NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
Amazon.com is now offering refurbished Kindle Fire tablets, suggesting that at least some of the devices are finding their way back to the retailer. In the build up to Christmas Amazon said “customers are purchasing well over 1 million Kindle devices per week” but declined to say how many if these were Kindle … [Read more...]
I’m always been wary of hype. I’m also wary of vague PR-speak which gets hyped by the media and played as fact. For this reason I’ve always been reluctant to subscribe to the commonly held view that Amazon’s Kindle is romping ahead in every market, winning an unassailable lead over its rivals. Let me be … [Read more...]
Zinio’s digital magazine app is now available for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. The free app can be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore, giving users access to some of the best selling magazines in full colour. The Fire is a tablet device running a customised version of Google's Android operating … [Read more...]
Amazon says sales of its a Kindle eBook reader were four times higher over the ‘Black Friday’ weekend than for the same period as last year. The company has recently expanded the range of Kindle devices with the launch of a touch and tablet version. Despite today’s announcement of a sales boost, Amazon has … [Read more...]
As an ebook advocate I often get asked which ebook reader people should buy as gifts and, though I’d never want one myself, I always answer: ‘a Kindle’. I love reading on my iPad, I love it’s full-colour screen, I love that I can read magazines which look like magazines on it, and I love that I can access … [Read more...]
