With Apple’s iBook coming to desktop, Amazon has new competition Among Apple’s bevy of upgrades to its new desktop operating system, there is one change that likely caught the attention of… Read More
Lighting a fire in Beijing: Kindle now available in China Amazon’s Kindle lineup just made its debut in the world’s most populous nation. Last month, Amazon launched its Android app… Read More
Reading revolution: e-book market set to pass print books by 2017 As the e-book battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department continues in court this week, new reports are out showing… Read More
Trial details hardball tactics by Apple, Amazon and publishers in battle for control of e-books Major publishers threatened to withhold new e-books from Amazon’s Kindle store if the Seattle company didn’t give them control over… Read More
Welcome back: Amazon selling Kindle DX again The Kindle DX is making a comeback. After disappearing from the Amazon storefront last October, it looks like the Seattle… Read More
Amazon knocks $20 off Kindle Fire HD for Father’s Day From now until June 8, Amazon is discounting its Kindle Fire HD tablets by $20 for a Father’s Day sale.… Read More
Kindle newspapers: How the experience needs to improve There’s something great about subscribing to a newspaper on a dedicated e-reader for automatic daily delivery. Goodbye, wet rolls of… Read More
Amazon expands Android Appstore to reach nearly 200 countries On the same day Amazon rolled out Kindle Fire HD availability to 170 countries, the Seattle online giant also announced… Read More
Going global: Amazon to offer Kindle Fire HD in 170 countries Previously available to only a handful of countries, Amazon announced today that it will be shipping both its 7-inch and… Read More
Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction in new ‘Kindle Worlds’ program Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights… Read More
Fraction calculator invented by 12-year-old now Amazon’s Free App of the Day It started with some frustation over math homework at the dining room table, but now, the ideas of 12-year-old Isabel… Read More
Amazon inks deal with NBCUniversal to stream Grimm, Smash, Curious George Amazon signed yet another streaming deal today, this time inking a content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal to stream a bevy… Read More
Love line: Amazon debuts Kindle Love Stories podcast, will tap into Goodreads network For those who love talking, hearing and discussing everything about love, Amazon may have an answer. Looking to reach out… Read More
Amazon opens Appstore in China; Kindle coming next? Amazon’s app store is officially open for business in China. The Seattle online retail giant debuted its app store for… Read More
Bookworms unite! Amazon says these are the nation’s most well-read cities Knoxville is full of romantic people, Cambridge has lots of entrepreneurs and Alexandria is a flat-out well-read city. Those are… Read More
Update: Amazon disputes our report that it’s ending Kindle e-ink app developer program Updated throughout to reflect Amazon comment disputing this story. Two developers of third-party apps for Kindle readers say they were… Read More
An e-book projector? Kindle vet sees big hardware changes, and lower prices A new book by Jason Merkoski, a former Amazon manager who was an early leader of the company’s Kindle team, tells… Read More
Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ LTE coming to AT&T stores for $249 with two-year contract Amazon’s biggest Kindle is coming to AT&T stores later this week on April 5 and buyers can get $150 off… Read More
Amazon’s ‘X-Ray’ feature expands to TV shows, with help from IMDb Amazon’s ownership of IMDb, the widely used Internet Movie Database, might have been a head-scratcher or a novelty in years… Read More
Future of Kindle? Amazon’s Bezos wants wireless power, remote processing for devices Want slimmer and lighter gadgets with amazing battery life? Jeff Bezos is right there with you — and he has… Read More
Amazon expands ‘Send to Kindle’ feature with new website integration Tweet, Share and Send to Kindle? Yep — Amazon wants its own piece of website real estate, right next to… Read More
‘Bezos Beep’ could replace the smartphone bump for mobile content sharing Companies including Samsung have been promoting the practice of sharing content by bumping two devices together — transmitting photos, videos… Read More
Amazon to iOS users: Don’t install Kindle app update Normally, app updates are supposed to allow for improvement and efficiency. That’s not the case with Amazon’s latest update for… Read More
New Amazon Kindle ad supports same-sex marriage Amazon is out with a new Kindle ad, but the commercial’s most attention-getting message has little to do with the… Read More
Amazon pokes at iPad price, display in Kindle Fire HD ad Amazon is challenging one of the iPad’s signature features, its Retina display, in a new video ad that aims to… Read More
Amazon Kindle VP Mike Nash makes leap to HP Mike Nash, a former vice president at Amazon.com’s Kindle unit, has made the leap to HP where he’s now working… Read More
Bezos on eBooks: Amazon is ‘now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting’ Amazon.com posted a 45 percent decline in quarterly profits this afternoon, but Jeff Bezos says one of the company’s biggest… Read More
Kindle Fire scorching Android tablet market with 33% share In terms of dominating the Android tablet market, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is on fire. According to some rough estimates from… Read More
Amazon buys the company behind Kindle ‘text to speech’ The voice of Kindle now belongs to Amazon. Amazon says it has acquired IVONA software, a company based in Poland… Read More
More than just books: Pew study details how technology has changed libraries We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow… Read More
