Amazon has revealed that the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow and is now offering more than 100,000 books that Amazon Prime members with Kindles can borrow for free—including over 100 New York Times Best Sellers like The Hunger Games trilogy. “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow rapidly – with over 100,000 titles, customers […]
Amazon has taken almost 5,000 Kindle e-books from distributor Independent Publishers Group (IPG) off its web store after a disagreement between the two on renewal terms. IPG wouldn’t agree to Amazon’s new terms, and was warned of the consequences, IPG President Mark Suchomel told PaidContent. The distributor’s offer to Amazon is the same it has […]
A pair of leaks Sunday night have pointed to Amazon both growing its tablet line and dipping into color e-paper for the firs time. E Ink is supposedly getting orders for a six-inch, color e-paper display, Taiwan’s Economic Daily News said. The production would start very quickly, in March, with production scaling up to as […]
Amazon on Monday claimed that its Kindle sales on Black Friday were much higher than last year. The combination of the $79 Kindle, Kindle Touch, and Kindle Fire moved four times as many units as the same day last year. The Fire was the top seller, having kept the lead on Amazon’s charts for the […]
Amazon on Tuesday revealed that it had very strong demand for its Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Touch reader. CEO Jeff Bezos claimed that pre-orders were so strong that Amazon was bulking up production at Quanta to handle the load. “Millions more” were being made, Bezos said. Even the traditional e-paper updates, the fourth-generation Kindle […]
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs has just gone live as an e-book ahead of its official October 24 unveiling. In unintentional irony, Steve Jobs has arrived first in the US on the Kindlerather than the iBookstore. Apple’s store is already making it available in Europe (iBookstore UK). The book is one of the quickest […]
Amazon has posted a 3.3 update to give owners of the (third-generation Kindle) some of the features of newer models. The update gives the same Kindle Cloud access as available on the Kindle Touch and fourth-generation Kindle. Its addition lets the e-reader store personal documents online for access on most Kindle devices, not just downloaded […]
The newly introduced, ad-supported Kindles can get their ads removed, though Amazon will charge users $30 to do it, per a user on the MobileRead forums. The company allows owners of the Special Offers Kindle to log into their Manage Your Kindle page and unsubscribe from the ads. This costs the difference in the retail […]
Fortune magazine has released a new book profiling Apple’s co-founder, former CEO and current chairman, Steve Jobs, exclusively for the Kindle and Kindle apps as an e-book, reports AppleInsider. The book, which can be read on Macs, PCs, Android or iOS devices using Amazon’s Kindle applications as well as on a Kindle itself, is compiled […]
Amazon in the same introduction as the Kindle Fire tablet also launched its own direct answer to the current Nook. The Kindle Touch is based entirely on an infrared-based, six-inch touchscreen with a unique interface known as EasyReach. Tapping the top quarter of the screen brings up the menu, while tapping near the left edge […]
Copyright © 2008 - 2024 · StreetCorner Media , LLC· All Rights Reserved ·