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Should Amazon change how Kindle pages are numbered?
People are passionate about page numbers. Just ask the hundreds of posters in Amazon’s Kindle forums who’ve debated the issue of how Amazon numbers its pages with “locations” on the Kindle and in its Kindle e-book-reading apps. And just ask the readers who’ve e-mailed me over the years complaining about Amazon’s numbering scheme. “I got [...]
Kindle Books Now Outselling Paperbacks at Amazon
Image via Wikipedia It’s official: electronic Kindle books are now outselling paperbacks on Amazon, marking a historically significant milestone in the publishing industry. Read the full story on Mashable.
New Kindle – Buying Limited Due to Strong Demand
Image via Wikipedia Due to incredible demand, Amazon is forced to limit Kindle sales to 5 units per household. The Kindle has been Amazon.com’s best selling item for two years in a row. The Kindle e-reader had topped all of Amazon’s lists: most-wished-for, most-gifted and has garnered the more 5-star reviews than any product on [...]
Analyst: Amazon to sell 5 million Kindles, fend off iPad
Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth today estimated that Amazon would sell about five million Kindle readers this year. The company should thrive on the combination of the redesign and the lower $139 price. The numbers would more than double over the course of the next two years to reach 11.5 million in 2012. Anmuth expected the price [...]
Best Buy will soon sell Kindles
Best Buy announced last week it would begin selling Amazon Kindles at Best Buy stores this Fall. This is a big step for Amazon.com, which up until now had sold the Kindle exclusively on the Amazon website. With the new, lower-priced Kindles selling like hot cakes, this could help stimulate holiday sales even more. But [...]
Amazon unveils new Kindle, starting at $139
Just weeks after lowering the price of the Kindle e-book reader from $259 to $189, Amazon unveiled a fully revamped Kindle on Wednesday. It’s sleeker, better looking, easier on the eyes — and starts at $139. This new Kindle, Amazon’s third generation, is smaller by 21 percent, and 15 percent lighter too. It has much [...]
New Generation Kindle DX Announced by Amazon.com
Today Amazon.com announced their new Kindle DX e-book reader. On the front page of their website, Amazon has begun to take pre-orders for their update to the current Kindle DX. The Kindle DX was a larger version of the Kindle II reader which has been very successful. The new Kindle DX will have a 9.7 [...]
Target expands Kindle ereader sales nationwide
Target announced it will begin selling online retail giant Amazon.com’s Kindle ereader across all of its 1,740 U.S. retail locations. In late April, Target introduced the Kindle–previously available exclusively via the Amazon digital storefront–to shoppers at its flagship Minneapolis location as well as 102 stores in the south Florida market; the device goes on sale [...]
Amazon.com Is Said to Be Introducing Thinner Kindle in August
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, plans to introduce the next version of its Kindle electronic-book reader in August, according to two people familiar with its plans. The device will be thinner and have a more responsive screen with a sharper picture, the people said, who didn’t want to be identified because the plans [...]
Amazon adding Twitter, Facebook to Kindle e-reader
Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle e-reader is getting access to Facebook and Twitter, along with several other enhancements, as part of a software update being sent wirelessly to the devices. Amazon said it has released the software to some Kindle owners and expects to send it to all users in late May. Source: AP Related articles by [...]
