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Amazon Cuts Price of Kindle Reader, With Caveat

Amazon Cuts Price of Kindle Reader, With Caveat

Amazon will lower the price of its electronic reader by showing ads as screensavers and at the bottom of the home screen, and by selling special offers.

 

Amazon rekindles Twitter in China

Amazon's Kindle is proving popular in China because it allows users to log on to banned websites.

 

Pornography App For The Kindle: Fastest Downloading App For Amazon's eReader

Pornography App For The Kindle: Fastest Downloading App For Amazon's eReader

But as you scroll down the list of Kindle offerings, you can't help but notice all of the steamy writing that seems to be targeted at men--an emotionally uncommitted genre which, if not exactly new, is associated with book publishing less commonly than with "Penthouse Forum."

Senh: Pornography drives innovation on the internet. Plus, I knew HuffPost would feature a story like this.

 

Kindle Distribution Widens

Best Buy will add the Amazon Kindle to its selection of e-book readers.

 

Digital Domain: Kindle vs. iPad: Specialist Against Multitasker

Apple has sold more than three million iPads since April, but Amazon’s success with the Kindle is cloudier because it doesn’t reveal sales numbers.

 

Amazon Introduces $139 Kindle With Wi-Fi as It Competes With Apple's IPad

Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos cut prices and added features to the Kindle to defend it against a threat from Apple Inc. in the fast- growing market for electronic readers. Amazon introduced two new versions of the device today, including a $139 model that works with Wi-Fi. A second version, with 3G mobile technology as well as Wi-Fi to download books, costs $189. Bloomberg News reported details in May about Amazon’s plans for the Kindle, its bestselling product.

 

Amazon sells out of the Kindle

Amazon sells out of the Kindle

Amazon has sold out of its least expensive Kindle, perhaps providing further evidence of the e-reader's popularity or signaling a new device in the offing.

 

Kindle's New Software Update Allows Tweeting

Kindle's New Software Update Allows Tweeting

The e-reader's introduces a new social features. PCMag takes it for a for a test drive.

Senh: Smart move by Amazon. Eventually, it'll turn into an efficient black and white version of an iPad, which isn't bad. If you're just text messaging or reading email, you don't really need color.

 

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