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Amazon on Thursday announced that its upcoming Kindle for Windows Phone 7 app will be the first major eBook software available for WP7 devices. As with all Kindle apps, WP7 users will be able to sync their downloaded books to multiple devices.
“When yo…
Amazon on Thursday announced that its upcoming Kindle for Windows Phone 7 app will be the first major eBook software available for WP7 devices. As with all Kindle apps, WP7 users will be able to sync their downloaded books to multiple devices.
“When yo…
Life is good for E-Ink Holdings, which according to a DigiTimes report just recorded record net profits of more than $22 million in the third quarter, and things will only get better from there.
E-Ink chairman Scott Liu adjusted his company’s forecast …
It seems like Amazon has figured out that if you price a desirable device appropriately, people will buy it, and do so in droves. Not exactly a novel concept, but the success of Amazon’s new generation Kindle eBook readers should serve as a reminder of…
During an interview with CNN’s Howard Kurtz, author Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop per Child project, said that physical books are not long for this world.
“It will be in five years,” Negroponte said in reference to the demise of physic…
If you’re scratching your head raw trying to figure out what exactly a Kindle Single is, don’t worry, we wondered the same thing. As it turns out, that’s the designation Amazon is giving to literary works that don’t fall into the usual below 10,000 wor…
Think eBooks are just for dedicated readers like the Kindle and handheld tablets? Think again. Everyone seems to want to get into the eBook software game, including Toshiba, which just introduced its Book Place platform designed specifically with lapto…
Amazon figured out a way to make its Kindle software compatible with just about any Internet-ready platform: Shuttle the software to the Web.
That’s part of the idea behind Amazon’s “Kindle for the Web” project, which was released in beta form this mor…