Category: Amazon
Amazon to Collect Sales Tax in California and Beyond
For as long as eReaders have been around, it seems at times, people have complained that they aren’t available for under $100. They’re finally getting there, with the Kindle available…
Kindle Fire Sets New Tone For Tablet Industry
So, the big news has finally broken and we now know all there is to know about the new Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet. If anything, it exceeds much of the…
New “Kindle Fire” Tablet To Be Revealed On Wednesday
All year we have been getting bits of data, speculation, and supposedly leaked information about the upcoming Kindle Tablet. This past month has seen huge dumps of information about the…
Is Windows 8 Bad News For Kindle Tablet?
There are two major factors favoring the success of the Kindle Tablet right now, aside from being backed by Amazon and all that that entails. One is that it will…
Kindle Tablet’s Android Fork A Smart Idea
Admittedly I was one of many people who were initially a bit shocked and disappointed by the news that the Kindle Tablet would run on a forked version of Android…
Kindle Library Lending Has Begun (In Seattle)!
The long anticipated release of Kindle library lending has begun! Beta testing for the new integration with Overdrive Library, a product of the Cleveland-based company whose software powers most library…
AmazonLocal, Meet Amazon Kindle
Anybody remember not too many months back when I speculated that the coming of the Kindle w/ Special Offers meant a strong possibility of an Amazon move against the Groupon…
Windows 8 runs Kindle
In case you were wondering where I was off to last week… I was on the BUILD conference watching Microsoft unveil Windows 8 developer preview. One of the first things…
Waterstone’s To Be UK’s Next Kindle Competition
Everybody knows that Amazon doesn’t release the sales numbers for their Kindle eReader. That being said, some analysts have estimated that the popular eReader will sell over 17 million units…
In Era Of Self-Promotion, Authors’ Obligations & Opportunities Increase Thanks To Kindle’s @author
Amazon’s new @author feature is a new addition to their Kindle-based social media effort. Currently in a limited beta release, the feature promises to create an even closer author to…