Amazon announced a new publishing platform on Wednesday called Kindle Worlds, which will give both established authors and aspiring fan fiction writers the chance to earn royalties based on their work. Fan fiction is a rather murky topic, given that it often combines beloved characters and franchises in rather unusual ...
Amazon Launches Amazon Coins, Gives Kindle Fire Users $5 Free
on 5.13.13
E-commerce leviathan Amazon is taking a step into social gaming: Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency, is now live in the U.S. To kick it off, Amazon announced that it would put $5 worth of the currency — equivalent to 500 Coins — into all Kindle Fire users’ accounts to use on apps and in-app purchases on its ...
Amazon Adds Features to Help Blind, Visually Impaired Users on Kindle iOS App
on 5.1.13
Amazon announced a number of new features for its Kindle for iOS app that aim to make it easier to use for blind and visually impaired users. Wednesday's update, Amazon says, will make it easier for these users to use features like “X-Ray, End Actions, sharing, highlighting and bookmarking.” Amazon says these new ...
Report: Free Apps Downloaded 10x More on Google Play than Amazon Appstore
on 4.24.13
The number of device installs for free apps in the Google Play store is over ten times bigger than the Amazon Appstore in the United States, according to new research conducted by Distimo. The mobile app store analytics company found that the top 200 free apps in the Amazon Appstore were downloaded 16 million times ...
Amazon Names Alexandria, Va., as ‘Most Well-Read City’ in US
on 4.24.13
On Wednesday, Amazon released its annual list of the “most well-read cities in America.” The ranking is established using the total sales of books, magazines and newspapers, both in print and in Kindle formats, since June 2012. The list works on a per-capita basis in cities that count more than 10,000 residents. Just as ...
We’re Doing E-Books Wrong
on 4.5.13
Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, ...
Amazon Acquires Goodreads to Make Kindle Reading More Social
on 3.28.13
Amazon has announced that it is acquiring social book recommendation site Goodreads, an obvious move that should offer strong synergy with its ecommerce business. “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Vice President, Kindle Content, said in a statement. “Goodreads has ...
Amazon X-Ray Feature Expands to TV Shows on Kindle Fire and Wii U
on 3.27.13
Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video content. The entire Kindle Fire family will receive the feature and the Amazon Instant Video app on Wii U will get is as ...
Amazon Adds ‘Send to Kindle’ Button to Many Large Sites
on 3.20.13
Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing. The Send to Kindle suite, which Amazon launched last year with its Send to Kindle button ...
Rumor: Amazon is Working on a $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD
on 3.20.13
How low will Amazon’s tablets go? We’re now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7" tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail end of the Android-based tablet market – an area which is today dominated by low-cost tablets out ...
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