Tag Archives : Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle Reader’s chief competitor Barnes & Noble has slashed the price of its NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight ereader in the US bringing  the illuminated e-paper slate from $119  to $ 99, strengthening rumours that a newer model might be announced soon. The NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight has been available in Barnes and Noble UK for £69 which is equivalent to it’s reduced [...]

Amazon has announced on Thursday that they are acquiring Goodreads,which bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.” Goodreads.com was founded in 2007 and since then has built a reported  user base of 16 million members, who have added 525 million books and 23 million reviews. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with [...]

Amazon “Send to Kindle” feature which are currently available as plug-ins for Google Chome and Mozilla Firefox browsers is now going to be available for websites. The functionality will compete other apps like Instapaper and Pocket. “The Send to Kindle Button lets readers save your content to read later on their Kindle, at their convenience. Adding this button to your website opens it up [...]

Amazon on Tuesday launched Unity plugins to enable developers integrate in-app purchasing and GameCircle features to their Kindle Fire games and apps. The plugins will be available via its Developer page. “Unity is one of the most popular tools for building mobile games,” said Mike Frazzini, Director of Amazon Games. “Amazon’s In-App Purchasing and GameCircle APIs help developers reach more [...]

Credit : Engadget.com At the ongoing Amazon’s Santa Monica,  press conference, the ecommerce giant officially announced, the Kindle Paperwhite, a new “frontlit” e-ink Kindle, with a sharper display, the device will compete with Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight device. The Kindle Paperwhite 3G is priced at US $179 and US $119 for Wi-Fi only, its close competitor, Barnes [...]

Research consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates’s recently survey of 4,734 cell phone and smartphone owners revealed that 50% of people currently own an iPad, down significantly from 72% at last count. Apple shipped a robust 17.0 million iPads worldwide and maintained its strong market leadership with 68 percent share during the second quarter of 2012 The report says Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet [...]

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]

Kindle Books Amazon.com has launched a free Kindle e-book reader app for Android which will be available via the Android Market. Amazon already offers versions of Kindle for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC and BlackBerry. It make it seem clear that the real goal for Amazon.com is selling e-books, not Kindle e-readers.  You can get any of the 620,000 books available on the Kindle in the Android [...]