Kindle News
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Las Vegas -
A vending machine for electronics does make sense, and this isn’t the first. It’s getting used to the idea that’s a little difficult. Amazon unveiled a new “Kindle dispenser” in Las Vegas this week.
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Technology has changed many things. It's changed the way we buy, listen, watch, and even store content. Now it's changed another aspect of our lives — reading.
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Todd, 23, is an avid comic book fan. He use to spend a lot of time at the comic book store buying all the latest issues of his favorite comics. Three years ago Todd bought an iPad. Now he downloads and reads a lot of his comic books as e-books.
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Figures in for 2012 show that sales of printed books fell by almost £74 million ($119 million) in the UK. At the same time sales of e-books has risen.
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"Olivia’s Christmas trip to Venice, Italy, should be a holiday dream come true. But when the unattended luggage becomes the focus of a handsome Italian policeman’s bomb investigation, she worries she won’t even make it out of the airport."
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The US mobile market is dominated by Apple and Samsung. Earlier this year, Google decided to take a piece of the pie with the Nexus line. First with the Nexus 7 tab and now the Nexus 4 and 10 editions. It appears Amazon may be wanting in as well.
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Amazon has operated in China for quite some time now and they are finally entering the ebook market with a mixture of paid and free ebooks with a cost range of $0 to $7 USD.
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Twenty-two years after the suicide of her father, author Amanda Evans takes advantage of Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to share her story with a global audience.
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Despite the tension and amazement generated during the latest two Apple launches, consumers are quick to realize and lose interest in what Apple has to offer.
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Amazon has canceled the account of a Kindle user, deleted all the books the user had paid for and refuses to give a reason for the action.
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With his novel The Invention of the Big Bang, author Fred Schäfer takes the reader on a wonderfully philosophical journey in which life's most pressing questions are considered ... and left pleasantly unresolved.
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It appears as if Barnes and Noble, bookstore giant, is also following suit to Amazon's Kindle Fire HD. Barnes and Noble is now accepting pre-orders to their very own Nook upgrades.
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Bentonville -
Walmart has decided that it will no longer sell Kindle devices beyond present commitments to do so. Walmart claims the move is simply part of its marketing strategy but many think that the decision is related to concerns about competition from Amazon.
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New York -
In a landmark decision on Thursday, US district judge Denise Cote upheld the $96 million Department of Justice penalty imposed on publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins for conspiring to fix the price of ebooks.
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This week Amazon will launch two new models of its popular tablet computer / e-reader Kindle Fire. Tech rumors indicate that the devices will have a radical new design.
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Target today announced that it will be phasing out sales of Kindle products this spring due to a "conflict of interest."
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The increasing price of textbooks can be an additional financial burden to students already struggling with paying tuition. Here is just one way to loosen the noose of student loans.
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NEW YORK – Death doesn't always stop great writers from publishing their new material. Not even Kurt Vonnegut. So it goes.
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Seattle -
Is Amazon in the process of opening a retail store in Seattle? Sources tell one media outlet that they are planning to do so in order to test the profitability of such a venture. It would begin within the next few months.
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Large chains pushed out independent bookstores. Bookstore chains pushed each other out. Barnes & Noble, the last remaining bookstore chain, now stands alone. As eBooks replace print books, can Barnes & Noble survive Amazon.com in an online, digital world?
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Amazon is dealing with a bit of a plagiarism problem with their erotica section of ebooks, with several self-published authors being caught with copyright infringement.
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M-Edge Accessories LLC, a partner of Amazon who manufacturers Kindle cases, has filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging the online retailer has been "sabotaging" their business.
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Research carried out in California suggests that the weight of the Internet approximates that of a large strawberry or small egg.
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Sydney -
Smashwords is a wide-distribution publisher. Their approach is somewhat like existing publishers like Lulu, but they’ve got a much bigger range. I was put on to Smashwords by a friend in the States, and I have to say that so far they’re a cut above.
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Sydney -
If you’re a reader, you could wind up owning a scrap heap of gadgets. E-reader compatability is ridiculously over complex. This is to distribution what chastity is to orgasms- Vaguely related, and not noticeably helpful.
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Seattle -
Sick and tired of advertisements? Amazon is allowing its customers to pay $30 to remove advertisements from the latest ad-supported Kindles. The $30 is the difference in price between a non-ad Kindle and a Kindle with ads.
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Online retail giant Amazon is entering the tablet market with the launch of the Kindle Fire. The new tablet is smaller than Apple's iPad but comes at a price point that some believe will make it the king of the Android tablet space.
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New York -
Amazon announced Wednesday that Kindle customers can now borrow more than 11,000 ebooks from libraries across the United States. Local libraries are now announcing implementing the system and informing their visitors.
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Self-published author John Locke has just signed a deal with a major publisher. In June this year, the American writer of contemporary crime became the first author to sell a million copies on Kindle.
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Seattle -
Instead of purchasing university or college textbooks at outlandish prices, Amazon has unveiled a new service that allows students to rent textbooks for the time you need. Kindle Textbook Rental promises students will save up to 80 percent.
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Will Self's ninth novel, "Umbrella".
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Gotta Be Mobile
Original Kindle Fire
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Mobileread.com
Amazon Kindle.
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In a landmark judgement, a New York judge upheld a US Department of Justice penalty against publishers for ebook price fixing. Sept 2012.
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A woman reading ebook reader
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HarperCollins Canada
Christmas in Venice by Meadow Taylor
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