two pretty big items of note. The first is that the Kindle Fire has sold out. The tablet is no longer for sale, though you can still buy used ones through Amazon....
View ArticleAmazon Announces Brand New Kindles, and They’re Pretty Awesome
Send to Kindle Amazon just had a launch event for several new Kindles and Kindle Fires. Here’s a brief rundown. (You can expect more analysis and my impressions in a followup post.) Amazon has said...
View ArticleOther, Non-New-Kindle Stuff That Jeff Bezos Talked About During His Keynote...
Send to Kindle The Kindles are the biggest news to come out of Jeff Bezos and Amazon today, but there was some other interesting stuff announced, too. Kindle Serials This is a new way to follow and...
View ArticleAmazon Is Now Shipping Some of Its New Kindles and Kindle Fires
Send to Kindle Some of the new Kindles that Amazon announced last week are now available. The 16 GB Kindle Fire HD 7″ is now in stock and shipping. Those who pre-ordered it should get it today. If you...
View ArticleDRM hysteria, Reviews erased, Amazon enforces quality standards, and more
Send to Kindle The Amazon world is a-Twitter (lame joke) with news about a Kindle user who had her account summarily shut down and most – if not all – the contents deleted. The Consumerist, not a big...
View ArticleAmazon’s News of the Day (and Lots of it, too!)
Send to Kindle There’s lots of Amazon news today, so let’s just jump right in! Amazon is announcing on their corporate news site that their third quarter sales are up to $13.81 billion, (that’s a 27%...
View ArticleTired of Sandy? Read about the other force of nature: Amazon!
Today’s been a very busy morning for weather forecasters and rescuers. I certainly do hope that no rescuers get hurt in the process of saving people who thought they’d brave it out, but I also know...
View ArticleSize matters? monthly Prime payment, Amazon’s trade-in program, and more
Send to Kindle Amazon, as always, has interesting stuff going on today, even though most people are focused on the election…and we’re off and running with today’s news! Firefox has a new plugin called...
View ArticleAmazon Coins, re-using digital content, AWS more expensive than you think,...
Send to Kindle Got Coins, Amazon? Oh, no, that’s Amazon Coins – to be released in May. What is Amazon Coins? It’s a type of virtual currency to pay for apps, and, I suppose to get people hooked, Amazon...
View ArticleAmazon’s iPad and Mini Cloud Player app is out, but don’t install!
Send to Kindle It appears that Amazon’s Cloud Player is now available for download, and it will store all your Amazon music purchases and a bunch of imported music (for free) and a bunch more (for a...
View ArticleSend to Kindle, raising Apollo 11 engines, nudity in advertising, and more…
Send to Kindle Hey, did you see the new button on the site? Yes, THAT one, right above this paragraph! Now, I don’t know whether Amazon is reacting to Google’s impending shut-down of Google Reader, or...
View ArticleKindle Growth, AZ in Mexico, Bezos & WaPo
Send to Kindle Amazon has opened up a new Kindle site with the target demographic of Mexican authors and readers. They already have more than 70,000 Spanish language books available to readers in more...
View ArticleE-Reader Technology is now “Good Enough” and “Affordable Enough”
Send to Kindle I am a relatively recent convert to digital format books. For a long time after the first e-readers came out, I didn’t consider the technology good enough, but I knew the day would...
View ArticleNew: Title-Specific Kindle Gift Cards
Amazon is now giving E-book gift cards a try. Although it hasn’t been formally announced yet, they confirmed the news on the site’s Help & Customer Service page. As of today, Kindle Cards are only...
View ArticleAmazon Released a Critical Update for Your Kindle Device
Whether you own the First Gen Kindle or the latest Kindle Paperwhite, you should hear this news out if you want to continue using your e-reader. Amazon has announced that in order to be able to...
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