Category: Kindle News
Amazon Joins With HTC to Enter Smartphone Market
It appears that the long-rumored Amazon smartphone will become a reality at some point in 2014. We have heard talk and speculation about it since as early as 2011, but…
Paperwhite As Christmas Gift? Better Hurry!
The Kindle Paperwhite is a big step forward for its whole product line. It provides a way for the user to read a book in a dark room without providing…
Kindle Paperwhite Update Improves Overall User Experience and Comic Reading Specifically
We already know that Amazon intends for the Kindle Paperwhite to set the new standard for eReader hardware in every way they could manage. Some people might still wish for…
Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More
A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers. Goodreads has become a…
Amazon Acquires Ivona Software
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Ivona Software. Ivona is the company that currently supplies the Kindle Fire line of tablets with its speech recognition capabilities. Although there is…
iPad Mini Details Provide Amazon With Kindle Fire Sales Boost
As the rumors grew more intense and details began to leak from production line sources about the reality of Apple’s new device, it became fairly common to see “hold off…
First Japanese-Language Kindles Coming Next Month
The move away from physical keyboards gave Amazon an easy route into any number of non-Anglophone markets for the first time. They’ve made good use of that since the Kindle Touch…
Amazon Whispercast Makes Organized Kindle Management Possible
Amazon has now introduced the Whispercast service, which allows for organizational management of Kindle devices. This includes both Kindle eReaders and the Kindle Fire tablet series. Using this service it…
Kindle Fire HD Sold At Cost – Jeff Bezos
People have generally assumed that Amazon was subsidizing the Kindle Fire to some degree. Analysts have estimated that the cost of materials and manufacturing was roughly equal to the asking…
Kindle Paperwhite Getting Great Reviews So Far
The Kindle Paperwhite is reclaiming the top of the e-ink reader market with positive early reviews. The Kindle Paperwhite is Amazon’s newest generation Kindle that includes front-lit lighting designed to…