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.
Amazon released a new Kindle firmware update on Tuesday alongside the new Paperwhite. The update, which surprisingly didn't download automatically, changes the layout for the Kindle's home screen,
[Read More ...]Amazon PR gave me the runaround on this launch so I have nothing official to tell you, but luckily for me the new Kindle has already leaked on Wired.it. The new Paperwhite is an incremental
[Read More ...]Here's a fascinating footnote to tomorrow's Amazon news. I have official confirmation today of a rumor that circulated in March: Amazon has shut down its screen tech sub, Liquavista. An Amazon rep
[Read More ...]It looks like Amazon may have begun its irregularly scheduled leaks in anticipation of a new Kindle launch. Earlier today an announcement was made on the Weibo social network that Amazon would be
[Read More ...]Amazon announced its newest brick-and-mortar concept store, Amazon 4-star, this evening. The store is going to open tomorrow in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, and when it does it will stock items
[Read More ...]an artist's rendering of the (rejected) Arlington, TX proposal Amazon has kept the business community on tenterhooks for the past year by dangling the location of its future second HQ over our heads.
[Read More ...]Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.3 million in August (plus bonuses), up from $23.1 million in July 2018. At the same time the per-page rate royalty
[Read More ...] Amazon is throwing another of its periodic sales on its hardware, and once again, the deals are for Amazon Prime members only. Both the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite are on sale today, and so
[Read More ...]Booksellers have many reasons to dislike Amazon, the least of which is that it is better at selling books than they are. This has spurred many booksellers to blacklist Amazon-published books, and now
[Read More ...]In 2013 Amazon launched Kindle First, a program where Amazon Prime subscribers could download one Amazon-published ebook for free each month. Audible launched its own version of this program on
[Read More ...]Freight semi trucks with Amazon.com logo loading or unloading at warehouse dock. Editorial 3D Amazon has strict rules who can say what on its website. If they think that there is even the slightest
[Read More ...]I called it. Amazon has just taken the step that I am sure many saw coming. A new notice has been posted to Createspace user dashboards, informing them that CS is merging into KDP Print. Amazon has
[Read More ...]Walmart knows that the ebookstore it launched last week has the deck stacked against it. Amazon has the indie ebook market sewed up, traditional publishers don't want real competition on ebooks, Kobo
[Read More ...]For the past several months authors have been objecting to Amazon adding their audiobooks to Kindle Unlimited without permission or payment. No one understood why that was occurring, not even the
[Read More ...]Brick and mortar retail is dead, they say - so dead that Amazon continues to open bookstores, and is now rumored to be bidding on a small chain of movie theaters. Business Den reports that Amazon has
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