All the stories tagged with kindle
J K Rowling And Sony Bring Harry Potter Books Online
06/23/2011, A couple of days ago a mysterious “Pottermore” website by J K Rowling was floating about the internet and for some reason the rumors and speculation around it led to a lot of people believing that we would be seeing [...]
Amazon Kindle overrun with spam books
06/17/2011, If you’re an author who self-published a book on Amazon’s Kindle book store, and you’re wondering why nobody seems to be buying your books – it’s not because your book is unpopular. Chances are, it’s been buried in spam. According [...]
Amazon Kindle 3G joins the price war
05/24/2011, Is there a price war brewing among e-book reader manufacturers? Perhaps, what with the new Nook Simple Touch Reader being introduced today at a $139 price point, so what is Amazon supposed to do? They decided to hit back, and [...]
Amazon.com now sells more Kindle books than print books
05/19/2011, If we need any proof about the success of eBooks, Amazon’s latest sales figures are a good judgment of how well they’ve been doing. Amazon started selling both hardcover books and paperbacks in 1995. In 2007, they introduced the Kindle [...]
Ad-supported Amazon Kindle is the best-selling Kindle
05/13/2011, According to Amazon’s best-selling list, it looks like the ad-supported version of the WiF- only Kindle is the best-selling variant of the Kindle right now. Topping off the chart at number one, who would’ve thought that the eBook reader would [...]
Amazon Kindle tablet to be released Q2 2011?
05/03/2011, We’ve mentioned rumors about Amazon releasing an Android tablet before, but now the story has developed even further with a speculated release date. According to DigiTimes, who claims to have high-level sources on the issue, the Amazon tablet will be [...]
Cheaper Kindle starts shipping out today
04/27/2011, Folks who’ve been looking forward to the cheaper version of Amazon’s Kindle won’t have to wait any longer. According to the latest reports and the product listing of the Kindle on Amazon’s website, the eBook reader started shipping out today. [...]
Samsung to build Amazon’s Android tablet?
04/22/2011, As we all know, of late, Amazon has been slowly making its way into Google’s territory, by offering all sorts of services on the Android operating system. The company launched the Amazon Appstore for Android not too long ago, giving [...]
Kindle now officially tailored for Android tablets
04/21/2011, Amazon has just announced an update for the Kindle app that will optimize the app when running it on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets. The app now takes full advantage of the larger screens found on tablets as opposed to the [...]
Amazon.de launches the German Kindle Store
04/21/2011, Amazon.de has just announced the launch of the German Kindle Store. With over 650,000 titles, 71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers and over 25,000 German-language titles with thousands of German classics downloadable for free only on Kindle, it is the world’s [...]
Kindle Does Library Book Lending
04/20/2011, Kindle users will soon be able to lend/borrow eBooks from 11,000 libraries in the USA. Interestingly, Amazon had recently blocked Lendle (a startup) from doing this exact same thing… The new feature will be available to *all* Kindle hardware, but [...]
Amazon Wi-Fi Kindle cheaper at $114 but comes with ads
04/11/2011, There is alwas a price to pay for everything in life, that is one inescapable fact for sure. Same goes for the Amazon Wi-Fi Kindle that has seen its price drop to just $114, although the caveat is that it [...]
Amazon asks iOS developers to bring apps over to Kindle
03/28/2011, It looks like Amazon really wants to get in on the whole app business. After launching their own Android app store, the online mega-store has been reported to have sent invitations to third party developers to port their apps over [...]
