Amazon had a quite successful year in 2011. It brought the Kindle Fire to the market and sold millions of these e-readers in the last month. In fact, studies have shown that Amazon Kindle Fire may already be on its way to becoming the #2 tablet right behind the iPad. But Amazon has been losing [...]

Amazon is dedicated to dominating the e-book industry for years to come. The company already has an e-reading platform that others find hard to compete with. It may be losing money on devices such as Kindle Fire. But Amazon will offset its costs with all the content it  gets to sell to its customers. As [...]

Many publishers are obsessed with their sales rank on Amazon. Of course, the higher your rank, the more attention your book receives in the Amazon community. The more books you have published, the harder it gets to keep track of their ranks all the time. If your books are available in multiple Amazon stores, your [...]

Amazon is after market domination in the U.K. How else can one explain it buying The Book Depository. This is an online bookseller in the UK with 6 million titles and shipping to more than 100 countries. Whether The Book Depository is the fastest growing bookseller in Europe is debatable. But the site does have [...]

Consumers do not like to pay more than they have to get their hands on e-books and e-book readers. When Kindle was released a few years ago for $399, many assumed that the device was worth it over the long run if Amazon dropped its e-book prices. Amazon did try to sell all of its [...]

Meet the new king of the mountain on Amazon.com: Amazon Kindle. With all the push that Amazon provided Kindle with on its web properties, it was only a matter of time before Kindle became the best selling product of all time. Amazon helped its case by slashing its Kindle prices aggressively. While Amazon is still [...]

We have been calling for Amazon to bring a solar powered Kindle to the market for a couple of years now. Amazon does not seem to be interested in that concept at this point. But Toshiba and KDDI have pulled it off with the Biblio Leaf. This solar e-reader, which will be available in Japan [...]

When a company is leading in a market, it is easier for it to take it slower. Amazon has dominated the e-reader market for a while. But its e-book business is being heavily challenged by Google and its cloud-based eBookStore. It did not take Amazon a whole lot of time to respond to Google eBookStore. [...]

Amazon prepared for the holiday shopping season in the best way possible. It managed to rile up many of its customers by allowing a pedophilia for dummies type of book to reach Kindle store. Even though people were outraged by the book, it seems many took the time to buy it, helping it to reach [...]

Amazon Kindle offers the best e-reading experience on the market. It seems Amazon is finally ready to hammer Apple iPad over it. In its latest Kindle ad, Amazon takes digs at iPad’s LCD screen and its price. Amazon’s aggressive pricing strategy has done wonders for the company and helped it further differentiate its device from [...]

A while ago, news broke out about Amazon reaching a deal with Wylie Agency to distribute the work of its clients through Kindle store. Random House was not too happy about the exclusive deal, nor were some of Amazon’s competitors. Unfortunately for Amazon, the deal seems to have fallen through. It seems Random House was [...]

Amazon has been including free Kindle books in its Kindle bestseller list for quite some time. We never understood the point behind including free e-books on a list that was supposed to be about “sold” e-books. Besides, it is not fair to put paid and free e-books on the same list as free products can [...]

Are Amazon or other e-book sellers’ prices too high? That’s the question many experts and e-book fans have been asking in the past few months. When Amazon launched the Kindle product line, it started pushing the fact that “most” e-books were priced at $9.99 as a way to grab more market-share. After all, if you [...]

It’s not everyday that you see a CEO of a top company apologize for his/her own company’s “stupid” actions. But what did you expect with Amazon? Amazon is known for putting customers first, and while you can’t keep everyone happy, I am sure Amazon’s service is much better than a lot of its competitors. The [...]

I still remember how a few weeks ago people were talking about how Stanza was going to challenge Amazon Kindle by letting people read e-books on their iPhones. That’s before Amazon came out with its own application for the iPhone platform. It seems Amazon is not done with its adventures in the mobile world. Lexcycle [...]