At last, our friends living in France too will be able to taste the goodness of the Kindle Store, as they receive the French Kindle Store from Amazon that will contain a respectable collection of more than 35,000 French-language Kindle books, including all 28 L’Express best sellers in the digital format. Apart from that, you [...]

Amazon recently announced that owners of the Kindle e-book reader who actually signed up for a Kindle subscription to The New York Times (NYT) will also be on the receiving end of NYT content without having to fork out an additional cent. Yup, that’s right, you will be able to read New York Times content [...]

You know how Oprah likes to give away things on her show? The last time she gave away the Kindle, it was sold out for weeks. You might want to get your Kindle before Oprah shows it off like the iPad or the Motorola Defy. Funny that I didn’t hear about any sold …

Here is a deal for those who are looking to give away a low-priced e-reader for the holiday. Amazon managed to slip this deal onto their Facebook page: Black Friday Deal: This Friday, 11/26, you can get our previous generation Kindle for $89! Our previous generation Kindle uses the old E Ink technology (the same [...]

Similar to the Kindle Lending Program that we discussed a few weeks back, this is the gift-giving program, designed for the holidays. As you can see from the above diagram, the user can essentially choose from 725,000 books, then use a “give as a gift” option on anyone with an e-mail address. This …

Well, we all know that the Amazon Kindle was a hit with 700,000 ebooks, a new lending program, and the sales of ebooks are supposedly better than hardcover sales. Here is a new figure for you: e-books are outselling print bestsellers two to one. It’s hard to believe, and Amazon is reportedly “tight-lipped …

Yesterday, Amazon made some interesting announcements about their e-book reader. The first is that it will soon make Kindle magazines and newspapers readable on any Kindle App. The second is a lending feature similar to that of the Barnes and Noble Nook. Amazon Kindle users allow the lender to share specific e-books …

We have reported on Scrabble for the Kindle before, and it has got another classic game: Mine Sweeper. The Kindle actually has a built-in version of the game, but this one is definitely an improvement. This new version keeps track of high scores and play-time, as well as a choice between easy, normal, …

Amazon Kindle has come to the Dell Streak and Mac, and Verizon wants a version for three of its select Android smartphones. They have announced that Kindle will come to the Motorola Droid 2, Droid X, as well as the Samsung Fascinate as preloaded software. They also intend to put the Kindle App pre-loaded on [...]

Amazon has announced that it will launch a Kindle Store known as Kindle Singles that works longer than a typical magazine article or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. These Kindle Singles should be about 10,000 to 30,000, which is about 30 to 90 pages. This leaves Amazon to …