When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter...
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Category: Amazon
This retailer possesses a reputation to fit its name. It’s the single largest bookseller in the US, and is responsible for driving most ebook sales as well, while at the same time it is developing a wide variety of tech products, including Fire tablets, the Fire TV, Alexa digital assistant, and more.
Books and Other Innocent Products Are Caught Up in Amazon’s Pesticide Crackdown
Over the past few years I have reported on numerous examples of Amazon letting its platforms function without adequate human supervision. Audiobooks being dragooned into Kindle Unlimited was a...
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Alexa Can Now Manage (Some of) Your Audible and Kindle Content
Amazon recently updated the Manage Your Content and Devices page on Amazon.com with a new notice that reads "Using Alexa, you can now send ebooks, audiobooks, personal documents, etc.,...
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Four Chrome Extensions for Getting the Most Out of Kindle Cloud Reader
When was the last time you used Amazon's cloud reading app? Did you know there were third-party extensions for it? I was updating the Kindle tools posts a few...
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Six Default Amazon Security Settings You Can Change for More Privacy
So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to read ebooks; I...
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Library Extension Turns Amazon.com Into a Branch of Your Local Library
A reader has tipped me to a Chrome extension which lets users browse Amazon.com and see if a book or ebook is available at their local library. It's called...
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Amazon Removes Category Strings From Book Listings
Did you notice there's something missing from book listings? Amazon is no longer listing parent categories in the sales rank section on book listings. They have removed the long...
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Audible Settles Several More Class Action Lawsuits
A little over two years ago Audible was hit with several class action lawsuits that alleged that the Amazon subsidiary had engaged in bait-and-switch tactics and false advertising and...
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Thousands of eBooks Have Disappeared from Amazon.com – Were Your eBooks Hit Too?
I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared...
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Amazon Now Offers New Kindle Unlimited Users a Two Month Subscription for $0.99
Amazon is running a special right now in Kindle Unlimited. They're recruiting new subscribers by offering two months of Kindle Unlimited at a 95% discount. The offer is not...
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How to Remove Old Kindles and Kindle Apps From Your Account on Amazon
In the nine years I have published this blog, I have tested dozens Kindles and mobile devices. While that was a lot of fun, it also caused a huge...
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How to Delete eBooks from Your Kindle Account on Amazon.com
As you may know, for the past seven years or so I have shared my Kindle account with my mother. She is a voracious reader who is on the...
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Amazon Releases New Kindle Firmware Update – But Only For the 2018 Kindle Paperwhite
When Amazon launched the new entry-level Kindle (2019) a couple weeks ago, the press release mentioned that the new device would let you sort your library by read and...
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Kindle Voyage is On Sale at Woot – $129, New
Reports of the Kindle Voyage's retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Woot has the Kindle Voyage on sale today for $129 These are reportedly new units, and like the last...
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Kindle (2019) Has a Frontlight, Costs $89, and is a Terrible Value
Amazon launched their newest Kindle today, and it looks like this is going to be their biggest mistake since the Kindle Voyage. The new Kindle gains a frontlight (at...
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