The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking. The hardware platform, developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including dedicated e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays, and Android-based tablets with color LCD screens.
A new service called Live App Testing is available for programmers making apps that run on Amazon’s(s amzn) FireOS devices. Live App Testing allows beta versions of such apps that developers… Read more »
What’s happening in the ebook business today is no more inevitable than what happened in the DVD market two decades ago. It’s just happening in reverse. Read more »
The online retail giant says it will be happy to stick with the 30 percent cut it already gets from Hachette ebook sales if the publisher agrees to slash its ebook… Read more »
Amazon officially launched Kindle Unlimited, its ebook and audiobook subscription service that we told you about earlier this week, on Friday. Read more »
Apple finally settled a long-running lawsuit over ebook price-fixing last month. A new court filing provides some details about how much it might pay. Read more »
Amazon is testing an ebook and audiobook subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited” that would cost $9.99 a month. According to pages that were pulled down, it will offer access to over 600,000 titles. Read more »
One of the product leads behind both Google Glass and Google’s smart contact lenses is moving on to Amazon. What new project might Jeff Bezos be cooking up that might focus… Read more »
Amazon is proposing that Hachette authors receive 100 percent of the sale of each of their ebooks during the companies’ ongoing negotiations. But the letter it sent this week may largely… Read more »
Amazon is promoting a Hachette title as one of its best books of July. But, because of Hachette and Amazon’s contract dispute, the book’s not available for pre-order. Read more »