Author: matthew
Hay Festival Highlights Anti-Kindle Sentiment
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, taking place now through June 10th in Wales, has been one of the largest growing literary gatherings since its inception in 1988. From…
IPG Titles Return to the Kindle After 3 Months
It has been an interesting few months of discussion, debate, argument, and drama, but The Independent Publishers Group has finally arrived at terms with Amazon that will allow their titles…
Will Nvidia’s Kai Platform Hurt the Kindle Fire?
The most recent development in tablet technology seems to be coming from Nvidia this time around. Rob Csonger, a VP from the company, explained that the new line of tablets…
How the Kindle is Contributing to a New Way of Looking at the World
It is occasionally amazing exactly how far we’ve come over the years. It’s an inane observation but not, I think, an inaccurate one. This came to me recently while reading…
Kindle Prices Still Too High!
The Kindle line basically started the digital reading revolution. They were neither the first nor the best when they appeared, but Kindles were the driving force behind it. Amazon got…
Waterstones Embraces the Kindle
It wasn’t all that long ago when UK Bookseller Waterstones was bragging that they had their own eReader in the works that was going to be a dramatic improvement over…
Kindle Fire Welcome Screen Ads to Sell For $600,000+
Bringing advertisements to the Kindle line changed the way that eReaders were priced. The competition has only recently been able to begin matching Amazon’s listings. Interestingly, Amazon has also surprised…
Is the Kindle a Good Choice for Early Education Classrooms?
We’ve been seeing a great deal of interest in the potential savings provided by the Kindle in educational settings lately. Now that some of the initial antagonism is out of…
Front-lit Kindle Coming Soon; Amazon Not Waiting On Color
Well, only hours after my speculation that Amazon might intend to make a huge impact by being the first company to make the next obvious step in eReader innovation by…
Send-to-Kindle Sets Tone For Amazon Cloud Drive App
With the release of Google Drive after years of speculation and anticipation, it seems like everybody is interested in being the next big thing in cloud-based storage. Amazon’s Cloud Drive…