Amazon To Give Away Free Kindle To Boost User Base Figures

Amazon has started to sell the popular Kindle Ebook reader in Best Buy stores in a bid to increase sales of the device amidst increase competition from Apple's iPad and other Android-based tablets. The main reason however why...

E-tailer Amazon has updated the webpage of the new Kindle and now says that it won't be available until the mid-September, nearly three weeks after its official launch which will take place on Friday 27th. Amazon points out to...

Amazon has announced that it has sold out of third-generation Kindle e-readers less than one week after launch, tech news site The Tech Herald reports.Both the latest models, the 3G/WiFi Kindle which is priced at $189 along with...

Discovery Communications has announced that a lawsuit the company filed against Amazon on Wednesday for patent infringement is not a new case.News agency Reuters reports that the company has revealed it had launched the legal...

The decision by Amazon to cut the price of the Kindle DX ebook reader by 22.5 per cent to $379 could well be an indication that the giant online retailer is feeling the heat from the Apple iPad whose current price, $499, was too...

Amazon has announced the launch of an updated version of the Kindle DX ebook reader which comes with a better screen and a lower price tag of only $379 down from $489. The new Kindle DX has the same 9.7-inch screen but now claims...

The Kindle was the only competitor product that appeared in the presentation yesterday at Apple's iPad launch event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco which shows clearly what segment the iPad was originally...

Amazon has announced the availability of the development kit for Kindle which will be in limited beta as from next month and will allow developers to code what Amazon calls "innovative active content" for its Kindle...

Three US universities have agreed not to use Amazon's e-book reader the Kindle until it is easily usable by blind people. A fourth settled a complaint from blind people's advocacy groups by saying that it will strive to use...

Amazon has announced the expansion of its Kindle self publishing solution, otherwise known as Digital Text Platform, that will allow authors to push out their own content. The scheme, which was only available in the US...

Amazon.com, the online retail giant behind the best-selling e-reader Kindle, has decided to make the DX version with Global Wireless connectivity, available in over 100 countries outside US at a price tag of $489.  The...

iPhone and iPod Touch users will soon be able to get Amazon's Kindle capabilities on their favourite smartphone as the world's biggest etailer has announced that it will be releasing a Kindle app in the UK and in 60 other...

Amazon has revealed that it will actually charge users of the international version of its popular Kindle ebook reader "significantly" more than originally thought compared to what their US customers pay for electronic books.An...

Amazon is set to unleash its larger Kindle DX ebook reader globally next year complete with international roaming although anything specific regarding the pricing or the launch date for the UK had yet to be revealed. Ben Howes, a...

Amazon might be pushing forward its popular electronic reader, Kindle, to more than 100 countries but it seems that at least in the UK, two of the country's biggest mobile operators have not been contacted to provide Amazon with...