Amazon Kindle 2
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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We wouldn’t crack open our piggy-banks quite yet, but theBookseller are claiming that Amazon will launch their Kindle ebook reader in the UK next week, aiming for an October launch. According to their unnamed sources, Amazon have signed non-disclosure agreements with various publishers in advance of the announcement; “The key things they needed to tie [...]
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The flip-side of having a well-publicised and successful ebook business is that you end up the prime target of criticism when anybody disagrees with how it’s being run, and Amazon has certainly been subject to some controversy recently. After the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, apologized for the 1984 ebook debacle, Amazon have now offered any [...]
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So, Sony announced the PlayStation 3 Slim yesterday, and while we’re sure you read about it, and are clamoring to get one, Amazon wants you to hold your horses. While they have the console up for pre-order right now, they are now limiting the number of consoles available to a household down to a marginal [...]
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