Amazon Kindle 2
A new report from The New York Times’ Bits blog says that Amazon is looking into some new hardware. After releasing a new, cheaper Kindle, and still reaping in the rewards for being one of the most popular eReaders available on the market, it looks like it’s time for the digital retailer to start looking [...]
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To our recollection, this actually hasn’t happened in quite some time. To be exact, in 2008, when it was the original Kindle. And, even then, Amazon managed to make sure they told customers when the Kindle would be coming back around, or shipping to their doorsteps. Not this time. All Amazon says right now is [...]
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Amazon has announced that its 2.5.3 firmware for the Kindle ereader is now being pushed out wirelessly to all users. The new software – which adds the ability to sort ebooks into “Collections” (aka folders), share notes and highlighted passages on Facebook and Twitter, and improves PDF handling among other things – should arrive on [...]
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As the iPad flies off the shelf globally now, it would seem that Amazon would need to get on the ball about offering some kind of new Kindle here soon. Even if their software eReader is already on the Apple tablet, and heading to Android soon enough, new hardware always speaks volumes to new customers. [...]
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After we heard grumblings about the eReader from Amazon slinking away from the digital store shelves and finally seeing some brick-and-mortar aisles, it’s finally coming true. There’s a big caveat to the whole “April 25th” thing, though, and unless you’re in Minneapolis, it may sadden you a bit. But, don’t be too dismayed, as there’s [...]
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Round three in the Amazon/Macmillan ebook price war, and the online retailer are now seemingly attempting to play the consumer-fairness card. Having pulled Macmillan’s catalog late last week after the publisher demanded a new “agency” pricing scheme for electronic content, and seen Macmillan threaten “extensive and deep windowing of titles” if they didn’t agree, a [...]
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Amazon’s attempt to placate the braying crowds with a $30 kiss-and-make-up check and a grovelling apology after the deleted 1984 ebook fiasco worked with most Kindle customers, but it wasn’t enough to dissuade suing student Justin Gawronski from his court case. Amazon have now settled with the Michigan teen, to the amount of $150,000 in [...]
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Nothing screams tree hugging yuppie more than the Amazon Kindle 2: Reading Device. If you’re too good to read something on paper and just too damn busy, the Amazon Kindle 2 will work. Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform for reading electronic books (e-books), developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126, first launched in the [...]
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