Amazon may have not been interested in competing with Apple in the tablet market with the Kindle. Nevertheless, the market is too lucrative for it to turn away from. Besides, Amazon has been slowly putting powerful pieces together to create a powerful ecosystem for its upcoming tablets. As the Wall Street Journal reported, Amazon’s tablet [...]

Kindle is one awesome e-reader to take with you on your trips. It gives you the opportunity to carry a ton of books without having to actually carry a whole lot of weight. Taking your Kindle on planes can be a bit more complicated. Airlines have all kinds of rules and regulations. These 8 air [...]

Kindle, iPad, and Nook are all great e-readers. They let you carry more books with you and save money on them too. Unfortunately, none of these devices can handle liquid accidents well. If you are too worried about coffee accidents or want to take your e-reader with you to the beach, these 5 water resistant [...]

Amazon still has one of the best e-book readers on the market in Kindle 3. But all experts agree that the time has come for the company to introduce new e-readers to keep its lead over B&N and its other rivals. A report by WSJ suggests Amazon will bring a tablet and 2 new Kindle [...]

As we predicted a short while ago, Amazon has decided to reduce its “Kindle 3G with special offers” price to generate more momentum for the Kindle family of products. Kindle 3G with special offers is now available for $139 on Amazon.com ($25 off its previous price). Kindle WiFi with special offers is still going for [...]

Father’s day is almost upon us. While we should not wait till Father’s day to show appreciation for our dads, this is not a bad time to gift dad something he can use. E-book readers make great gifts. They can make it more convenient for dads to read more often and save money on e-books. [...]

For a long time, NOOK has been behind the scorecards against Kindle. B&N has done a marvelous job pushing Amazon in the e-reader market though. NOOK Simple Touch, B&N’s latest e-book reader, has enough features to be considered equal to Kindle 3. It is a touch-enhanced e-book reader that is more compact than Kindle. Unlike [...]

When Kindle was released to the market a few years ago, many folks were skeptical about its future. The e-book industry had become stagnant at the time. Market leaders such as Sony were not doing enough to breathe new life to the market. Fast forward a few years and Amazon is already selling more e-books [...]

Many Kindle owners have not been happy about the agency model adopted by certain publishers and how Amazon prices its e-books. Amazon may not be able to reduce all its e-book prices dramatically but it is experimenting with ebook pricing in cooperation with select publishers. Amazon has launched Sunshine Deals, offering numerous best-selling titles for [...]

It is that time of the year again: when e-reader makers preview or release their next generation e-readers to the market. While we are surprised that Amazon has not given us even a hint about the future Kindle, the introduction of NOOK 3 has more than made up for that. Kobo is not giving up [...]

There has been a lot of talk about how tablets are selling like hot-cakes. If we did not know any better, we would think everyone in the U.S. owns a tablet. Apparently, the tablet market is not where many assume it to be. A recent study by Nielsen shows that less than 5 percent of [...]

A lot of people were skeptical of Kindle’s prospects when it was announced by Amazon a few years ago. People are now realizing what a great move that was for the company. Amazon Kindle has taken the company to new heights, leading to a ton of e-book sales each and every month. As Caris analyst [...]

When Amazon Kindle was launched a couple of years ago, there were a lot of people who were skeptic about the potential of the platform. Fast forward a couple of years and some authors are making a killing on this platform. Charlaine Harris is the latest author to join the “Kindle million club.” This is [...]

E-ink has been a great technology for e-reader manufacturers to offer a more realistic reading experience to their customers. It has other applications though. We have already seen e-ink technology used in watches. The PaperPhone takes this concept a step further. It is the first flexible smart-phone with a 3.75-inch thin-film display that can do [...]

The folks at Amazon has built one of the best companies in the world by offering a wide variety of goods, innovative services, low prices, and superb customer service. Sometimes, it is easy to forget the amount of work it takes to run such a company in a profitable fashion. Keeping investors happy all the [...]