A $139 Wi-Fi only kindle was launched by Amazon which is expected to drive digital book sales.
On Thursday, Amazon also introduced a $189 third generation model of the original Kindle with Wi-Fi and 3G wireless technology. It enables the users to not buy digital books from Amazon but also allows them to download them in [...]
Jul
30
2010
30
2010
Amazon $139 Wi-Fi Kindle big blow to Barnes & Noble, Borders and Sony?
Jul
20
2010
20
2010
Kindle ebooks beats paper books
The Amazon sales activities are going at pace for the last 90 days. The company has sold more electronic books in comparison to the traditional format books. These are surprising results, which seem to have surprised the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The recent pace of Kindle e-reader sales have in fact shown that sudden [...]
Jul
1
2010
1
2010
Amazon Acquisition of portal Woot ! Amazon expands its presence in direct retail sales.
Representatives of Amazon and Woot has informed that Amazon has acquired Woot . The Woot blog is having a whole video on the acquisition. Both the companies signed a contract .Various aspects of the contract, such as the purchase price were not disclosed, but for acquisition Amazon probably lost ten million dollars . According to [...]
Jun
6
2010
6
2010
Amazon’s kindle to be available across Target stores
Beginning on Sunday Target store will become the first brick and mortar store to sell kindle. Kindle will be available at the price of $259 at the store that is same as the price at Amazon.com.
This decision of selling kindle at its new location was made after the initial trial at the Target’s flagship store [...]
Apr
2
2010
2
2010
Amazon Is Hiking the Prices of Kindle to Prevent Apple from Grabbing the Sales
The iPad from Apple is out and it has really made the users crazy. The reviews of the iPad showed that the tablet received great praises for its amazing features. The price of the iPad by Apple was set at 499$.
The Amazon on the other hand, the greatest rival of Apple has set a new [...]
Mar
26
2010
26
2010
Who Would Win The Race? Amazon or Apple
It is expected that Apple would bring out their iPads on the 3rd of April, 2010. This day is expected to mark the beginning of the end for kindle. iPad would be far different from the Kindle both in price as well as performance.
Kindle by Amazon gained a huge popularity among the customers as the [...]
Feb
24
2010
24
2010
The Amazon Kindle under the thumb of Microsoft?
Amazon and Microsoft sign agreement to exchange intellectual property. This is a good way for the online merchant to protect themselves from potential lawsuits from Redmond. This is really a difficult to imagine the strategy that is emerging between the two groups. Amazon benefit does the agreement to use Microsoft technologies? Is this a [...]
Feb
23
2010
23
2010
The Kindle now opened in Spanish texts
The Kindle, Amazon’s electronic reader speaks Spanish now . As announced by the giant of online retailing, which now also dominates the sale of digital electronic book readers, desktop publishing platform is open even to books in Spanish.
So far, its software allowed only books in English, French and German, but since last week opened, in [...]
Feb
21
2010
21
2010
Apple Undercut Amazon on E-Books
Apple is almost set to sell e-books on its forthcoming iPad. It will provide the e-book in just $10.once upon a time e-book was a bestseller and was costing the same price that is $10. According to the reports from The New York Times Apple had worked a provision into its agreement with publishers. He [...]
Feb
19
2010
19
2010
Kindle comes free with BlackBerry
Amazon has unveiled Kindle for BlackBerry, a free e-book application that lets users read over digital 420,000 books bought from the online retailer, including over 100 New York Times bestsellers, on various BlackBerry devices.
It also lets the user to synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices.
The Research In Motion’s BlackBerry [...]