Category: Kindle News
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…
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…
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…
A First Hand Look at the Latest Kindle Touch Update
The Kindle Touch just got an automatic update. A manual update was released about a month ago, but it is usually worth it to just wait for the automatic one. …
Amazon Brings Harry Potter to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
After years of waiting and fan requests, J.K. Rowling has finally got her Pottermore site running well and offering eBook versions the Harry Potter series to owners of Kindles, Nooks,…
Target Tosses the Kindle, Says Goodbye to Amazon
Target was among the first major Brick & Mortar retailers to begin offering the Kindle to its customers. For many people there was a period when this was literally the…
Macs Get Send-to-Kindle Option
It hasn’t been all that long since we first saw the release of the Send-to-Kindle program for the PC, but it has already proven to be a huge improvement to…
Kindle Touch International Release Begins Ahead of Schedule
The Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G have begun to make their way to customers outside the US a full week ahead of schedule. Some may already have them in…
Analyst Says Short-Term Kindle Demand Falling, DOJ Settlements May Upset Those Predictions
According to some recent research by Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley, the demand for both Kindle E Ink eReaders and Kindle Fire tablets has fallen noticeably from Q4 2011 to…