Tag: kindle
Apple: Kindle Fire will further fragment Android
Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, have expressed a lack of concern about Amazon’s Kindle Fire competing...
Oh, oh: Amazon releases an HTML 5 Kindle Cloud Reader app
The writing was probably on the wall for Amazon when Apple changed their iOS rules to incorporate subscription based applications. There was a lot of...
Kindle iOS app now has REAL page numbers
Apple has approved an update for the Kindle app that provides a few changes. The biggest is that the iOS application has added page numbers...
Apple to Sony: Resubmit, we want your 30%
Earlier today Christine wrote an article about Sony’s reader app getting rejected from the App Store. There’s a lot of FUD-fallout going around the internet,...
Sony Reader app rejected
Apple is tightening the App Store just a little bit more with today’s story surfacing. The New York Times has reported that Sony’s Reader app...
Kindle on Mac App Store
Amazon has released Kindle for Mac on the Mac App Store. The app is free and from my quick testing, runs like a dream. At...
Two iPads — Two reactions
My parents are generous and cool people. Yesterday, they made my Christmas by surprising me with an iPad. At the same time, they also bought...
ChangeWave proves they know nothing with their eReader analysis
MacRumors is reporting on research from a firm called ChangeWave about the ownership levels of the iPad and the Kindle. ChangeWave is desperately trying to...
Amazon is jumping on the eBook lending bandwagon
What is one thing that could be keeping people from migrating to eBooks from traditional paper books? Some might say it’s barrier of entry due...
Bluefire Reader app lets you read Adobe DRM eBooks
Bluefire Productions recently released their Bluefire Reader universal iPhone and iPad app, and it is significant for one very big reason: it supports Adobe DRM...
Kindle kicks the iPad where it hurts in new advertisement
It’s hard to roll with the punches when a punch lands in a soft spot. We can’t argue at all with the advertisement from Amazon,...
Amazon drops the Kindle price to $189 to compete with the iPad
Amazon announced a price drop down to $189.00 USD for their Kindle eBook reader. Supposedly, this is in response to the popularity of iBooks on...
Pole Four: iBooks
Today Apple announced that the iBooks app, prominently featured when the iPad was introduced, will also be included in iPhone OS 4. Users will be able to purchase books or samples of books on their iPhones through the iBookstore.
Kindle App includes Color e-books
Woke up this morning to an interesting screenshot of the Kindle app that is going to be released on the iPad as well as other...
Amazon set to take on Apple’s ebook app by releasing OS X software.
It’s a happy day today for competition. Today, the largest e-book vendor on the market has announced that they’re going to be releasing an application...
Amazon’s Kindle is making bold choices to compete with Apple’s iPad
When you hear the word “Kindle,” most people think of the eBook reader from Amazon. With its E Ink display, buttons to turn pages, and...
3 reasons why the iPad’s going to put ebook readers out of business.
It’s taken me a couple of weeks to really come around to the opinion that the iPad is going to cannibalize ebook reader sales. I...
An iPad to kill the Kindle?
So, the keynote is over, the lights have come back up, and now comes the punditry. Everyone’s spouting off that the iPad is going to...