Tag archive: Amazon Kindle

Announced on the company's official site recently, Seattle-based Puzzazz has designed a technology called Touchwrite that recognizes letters and numbers on e-readers. While handwriting technology isn't a new achievements, this is the first time any company has found a way to use the technology on devices like Amazon's Kindle Touch. Puzzazz officials have shown off an example of the technology working on a Kindle while playing… Read More

As pointed out by Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone on Google+ earlier today, Barnes & Noble will not stock physical copies of books released by Amazon's publishing division. Designed to keep Amazon out of the brick and mortar locations across the United States, the company is taking this position in response to Amazon's new strategy of selling physical and digital copies of specific releases exclusively through the… Read More

Kindle is great for books and all, but some folks would like to be able to get personal documents onto their Kindle or Kindle Library and up until now, it's been a less-than-simple task. The option of a new plugin, however, is going to make the task a lot easier for PC users, and eventually Mac users, too. Send to Kindle for PC is a simple application that will allow users to easily send personal documents to both their online Kindle and… Read More

Teaming up with chip maker Marvell, the One Laptop Per Child non-profit organization will be at CES displaying the XO 3.0 tablet designed for children in South American and African countries. Coming in at a scant $100 price tag for the base model, the tablet utilizes Marvell's 1Ghz PXA618 processor in addition to 512MB of RAM and runs on both Google Android Honeycomb as well as OLPC's custom Linux operating system. Shipping with an… Read More

Mentioned two weeks ago by Amazon officials, the Internet company has started rolling out version 6.2.1 of the Kindle Fire software. Much of the user interface has been tweaked to become more responsive to screen tapping and navigation of content is much more fluid. The Silk browser is also smoother when moving through different Web pages and loading content. The update brings customization to the tablet allowing users to hide items that appear… Read More

It should come as no surprise that the Kindle is selling well these days, but just how well it's selling might raise a few eyebrows. Amazon reports that over one million Kindle units have been sold each week for the last three weeks — basically, ever since the Kindle Fire hit the market. The notoriously tight-lipped retailer revealed the Kindle sales numbers this week, though it's worth noting that Amazon doesn't make a… Read More

Self-publishing authors of the world: Amazon wants your books, and it doesn't want to share them. Amazon today announced the creation of “KDP Select,”a $6 million fund intended to pressure independent authors and publishers into offering Kindle book exclusives for at least 90 days. The program rewards exclusive authors on a monthly basis based entirely on what percentage of total sales their work contributed to Amazon.… Read More

Incumbents often fear new technology, it seems. Penguin Group, a book publisher, has asked that all of its e-books be removed from the Amazon Kindle library lending service, which is a joint operation between Amazon and a company called OverDrive that specializes in managing digital content for publishers, schools, libraries, and retailers. Library lending allows Kindle users to borrow a book from 11,000 libraries across the United States by… Read More

Just last month it was reported that Amazon’s profits were down 73% due to the online company's heavy investment in its various tablets, including the Kindle Fire, which is set to release on November 15th. Additionally, it was reported that Amazon was bracing itself for the eventually release of its hotly anticipated tablet, knowing it would have to sell the tablet at a $10 loss and recoup that through content that customers purchased.… Read More

Amazon has been making big moves lately. The Kindle Fire and its app marketplace are becoming a more serious competitive threat, with hosting and storage services to back it up. In the scheme of things, Amazon is shaping up to not only challenge the digital retail space, but the Apple ecosystem has been put on notice ever since the rumors of an Amazon tablet surfaced. And its most recent acquisition has given new life to the Amazon vs. iOS… Read More

Earlier this week, both Democrat and Republican members of Congress expressed concern over privacy of users that browse the Web through the Amazon Silk browser on the currently unreleased Kindle Fire. Since the Kindle Fire uses less expensive hardware than a typical tablet, the split version of Silk sends all Web activity through the cloud-based Amazon Web Services and speeds up the process considerably. Page rendering and general processing of… Read More

Those of you who are tired of staring at advertisements when playing around with the ad-supported Kindle now have an option to remove the advertisements for an additional fee paid directly to Amazon. The difference in price between the ad-supported model and regular model is $30, the exact fee needed to ditch the advertisements. The lowest cost ad-supported model sells for $79 while the model without ads can be purchased for $109. However, the… Read More

We don’t think that the new Amazon Kindle Fire will be an iPad killer, but it might just outsell the Apple tablet. The folks over at Cult Of Android got some leaked preorder numbers from Amazon, and the numbers look amazing. After only five days the Kindle Fire has amassed 254,074 preorders, which almost matches the original iPads first day sales. The original iPad sold 300,000 units on its first day of availability, and took a month to reach… Read More

I saw the Kindle Fire in action yesterday at Amazon's big product announcement in New York. I didn't get to hold it, but I like what I saw at the different demo stations. Today, I've been reading articles around the web. Some claim it lacks flexibility, while others applaud its focus; some claim it's no “iPad killer,” but think it will be a good wing man to Apple's famed tablet. I believe it's in… Read More

Amazon hasn’t wasted any time, and has already released commercials for two of its newest products. Most notably is the ad for the Kindle Fire, which not only shows the evolution of print media but also shows how the Fire got its name. The names for both the Kindle and the Fire are found in a quote from Voltaire. “The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch It from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it… Read More