Ask Andru: Eight last-minute ideas for cool tech gifts [Editor’s Note: Andru Edwards of Gear Live and the Ask Andru column joined us on this week’s GeekWire radio show and… Read More
Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it… Read More
Amazon could sell six million Kindle Fires this year, even as complaints mount Amazon.com is addressing complaints about its new Kindle Fire device, with plans to roll out a new software update in… Read More
Steve Jobs biography is Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011 Amazon.com is out this morning with the list of its top 10 best-selling books of 2011, and the Steve Jobs… Read More
Amazon plans Kindle Fire update amid user complaints Amazon.com is planning a software update within the next two weeks for its new Kindle Fire tablet, aiming to address… Read More
Amazon creates $6M annual fund for indie Kindle authors, trying to boost book lending Amazon.com this morning made a new move to increase the number of digital titles available to readers through its Kindle… Read More
Analyst: iPad holiday sales ‘light’ as Kindle Fire competition heats up Apple’s iPhone and Mac businesses are humming along nicely this holiday season, but financial analyst Shaw Wu sees some storm… Read More
Amazon invests in Foxit, aims to improve Kindle PDF reading Amazon.com has made an investment in Foxit Corp., a PDF technology company based in Fremont, Calif. — saying it plans… Read More
Kindle Fire users report Wi-Fi bugs Users of Amazon.com’s new $199 Kindle Fire device have reported ongoing problems with the ability to connect to the Internet,… Read More
Can ebooks fuel innovation? Startups explore the potential A group of startups met up this week in Redmond for the first Ebook Innovation Summit, a small gathering of… Read More
Windows author Ed Bott and partners launch ‘digital first’ book publishing company Ed Bott, the independent writer known for his books and blog posts on Microsoft Windows, is one of the founders… Read More
Consumers losing patience with Microsoft on tablets With all the buzz over the iPad and Kindle Fire lately, we don’t need a study to tell us that… Read More
Amazon: Kindle sales jump 4X to unspecified levels of greatness Amazon is infamous for declining to release specific sales figures for its Kindle devices, but that doesn’t keep the company… Read More
When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all… Read More
Big publisher restores Kindle public library books, for now Book publisher Penguin Group has made electronic versions of its books available again for lending on Amazon’s Kindle via public… Read More
Barnes & Noble slashes Nook price to $79 to compete with Kindle on Black Friday The Kindle and Nook are locked in a heated battle, and the rivalry is about to get a little hotter… Read More
Analyst: Amazon will control 15% of the tablet market next year Have you purchased a Kindle Fire yet? Priced at $199 and released just a few weeks before the holiday rush,… Read More
Kindle public library books decline as Penguin pulls titles The number of e-books available for digital lending on Amazon’s Kindle through public libraries around the country has declined noticeably… Read More
Research firm estimate: The $199 Kindle Fire costs $201.70 to make There’s been a lot of speculation that Amazon.com is selling its new Kindle Fire tablet at a loss, hoping to… Read More
Surprise: Kindle Fire ships today, Kindle Touch tomorrow If you pre-ordered a new Kindle device, it’s almost time to start checking the front stoop. Amazon says its Kindle… Read More
Kindle Fire sparks mixed reviews, from dud to delight On the GeekWire podcast this past weekend, we discussed how Amazon.com’s new Kindle Fire tablet was coming on the scene… Read More
Kindle Fire Newsstand to feature GQ, Wired and dozens of other magazine titles Amazon.com continues to build buzz for next Monday’s launch of the Kindle Fire, its first touchscreen tablet computer. And today… Read More
Kindle rival Kobo sells for $315M to Japanese e-commerce giant Kobo, the 2-year-old Canadian maker of electronic reading devices, has been sold for $315 million in cash to Japan’s Rakuten.… Read More
Amazon’s Best Books list spotlights Prime lending problem Amazon.com is out today with its list of the Best Books of 2011, its editors’ picks of the top 100… Read More
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet challenges ‘deficient’ Kindle Fire Barnes & Noble unveiled its $249 Nook Tablet today, looking to challenge Amazon’s upcoming $199 Kindle Fire tablet in the market… Read More
Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription This is pretty interesting. Amazon.com tonight announced the “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library” — a virtual book-borrowing service for its Kindle devices.… Read More
Amazon touts better design, graphics in new Kindle format Amazon.com has released new details on the next generation of its Kindle e-book format — dubbed Kindle Format 8 —… Read More
Amazon exclusive with DC Comics angers booksellers, comic book fans At an industry event Tuesday afternoon, a group of Seattle techies chatted privately with me about Amazon.com’s new-found power in… Read More
Congressman lobs bombshell at Amazon’s new Silk browser, claims shades of Orwell’s 1984 There may be a new “big brother” in town, and it might just go by the name of Amazon.com. That’s… Read More
Amazon goes sci-fi with latest book publishing arm, 47North Amazon.com this morning moved further into the world of book publishing, beyond its traditional sales and distribution business, with the… Read More
