Amazon Announces New Kindle Format 8 for Graphics Rich eBooks | ITProPortal.com. Online retail giant Amazon has introduced a new web based format for eBooks on its Kindle e-reader device, which brings enhanced resolution for comics and children books on the device. With the new Kindle Fire tablet device, Amazon is rolling out the Kindle [...]
Amazon announced this morning that customers can now purchase Kindle books as gifts for anyone with an email address, whether or not they own a Kindle device. To give a Kindle book as a gift, you just find the book on Amazon, select “give as a gift,” input the email address of the person you’d [...]
On Friday, Amazon made two big announcements about the Kindle. The first is the coming availability of Kindle newspapers and magazines on Kindle apps and not just on the Kindle device itself. This is long overdue–many readers no longer use their Kindles much, but still read most of their e-books through Kindle apps on their [...]
Amazon posted its usual big jump in top line sales, with the third quarter revenue increasing 38.7%, to $7.56 billion, while net income rose 16%, to $231 million. The largest gains came in its electronics and other general merchandise segment where sales rose 68% overall and 80% in North America. The segment, which benefited from [...]
Apple sold 4.19 million iPads in the quarter ended September 30, the company said yesterday, bringing the total sold to just under 7.5 million since the device was released in April. During the conference call discussing results, Apple CEO Steve Jobs criticized what he called the forthcoming avalanche of new tablet devices, saying the 7 [...]
Amazon and Target are now selling the Apple iPad. Previously, the device had only been available from Apple’s online and retail stores, as well as from Best Buy. The move into other outlets heats up the competition between iPad and the E-Ink Big Three, Sony, Kindle, and Nook, all of which are available in various retail [...]
Oh, we love nothing more than a good juicy rumor around MacLife. We were devoted followers of every single tidbit in the run up to the release of the iPad and beyond. Now it looks like there could be another tablet in the running to be the iPad Killah, if these rumors about Amazon can be [...]
Amazon is taking another step offline, making its Kindle e-reader available in Staples stores this Fall, reports Reuters. The device is already available in select Target stores. Staples will sell all three current models of the e-reader, the $130 WiFi-only model, as well as the more expensive 3G and large-screen DX. So, assuming they can keep [...]
Hands down, I prefer the multipurpose eReader (iPad). I can read, I can watch video when I’m tired of reading. I chat share immediately via email and… well you get the point. I do enjoy my kindle, but overall? Multi-Purpose wins for me.
Lots of Little Improvements Make the Kindle 3 The Best E-Ink eReader This is the best E-Ink device you can get right now. The changes and updates, while very cool, might not, however, justify scrapping your Kindle 2 in exchange for a Kindle 3–they’re still pretty similar. But the much-crisper screen, faster processor, newly laid [...]
With Apple’s iAd venture off to a bumpy start, and iBook sales moving along slower than expected in the face of the Kindle’s enormous popularity, Apple is considering a move that will either be embraced by publishers and consumers, or despised. According to The Wall Street Journal and CNET, Apple is seriously considering the insertion [...]
Mac Life reports that there can only be one… or two in this case, if you’re talking about the current state of the eBook reader market. Ars Technica has posted an interesting read on the state of the eBook reader. The broad strokes? The iPad and the Kindle rule like no one else… for the [...]
What would you do for $15,000 is Amazon.com gift cards? That’s a lot of MP3s, Kindle books, or vacuum bags, or whatever it is you order a lot of from Amazon–maybe even print books! You can win those gift cards by entering Amazon’s just-announced “Kindle Commercial Contest.” More from Amazon.com… “Ever had an idea for a TV commercial [...]
Amazon’s Kindle is sold out “temporarily,” according to the eReader’s web page, causing a bit of a fuss on the Intertubes. Is it a sign a new version is en route, or merely reflecting a manufacturing or supply chain glitch? We’ve had a think. Amazon’s Kindle eReader has been sold out before: Back in December 2009 [...]