Amazon's Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but it's original and still strong-selling Kindle and its cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in 1950's-style black and white. That may soon change.
Making books effortlessly easy has allowed Amazon to take over the e-book market. But the company has bigger plans.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos featured the devices in a press event held in Santa Monica, Calif. today. Bezos also showed off a refreshed Kindle Fire tablet, but the clear star of the show was the all-new Fire HD.
What does Amazon have in store for its next device unveiling? Likely a 10-inch Kindle Fire.
Get cozy. Amazon has expanded the shelves of its digital library to include enough books to let you borrow for a lifetime.
The Kindle Owner’s Lending Library now sports more than 100,000 titles, including one third of the top 20 …
After some back-and-forth between Amazon and Wattpad, a third party e-reader app, Kindle Fire owners can now use a different apps to read e-books on their device.
Before now, Amazon had been hiding competitor’s e-reader apps in the Kindle Fire’s …
The Kobo Vox e-reader went on sale Friday, and we were lucky enough to get our hands on one at the VentureBeat offices. While the word “e-reader” often evokes images of the iPad or the Kindle Fire, (there are some …
Amazon today released its 3rd Quarter earnings, turning in a per-share performance of just 14 cents, missing Wall Street expectations of 25 cents per share by a wide margin. The ecommerce giant saw revenue decrease by 73 percent, to just …
Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle Fire today threw down the gauntlet for both tablets and e-book readers. At just $199, it’s not much more expensive than previous e-readers, and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than competing tablets.
In …
Amazon confirmed rumors with the announcement of its own tablet device called Kindle Fire, which features a seven-inch touch screen, eight gigabytes of storage, an eight-hour battery and all the benefits of Amazon’s cloud services.
While you won’t be able …
Digital textbook company Inkling announced Wednesday that is has scored $17 million in second-round funding from Tenaya Capital to compete with major competitors entering the space.
Collegians are getting more attention with companies like Chegg and CampusBookRentals, which recently raised …
Big Fish Games is launching a game for the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader today as part of a diversification into new markets.
The Kindle has primarily been an eBook reader to date, so this move shows that just about …
The digerati pooh-poohed it, but Amazon.com’s advertising-supported Kindle 3G with Special Offers is now the company’s top-selling e-book device.
Amazon made the revelation in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday. The $139 device is $50 cheaper than the comparable Kindle 3G, …
During Amazon’s quarter two earnings call, the company reported the strongest growth it has seen in ten years, in addition to digital offerings growth.
In this past quarter, Amazon’s net sales increased 51 percent to $9.91 billion compared year-over-year with …
Books have long stood apart from the rest of the media world, run by an oddball clutch of publishers, distributors and retailers whose practices have little in common with other traditional media formats, let alone new media. But as books …
As e-books upset the publishing industry’s applecart, an announcement by the Wylie Agency Thursday that it would bypass publishers and sell e-books exclusively to Amazon.com for two years is sure to make people talk.
For Amazon, the deal helps ensure …
