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Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired users.
Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
Amazon.com Inc. is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering free software for people to read them on a computer.
It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.
Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.
Amazon.com has agreed that it won't remove e-books from U.S. users' Kindle electronic readers without their permission, as part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over the online retailer's deletion of a George Orwell novel from a high school student's e-reader.
Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.
Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork," George Orwell wrote in his 1949 tale of a totalitarian regime “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic reading device to $299 on Wednesday in an effort to attract more bookworms and make the gadget a mainstream hit.
Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle was treated for a concussion after crashing his car into an Austin apartment building last week while he was either sending or receiving a text message, his attorney said Monday.
One big question about Amazon.com's new Kindle DX, unveiled May 6, is how it will change people's reading habits, affecting the fate of textbooks, mass-market books and newspapers.
Amazon.com Inc. hopes a bigger version of its Kindle electronic reading device can be a hit, even if it's more expensive, and the company is aiming it in part at college students who are eager to save money on their textbooks.
If you aren't sure whether Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reading device is worth its $359 price tag, an analysis by research firm iSuppli may shed some light.
A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read-aloud feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reader Tuesday, arguing that the restrictions unfairly limit their access to e-books.
Discovery Communications Inc. says the Kindle electronic book readers from Amazon.com Inc. violate a patent that Discovery registered in 2007. Discovery sued Amazon in Delaware on Tuesday.
In bringing its Kindle e-book reader to a much larger audience through the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon.com Inc. may benefit even if the additional eyeballs don't translate into actual sales of the $359 Kindle device.
You may not have the latest $359 Kindle electronic book reader from Amazon.com, but if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, a new application will let you access much of the same content on your Apple device.
It's not the sensation of his first effort, but Stephen King's latest e-adventure is another best-seller.
Amazon.com Inc. changed course Friday and said it would allow copyright holders to decide whether they will permit their works to be read aloud using the second-generation Kindle electronic reader's new text-to-speech feature.
Amazon’s upgraded e-book reader, Kindle 2, has many attributes that gadget freaks will find irresistible. It’s got wireless 3G. (Ooh!) It’s slim and elegant. (Ah!) It’s got a luscious, 16-shade display and can handle 1,500 books at a time. (Wow!)
Amazon.com Inc. says it is shipping the new version of its Kindle electronic reading device a day earlier than it initially planned.
Sarah Lally Brown is a voracious reader, often devouring three tomes at a time. While the 35-year-old Woodinville, Wash. resident prefers the woodsy, remote area where she and her husband live, 20 miles from Seattle’s city center, she says she wouldn’t be there if they couldn’t get broadband. Still, Brown is not what you’d call a gear head.
The guild that represents authors is urging writers to be wary of a text-to-speech feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s updated Kindle electronic reading device.
Amazon to take large-screen Kindle globalAmazon.com is to sell its larger Kindle electronic reader, aimed at students, businesspeople and newspaper readers, in more than 100 countries following the rollout of its original device last year.
This article was originally posted at ConnectReviews.com, a gadget and tech review website.
Amazon's Kindle has copyright protection hackedAn Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, reports say. The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.
John Tantillo's Brand Winner... And Loser: Steven Covey & E-Books... and Traditional Books & E-BooksE-books seem to be the inevitable future of publishing, but the resistance of traditional publishers to give up the usual profit margins on hardcovers, especially, is paving the way for a whole new business model for book sales--and one that potentially positions authors to have …
Delayed Nook e-readers mean gift certificatesBarnes & Noble is giving $100 gift certificates to Nook e-reader buyers who placed orders for the devices to be delivered before the holidays and now won't receive them until after the Christmas.
Kindle's Competitors Are Courting Magazine And Newspaper Publishers.Kindle went for the jugular againt traditional paper publishers. Que and Reader Daily Edition are buddying up to traditional publishers.
Amazon Kindle for iPhone goes internationalAmazon on Monday announced that the iPhone companion app for its Kindle e-book reader is now available in more than 60 additional countries.
Why Magazines Won't Die - FolioMag.comMaria Rodale discusses why the more she uses technology, the more she just wants a magazine.
Analyst: Apple tablet launching in spring to crush KindleAnalyst Yair Reiner believes that Apple will release a tablet device this coming spring. According to his sources, the still mythical tablet could put a serious damper on Amazon's e-book plans by offering a better deal for publishers.
"Listening to an iPod or reading a Kindle during takeoff isn't dangerous. It's time the airlines stopped pretending that it is."Listening to an iPod or reading a Kindle during takeoff isn't dangerous. It's time the airlines stopped pretending that it is.
'Kindle For PC' is Now a Free Download from AmazonAmazon.com has just released a free program for your PC that enables you to view Kindle Books on your computer. The current version is compatible with IE-7, Vista, and Windows 7. The 'Whispernet' link is also included. It takes up about five megabytes of space on your computer.
Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-ReadingWith Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.
Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-ReadingWith Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that's not small enough.
Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use itAmazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
Nine E-Readers to Gawk At - Photo Essays - TIMEPhoto Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.
Amazon Shakes up Kindle SelectionAmazon's changes include abandoning the Kindle 2, dropping the price of the new international edition from $279 to $259, and introducing a new Kindle for PC application as part of the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.
Newspapers trying new revenue modelsThe kindle is one tactic the newspapers are using to try and survive.
Aussie Readers Slugged With Higher CostsAustralian Kindle users will have to pay about 40 per cent more than Americans for books on the Amazon e-book readers and the local publishing industry has expressed serious reservations about supporting the gizmo.
Amazon's Kindle Ebook Reader GEts $40 Price CutAnticipating the arrival of fresh competition, Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday slashed the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader by $40 to $259
Amazon cuts Kindle price to $259 Against rising competition, Amazon.com is cutting the price of the Kindle and taking its popular electronic reader overseas. On Wednesday, Kindle prices drop $40 to $259, the second price cut in three months.
Apple Up To Same Old, New Devices With Rumored "Tablet"Apple may be coming out with a Table to rival the Kindle.
Ebooks will make authors soulless, just like their productThey may be cheaper and more convenient, writes Andrew Keen, but ebooks do not represent meaningful cultural progress.
Smart phones write a new chapter in e-books marketA few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device. "Gee, maybe I should think about e-books myself," thought Castaldo, 54.
Why does this e-book cost $14?Dear e-book publishers: stop gouging us. Look, I'm your biggest fan. I've been reading digitally distributed fiction and non-fiction since the early days of the PalmPilot. The most frequently used apps on my iPhone, bar none, are Kindle, eReader, and Stanza.
Is Kindle Really Killing the Book Industry?This is a very interesting look at the effect of Kindle and other ebook systems on the book industry.
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