Kindle

Amazon Claims to Accurately Measure Pages Read in Kindle Unlimited, Neglects to Mention There’s no Standard Page Size

19 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

Earlier this week Amazon released a statement tangential to the ongoing problem of cheating in Kindle Unlimited, but as with many of Amazon's statements the bigger story is what was left unsaid. To [Read More ...]

Does Anyone Miss Having Word Games and Apps on Kindles?

19 June, 2018 // 8 Comments

a Kindle Touch displaying a "find it" type of game Yesterday's bizarre price osculations on the Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite got me thinking about older Kindle models, and what they used to be [Read More ...]

Amazon Drops the Price of the Kindle Voyage to $149

18 June, 2018 // 13 Comments

Cartomancers are going to need to dust off their bones, because I have a mystery for them. Amazon has quietly cut the price of the Kindle Voyage. This four-year-old ereader was selling for $199 just [Read More ...]

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in May 2018

17 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

In spite of cheats like Chance Carter, the third largest ebook market in the world continued to expand in May 2018. Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool total $22.5 [Read More ...]

Amazon Now Lets Authors Purchase Multiple Copies of Kindle eBooks

15 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

Instafreebie and other free ebook sites are a great way to give away ebooks, but not all readers are capable of loading an ebook on their Kindle. That is why some authors give away copies bought in [Read More ...]

Kindle Firmware Update 5.9.6 Lets You Install Your Own Fonts

6 June, 2018 // 4 Comments

Amazon released a new update for its ereaders this week, and it's going to make picky readers very happy. The update adds support for Arabic-language ebooks which have been available through the [Read More ...]

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate Increased in April 2018

17 May, 2018 // 0 Comments

The third largest ebook market in the world continued to grow in April 2018. Amazon announced on Tuesday that the funding pool increased to $21.2 million in April, up from $21 million in March. At [Read More ...]

Fire Tablet, Kindle on Sale for Mother’s Day

7 May, 2018 // 0 Comments

Mother’s Day is next week here in the US, and Amazon is holding a sale in the hopes you will get a special someone an ereader, tablet, or smart speaker. Both the Kindle and the Fire tablets are $10 [Read More ...]

Audible is Giving Away a Kindle With New Annual Membership

30 April, 2018 // 0 Comments

During Audible's early years it would frequently offer discounts or bundles that combined an MP3 player and an Audible subscription. Those bundle offers petered out over the years, although Amazon [Read More ...]

Kindle, Fire Tablets On Sale for Prime Members

9 April, 2018 // 0 Comments

Amazon Prime members can get a big discount on select Kindle and Fire tablet models right now. Amazon has knocked $20 to $40 off most models, including the basic Kindle, the Paperwhite, and several [Read More ...]

Amazon Has Shadow-Banned Romance Titles from the Kindle Store

29 March, 2018 // 104 Comments

The ebook market owes its existence to the romance genre. eBooks gave authors a chance to sell the stories readers wanted to buy rather than the stories the gatekeepers wanted to publish, and without [Read More ...]

Do You Think the Next Kindle Should Have a Have Color-Shifting Frontlight?

18 March, 2018 // 20 Comments

One of the surprising details about the second Kindle Oasis is how it doesn’t have a frontlight where you can adjust the color temperature. Like my counterpart, before Amazon released the 7" [Read More ...]

Kindle Oasis Now Available in Champagne Gold

13 March, 2018 // 8 Comments

Amazon has just announced a third color option for the Kindle Oasis 2. In addition to graphite and gold, you now have the choice of champagne gold. It is up for pre-order today for $279.99, and it [Read More ...]

Kindle Paperwhite Refurb with 32GB $89 at Woot

12 March, 2018 // 2 Comments

Amazon is selling the 32GB Kindle Paperwhite through Woot again for $89. The units are listed as refurbished, and you have you choice of black or white. These are the latest model, and they have [Read More ...]

Amazon Launches Kindle Sale for National Reading Month

5 March, 2018 // 2 Comments

The month of March is National Reading Month here in the US, and Amazon is using that as another opportunity to put a few of its ereaders on sale. The sale is rather light on selection this time [Read More ...]

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