Amazon has proven in the past few years that it is capable of bringing new products to the market and making them a hit. Amazon Kindle has been the king of e-reader market for a few years already. The company will now be getting in the tablet business with Kindle Fire. Kindle Fire is not [...]

Amazon.com may have had a lot of success selling e-books and Kindles in the U.S. But Jeff Bezos and his team have grander plans for their business. According to Reuters, Amazon will enter the Japanese e-book market with the help of its Kindle devices. Amazon is negotiating with top publishers such as Shogakukan Inc, Shueisha [...]

NOOK Color may not be an iPad killer but it has become quite popular since its launch as it borrows functions from both top tablets and e-readers. It is a great device to read e-books and consume multimedia files on. While many have invested in NOOK Colors, it does seen the majority of buyers are [...]

Amazon has managed to generate a ton of momentum for its business by introducing multiple Kindle models yesterday. The new E-ink models are quite impressive and should keep Amazon competitive against upcoming E-ink e-readers for a while. It is Kindle Fire that could prove to be a game changer for Amazon. The aggressive pricing scheme [...]

We are only hours away from Amazon introducing a new Kindle tablet to the public. Many Kindle fans have been hoping for Amazon to get in the tablet business. Kindle Fire won’t be an iPad killer. But it will come with its own Android UI and is expected to be a formidable challenger to NOOK [...]

Apple has been dominating the tablet market for a long time already. Many experts had assumed that Apple would not have it this easy in the tablet market. But Motorola and other Apple rivals have tried and failed to challenge the company. Amazon has already set up an announcement for September 28th. It is most [...]

When Amazon launched Kindle with ads a short while ago, many experts were skeptical about its potential. After all, promoting ads via screensavers does not seem like a huge opportunity for Amazon. Many of those ads would be useless to Kindle owners anyway. The company is planning to change all that by bringing AmazonLocal ads [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you have wanted to ask your favorite author a question while reading his/her latest work? Amazon has introduced a new service (@author) to give Kindle users the chance to ask authors questions on their device. As the name of the service suggests, it is powered by Twitter. [...]

Apple has been dominating the tablet market with the iPad. Many companies have tried and failed to properly challenge the device so far. Amazon has slowly put together various pieces of the puzzle to create an ecosystem capable of challenging that of Apple’s. The company is expected to bring a tablet to the market in [...]

Long-time Amazon customers are familiar with the company’s daily deals. It offers these for apps, electronics, and other types of products. Amazon has decided to offer its flash sales for Kindle books as well. That means Kindle owners get a chance to buy e-books for lower prices on Amazon. Customers get notified on these deals [...]

Amazon may be great at producing e-book readers but it is decisively weak when it comes to keeping secrets. Many of us have been able to guess some of the company’s moves based on the domains it registers for its business. KindleScribes.com is the latest domain registered by Amazon. Its next e-reader is expected to [...]

Amazon’s Kindle Development Kit has not led to revolutionary apps for the device. But developers have come up with a few useful tools for Kindle using the platform. Here are 5 cool Kindle apps you can use to become more productive and get more out of your device: Calendar for Kindle: a simple daily planner [...]

E-book consumers have been wondering for quite a while about the reason e-book prices are not dropping. Amazon had promised to keep e-book prices as low as possible but was forced to abandon some of its plans under pressure from large publishers. A new class action lawsuits against Apple and top publishers alleges that these [...]

Amazon does not always announce every move that it makes. We all already know about the price drop that Kindle 3G with special offers received just a short while ago. The company has quietly dropped the price of Kindle WiFi refurbished by bout $30. The device is now up for grabs for $99. It is [...]

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 [...]