Kindle

Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video content. The entire Kindle Fire family will receive the feature and the Amazon Instant Video app on Wii Continue Reading →

Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing. The Send to Kindle suite, which Amazon launched last year with its Send to Kindle Continue Reading →

How low will Amazon’s tablets go? We’re now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7″ tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail end of the Android-based tablet market – an area which is today Continue Reading →

Kindle for iPhone and iPad has received a nice little update on Thursday, adding the ability to add multi-colored highlights to a book, instead of the default yellow (or blue if in night mode). The new update also encourages sharing on Twitter and Facebook when you finish a book. This is a carryover from the Continue Reading →

The problem with most ebooks is you can’t exactly give them with a friends or pass them onto your children when you’re done. But Amazon might actually address that with a new patent to sell used ebooks. Unfortunately you can’t just buy an ebook and own an ebook and do what you want with it. Continue Reading →

Come May, Kindle Fires users will have lots of free virtual coins to spend on their favorite apps. Announced on Tuesday, Amazon Coins is a new type of virtual currency developed by the retail giant. Users will be able to grab the new coins to purchase Kindle Fire games, apps, and in-app items from the Continue Reading →

Google entered the tablet market with its Nexus 7 range last year but it is Amazon, the US retailer that has a somewhat strained relationship with the search giant, that is dominating the Android tablet market worldwide with its Kindle Fire range, a new report claims. Research from mobile app analytics service Localytics which goes Continue Reading →

While many of us are still recovering from New Year’s celebrations, Amazon is considerably clearer-headed: it wants us ready for the winter school term that’s about to start. Appropriately, it’s offering a surprisingly steep discount on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 for students. Americans headed back to class can get $50 off the price of Continue Reading →

I’ve been an e-book fan for as long as I can remember. Ever since I found myself stuck on a slow-moving mountain train with nothing but my PalmPilot and an e-book, I’ve been hooked on digital reading. Flash-forward some 15 years and e-books are everywhere, thanks in no small part to the Amazon Kindle — Continue Reading →

Tablets are an important resource for small businesses. Not only do tablets provide today’s small businesses with tools to enhance productivity and efficiency, they also provide an additional way to market their products and services to consumers. Tablets play a critical role in today’s modern world and, within a few years, they are expected to Continue Reading →