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‘Kindle Fire HD’ Stories

Kindle hits Japan: Paperwhite, Fire & Fire HD plus Japanese-language ebooks

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon has launched the Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, and Kindle Paperwhite in Japan, alongside a new Japanese-language Kindle Store. Over 50,000 Japanese-language ebooks, plus over 15,000 manga titles, pad out the Amazon.co.jp Kindle Store, the company says, alongside English books as well, for a total of over 1m titles when the electronic store opens its virtual doors on Thursday. Read The Full Story

Kindle Fire HD named “best-selling product” across Amazon worldwide

Chris Burns, Oct 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Amazon have made it clear that they continue to mean business with their line of Kindle Fire tablets, today calling the Kindle Fire HD the "#1 best-selling product across all of Amazon worldwide." We've had some suspicion rise up in comments and emails regarding Amazon's press releases regarding their own sales suggestions such as this one, so until we're certain Amazon actually does specify that the Kindle Fire HD actually literally did sell more units than any other product on the Amazon website, we'll keep with the quotes. The term "best-selling" could also mean "sold as many as we made" or "did just as well as we expected it to." Read The Full Story

Kindle Fire has highest readership rates for digital content

Craig Lloyd, Oct 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

While tablets are great for browsing the web and playing games, they're also becoming great devices to read digital content on like magazines and newspapers. According to marketing and analytics firm comScore, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has the highest readership rates of any other tablet, including the iPad and Barnes & Noble's NOOK Tablet. Read The Full Story

Whispercast for Kindle makes mass ebook/app management easy

Chris Davies, Oct 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon has launched Whispercast for Kindle, a new mass-deployment and management system for ebooks - and soon apps - on Kindles and Kindle apps for schools and businesses. Intended to allow Kindle titles to be bought and shared out among students and employees, as well as remotely control device passwords, wireless settings, and what titles can be purchased. Meanwhile, Amazon says Whispercast for Kindle will soon be able to handle distributing and managing Kindle Fire applications. Read The Full Story

Amazon confirms zero Kindle hardware profit

Chris Davies, Oct 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon makes no profit on its Kindle hardware sales, CEO Jeff Bezos has confirmed, with the ereaders and Kindle Fire tablets sold "at our cost" so as to promote ebook, video, and music downloads. The online retailer has long been tight-lipped on its pricing strategy around Kindle, with ongoing rumors that the hardware was sold with minimum profit in mind or, even, at a loss. That's not quite the case, Bezos told the BBC. Read The Full Story

FCC approves Kindle Fire HD

Shane McGlaun, Oct 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire HD last month as its new high-end tablet offering. That unveiling took place before the FCC had approved the Kindle Fire HD packing 4G technology for sale within the United States. Amazon had previously promised to send people who pre-ordered the 4G version of the tablet an e-mail to confirm their order when the tablet was approved by the FCC. Read The Full Story

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NOOK HD and the B&N ecosystem gamble

Chris Davies, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The tablet market is heating up, and for once it’s not Apple, or Google, or Samsung doing the shaking, but booksellers Barnes & Noble. The new NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ may carry the same name as B&N tablets of before, but they’re worlds apart in hardware and clarity of software ecosystem. Not content to chase Amazon and Apple on price alone, there’s an apparently legitimate attempt on B&N’s part to tune each model to the audience most likely to be interested in it, rather than chasing some imaginatively aspirational but likely non-existent “perfect” consumer.

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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: September 25, 2012

Eric Abent, Sep 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

We've had a rather interesting Tuesday here at SlashGear, thanks in no small part to RIM. The company held its BlackBerry Jam today, introducing us to new BlackBerry 10 features like Peek and Flow. We also learned that BlackBerry 10 will come with support for your favorite social networks, even offering a native Facebook app. Carrier testing on the new mobile OS will begin next month, and RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said that BlackBerry has a good shot at becoming number three behind Android and iOS. Read The Full Story

Kindle Fire HD faces stiff competition from Nexus 7 according to reports

Cory Gunther, Sep 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet has only been available commercially for the better part of a week, and new reports are already coming out showing just how stiff their competition will be against Google's Nexus 7. The popular ad tracking and analysis firm Chitika just released some new data showing the Fire's already taking 11% of all Kindle Fire web share, but that the Nexus 7 is much higher. Read The Full Story

Amazon’s Kindle readers and tablets booted from Walmart shelves

Cory Gunther, Sep 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

The online retail giant Amazon has a huge audience for selling their tablets and Kindle eReaders on the web, but when you don't have a storefront you'll take all the help you can get. In terms of brick and mortar stores there's only a handful of opportunities for Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet -- and today they're losing a big one. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Amazon Kindle Fire HD review

Cory Gunther, Sep 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Last year Amazon entered the tablet and hardware market on an entirely different level with their Kindle Fire tablet. Now just 10 short months later we have a completely evolved product from the retail giant. Today we’re taking a look at the new Kindle Fire HD 7-inch tablet. Everything you didn’t like about the original (including that Playbook styling) has been improved for round two so lets take a look and see how it does.