The Kindle Fire is a pretty decent device for content consumption. You can use it to read books, watch videos, and do all kinds of other neat things. It is nice to have around at home, during your trips, and in your car. Of course, if you plan to use this in your car, you [...]

The Kindle Fire does have a pretty decent operating system on-board. Amazon has gone out of its way to make its flavor of Android consumer friendly. But what if you want to run multiple operating systems on your tablet? Amazon tablets do not have a whole lot of storage on-board but when partitioned correctly, you [...]

The tablet wars have just started. Apple has been dominating the tablet market for a couple of years now. Amazon has changed the game slightly by bringing the Kindle Fire to the market. This tablet is not an iPad killer by any means. It does not have as many fancy bells and whistles like the [...]

Many of us have suspected that using an iPad or Kindle during takeoff probably would not hurt. If you have traveled by air recently, you have realized that you are still asked to turn your electronics off during that time. Apparently, the FAA understands some of these policies are outdated. It will take the FAA [...]

Microsoft is planning to get serious about tablets. Windows 8 tablets are expected to hit the market in the next few months. But does Microsoft have its eyes on the e-book reader market? That’s what Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, has hinted at: Microsoft will be this year the first company on the planet to have [...]

We have argued for a few years that the iPad is a distracting device for those who just want to use their tablet for reading e-books. It has too many bells and whistles and plenty of distracting apps. But your iPad can be a great educational tool as well. The Khan Academy app for iPad [...]

The new iPad has been released today. If you ordered your tablet online, you should be getting it today. Many iPad fans will be making a trip to stores to pick up theirs. It is only a matter of time before top developers optimize their apps for the new iPad retina display. Kindle for iPad [...]

Steve Jobs may have contributed a lot to Apple’s success in the past few years. But he did leave this company in a bit of a legal mess when it comes to e-books. The Department of Justice is now targeting Apple and top e-book publishers for colluding to charge more for e-books. As William Markham, [...]

The B&N NOOK Tablet is an exciting e-reader. It is more than decent as a tablet and can serve as your e-reader easily. The 16 GB version has plenty of space for apps and your content. But only 1 GB of it was available for side-loaded content in the past. Now B&N is allowing NOOK [...]

Banning an entire class of e-books because they have material some people may not be comfortable with is never a great idea. When it comes to erotica, PayPal is changing course. The new policy will prohibit use of PayPal for sale of e-books that contain child pornography and violent material. The new policy does not [...]

The Kindle Singles program sounded very exciting when Amazon launched it over a year ago. Of course, nobody knew for sure that there was a market for shorter books. It seems the idea has been quite successful for the company though. PaidContent is reporting that Amazon has sold 2M Kindle Singles since the launch of [...]

It was always inevitable. The iPad 3 has sold out quickly. Tablet shoppers can still order these devices online. But they will have to wait a couple of weeks to get their hands their tablet. At the time of this writing, new iPad buyers have to wait at least 2 weeks to get their order. [...]

Amazon has already achieved a considerable amount of success with the Kindle Fire. The device is priced very aggressively to sell. Amazon may be losing money with each Kindle Fire sold but it makes it back with content sales in the long run. It is not done making tablets though. In fact, we might see [...]

In the past couple of years, we have covered how e-books are expensive and frustrating in many ways. Many of us have suspected that some top e-book publishers may be working together to keep e-book prices too high. E-book buyers are not the only ones noticing this though. The U.S. Department of Justice has warned [...]

Apple finally announced its next generation tablet yesterday. The new iPad has a faster processor, higher resolution display, better battery, and neat features such as Voice Dictation. Apple seems to have stopped using numbers to name its tablets. That is going to cause some confusion among consumers. But Apple still has not taken steps to [...]