The UK’s biggest bookstore chain has announced that it will start selling Kindles alongside other digital services from Amazon.
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UK bookseller Waterstones to start selling Kindles
UK bookseller Waterstones to start selling Kindles
May 21, 2012 By
Report: Amazon planning front-lit Kindle e-reader for July, new tablet later this year
May 14, 2012 By
Certainly it’s no great shocker that Amazon’s got plans for a new e-reader and tablet later this year. Nor should anyone be particularly surprised at the prospect of a front-lit reader from the retail giant set to compete directly with the latest Nook offering . Reuters, however, claims to have some insight into both, courtesy of an anonymous source
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Report: Amazon planning front-lit Kindle e-reader for July, new tablet later this year
Sun stops shining on E Ink Holdings: company reports first loss in two years
April 27, 2012 By
E Ink Holdings made a loss of over $25 million last quarter, despite supplying its backlight-free panels to popular e-readers like the Kindle and the Nook .
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Sun stops shining on E Ink Holdings: company reports first loss in two years
Send to Kindle arrives on Macs
April 25, 2012 By
Sure, it may be Barnes & Noble’s big day , but Amazon couldn’t help but offer up some news of its own. The mega-retailer announced today that its Send to Kindle service is hitting the Mac, letting Apple users send documents and compatible apps from their desktop to their Kindle with a drag and a drop. The app’s available now for free
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Kindle Touch gets early release in UK and Germany (update)
April 20, 2012 By
Amazon is now shipping preorders for its Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G in both the UK and Germany, a week ahead of schedule . While eager e-reader..
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Kindle Touch gets early release in UK and Germany (update)
Kindle Fire update brings sharing, ‘print replica’ textbooks, more to tablet
March 28, 2012 By
Amazon has started pushing out an over-the-air update that’ll bring a slew of new features to its budget Kindle Fire tablet . Topping the list of upgrades is new sharing functionality that makes it possible for readers to send passages and notes from within the comfort of a book via social networks like Facebook and Twitter by highlighting and clicking “Share.” Also on the slate is supplemental material powered by Shelfari, letting users find character descriptions, glossaries of of common terms, locations and author information from inside a text. Version 6.3 also brings “print replicas” of textbooks, which include linked tables of contents and Whipsersyncing of notes and highlights
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Kindle Fire update brings sharing, ‘print replica’ textbooks, more to tablet
Kindle Touch gets April 27th release date in Europe
March 27, 2012 By
Good news for our friends on the other side of the pond waiting to get their fingers on the Kindle Touch’s e-ink display: nearly half a year after hitting the States, the e-reader is getting ready for its official European debut.
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Kindle Touch gets April 27th release date in Europe
Kindle app for Android updated with Send-to-Kindle functionality, lets you sling documents to green little robots everywhere
March 22, 2012 By
Fan of reading, you maverick you? Well if you’re rocking an Android device, head on over to the Market Google Play and hit update on that Kindle app , as the online retailer from the Northwest has some fresh bits waiting for you. New today is access to a bevy of illustrated content — like children and comic books in addition to graphic novels — coupled with the debut of Send-to-Kindle support on Android.
Amazon sells over 2 million Kindle Singles in 14 months
March 13, 2012 By
Amazon’s individually-wrapped slices of literary goodness have managed to pull in a few fans since launching in January last year. The company has offered a rare glimpse at its retail figures, trumpeting two million individual sales for its Kindle Singles selection
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Amazon sells over 2 million Kindle Singles in 14 months
Penguin halts over-the-air Kindle borrowing again, this time it’s serious
February 13, 2012 By
Penguin already signaled it’d stop providing newer titles to OverDrive’s lending service, but apart from a temporary interruption last year, Kindle borrowing of older books has escaped largely unscathed. That’s no longer the case: as of this month, Penguin says that “eBooks loaned for reading on Kindle devices will need to be downloaded to a computer then transferred to the device over USB.” Why add the extra hassle, compared to direct wireless transfer via Amazon’s servers? According to Infodocket , Penguin has simply indicated that this form of distribution breached the terms of its agreement with OverDrive.
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Penguin halts over-the-air Kindle borrowing again, this time it’s serious
