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Entries Tagged as 'Amazon'
Kindle Fire Now Available as a Refurb – $180
February 2nd, 2012 · Amazon, hardware news
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B&N Throws Down the Shipping Crate – They Won’t Stock Books From Amazon
January 31st, 2012 · Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Amazon has been pushing hard to get into publishing this past year, and they’ve announced new imprints in a number of genres. One detail that all of Amazon’s books had in common, and that was that only Amazon sold the ebook. It seems like that is about to backfire on them.
Do you remember back when Barnes & Noble pulled some graphic novels from their shelves because Amazon got an exclusive? Well, it looks like that’s going to be their policy from now on.
Brad Stone of Businessweek posted an official B&N statement over on his gPlus account: [Read more →]
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Amazon Sold BLANK Kindles Last Year & Profits Are Down
January 31st, 2012 · Amazon
Amazon held their quarterly phone call with investors this afternoon. If you own Amazon stock, yesterday would have been good time to sell it.
Amazon reported Q4 revenues of $17.4 billion today. That’s up 35% from last year, but it was also fell far short of analyst expecttions. Net income was down over half from last year, dropping to $177 million. They also reported that annual net sales increased 41% to $48 billion, with operating income down 39% to $862 million. Net annual income dropped 45% to $631 million in 2011.
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Amazon Appstore Revenue Now Second Only to Android Market For One Dev
January 31st, 2012 · Amazon, app store news
A lot has been written about the Amazon Appstore, including how developers aren’t happy bout the free app deals, DRM issues, and other matters, but one detail that I have been wanting to see was revenue.
Amazon has been selling Android apps for just over 10 months now, and given their competitive nature I assumed that they would have at least a small part of the overall app market.
But it wasn’t until earlier this week that I finally got some proof. One Android developer producing games as Ziggy’s Games has been blogging about his experiences, and earlier this week Mike Cane tipped me to a post on app downloads.
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Kindle Fire Update Adds Full-Screen Web Browser
January 18th, 2012 · Amazon, hardware news
Amazon started pushing out a new update for the Kindle Fire last night, and just like the last update this one undoes the root and disables all hacks that you might have installed.
The new software version is 6.2.2. Early reports are already in, and this update appears to add just one feature. Silk, Amazon’s own web browser, now has full screen mode (like most Android web browsers).
This update is being pushed out over the air and you might already have it. If so, then you probably want to hack you tablet gain. That’s easy; XDA Forum member and hacker Justin Case has already updated his BurritoRoot utility. It will work even after the latest update. You can find BurritoRoot 2 at the xda-developers forum (just not today; XDA went dark in protest of SOPA).
If you really want the update, you can download it direct from Amazon. Copy it to the kindleupdates folder. Then go into the settings menu and tell it to update.
via Liliputing
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Kindle Touch Updated – adds Skynet, Color Screen, and More
January 16th, 2012 · Amazon
Amazon has just posted an update for the K5/Kindle Touch. There’s not much to the update (it’s only 5MB), but I think you should go get it. Much to my surprise, this update replaced the screen on my Kindle. I now have a color E-ink screen, and I’m not sure how Amazon pulled that off.
Unfortunately, it’s not all good news. Amazon appears to have been taken over by Skynet, and the rogue computer has downloaded part of itself into my Kindle Touch.
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Brazilian Kindle Store One Step Closer to Reality
January 16th, 2012 · Amazon
Way back in late November 2011 I brought you news that Amazon was looking to hire a “Kindle vendor manager” for Brazil. This job was going to require someone who could recruit publishers to the Kindle Store. Today I’ve learned that Amazon has filled that position; last week Mauro Widman started his new job as “Senior Kindle Vendor Manager”.
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Amazon Releases SendToKindle
January 12th, 2012 · Amazon, Kindle, Kindle Cloud, software news
Amazon decided today to show that not all the interesting gadget news gets announced at CES. They’ve just released a new app you can install on your Windows PC.
SendToKindle acts something like a printer driver, and it lets you select print docs as a PDF and automatically email them to your Kindle account on Amazon.com. You can also right-click on a file while looking at it in a folder and send it to your Kindle account.
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Kindle Format 8 Now Out of Beta – Go Get it!
January 11th, 2012 · Amazon, ebookstore news
Amazon announced today that they were making the tools and specs for their new ebook format available to the public. You can go download the files now, and start making ebooks that only work properly on the Kindle Fire.
Sorry, but given the excitement this will generate I thought it best to puncture the hype.
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Amazon Launches iPad Optimized Kindle Store
January 10th, 2012 · Amazon, Apple, software news
image by Paul Biba
I got an email earlier today from a contact with Kindle PR. She wanted to bring my attention to the new Kindle Store interface. Amazon just brought it online this week, and it was made specifically for the iPad. You can find it here: www.amazon.com/iPadKindleStore.
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