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Amazon Kindle $20 Refund: Take that Nook!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Two days after Barnes and Noble announced a similarly priced but better featured Nook e-ink reader, Amazon gifts customers with an unannounced $20 rebate for the Kindle. Amazon is calling it a “consolidation.” The rebate, according to them, was due to the popularity of the Amazon Kindle (doesn’t it go the other way around? Popularity [...]

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An Amazon Kindle “Plus Size” Newspaper e-Reader Due Wednesday?

Monday, May 4, 2009

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Online giant Amazon has bigger plans for the Kindle. If the e-Book reader is going to change publishing forever, first thing it’s got to do is change itself… or just keep changing until publishing gets the drift and changes with you. The word is that it’s going to be a bigger screen Kindle. It’s a [...]

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Kindle for iPhone app released

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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In a move that will surely please iPhone owners who haven’t made up their mind on whether to get a Kindle 2 or not, Amazon has release the Kindle for iPhone app. It basically provides iPhone owners an e-book reader that allows them to purchase Kindle books, download all previously purchased books, and sync with [...]

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Amazon Kindle 2 E-Book Reader ready for pre-order

Monday, February 9, 2009

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Amazon is now accepting orders for their brand new Kindle 2. It’s thinner than ever measuring just over 1/3 of an inch, and weighs just 10.2 ounces. It boasts of improves of a 25% more battery life, 20% faster page turns, and now supports 16 shades of gray for better text and image display as [...]

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Kindle Mode Asus Eee PC - Will it Catch Fire?

Saturday, February 9, 2008

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The Eee PC just got a lot better. A reader and Eee enthusiast in the Philippines managed to hack an FBReader into the Eee PC. The FBReader is a free e-Book reader for devices running Unix/ Windows. You can find it in PDAs and smartphones as well. On full-screen mode, the FBReader looks like [...]

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Kindle e-book reader doing amazingly well

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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Despite Steve Jobs’ Amazon-Kindle bashing (because people don’t read anymore!), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos seems to be satisfied with how the Kindle is selling. He reports that in terms of demand, the Kindle is “outpacing our expectations”. In fact, the “heavy customer demand” for the Kindle is so high that a notice on the [...]

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The Amazon Kindle can’t be used on planes

Monday, January 28, 2008

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Somebody over at CrunchGear just discovered that the “biggest problem with the Kindle” is that you can’t read it during take-offs and landings. I’m not entirely sure if the rationale behind that is that it looks like a laptop, therefore bad, or it has the same electronic configurations as a laptop, therefore interfering with the [...]

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PMPs, PNDs and Kindle Top Amazon Christmas Sellers

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

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Amazon’s electronics category is dominated this holiday season by Apple PMPs. The silver 4GB Nano Phatty takes top spot while the 16GB iPod Touch, 80GB iPod Classic, the black 8GB iPod Nano (third-gen) are all in the top five. The Kindle, a standalone e-Book reader we kinda like, is number two. Even more relevant for the [...]

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