Amazon rarely puts their newest Kindle ereader on sale (Kindle Fire tablets are another matter*), but it looks like they have made an exception. The two-month-old 4th-gen Kindle Paperwhite...
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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 Has Thrown in the Towel on a Third Bookstore
It looks like Amazon is losing interest in opening new bookstores. It has recently either abandoned or adapted three Amazon Books locations, raising questions whether Amazon is going to...
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Kindle Android App Now Lets You Store eBooks on Your SD Card
Amazon just released a new update for the Kindle Android app in Google Play today. There's no new feature listed in the "What's New" section, but it does show this...
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Amazon Freetime Unlimited Users Report Service Outages
For the past couple weeks Amazon's child-centered subscription service has been having a few problems. Amazon Freetime Unlimited is supposed to provide access to a selection of apps videos,...
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Drunk Take: Amazon Should Buy B&N
About five or six years ago there was a popular drunk take that Walmart should buy Barnes & Noble as a bulwark against Amazon. I call it a drunk...
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Amazon’s Black Friday Sales Begin Today – Here’s What’s Good
As promised, Amazon's Black Friday deals start today, and they are so good that they are well worth tearing yourself away from the table. Amazon doesn't have either of...
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Amazon Continues to Ignore the Hacking of Createspace Accounts
As I am sure you have read both here and on The Book Designer, for the past seven months hackers have been targeting accounts on Amazon's POD service, Createspace....
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Amazon Wants You to Know They Let Spammers Get Your Email Address
Amazon sent out an email yesterday, informing users that Amazon's site had suffered a privacy breach. While I can understand why this looks suspicious, I can confirm that it...
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Kindle Fire HD 10, Kids Tablet Bundles Now on Sale
Today marks the first round of Amazon's holiday sales, and the retailer has lowered the price of their ten-inch tablet today. You can buy it for $99. Amazon also took...
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Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Held Steady While the Funding Pool Grew in October 2018
Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.5 million (plus bonuses)in October 2018 , up from $23.4 million in September 2018. At the same time...
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Amazon Launches a New Reports Site for Authors – KDP Reports
Word is circulating through KBoards and Facebook today that Amazon is testing a new site where authors can track their sales data. It's called KDP Reports, and looks something...
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Kindle Voyage is On Sale Today at Woot – $99 (refurbs)
Have I got a deal for you! Woot is selling refurbished Kindle Voyages for $99 today. This is $40 off of Amazon's price for the discontinued Kindle (and Amazon...
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Amazon Adds Audiobooks to Freetime Unlimited
Before there was Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading, Amazon had Kindle Freetime, a kid-focused subscription service that offered kid-friendly ebooks, apps, and games for a low monthly fee (it's...
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Northern Virginia, Long Island Win (?) the Race for Amazon’s new HQ
The hottest tech story of the past year, Amazon's search to see which cities would mortgage their futures to secure Amazon's next HQ, has come to its finale. Amazon announced...
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Amazon is Inexplicably Destroying Indie Author Careers By Randomly Removing eBooks From the Kindle Store
When I reported two weeks ago that due to a bug ebooks were being automatically removed from sale in the Kindle Store, I used a "don't panic" graphic. I...
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