Chicago: Amazon.com Inc will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source who has seen the prototype told Reuters. The world's largest Internet retailer is aiming to have the new e-reader in stores in July, said the source, who has direct knowledge of the matter but asked not to be named because Amazon has not yet made the decision public....
10:29 AM, May 16, 2012
New York: Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library. Amazon.com announced on Thursday that on June 19, the e-book editions of JK Rowling's seven Potter novels will become part of the Kindle service available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Members can download a book for free once a month. Amazon's library has more than 145,000 books. Financial terms were not disclosed for the online retailer's "licensing agreement" with Rowling. Rowling...
11:30 PM, May 13, 2012
New York: Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library. Amazon.com announced Thursday that on June 19, the e-book editions of J.K. Rowling's seven Potter novels will become part of the Kindle service available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Members can download a book for free once a month. Amazon's library has more than 145,000 books. Financial terms were not disclosed for the online retailer's "licensing agreement" with Rowling. Rowling only...
11:46 AM, May 11, 2012
New York: Target Corp. is phasing out Amazon.com Inc.'s e-reader Kindle at its more than 1,700 stores and its website. Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said Wednesday that the decision to stop selling Kindles this spring came after an "ongoing review" of Target's merchandise that evaluates quality and prices of the chain's offerings. The move coincides with the discounter's plan to create mini shops of Apple Inc. products in 25 of...
11:08 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Bill Gates is set to become the next comic book hero. The Microsoft founder's life will now be made into a graphic novel releasing by the end of the month. It will also be available on Nook and Kindle. He's no superhero in the traditional sense, but Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has touched many lives. And now a comic with colorful illustrations will illustrate his life....
01:27 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: According to a report from TechCrunch, a technology website, Amazon is working on a new Kindle that features an illuminated screen. The new Kindle is expected to be rolled out sometime this year. Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch thinks that he has seen it. He says that as you tap, a slider pops up on the screen, and when it is dragged to the right, the screen lit up...
12:05 PM, Apr 08, 2012
London: A solar Kindle case lets readers "top up" their gadget simply by leaving it in the sun. The case has a built-in solar panel and battery, which is guaranteed to provide three months of reading time in "normal" sunlight, without dipping into Kindle's own power. The gadget goes on sale this week, priced at $80, Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Once the gadget's topped up, the SolarKindle diverts power to...
02:00 PM, Apr 04, 2012
San Francisco: Maybe Lord Voldemort put a spell on Amazon.Com Inc on Tuesday. On the same day that Amazon started selling Harry Potter e-books in a landmark deal, buy buttons on the company's dominant Kindle e-book store disappeared for several hours. Top-selling e-books, including The Hunger Games series and the Fifty Shades trilogy, instead had bigger green buttons saying "This title is not available for customers from: United States." Several...
11:32 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia announced a new e-reader app for its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices called Nokia Reading at the ongoing Mobile World Congress at Barcelona. The Nokia Reading app will compete with Amazon's Kindle app for Windows Phone 7. The app which will start rolling out for UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Germany markets from April has been designed to be a reading hub and users will...
03:30 PM, Feb 28, 2012
San Francisco: Amazon.com shipped nearly 3.9 million Kindle Fire tablets in the last three months of 2011, making the online retail giant the world's second-largest tablet maker in the quarter, market research firm IHS said Thursday. With the soaring sales of Kindle Fire, Amazon captured 14.3 per cent of the global tablet market share in the quarter, surpassing Samsung Electronics to take the No. 2 position, according to a new...
03:12 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New York: About 70 per cent of children in households with tablet computers used these devices, according to fourth-quarter results from research firm Nielsen. This was a 7 per cent increase from the third quarter, according to Nielsen. About 77 per cent of those children use tablets such as the Apple Inc iPad and the Amazon.com Inc Kindle Fire to play games, while 57 per cent use them for educational...
10:43 AM, Feb 17, 2012
London: Increasing sales of eReaders is good news for Amazon, which produces the best-selling Kindle and collects 30 per cent of the price of downloaded books. But profits could be hit by the sheer number of pirate eBooks available for free download. Just as pirates and websites, including Napster, undermined the music industry by putting music on the web for free, the same is now happening with eBooks. An agreement...
11:42 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Seattle: Online retailer Amazon says 2011 was the best holiday ever for its Kindle-brand e-readers and tablet computers. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that people bought more than 1 million Kindles each week in December. The company has never released specific sales figures for the Kindle. Since the launch of the first Kindle in 2007, this franchise has grown to include several e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire...
03:12 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: In a bid to compete with 7-inch tablets in the market including the Kindle Fire and Nook tablet, and large-size smartphones from major technology giants, Apple is likely to come up with a 7.85-inch iPad mini prior to the fourth quarter of 2012, said reports. If rumours are to be believed, the company will purchase 7.85-inch panels from LG Display and AU Optronics (AUO). According to Digitimes, the...
02:22 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New York: Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it is selling more than one million Kindle devices a week, an unusual disclosure from the largest Internet retailer that comes in the wake of some negative reviews of its new Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon said customers are buying "well over" one million Kindles per week. This level of sales has occurred for three straight weeks, it added in a statement. The sales...
01:46 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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