The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
Recently, with Amazon’s hiring of Andre Vrignaud, Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy the media and bloggers have jumped on speculating what games are coming up on Kindle. Kindle is a reading device, and Jeff Bezos has repeatedly said he doesn’t want to give up ‘Reading’ as opposed to doing things that compromise reading. That’s [...]
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Those of you who ordered your Kindle 3 from outside USA should know that Amazon is charging $2 extra for each book or magazines or newspaper. Even the book which is free for US Kindle users is not free for international Kindle users as you can see in the picture. Is it the cost of [...]
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I’ve just came across a post on a blog that talks about an interpreter for the Kindle that someone is about to develop: Rumor has it that someone or other is about to start developing an interpreter for the Kindle. (This is not just a rumor, either. It’s solid. Out of respect for the muzzle [...]
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B&N investors have decided to sell the company. The financial trouble, bad earings, and ‘unvervalued shates’ are to blame for such decision. When Amazon announced the new Kindle, B&N announced the uncertain future of the company. Recently the company cut the price of Nook from $259 to $199 and released Nook wifi at $149. And [...]
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It’s now final that B&N is going to be sold. The share price is ‘significantly undervalues’, and the company had poor earnings last quarter. The WSJ reports: Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore [...]
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ZDnet’s Larry Dignan: Review: My 20 minutes with Amazon’s latest Kindle: When playing with the new Kindle a few things jump out at you. First, it’s all screen since the frame around the device is much smaller (actually 21 percent) than its predecessor. It’s also light—a critical point for those of us that haven’t found [...]
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[asa]B002Y27P3M[/asa] With new Kindle 3 Amazon has introduced webkit-based browser instead of the old basic browser. I’ve already posted a piece titled “Whats so special about new webkit based browser on kindle 3” a few days back. The heavy internet traffic to that post seems to me that people are very much interested to know [...]
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On 28th July Charlie Rose interviewed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. You can watch the interview here. Here is some selection of the interview related to Kindle: Kindle VS iPad CHARLIE ROSE: In the end when people say the iPad or some other tablet device that allows you to read is a Kindle killer. JEFF BEZOS: [...]
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The hardware business for us has been so successful that we’re going to continue. I predict there will be a 10th-generation and a 20th-generation Kindle. We’re well-situated to be experts in purpose-built reading devices. At $139, if you’re going to read by the pool, some people might spend more than that on a swimsuit and [...]
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USA Today have just published an interview of Jeff Bezos where he talks about kindle ebook sells, touch capability issues, ebook formats, market competition etc…..Here is a selected sections of the interview: On multimedia Q: Why not add multimedia to e-books? A: You want to enter the author’s world, the great novel or engaging non-fiction [...]
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