kindle

Kindle is bestseller at Amazon and is bought with iPads

Published on: 30th December, 2010

Amazon claims that the third-generation of the Kindle is the all-time bestselling item in its stores. It also says that the Kindle is not suffering due to Apple. During the holiday it was pushed past Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Kindle’s both versions, the 3G and Wi-Fi, were at top during the holiday, while [...]

Amazon will start lending of Kindle books and porting magazines to iPad

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Amazon announced its intention of adding a Nook-like lending system to its Kindle readers and applications. The licensing is meant to give an option to lend a book once for a period of up to fourteen days to an account of someone else. A copy protection will not allow the original reader to view the [...]

Due to App Store terms, Amazon would force DRM

Published on: 5th October, 2010

The upcoming Android App Store of Amazon is expected to have terms that would allow the company to add copy protection to the applications, against developers’ will. The developer agreement for the store is supposed to give Amazon the right to change an application in order to use technologies that enable digital rights management. Developers [...]

Scrabble to be Amazon Kindle’s first paid application

Published on: 29th September, 2010

Amazon has recently put up its first paid, third-party application for the Kindle. Electronic Arts’s Scrabble has been launched for both the third-generation and second-generation six-inch Kindles, but also for all variants of the Kindle DX. The application only supports single-device multiplayer and not online games, despite the 3G and Wi-Fi links. The bookseller rolled [...]

Staples stores get Amazon’s Kindle this fall

Published on: 1st September, 2010

On August 31, 2010, Staples declared that it would be the second US retailer to sell the third-generation of Kindle. The office store will bring the six-inch Wi-Fi and 3G variants of the Kindle, but also the Kindle DX. The company plans to stock the hardware too and offer users a chance to try the [...]

Would a 7-inch iPad be useful?

Published on: 9th August, 2010

Rumors about Apple launching a new iPad, seven-inch sized, seem to give customers another option for a more mobile option of a tablet. The device is supposed to boast the same important features, with the main difference of 2.7 inches less of screen for the new model. The question is if the new device is [...]

Amazon to offer HTML5 Kindle Previewer for iOS devices

Published on: 6th July, 2010

Amazon has again something prepared for the iOS device users; it has recently revealed its Kindle Previewer for HTML5. The new code allows users of iPads, iPhones, Android handsets, as well as other devices which have HTML5-capable web browser to view different samples of books, with no need of installing any native application. Previewer seems [...]

Kindle has the edge in e-book market, but for short time

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Although Amazon has the edge in e-book market for the moment, its advantage is not supposed to last for a long time, as it would lose ground over time in favor of Apple. The Amazon’s Kindle store has more choice and also lower overall price compared to the iPad’s iBookstore. However, analyst Mark Mahaney thinks [...]

Kindle 2.5 firmware pushed out to more e-readers

Published on: 29th May, 2010

As Amazon promised in April, it has started to push out the 2.5 firmware update for the Kindle reader. The update was received by only a limited number of users in the first days of May. The software update page of Kindle shows a “coming soon” OTA, but other users have already begun to receive [...]

Amazon started to run Kindle TV ads to challenge iPad

Published on: 2nd April, 2010

Amazon has begun to run two TV ads for the Kindle in order to draw attention away from Apple’s iPad. The promos are partly influenced by Apple and are featuring indie rock or pop, followed by a picture of the product and a slogan like “books in 60 seconds”. Amazon’s ads are more colourful and [...]

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