Tag: Amazon Kindle

5 Great Things About the New Amazon Kindles

A first look at the new Amazon tablets including the Kindle Fire HD 7, Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. Has Jeff Bezos one-upped Apple?

Amazon updates Kindle app, comic books now supported

Brown Bear and Curious George and comics such as Batman and Superman are just a few of the new titles now available for the Kindle app and Cloud Reader.

Do you want to rent books? Amazon thinks so (report)

The trick here will be getting publishers on board. It will be a challenge that will require Steve Jobs-like gusto.
iriver Story HD: goes on sale July 17 at Target.

Google targets Amazon Kindle with new iriver e-Reader

It's an interesting move. Here we have Amazon reportedly building a tablet that will run Android. Meanwhile Google is making a big move into the e-Reader space, which will potentially cut into Amazon's sales. Can you say co-opetition?
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Berkeley ranked third most ‘well-read’ city by Amazon

Cambridge, Mass., tops the list with the most books, magazines and newspapers purchased per capita of any city in the United States
Kindle Update 3.1 Stark-Insider

Hands-on Kindle update: Real page numbers, social, newspaper browsing

Ironically, however, it shows how much as a society we've become accustomed to the ideas of specific page numbers. In the world of the Internet, blog streams and social networking sites, it's pretty much an antiquated concept.

Will you sign my Kindle?

Obtaining a copy which contained a hand-crafted, original signature by the author himself would make it special in a world of the mass-production printing press.
Lost and Found - Amazon Kindle

The Lost Kindle

My Kindle was not there. "Think Loni!" I tell myself. Somewhere, in the recesses of my brain, an idea emerged.
Amazon Kindle 2 and Apple iPad

Do consumers prefer Apple iPad over Amazon Kindle?

Over the last three months the iPad has doubled its market share to 32% while Kindle has fallen 15% to 47%.
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Would you like fries with your Kindle?

While I was attending a Medicaid conference on the future of health care in DC, here in San Francisco, the debate on the the ban of toys with restaurant kids' meals was heating up this past week (translation: The ban of McDonald's happy meals). Because of this, I felt somewhat...