Category: Kindle News
I’d like to read this book on Kindle – make it so publishers!
The Amazon team have added a new button below any book which is currently not available on the Kindle. The new “Please tell the publisher” button aims to alert publisher…
U.S. agents can seize you Kindle arbitrarily, indefinitely
I came across a worrying story today from Reuters news today which said; U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at…
Kindle is a hot travel gadget
The Kindle has popped up on Time Magazines “25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets” Appearing at number 9 on the list, the Time Magazine article says; Amazon’s first-generation e-book reader certainly…
Amazon acquires AbeBooks
Amazon.com has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement which will see the worlds largest on-line book retailer acquire the worlds largest rare and out-of-print book specialist, AbeBooks.…
The numbers are in, Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles so far
I guess the figures had to come out sooner or later. 240,000 Kindles have been shipped since November 2007, according to TechCrunch, that’s what their source claims. We know that…
Reading on the iPhone vs reading on the Kindle
The images above are from a test conducted by Cartwright Reed, with the iPhone on the left and Kindle on the right showing The Stand by Stephen King. From Cartwright…
New Kindle models possibly coming in October, Kindle v2 already?
As crazy as it sounds, according to an intriguing CrunchGear article today, a trusted “insider” has revealed that Amazon will be releasing two new Kindle models, the first of which…
Kindle on the rampage, book sales double since May hitting 12%
Rampage is literally the word to use in this instance. A Time magazine article last week said; “on a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in…
A very boring BookExpo ends, Amazon missed an opportunity
BookExpo, the US industry largest annual trade exhibition ended last month in Los Angeles without a clear strategy to revive the industry. The book industry which is going through troubling…
Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks
Princeton University Press has announced that it will start publishing Kindle edition textbook this fall, according to Inside Higher Education, Princeton will follow other prominent educational establishments like Yale, Oxford…