Tag: iPad
Amazon Commercial Pokes Fun at the iPad
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently released a commercial that pokes fun at the iPad. The commercial features a nerdy looking iPad user struggling to read under direct sunlight, and a bikini…
Kindle 3 vs. Apple iPad Review
A lot has been written on how Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is not a Kindle-killer and I don’t believe it is either. However with all major eBook stores represented on iPad…
Best Buy to Sell Kindles This Fall
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is slated to join Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) and Target (NYSE:TGT) by adding the Kindle to its inventory this fall. Just in time for the holiday season,…
New vs. Refurbished Kindle: Which is the Better Deal?
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is offering refurbished 2nd Generation Kindle 2 and Kindle DX for $159.99 and $289.99 respectively through its Warehouse Deals section. For the smaller Kindle, I don’t see…
Mangle: Manga Meets the Kindle
For anyone interested in manga, there is a free, open source software available called Mangle. Manga is a series of Japanese cartoons or comics that cover all genres such as…
Kindle 3 Photos
Picture is worth a thousand words so rather than writing one more Kindle 3 Review (which I encourage you to read if you haven’t already), today I decided to publish…
Amazon Considering Other Gadgets
Reports have been swirling around this past week that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is supposedly considering creating other gadgets to sell along with the Kindle and Kindle DX. This would be one…
Kindle Reading Speed Study: Badly Misunderstood
For the past week or so, blogs like ours here have been buzzing with thoughts about a study done of relative reading speeds between the Kindle, iPad, PC Monitor and…
Kindle Software Gets an AV Upgrade
Proving once again, in case we’d forgotten, that there’s more to the Kindle as a platform than simply the great eReader hardware, Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) has upgraded their software for the iPad,…
Should Amazon Create a “Paperback” Kindle?
Soth Godin, a blogger and author suggests that Amazon should create a “paperback” version of the Kindle. Hypothetically speaking, this inexpensive device would only include the bare bones and cost…