Do you:
– Still like the feeling of grainy paper brushing against your finger tips?
– Miss the days when you could dog ear a page instead of a device annoying automatically starting up where you left off?
– Actually like books taking up space in your house or apartment?
If you said yes to any of these questions – and own a …
Windows Phone 7 owners finally have access to Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reading app. It’s a free download from the Zune Marketplace.
The app features Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize the page of the book you’re reading with other Kindle apps, the Kindle desktop software and the Kindle hardware reader if you have …
Although the latest tablets may be generating all the buzz, a new Nielsen survey shows that for the average consumer, hype typically doesn’t translate into a purchase. According to the 27,000-person survey, only 6% of respondents said they were interested in buying a tablet. And while Amazon’s Kindle is its best-selling item of all time, …
The debut of the iPad a year ago was speculated to be the death knell for e-readers like the Kindle. But a new study by JP Morgan reports that the iPad is not actually a Kindle killer.
According to the study, 40 percent of iPad owners also own a Kindle, and another 23 percent of iPad owners plan on buying one in the next 12 months, …
Move over Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The third generation Kindle is now Amazon’s number one selling item of all time. According to a press release from Amazon, on the peak day, Amazon shipped out nine million units alone, and the Kindle has been shipped to 178 countries. The company won’t reveal exactly how many units …
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My Technologizer column over at TIME.com this week is about Barnes & Noble’s new Nookcolor e-reader, the first dedicated e-reader from a big company with a full-blown color touchscreen. Overall, I like it–I’ve never been as happy reading monochrome E-Ink displays such as the ones on last year’s Nook and Amazon’s Kindle as much as I’m …
In an effort to compete with the awkwardness of gift cards and donations to charity made in your name, Amazon has just announced that it’s “the first major bookstore to offer eBook gifting.”
Kindle books will now feature “Give as a Gift” links and will be e-mailed to recipients, who can then read the books on any device that …
It looks like literature finally had its Aha! moment, now that the book world is recognizing electronic reading as a viable publishing venture.
Yesterday, The New York Times announced it would begin publishing a best-seller list, perhaps the largest change to the Times’ book ranking rubric since it began in 1935. Earlier this year, …
While many Amazon customers have been angered by a downloadable e-book claiming to be a pro-pedophilia guide, the online webstore is saying it is their right to sell the product, adding it would be censorship not to allow the product in their Kindle downloadable database.
In a statement to AOL’s TechCrunch, the company wrote, “Amazon …
Slacker Radio, a free streaming personalized Internet service, announced that you’ll be able to stream musiPreviewc via the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it comes out next month. The app will come pre-installed on the Galaxy Tab or you can download it for the Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPod touch, WebOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile …
The perk of the e-reader aside from easily concealing your embarrassing Dan Brown fandom? Free books. The Web is full of classic works inside the public domain, and it’s easy to take advantage of the thousands of free titles with most devices. Here’s a Techland ‘how-to’ in updating that reading queue for free.
More on Time.com:
Amazon has announced that its Kindle software will be available for Windows Phone 7 handsets “later this year.” No exact availability date is mentioned in the company’s press release, though Amazon contends that the free app “will be the first major eBook application available for Windows Phone 7.”
Kindle for Windows Phone 7 will …
