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Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

January 28, 2011
Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” sounds like an online meeting place for like-minded romantics to hook up and talk about their favorite books, but it’s not a Match.com clone. So what is it? Amazon describes it as a new kind of “well researched, well argued, a…

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Kindle Book Lending Goes Live

December 30, 2010
Kindle Book Lending Goes Live

With a complete lack of fanfare, Amazon has thrown the switch allowing users to loan Kindle books as promised. The feature works much the same as the loaning implementation on the Nook. Users can loan a book to one user for two weeks. Loans are apparen…

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Amazon Kindle App Running on Nook Color, Universe Fails to Collapse

December 29, 2010
Amazon Kindle App Running on Nook Color, Universe Fails to Collapse

It had to happen eventually, the irony is just too delicious. The intrepid Android hacking community had managed to get the Amazon Kindle app running on a rooted Nook Color. Now user that don’t mind a bit of legwork can get books from Amazon’s expansiv…

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Third-Generation Kindle is Amazon’s Best Selling Product Ever

December 27, 2010
Third-Generation Kindle is Amazon’s Best Selling Product Ever

Amazon hates to get into specific numbers for Kindle sales, but isn’t shy of getting all braggadocios when new records are reached. And according to Amazon, the third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in the company’s history, a distinc…

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Amazon on a Roll, Sells “Millions” of New Kindle Devices

December 14, 2010
Amazon on a Roll, Sells “Millions” of New Kindle Devices

Amazon doesn’t usually like to reveal sales figures on its Kindle platforms, but that didn’t stop the e-tailer from sending out a ‘Thank You’ letter to customers for the success of its third-generation eBook reader.
“Thanks to you, in just the first 73…

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Amazon Hands Over Keys to Kindle Bookstore to Everyone

December 8, 2010
Amazon Hands Over Keys to Kindle Bookstore to Everyone

Effectively immediately, any webmaster can open a Kindle Bookstore and integrate it into their website, Amazon announced on Tuesday.  Amazon says it takes just a few seconds to embed the Kindle for the Web widget into a website, and once in place …

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PSA: Don’t Pay for Free Books on Kindle

November 30, 2010
PSA: Don’t Pay for Free Books on Kindle

The Washington Post reported today that some Kindle users may be paying for books that, by all accounts, should be free. Many classic titles are showing up on the Kindle store that appear to be from Project Gutenberg. There are not just the same books,…

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Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

November 19, 2010
Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

Starting today, you can now gift Kindle books to anyone with an email address, regardless if they own a Kindle or not, Amazon announced. And while it may seem cruel to gift your Kindle-less nephew an eBook, you can remind him that Kindle Books can be…

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