New Kindle Helps Readers Show Off By Shouting Title Of Book Loudly And...
eBooks are great: they’re convenient, fast, and enable you to carry an entire library around in your pocket. But there’s at least one way that paper books can do which ebooks can’t and that is tell...
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Kindle eBook Deals (1 August 2014) – Neal Stephenson’s The Mongoliad
Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals for today include Expendable by James Gardner and Anonymous Sources by May Louise Kelly as well as other titles, all selling for $1.99. None of the deals offered by Amazon...
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Kindle eBook Deals (3 August 2014) – Who Wants a Free Audiobook?
Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals for today include Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake as well as other titles, most selling for $1.99. For example, if you’re interested in binging on fantasy, Amazon is offering 23...
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Amazon’s New Screen Tech Patents Reveal Clues of Future Kindle Plans
Famously secretive, Amazon hasn’t said much about Liquavista since acquiring the screen tech company last spring, but a recent check of their patent filings has revealed that the retail giant isn’t...
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Lev eReaders Launched in Brazil, Priced to Compete with the Kindle
The ebook reader market might be withering in the US but there are still signs of life elsewhere in the world. The Brazilian publisher/bookseller Saraiva has just launched a couple new ereaders to...
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Kindle eBook Deals (8 August 2014) – Ray Guns, Robots, and Romulans, oh my
Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals for today include Slingshot by Matt Dunn, Me and My Big Mouse by Ethan Long, and other titles. Only the SF title looked interesting to me today so instead I found a couple...
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Amazon Quietly Launches a New Kindle Paperwhite with Additional Storage
Do you want to see something weird? Then check out this page on Amazon.com for one of the Kindle Paperwhites. If you click the link you’ll see that you’re looking at the product page for the...
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The History of the Kindle in a Single Gif
What with news breaking today that Amazon had released a new Kindle Paperwhite, I thought you might be interested in seeing how much Amazon’s ebook reader had changed since the first model launched...
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Kindle for Android Updated with Improved Audio, Navigation Support
Amazon released a new version of their Kindle app for Android and I think you’re going to like it. The Kindle app v4.6.0 adds a bunchaton of useful features, including a couple additions that should...
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The WSJ is Wrong – Libraries Will Always Trump Kindle Unlimited
The Wall Street Journal has joined the chorus of voices comparing public libraries to subscription ebook services, and unfortunately its comparison is almost as false as the suggestion published by...
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GigaOm is Wrong to Call Kindle Worlds a Bust
When Amazon launched Kindle Worlds in May 2013 many people misunderstood the new service, and it appears that misunderstanding continues to sway journalists even today. On Sunday GigaOm published an...
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Kindle Unlimited to Launch Internationally at Frankfurt Book Fair?
There’s a new report going around today that Amazon will be expanding their ebook subscription service in the next couple months. In a story behind a paywall (and referenced here), BuchReport.de is...
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Goodreads Adds Kindle eBook Previews
Goodreads has made many changes since it joined Amazon’s evil ebook empire early last year, and late last week they added one which many readers and authors will appreciate. From over on the Goodreads...
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The $69 Kindle is Out of Stock – Could This be a Sign of a New Model on the Way?
Initially released in late 2011, the basic Kindle set a new standard in the ebook reader for minimal features at minimal price. With only minimal hardware updates (it was re-released in 2012 in black),...
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Amazon Launches Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, Announces KDP Kids
Making an ebook is easy – so long as it mainly consists of text. But if you want to want to make a fixed layout ebook like a kid’s picture book, that’s a little harder, which is why Amazon launched...
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Much Ado About Nothing: The Basic Kindle is Back at Amazon
Earlier this week Amazon sent a certain segment of the blogosphere into a tizzy when the retailer ran out of Kindles, but now it seems our frenzied speculation may have been premature. The basic...
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Did AT&T Force Amazon to Give up on a Budget-Priced Kindle Phone?
There’s a new rumor going around today that Amazon’s deal with AT&T for exclusivity on the Fire Phone may just have killed the budget model which many of us would have bought. When Amazon launched...
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Your Amazon Account Can be Hacked via a Kindle eBook
Amazon might not have a security issue at Audible but they do have one on their main website. A security researcher has reported, and I can confirm, that Amazon has a security hole on the “manage Your...
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Kindle Store to Launch in the Netherlands in October?
Hot on the heels of Saturday’s news of Kobo signing a new retail partner in the region comes new rumors that Amazon is going to launch a local Kindle Store in the Netherlands. Citing unnamed sources,...
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New Leaks Reveal the Kindle Voyage with a 300 DPI Screen
Remember that TechCrunch story from last November about the Kindle Paperwhite codenamed Ice Wine and the 300 dpi screen? Update: The Kindle Voyage has launched. It will cost $199 and up, and ship on...
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