Author: marsha
Content will keep Kindle king among e-book readers
Amazon’s Kindle satisfies preferences identified by e-book readers in the United States, based on a recent survey released by Strategy Analytics. The survey reported that current e-book readers report a…
Scribd mega catalog only “two clicks” away for Kindle users
Amidst the price wars of content between Amazon and Apple, Scribd, the giant content sharing site, has launched a program to make its 10 million books, articles and documents compatible…
Tech savvy college students and campus librarians embrace Kindle as way of future for textbooks
The transition to electronic textbooks, once thought to the next big boon for publishers, is meeting with surprising resistance among students and professors. Studies conducted on the Kindle DX at…
PhysOrg.com adds Kindle feeds for its science and research subscribers
Kindle’s market is stretching beyond the casual reader to research and academics. As proof, PhysOrg.com, the leading web-based science, research and technology news service, just announced it is giving its…
Kindle App for Blackberry
Amazon has a free application that will let Blackberry users buy and read books from directly from the bookseller’s website. Unlike Kindle’s app for the iPhone, the Blackberry application lets…
New Chip Could Drive Kindle Price to Under $200
Freescale Semiconductor, whose processors are used in Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s readers, is ready to release a new chip that will help drive down the cost of readers, perhaps to…