Category: Amazon
Worldreader.org: A Library at your Fingertips
Worldreader.org is a nonprofit organization that provides e-book readers such as the Kindle for children in poorer areas who have limited access to books and libraries. Their first trial took…
Kindle for Children: A Whole New World
Some children are voracious readers. They look beyond the vast size of the Harry Potter or Twilight series and focus on the stories themselves. They see reading as an adventure,…
Amazon Kindle 2 Growing in Popularity in China
Amazon Kindle is gaining immense popularity in China these days even though Kindle and Kindle 2 are not officially shipped there. While buying a Kindle online on Amazon Store, if you enter the…
Kindle App. vs. Apple iBook App.
PC World has a good article that compares the Kindle application and the Apple iBook application. The Kindle is not a device, but a platform, that runs on multiple devices…
eBook emphasis plays to iPad’s weaknesses.
In an bizarre way, people seem to be looking to devices such as Apple’s new iPad as the future of electronic book technology. This seems…shortsighted. Let’s take a moment to…
Kindle Font Size Feature Makes Reading Easier for Visually Impaired Readers
Since the Kindle was introduced in 2007, it has eased the burden on visually impaired readers considerably by incorporating six font size adjustment options. The font size adjustment on the …
E-Reader Market will Continue to Grow despite Launch of Tablets
According to Andrew Nusca’s article on potential growth in the e-book market following the Apple iPad launch, “the average e-reader is 47 years old, makes 75,000 a year and reads…
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…