All Posts Tagged With: "kindle"
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Releases a Kindle App for the BlackBerry PlayBook
Electronic books that are available for Kindle Apps are a great present for the holiday season. Users are able to give their favorite books, or books that they think the recipient would like. Giving these books are an easy and inexpensive way to get some holiday shopping done right from your home. As stated in [...]
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Now Has Support For Gifting Books
Released just in time for the holidays, Amazon.com introduced a highly requested feature of the Kindle that allows anyone to easily gift a book to another Amazon.com user to download to their Kindle. This feature was announced in an Amazon.com press release last week. All customers have to do is visit the Kindle Store on [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announces launch of “Kindle for the Web”
Amazon’s e-book strategy seems to be based on two things. The first is that you buy once and can then read anywhere (thanks to the much pushed Kindle apps). The second consists of pushing the Kindle and the Kindle version of books as much as they possibly can. The newly announced “Kindle for the Web” [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Launching Wireless Kindle to Fend Off iPad
As Apple Inc’s (NYSE: AAPL) iPad gains ground in the electronic reader market Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) bets their new release of their $139 wireless-only Kindle Wi-Fi will pull in new readers. Rather than relying on cell phone 3G for connections, the new wireless model will depend on connections via internet wi-fi. The trend continues to show [...]
Gifting Kindle E-Books From Amazon Not An Option (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon has a growing popularity of their Kindle e-reader and mobile apps. This is likely due to their recent price cut of the device from $259 to $189 (on their smaller model). The company even claims that they sell more Kindle e-books than printed hardcover books. However, the Kindle e-books still sell far less copies [...]
Amazon Announces New Kindle Updates (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon has recently shipped out three major updates to their Kindle electronic-book system, expanding its capabilities. However, these updates also seem to be confusing Kindle’s identity as an e-reader. Last Sunday, they announced a multimedia upgrade to the free Kindle application for Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad which they debuted last year. On these [...]
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Out Performing Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had recently admitted that the “Kindle”, an ebook reader, just can’t compete with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. Amazon is not overly worried about this fact though, saying the Kindle will find a niche with the serious reader, where as the iPad is meant for a broad range of general uses, which happens [...]
Borders (NYSE: BGP) to Overtake Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Borders (NYSE: BGP) Australia has recently announced the release of “Kobe” an ebook reader, and it’s intentions to steal Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) international crown for readers of both books and ebooks in Australia. Borders has made plans to distribute the “Kobe” to it’s Australian Borders chain of stores, and will also give the Kobe readers [...]
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Getting Social With Kindle
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to remain competitive in the e-reader sector since the advent of the iPad. The company has just announced their upgrade plans for the ebook reader Kindle 2.5. Kindle user can now interact with friends online via Twitter and Facebook which until now was not possible unlike with the Apple iPad. [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Wins With Apple’s (NYSE: APPL) iPad Release
Apple (NYSE: APPL) released the iPad this weekend according to schedule, and is considered an alternative to Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony and Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ)tablet PCs. Amazon is likely to benefit greatly from the iPad, despite the fact that it is a direct competitor to the Kindle. The Kindle [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Takes on Apple’s (NYSE: APPL) iBooks with Kindle App
There is still about two weeks to go before the iPad becomes available for consumers to purchase on April 3rd, but Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is already prepared to compete with Apple’s (NYSE:APPL) iBooks with an application designed for Kindle. The Kindle app for iPad will use Amazon’s WhisperSync technology to enable synchronization of bookmarks in [...]
Amazon Ups The Ante On Kindle Royalties
With the scheduled launch of Apple’s new tablet device which will also have e-reader capabilities right around the corner, Amazon could not have timed the news of their improved royalty share program more perfectly. Proof that competition does in fact result in a better situation for all involved, this new program is considerably better for [...]
Electronic Books Growing In Popularity
If you are looking for the perfect gift for the reader in your life, you might want to reconsider that novel from the local bookstore. While it is true that many avid readers still prefer sitting down with a “real” book in hand, more and more people are discovering electronic books. If you are unfamiliar [...]
Barnes and Noble’s Nook Not Ready as Planned
Barnes and Noble, one of the nations largest book retailers, announced on Monday that the arrival of the long-awaited Nook will be delayed at least a week. The bookseller’s Nook is their answer to Amazon’s Kindle, and is an electronic reader for e-books. The company website states the delay is due to high demand for [...]
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