Michael Kozlowski of Good E-Reader is reporting that Amazon.com plans to open a retail store in the Seattle area in the coming months. The store will supposedly feature Kindle e-readers and tablets as well as other products, and is said to be an experiment to see if a chain of such outlets would make sense.
Amazon revealed that it’s selling Kindle e-book readers like hotcakes: over a million per week for the past three weeks.
To everyone who’s been waiting patiently for their new Amazon Kindles to arrive, here’s some good news: The company is shipping them out early, it announced today, with Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G orders being filled six days earlier than expected.
Amazon loses at least $5.25 on every single Kindle Touch sold, according to a report on TheStreet.com that estimates manufacturing costs for the $79 device coming in around $84.25. That latter number doesn’t include cost for shipping or software, meaning that Amazon’s losses are undoubtedly even greater. Exclusive: Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make [...]
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library sounds like a good deal, with more than 5,000 Kindle e-books available for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. But many of the most popular titles are filler in the form of public domain books, self-help books and video-based workout instructions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that the new Silk browser in Amazon’s forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet, which speeds browsing by routing users’ traffic through Amazon’s cloud servers, does not pose a privacy threat to users.
It’s still more than a month away from release, but the Amazon Kindle Fire is already drawing the wrong kind of attention from a company called Smartphone Technologies. Namely, the kind of attention that involves touchscreens and a patent infringement lawsuit.
Well there went the Kindle Touch 3G’s appeal straight out the window: Amazon now admits that while its upcoming touch-based Kindle will indeed be 3G-enabled, the places it’ll be allowed to visit along the information superhighway are actually not so super.
Estimates for how much it costs Amazon to produce a single Kindle Fire tablet have started to roll in and, as CNET reports, the estimates hover between $150 and $250, depending whom you ask.
Amazon now has seven different Kindle models for sale. Here’s a look at all of them, along with tips for picking the one that’s right for you.
Pundits asking whether the new Kindle Fire will be an “iPad killer” are way off the mark. It’s a killer alright, but the victim is not who you think it is. “We don’t think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service,” says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
