The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as of last August, rolled out a new “immersive news-reading” app Thursday — and it is only available to Amazon… Read more »
Amazon rolled out its rumored streaming music service for Prime members, Prime Music, overnight Wednesday. With about a million songs and little new content, this isn’t Spotify. But it’s ad-free and… Read more »
Visual storytelling iPad app Storehouse has raised $7 million in Series A funding. “We’ve been impressed by how creative the everyday consumer is,” said Mark Kawano, the company’s CEO and a… Read more »
Pew released updated data Friday finding that 24 percent of American adults owns an e-reader, up from 19 percent in a November 2012 survey. For this report, Pew did phone surveys… Read more »
“Netflix for ebooks” Oyster launched on iPad and opened up to everybody Wednesday; previously it had only been available on iPhone. Rival service Scribd also released some stats showing that most… Read more »
A new survey suggests that adults who own an e-reader or tablet read more books than those who don’t own a device. The survey also found that younger people tend to… Read more »
FiftyThree, the company behind the award-winning iPad journaling and drawing app Paper, has partnered with Moleskine to let users order print versions of their journals straight from the app. Read more »
Amazon is making some Prime Instant Video content available for download, so viewers can watch it without an internet connection. It’s not available for every video in the Prime catalog, but… Read more »
The RSS app Reeder is finally back on iPad. It was down for a couple of months after Google Reader’s demise. If you paid for it once before, though, you’ll have… Read more »