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Kindle

Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire

It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it… Read More

Amazon could sell six million Kindle Fires this year, even as complaints mount

Amazon.com is addressing complaints about its new Kindle Fire device, with plans to roll out a new software update in… Read More

Steve Jobs biography is Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011

Amazon.com is out this morning with the list of its top 10 best-selling books of 2011, and the Steve Jobs… Read More

Amazon plans Kindle Fire update amid user complaints

Amazon.com is planning a software update within the next two weeks for its new Kindle Fire tablet, aiming to address… Read More

Amazon creates $6M annual fund for indie Kindle authors, trying to boost book lending

Amazon.com this morning made a new move to increase the number of digital titles available to readers through its Kindle… Read More

Analyst: iPad holiday sales ‘light’ as Kindle Fire competition heats up

Apple’s iPhone and Mac businesses are humming along nicely this holiday season, but financial analyst Shaw Wu sees some storm… Read More

Amazon invests in Foxit, aims to improve Kindle PDF reading

Amazon.com has made an investment in Foxit Corp., a PDF technology company based in Fremont, Calif. — saying it plans… Read More

Kindle Fire users report Wi-Fi bugs

Users of Amazon.com’s new $199 Kindle Fire device have reported ongoing problems with the ability to connect to the Internet,… Read More

Can ebooks fuel innovation? Startups explore the potential

A group of startups met up this week in Redmond for the first Ebook Innovation Summit, a small gathering of… Read More

Windows author Ed Bott and partners launch ‘digital first’ book publishing company

Ed Bott, the independent writer known for his books and blog posts on Microsoft Windows, is one of the founders… Read More

Consumers losing patience with Microsoft on tablets

With all the buzz over the iPad and Kindle Fire lately, we don’t need a study to tell us that… Read More

Amazon: Kindle sales jump 4X to unspecified levels of greatness

Amazon is infamous for declining to release specific sales figures for its Kindle devices, but that doesn’t keep the company… Read More

When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die

The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all… Read More

Big publisher restores Kindle public library books, for now

Book publisher Penguin Group has made electronic versions of its books available again for lending on Amazon’s Kindle via public… Read More

Barnes & Noble slashes Nook price to $79 to compete with Kindle on Black Friday

The Kindle and Nook are locked in a heated battle, and the rivalry is about to get a little hotter… Read More

Analyst: Amazon will control 15% of the tablet market next year

Have you purchased a Kindle Fire yet? Priced at $199 and released just a few weeks before the holiday rush,… Read More

Kindle public library books decline as Penguin pulls titles

The number of e-books available for digital lending on Amazon’s Kindle through public libraries around the country has declined noticeably… Read More

Research firm estimate: The $199 Kindle Fire costs $201.70 to make

There’s been a lot of speculation that Amazon.com is selling its new Kindle Fire tablet at a loss, hoping to… Read More

Surprise: Kindle Fire ships today, Kindle Touch tomorrow

If you pre-ordered a new Kindle device, it’s almost time to start checking the front stoop. Amazon says its Kindle… Read More

Kindle Fire sparks mixed reviews, from dud to delight

On the GeekWire podcast this past weekend, we discussed how Amazon.com’s new Kindle Fire tablet was coming on the scene… Read More

Kindle Fire Newsstand to feature GQ, Wired and dozens of other magazine titles

Amazon.com continues to build buzz for next Monday’s launch of the Kindle Fire, its first touchscreen tablet computer. And today… Read More

Kindle rival Kobo sells for $315M to Japanese e-commerce giant

Kobo, the 2-year-old Canadian maker of electronic reading devices, has been sold for $315 million in cash to Japan’s Rakuten.… Read More

Amazon’s Best Books list spotlights Prime lending problem

Amazon.com is out today with its list of the Best Books of 2011, its editors’ picks of the top 100… Read More

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet challenges ‘deficient’ Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble unveiled its $249 Nook Tablet today, looking to challenge Amazon’s upcoming $199 Kindle Fire tablet in the market… Read More

Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription

This is pretty interesting. Amazon.com tonight announced the “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library” — a virtual book-borrowing service for its Kindle devices.… Read More

Amazon touts better design, graphics in new Kindle format

Amazon.com has released new details on the next generation of its Kindle e-book format — dubbed Kindle Format 8 —… Read More

Amazon exclusive with DC Comics angers booksellers, comic book fans

At an industry event Tuesday afternoon, a group of Seattle techies chatted privately with me about Amazon.com’s new-found power in… Read More

Congressman lobs bombshell at Amazon’s new Silk browser, claims shades of Orwell’s 1984

There may be a new “big brother” in town, and it might just go by the name of Amazon.com. That’s… Read More

Amazon goes sci-fi with latest book publishing arm, 47North

Amazon.com this morning moved further into the world of book publishing, beyond its traditional sales and distribution business, with the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Bluefire looks to spark eBook sales

More consumers are turning to electronic reading devices. And Seattle’s Bluefire Productions, which emerged from founder Micah Bower’s 10-year-old design… Read More

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