Hey, remember when I said the Android Marketplace needs gift cards and the various Android app stores should work together on a universal acceptance format? Well, forget it. Amazon just dropped that idea in the toilet with the announcement of their own Amazon Appstore for Android, and I sincerely doubt they’ll give up their own [...]
Amazon’s Kindle e-reader app has just gone live for owners of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. The digital reader software will allow users to read books purchased through the Amazon Kindle store and can synchronize where you last left off on your book so you can pick up another device and continue reading. Kindle is [...]
Amazon is letting all of those salivating over a rash of new Tablets to be introduced this year that they needn’t worry about reading their Kindle books on the new devices. Amazon will be unveiling new Kindle Apps tailored for Android and Windows Tablets. The new Apps will have all of the same functionality those [...]
So, you got your wish and got a Tablet for Christmas. Perhaps it’s an iPad, or maybe a Samsung Galaxy Tab, or maybe some other Tablet/Slate. No matter, I’m sure you’re already up and running. You’ve pinched and zoomed, you browsed the web, you’ve probably listened to a bit of music and watched some video, [...]
The Nook Color is Barnes & Noble’s curated e-reading tablet experience running on top of the Android operating system and with a 7-inch color capacitive touchscreen. The hack requires users to root their device, essentially jailbreaking the Barnes & Noble Android experience, and then installing Android Market, the official Google app store for Android devices. [...]
Amazon is selling the Samsung Q430 14 inch laptop for $649.99 including free shipping for a limited time and if you act fast you can score an additional $50 off because it is part of the lightning deal that ends at 3 PM Eastern or when all items are claimed. The Samsung Q430 has an [...]
The Kindle App for Android has been updated to version 2.0 adding quite a few enhancements including the ability to now purchase books within the App itself. Among the other enhancements are access to periodicals and newspapers, sharing your reading progress with social networks, and you can now use your smartphone’s volume keys to control [...]
Back in the days that I lived in Chicago it was a free fire zone in the Book Store wars. Downtown Chicago was certainly the centerpiece but in the area where I lived around Clark, Diversey and Halsted streets it was also full of action. Most of the book stores had a location in my [...]
Ah the eBook wars. The fight continues as everyone wants you to purchase books from their store and use their device. Amazon is the behemoth in this struggle due to its large catalog and the ubiquity of its Kindle App, and I would venture also its Kindle devices. But the others still compete, although you [...]
Well it took long enough. As an avid eBook reader one of my frustrations with Amazon, which is my eBook source of choice, was that you couldn’t gift an eBook purchase. Sure you could send someone an Amazon gift card or certificate and then they could purchase what they wanted, but what’s the point of [...]
Microsoft apparently demoed the Kindle App for Windows Phone 7 today at PDC and Amazon is out of the chute with a press release telling the world that Amazon will have the first eBook Reader App on Windows Phone 7. Soon. As in “coming soon.” Amazon is nothing if not relentless in getting its software [...]
Amazon is touting a major top to bottom rewrite of Amazon.com built especially for shopping on the iPad. The new App is called Windowshop. The idea is basically to bring you all the functionality of Amazon’s website but in an iPad App optimized for the touch experience. The organization approach appears to rely on a [...]
Amazon is letting Kindle users know that they will be introducing Kindle book lending “later this year.” Of course this isn’t the kind of lending that you can do with a real book made out of dead trees, where you could pass it around your entire extended family. Nope, not in the world of innovation [...]
Yes. It’s one of those Amazon deals that are only worth it if you are a not already a Verizon customer, but this is still a hot phone to get for a penny. I won’t be purchasing one, but I plan to evaluate one soon for GBM. Good news is that you can grab this [...]
More interesting Amazon news this morning. Amazon is announcing Kindle for the Web, which will allow you to read a sample chapter of a book in your browser, no App of any kind required. In addition to allowing users to read the sample chapter, you can then go and purchase the book. But then you [...]
TechCrunch is reporting that Amazon is prepping an Android App Store and from the looks of what they are posting it appears that they have their hands on some of the details on how developers can enter the marketplace. Even more curiouser, TechCrunch is reporting that the same source says Amazon may be readying a [...]
According to this post on SlashGear, Amazon is circulating an early preview of new Kindle firmware (v3.0.1) that will allow users to set up accounts directly from the Kindle device instead of having to go through the web to open an account. This only makes sense as the Kindle, in all of its generations, is [...]
Pocketbook is getting to introduce five new eReaders at IFA next month that have a couple of features not found in readers made by bigger companies, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony. Apparently to Engadget, the ProBook 603 and 903 will feature a Wacom touchscreen and come with a pen. There’s no word on [...]
Many of us wondered if Amazon’s first foray would be a success or flop when the company introduced the Kindle three years ago. The Kindle has since become Amazon’s top selling product. With the succes of the iPad, some people have suggested that Amazon should get out of the hardware business and focus on expanding [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported Barnes & Noble is putting itself up for sale so it can reorganize and figure out what to do as people are adopting eBooks at an accelerated pace. Barnes & Noble is largest bookstore chain in the U.S. with 720 retail stores, but it sounds like that number will shrink significantly over [...]
Amazon already sells more eBooks than hardcover books and is predicting that it will sell more digital books than paperbacks by the end of next year. That’s a pretty bold prediction, but not all that surprising considering how easy it is to buy books on so many devices. Is 2011 really going to mark the [...]
It is has been a busy day for Amazon. This morning they announced the audio and video features for the Kindle App for iDevices. This afternoon they are announcing that the long awaited Kindle App for the Android platform is now available. You’ll need Android 1.6 or above to use the app. Here’s the press [...]
Everybody wants a piece of the eBook action. Yesterday we saw the great price drop for the Amazon Kindle and the Nook. Today we’re seeing Borders announce the availability of its eBook reading app for the iPad and the iPhone. From what I’m reading the Borders app doesn’t come with the syncing function that we [...]
Amazon’s chopped $70 off the Kindle’s price tag to compete to come in $10 cheaper than the Barnes and Noble Nook 3G + Wi-Fi‘s new $199 price tag. A Wi-Fi only version of the Nook is available for $149. This may be just the beginning of an eReader price war. While the iPad has taken much of [...]
Borders is now taking pre-orders for the $119 “Libre” eBook Reader Pro and talking about its eBook strategy. The book retailer is planning to selling up to 10 devices, including the Libre, at its brick and mortar stores by the end of the year. A special section of each store dubbed “Area-e” will showcase the [...]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders that bringing color to the Amazon Kindle eBook reader “is still a long way out” and not in the immediate future. Calling what he’s seen in his labs, “not ready for prime time production,” I’m guessing that Bezos is a little frustrated by what he’s seeing. That said, keep [...]
Just a week after Barnes and Noble released their 1.3 update to the nook, Amazon begins the release of their update to the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. From a post over at Engadget, we know that the update is rolling out to a limited group of users first, and then a full update to [...]
It looks like Amazon is hoping on the same bandwagon as the Sony e-readers and the Barnes and Noble nook. They are looking to bring their e-reader, the Amazon Kindle, to a brick and mortar retailer. And who did they choose? Target! Target has announced that it will begin to carry the Amazon Kindle this [...]
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” Steve Jobs. I guess that’s why everybody in the book business is chasing each other helter-skelter in a race to see who can deliver [...]
Looks like Amazon might be making a move into the big box brick and mortar stores with the Kindle. An picture of an inventory listing at Target shows the Kindle at a price of $259, supposedly going on sale on April 25. If true, maybe Amazon realizes that to play keep up with the iPad, [...]
It looks like Amazon has updated and Apple has approved the Kindle app for the iPad. I just did an update via iTunes and the Kindle App is now appearing in the Apps folder under iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad apps. eBook Wars are now in full swing.
With the iPad scheduled to hit users hands the day before Easter, Amazon is showing off the Kindle app that they hope will one day grace the iPad. We already know Barnes & Noble is working up its eBook reader app as well. But the Amazon Kindle App is not just for the iPad, its [...]
Amazon has finally released it Kindle for the Mac app, doing so quietly last night. Similar to the Windows version this looks very bare bones and it is labeled as Beta. It’s missing a few features like being able to take notes, but you do get to view the covers of books in color. You [...]
Leaked documents (still the best kind) regarding the Dell Mini 5, a.k.a. The Streak, have made their way to Engadget revealing a bevy of color and design selections and a partnership with Amazon for music, eBooks, and video.
Blackberry owners who have been wishing to get in on the eBook craze via Amazon’s Kindle store can now do so. Amazon has released a free Kindle App for some of the Blackberry mobiles. So far the Bold, Tour, Curve, and Storm lines are supported. As with the iPhone Kindle App, users can browse, read, [...]
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