Category: Kindle News
New York Public Library Launches E-book Central
From January 4th-13th, the New York Public library is stepping up their efforts to help new owners of the Kindle and other e-readers learn how to download e-books from the…
Limited Time Offer: Free 2-Day Kindle Shipping On All Models
In order to make sure that the maximum number of people are able to get their new Kindle purchases in time for Christmas, Amazon has decided to offer Free Two…
Kindle Fire Already Being Successfully Hacked To Use Android 4.0.1: Ice Cream Sandwich
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As has been noted a few times in the past, Amazon didn’t really put any effort into securing their tablet against modification. The Kindle Fire was bound to be rooted…
Amazon Introduces “KDP Select” For Kindle Direct Publishing Authors
The big news of the day is Amazon’s introduction of a potentially huge incentive for authors to make their content exclusive to the Kindle platform. Starting immediately, any author or…
What Impact will Kindle Library Lending Have on E-book Sales?
If you follow the e-book publisher news, you might have seen some mention of the major publisher Penguin Group’s decision to take away, then restore their titles to OverDrive. OverDrive…
Amazon Opens a Spanish Language Kindle Store
On Thursday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced the Spanish language Kindle and opened a Spanish Kindle store in Amazon.es. The online retailer added Kindle stores in France and Germany earlier this…
Amazon Launches an Italian Language Kindle Store
On Thursday, Amazon launched Spanish and Italian language Kindles, as well as Kindle Stores for both languages. 2011 has been a big year for the bestselling e-reader on many fronts,…
Kindle Keyboard 3G On The Way Out
In the past several months, especially since the announcement of the Kindle Touch, I’ve mentioned regularly that I expected the Kindle Keyboard to be a thing of the past by…
Kindle Fire Demand Exceeds That Of First iPad
Can the Kindle Fire really manage to compete with, or even beat out, Apple’s iPad? Opinions are divided, naturally, but it is definitely a strong step in the right direction. …
Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending Library: How, What, and Why
Assuming you have both a Kindle and an active Amazon Prime membership, you now get to make use of Amazon’s latest eBook related service, the Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending…