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Amazon’s New Kindle Commercial Jabs At iPad Again

, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [15]

Amazon has just released a new Kindle commercial full of happy indie music, hip young folks in coffee shops, frolicking in parks, jaunting in the city, and all done in lots and lots of sunshine. Key to the commercial is the amount of sun people seem to be getting when they need to read a book. When there's sun, the Kindle beats the iPad as clearly shown in one scene of the commercial where a girl is lent a Kindle because her iPad has too much glare. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle for webOS TouchPad confirmed

, Feb 9th 2011 Discuss [2]

Amazon has announced its latest Kindle app, this time targeted specifically at HP's new TouchPad tablet. As on the iPad, Android and other platforms, the Kindle for webOS TouchPad app will allow for "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" reading and purchase of ebooks from Amazon's webstore. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle update adds public notes, page numbers, more

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [3]

Amazon has announced an update for the third-gen Kindle and Kindle 3G, which adds proper page numbers to select ebooks, and the ability to share notes and annotations you've made publicly. There's also a new newspaper and magazine layout which attempts to better present all of the new stories for easier selection. Read The Full Story

Apple denies new in-app purchase rule; Devs must enforce it by June 30?

, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [5]

Apple has denied updating the App Store rules regarding in-app purchases - and which Sony fell foul of with their Reader for iPhone app - claiming instead that it is merely enforcing a rule that has been in the guidelines for some time. "We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines," Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told AllThingsD. "We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase." Read The Full Story

Apple blocks Sony Reader app: new in-app purchase rules could scupper Kindle

, Feb 1st 2011 Discuss [4]

Apple has rejected Sony's Reader for iPhone application, with the New York Times [subscription required] reporting that Apple now insists that from now on all in-app purchases must go through its own systems. According to the report, developers have been told that they can "no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store." It's unclear at this stage what this means to existing titles, like Amazon's Kindle app, which allows users to load ebooks bought on other Kindle devices or software into the iPad version. Read The Full Story

Amazon Sells More Kindles, But the Margins are Razor-Thin

, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's a bold new day for reading. Amazon has just announced their financial results for Q4 of 2010. For the first time ever, the online retailer is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. For every 100 "real" books, Amazon now moves 115 ebooks. Three times as many Kindle books sell as hardcover books.

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Kindle for iPad v2.5 adds background downloads, side-loading

, Jan 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Amazon has updated its Kindle for iPad app to support background processes, allowing users to download ebooks without leaving the Kindle app active. The new version, v2.5, takes advantage of iOS 4.x's multitasking support, as well as the ability to side-load content received as Mail attachments or loaded via iTunes. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle App Launches for Windows Phone 7

, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

Back at the end of October, 2010, Amazon came forward and announced that they would be bringing their popular Kindle application to Microsoft's fledgling mobile Operating System (OS), Windows Phone 7. However, instead of releasing it a few days later, it actually took a few months. But, the wait is officially over, as the application is now available for anyone with a Windows Phone 7 device. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle apps for Android & Windows tablets promised

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

Amazon is looking to spread its ereader wings even further, promising to launch tablet-centric versions of its Kindle app for Android and Windows based slates in 2011. The announcement follows the release of the Kindle for iPad app in 2010, which tailored the ereader software's UI to suit the larger display of the Apple tablet. Read The Full Story

Kindle ebook loans now available

, Dec 30th 2010 Discuss [4]

Amazon has turned on Kindle ebook loans in the US, meaning readers can now share certain titles with their friends for a limited period. Announced back in October 2010, the functionality allows ebooks to be loaned to a single person for up to 14 days, though during that period the original owner will not be able to access it themselves. Read The Full Story

Kindle 3 best-selling Amazon product of all time

, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Amazon has announced that the third-gen Kindle is the best-selling product in the retailer's history, ousting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the top-spot. Meanwhile, on Christmas Day, more people turned on new Kindles for the first time and purchased more Kindle books than on any other day in history. Read The Full Story

Amazon vows to look into problem with Kindle covers and replace defective covers

, Dec 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apparently, some Amazon Kindle users that purchased the non-lighted cover along with their reader have been having some issues with the device rebooting and freezing at times after the case was installed. It seems the issue is directly related to the cover in some way. Read The Full Story
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