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Amazon has announced several new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, which makes it easier for everyone to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books. The new features have been rolled out on Kindle for iOS, but additional platforms will be included later on, Amazon said in a... |
2 May 2013
05:07 GMT |
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Just as promised back in January, the Amazon Kindle application is now available for the owners of BlackBerry 10 devices, the Canadian mobile phone maker has officially announced today. Just as on other mobile operating systems out there, the application should provide users with the possibility to easily read Kind... |
21 March 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker BlackBerry will soon be able to provide the owners of handsets powered by its new BlackBerry 10 operating system with access to a new, highly appealing application on their phones, namely Amazon Kindle.
The company has already announced that the application is en route to the platform, y... |
7 March 2013
14:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Amazon Kindle application is now available for download for the owners of Windows Phone devices, one that also offers support for the Windows Phone 8 platform.
For those out of the loop, we should note that the app was designed to provide users with access to Amazon’s catalog of over a mil... |
29 January 2013
13:31 GMT |
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The only problem that Amazon's newest tablet had until the other day was that it was unavailable, despite its official launch having taken place two months ago.
Amazon has been accepting pre-orders, but it never intended to ship the product before the middle of this month (November 2012).
Now, though, custom... |
15 November 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Amazon's world domination plans are going well. Very well, in fact, the company boasts, it has sold a record number of Kindles this month, surprising no one, but the company is still not putting an actual number on sales, surprising no one.When it comes to digital content, Amazon's strategy is simple and it... |
29 December 2011
16:21 GMT |
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The Amazon Kindle Fire has been available for a few weeks now, meaning that a lot of people have gotten their hands on it, especially since it's selling so well, as Amazon takes every opportunity to boast.
And, unsurprisingly perhaps, there are critics, plenty of them. From the slow and sometimes poorly designe... |
12 December 2011
09:01 GMT |
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There's no doubt that Amazon's Kindle devices are very popular and this is true for the new Kindle Fire as well. But that doesn't mean that Amazon can't remind us of just that.
With Black Friday over, but with Cyber Monday promising big sales as well, Amazon decided to do some boasting.
It says ... |
28 November 2011
08:37 GMT |
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With Black Friday now over, Amazon has come out to proclaim the supremacy of its 7-inch Kindle Fire, which during this one-day shopping extravaganza managed to become not only the hottest product at Amazon.com, but also the best-selling tablet at Target.No exact figures were put behind Amazon’s claims, but the ... |
28 November 2011
07:26 GMT |
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Amazon has exported the Kindle Daily Deals across the pond to the UK. The company has said that UK buyers will not be able to get one book each at a discount price.Bargain hunters or those looking for something new to read without investing too much into it will definitely appreciate the new feature.Kindle Daily Deal... |
14 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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It took a couple of months, but Amazon has finally gotten around to getting the Kindle Cloud Reader, its web-based app, to run on Mozilla Firefox, the second most popular browser in the world.But that's not deterring Amazon from making a big announcement out of it, boasting that it makes using the Kindle Cloud R... |
8 November 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Amazon unveiled its financial results for the third quarter of 2010, the company's fourth fiscal quarter (FQ). While revenue is on the rise, as always, growing expenses sent income down and caused quite a panic in the stock market. Amazon share prices tanked after the results, which were way below expectations i... |
26 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Amazon has started out as a bookseller and then branched out into selling other things to become the largest online retailer in the world. But, at the same time, it moved to become a content platform, helping generate and create new markets for goods, digital goods mostly, to be sold. It has been a great strategy, it... |
17 October 2011
05:54 GMT |
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In an interesting, but possibly inconsequential move, Amazon has filed for trademarks of its upcoming Kindle Fire tablet and Amazon Silk browser, but not under its own name. Rather, the trademark applications are filed by Seesaw LLC, presumably, a subsidiary of Amazon.
As discovered by Fusible, there are five trad... |
10 October 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Amazon made quite a splash with the launch of its new Kindle line, which includes the Fire tablet. But, unfortunately, most of those devices are available in the US, well, they will be once they start shipping. The Kindle Fire tablet will be an US exclusive device and, for now the Touch Kindles are only available, o... |
7 October 2011
10:51 GMT |
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It seems that Amazon is just getting started with its hardware business. It just debuted its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, along with a new line of e-ink Kindle readers. But the latest rumor says that it's in talks with HP to buy Palm, the troubled smartphone and, more recently, tablet maker.HP wants to get rid... |
30 September 2011
09:01 GMT |
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The Amazon Kindle Fire is setting the tech world, almost literally, on fire. It's a great Android tablet coming at a killer price, just $199, 146 Euro, with a revolutionary browser, the Amazon Silk.While the device is not shipping just yet, it's coming in November, Amazon has unveiled the first ad for it.An... |
28 September 2011
13:05 GMT |
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With so many rumors about Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, it didn't seem like there was much for the company left to unveil at its Kindle event. Yet it still managed to surprise, on the one hand with the aggressive pricing, but also with a brand new browser it developed exclusively for the Kindle Fire. Dubbed... |
28 September 2011
12:20 GMT |
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Amazon's hyped iPad killer is coming tomorrow. The company has announced that it's holding a press event and, while it hasn't said what it's about, there's really only one thing that it could be, the Kindle tablet.
In fact, TechCrunch was able to confirm what everyone else was already assu... |
27 September 2011
10:05 GMT |
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More details on the upcoming Amazon Kindle tablet have surfaced. For one, the fact that it's called the Amazon Kindle. That in itself is enough to know how Amazon is going to position and market it, as a Kindle for those that want a full color display and more than just books.The hardware is said to be decent bu... |
3 September 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Amazon's tablet is one of the tech industry's best known 'secrets.' Everyone knew a device was coming this fall, and there were even some technical details, like the fact that it would be a 7-inch device.
Now though, TechCrunch has managed to get up close and personal with a pre-release version... |
3 September 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Amazon has been working on a web client for its Kindle ebook store for quite a while now. It debuted a first iteration late last year, albeit with a different scope, but is now introducing a new product which brings the entire Kindle experience to the browser.Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader enables users to read books fro... |
10 August 2011
09:40 GMT |
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School is still a couple of months away, but Amazon is getting ready for the new school year with a new textbook rental program for students with Kindle. It's the first time it has introduced this type of service for the Kindle, since Amazon has only sold ebooks through the store until now.
Students, and ever... |
18 July 2011
10:42 GMT |
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Amazon's financial results for the first quarter of the year had some surprises for investors, both good and bad. On the one hand, revenue was higher than analysts expected, on the other, rising expenses took a toll on income, which was below estimates.Revenue was up 38 percent from the same quarter in 2010, rea... |
27 April 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Google has acquired eBook Technologies, a company with a very descriptive name. There aren't many details, but both Google and the acquired company confirmed the deal. eBook Technologies developed several products and services for digital books, including ebook readers and an online distribution platform."eBook ... |
13 January 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle for Android has been updated to version 2.0 with support for newspapers and magazines along with the “Move to SD Card” function. Users can now access more than 100 periodicals while browsing within the app's environment rather than from the web browser.
One of the most popular... |
17 December 2010
08:42 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled its eBookstore. One of the most touted features of the online ebook store is the fact that all the books you buy can be read in any web browser via Google's eBooks Web Reader app. The web reader was the one big thing that competitors, notably Amazon's Kindle Store, didn't have.... |
8 December 2010
11:38 GMT |
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The e-book industry is growing at a solid pace and is on track to drive almost $1 billion in sales this year in the US alone and this with only a small percentage of book readers buying e-books. According to a Forrester report, the sales figure will triple in the next five years."2010 will end with $966 million in eB... |
9 November 2010
12:16 GMT |
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Amazon has had a significant amount of success with its Kindle store and device. But the iPad is a very big threat to both and Amazon is trying to better position itself. One way it's doing this is with a new revenue share program for magazine and newspaper publishers.Previously, Amazon had a rather onerous reve... |
9 November 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Amazon wastes no occasion to tout its Kindle device and store. A lot of its quarterly financial report was dedicated to the Kindle and now Amazon is issuing a press release just to let the world know that the Kindle is the preferred device for bestsellers. Amazon is also bragging about record sales numbers of its thi... |
25 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Kindle Store e-books are now as easy to share and embed in a blog post or on a website as YouTube videos. Amazon has launched a new feature, in beta, which allows users to preview books available in the Kindle Store and on Amazon as well as embed the first chapter on other sites. "Kindle for the Web Beta is a new exp... |
28 September 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Google has been getting a lot of heat with its Books project but it hasn't stopped it from going ahead with another book-related project, this time a lot less controversial. Originally announced earlier this year, Google has now revealed more details about the upcoming Editions service, which will allow users to... |
15 October 2009
11:28 GMT |
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