Category: Kindle Reaction
The Kindle and Tracking: Why Owners Aren’t Outraged
It is practically a given to many people that some amount of what you do on the internet is being tracked. There is occasional outrage over this, such as when…
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…
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…
Kindle Ad Spoils Hunger Games In D.C.
The Hunger Games has by now become a pop culture phenomenon the likes of which we have not seen since the days of Harry Potter, and it is already far…
Arguing that Amazon’s Behavior Justifies Agency Model Price Fixing is Idiotic
Since the rise of the Agency Model that Apple made possible for publishers in a partnership surrounding the release of the iBooks application and store for the original iPad (a…
Amazon Revenue Shortfall A Sign of Kindle Success?
Investors have recently suffered a bit of disappointment as Amazon’s fourth quarter revenue failed to meet expectations. Stocks fell, as a result. The big question is why this was the…
Kindle Fire Wins Over The Family Technophobes
The appeal of the whole “Post-PC World” concept that accompanies is rise of the Tablet PC is the extreme simplicity of use. The lack of power inherent in the portable…
A Kindle Conversion: Why The EPUB Argument Stopped Mattering
Amazon made what appeared to be some fairly big opponents in the earliest days of the Kindle. All they had to do was decide to go with a closed format. …
Amazon Kindle Daily Detail Now Available In UK
Let’s face it, Amazon has not been great up until now about making sure that customers outside of US markets get access to their products and services in a timely…
The Unexpected Perks of Kindle Ownership
When you decide to pick up a Kindle for the first time, there are a lot of factors that can play into it. The first ones that come to mind…