Amazon has been having a lot of success with its Kindle line, and that has encouraged a lot of companies to try and enter this hot market. Barnes & Noble is naturally one of those companies. Until now, nobody could tell whether these guys were planning to come up with their own reader or not,  [...]

I know folks were throwing tea parties to protest the bank bailouts in the U.S., but I wasn’t aware that Amazon Kindle owners have been throwing their own tea party to let Amazon know that it should stick with its promise and don’t go over $9.99 with Kindle books. “9.99 boycott” is the tag that [...]

A few weeks ago, we had the Authors Guild challenge Amazon to remove the text-to-speech feature that a lot of us have come to love. Amazon finally buckled and made Text-to-Speech an optional feature, controlled mainly by the publishers. A lot of Kindle fans argued at the time that Read-to-Me in no way replaces an [...]

If you have owned your Kindle for a while, you are probably well familiar with the Kindle store. The store has grown dramatically in the past few months and now has over 250,000 titles available for Kindle owners to purchase. What we didn’t have till a couple of days ago was a special page for [...]

You may have thought that Amazon was going to have it all easy when it introduced Kindle 2.0. Amazon made some good improvements over the first Kindle and solidified its position as the number one e-book player in the industry. But things are just starting to heat up. Sony is definitely not going to concede [...]

Amazon has been a really interesting company to watch. It is a pioneer in the Internet retail industry, but there have been so many ups and downs in Amazon’s history that make Amazon a great company to study for all students of business. I remember when I read Amazon’s case study in business school. It [...]

When I look at Samsung, I see a company that is great at identifying hot markets and developing solutions for them. There is no question that Amazon has made the e-book market interesting again with Kindle 1.0 and Kindle 2.0. So it was never surprising to see companies such as Samsung jump on the chance [...]

When I launched K.indled a couple of years ago, I was aware of all the services that can be used to syndicate this blog. But I didn’t want to use Feedburner as I didn’t see the need to. But the truth is, K.indled posts show up much better on Feedburner and the service is very [...]

I heard about Fujitsu’s color Kindle killer a while ago. At the time, I didn’t think too much of it. Fujitsu was never clear about targeting global markets with FLEPia, and I always thought Amazon would be the first company to introduce a color e-book reader. It seems Fujitsu has finally made up its mind [...]

A few months ago, I wrote a piece on how Google was building its content network for a potential show-down with Amazon over the e-book market supremacy. There was never a question that Google would not come up with its own hardware in this market. But a partnership with a Kindle competitor was always on [...]

For an organization that is behind one of the best channels on TV, Discovery communications can certainly dish it out. The company is now claiming that Amazon infringed on their patent with its copyright protection system on both Kindle 1.0 and Kindle 2.0. Here is an excerpt: This is certainly not good news for Amazon. [...]

Amazon has shown in the past few weeks that it is ready to take Kindle to the next level. Not only have it introduced a great device in Kindle 2.0, it has brought Kindle to the iPhone community. But what Amazon not tapped into yet is the power of the social media. Websites such as [...]

Apple has teased us with the idea of its very own e-book reader for a while now. Till now, all these rumors have been just what they are — rumors. But in the past couple of weeks, many reliable sources are reporting that Apple is planning something sneaky. Some argue that Apple is planning its [...]

You know what sets top marketers apart from us mere mortals? Their uncanny ability to figure out what makes people tick. They constantly come up with strategies that turn prospects to customers and customers to loyal advocates. One of the best marketing strategies out there is to give a lot of value away and make [...]

Kindle is one of the hottest gadgets on the market, but we all know about the challenges of owning a Kindle in a foreign country. That’s why we need companies such as iRiver to pick up where Amazon left off and bring the gift of e-book readers to other countries. It’s just that iRiver’s e-book [...]