Tag: Kindle Competition
Sony Tries To Step Up The Kindle Competition With Upgraded Reader Apps
Since right around the time Amazon launched the first Kindle, Sony has had trouble maintaining a place at the front of the eReading world. In a way this is really…
Barnes & Noble Already Prepping Kindle Fire Competition
Beginning just days before the press conference that revealed the Kindle Fire to the world, rumors started popping up that Barnes & Noble was nervously prepping their next tablet for…
Waterstone’s To Be UK’s Next Kindle Competition
Everybody knows that Amazon doesn’t release the sales numbers for their Kindle eReader. That being said, some analysts have estimated that the popular eReader will sell over 17 million units…
Sony Reader WiFi Finally Brings Real Kindle Challenge
For some time now the Kindle, while retaining its mostly uncontested status as the superior eReader choice for consumers, has been facing increasingly able competitors. The new Nook Simple Touch…
MS Reader Just Couldn’t Compete With Amazon’s Kindle Anymore
When it comes to deciding who had the biggest impact in the earliest days of eReading, perhaps the only real answer is Microsoft. Long before the Kindle, or even the…
iRiver Story HD Provides Not-Too-Unique Kindle Competition Powered By Google
Every few weeks seem to hear something about a new eReader or Tablet PC that is destined to be a “Kindle Killer”. So far, no luck on that. When it…
Borders Liquidation May Further Kindle Amazon’s Success
As of this morning, Monday the 18th of July, it seems pretty much inevitable that Borders will no longer be a presence in the American retail space soon. Their failure…
Kindle 3G w/ Special Offers Now Only $139
Looks like the Kindle 3G has just become that much more affordable. Apparently, thanks to an agreement with AT&T involving Kindle advertisements, Amazon has been able to drop the price…
Kindle vs Paper Round 2: The Flipback?
As we all know by now, the Kindle was a ploy by Amazon to undermine the publishing industry, authors, and the generally transcendent experience of reading in general. It has…
More on Apple vs Kindle for iOS devices
So, Apple vs the Amazon Kindle platform. I brought this topic up a few days ago, I know, but it bears repeating now that representatives from Apple have come out…