Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is a premium device. Its screen is stunning, the construction is solid, and it may be the most comfortable reading device I’ve ever used. But it’s also a… Read More
The word “lopsided” was used to described Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis after images of the e-reader leaked online earlier this week in advance of the official unveiling. But within a few moments of picking up… Read More
A new Amazon Kindle is coming this week, and it looks like it’ll be quite a departure from earlier models. The Kindle Oasis, as it’s called on the (now deleted) product… Read More
Amazon is announcing a new Kindle next week, and if a Wall Street Journal report out today is to be believed, that device will have a rechargeable case to extend the battery… Read More
A new “top of the line” Kindle is coming next week, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. While Amazon’s last Kindle unveiling was full of long-rumored products, this new device comes… Read More
If your Kindle hasn’t connected to the internet in the past 3-and-a-half years, you may want to get it online real quick today. Amazon is warning customers, in any way it… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal from Apple over an appellate court’s decision which found that the company conspired with five publishers to raise e-book prices in an attempt… Read More
Ian Freed, the Amazon executive who helped lead the retailer’s ill-fated Fire Phone efforts, has re-emerged at the company, according to a published report. After the Fire Phone failed to… Read More
It only takes up a couple square feet, a small fraction of the size of Amazon’s first real bookstore in Seattle, but the company has been quietly making another foray into physical retail —… Read More
Amazon updated its Kindle for iOS app today, bringing with it some big changes for sharing quotes and books, along with an improved download system. The beauty of digital books… Read More
Holiday sales in Barnes & Noble’s Nook business fell to $41.2 million, down 25.8 percent compared to the 2014 holidays, according to new data this morning from the retailer — providing more… Read More
Web publishers embed video and audio all the time. So why not books? Amazon is answering that question with the rollout this week of a new feature, Kindle instant book previews… Read More
Amazon says sales of its first-party devices tripled during the first holiday shopping weekend of 2015, compared with the year before, setting new records for the company. Following its traditional practice, the company… Read More
Sales of e-books, which were expected to overtake print by 2015, have suddenly slowed sharply, leaving industry observers to wonder the digital apocalypse was largely exaggerated. The New York Times reports that e-book sales… Read More
Over the past year, Providence Health & Services, a 159-year old not-for-profit Catholic health care provider, has quietly built a sophisticated venture capital arm that could pass as a fund at any… Read More
Is Amazon Prime worth it? That’s a fair question after Amazon raised the annual fee last year to $99, and then announced earlier this month that only two adult members within… Read More
Amazon is making it more convenient to share snippets of an ebook with friends or family. An update to the Kindle app for Android adds an “Instant Preview” feature that allows readers… Read More
Amazon this morning announced a new version of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, with a higher-resolution screen and a new font, called “Bookerly” — part of a broader effort by the company to… Read More
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book contracts with publishers, examining whether their terms give the Seattle-based company an unfair advantage over its competitors in the… Read More
Six months ago, The Washington Post launched a Kindle app that was heavily influenced by Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and the newspaper’s high-tech new owner. The app got a huge… Read More
Amazon’s book publishing business is turning a page to a new chapter on growth. In 2016, the company’s publishing division plans to release 2,000 titles, up from 1,200 this year, and today, it ranks as the second-largest publisher… Read More
Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The New York-based startup introduced its own e-book store to augment its… Read More
Amazon said Monday it is no longer requiring authors to have special codes to participate in Write On, a social network of sorts that allows writers to interact with readers by soliciting… Read More
Amazon this morning named the first 10 digital books to be published through its “Kindle Scout” program, which lets customers nominate their favorite unpublished titles from a collection of manuscripts submitted for consideration by… Read More
Amazon wants to make it easier for people to get their old books digitized and onto a Kindle. The company just launched a new Kindle Convert app for Windows PCs… Read More
Thanks to a end-of-the-year marketing blitz, Amazon now has roughly 40 million Amazon Prime members. The research, which was conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, also found that these valuable… Read More
Amazon wants to make it easier for people to craft textbooks for its e-book platform, so the company just released the Kindle Textbook Creator, an app that makes it easy… Read More
All hail paper, the book reading technology resurgent. Eight years after the first Amazon Kindle and five years since the first Apple iPad, lowly pressed wood pulp is on the… Read More
Amazon is often criticized for its tactics in the book publishing business, whether it is trying to slash prices or distribute books in a new way. The confrontational nature of the business was not… Read More
Users of Apple’s mobile devices now have access to a variety of new features in Amazon’s Kindle app for iOS, thanks to a massive update the Seattle-based company pushed out today.… Read More