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Millions of Kindles have been sold by Amazon since its launch, and its figures of selling have been enhanced greatly from this holiday season. Kindle Fire was at the forefront of the holiday season’s success so far. More »


Kindle e-readers have experienced the best holiday season ever, according to Amazon. No specific sales figures have been spoken of yet, but some information has leaked out. Over 1 million Kindle devices were sold by Amazon in every week of December. More »


Amazon’s Kindle have overcome the iPad to take victory in the 2011 T3 Commuter Gadget of the year. A QWERTY keyboard is the highlight of it all, and the key to success in the Kindle also beating the Nintendo 3DS and iPhone 4. More »


In a Business newspaper a poll asked people if they owned an an Amazon Kindle. 41% said yes, 57% said no, as they should. More »


Fed up of advertisements plaguing your Amazon Kindle 4? Well fret no more, for if you cough up $30, you can enjoy an ad-free Kindle! More »


From Htcyou: Amazon will reportedly release their new 7-inch tablet in November for just $250. Dubbed the “Amazon Kindle,” it resembles Blackberry’s PlayBook and based on its price, it will probably compete with Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color. More »


Ever what it’d be like to explain technology from the present day to someone who lived in the past and preferably before 1900? Well, Rachel Walsh did just that. For her assignment for the Cardiff School of Art & Design, Walsh came up with the nifty idea of explaining to Charles Dickens what exactly the Kindle is. More »


Mother’s Day is fast approaching and with that, Amazon is trying to get you to be sweet for your mom and buy her a Kindle for Mother’s Day. Specifically the Kindle 3G or Kindle DX. Why? Because with either of those purchases, you can also receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Pretty awesome deal, right? More »


If you wanted a cheaper Kindle, and don’t mind some advertisements, well Amazon’s got the solution for you. For $25 off the original price that doesn’t include ads, you can get one with ads for $114. The new edition with the pretty awkward name of “Kindle with Special Offers,” has two specific functions for its kind: delivering Amazon special offers to you, and instead of those really pretty screensavers in the original one, they’re now ads. More »


Amazon recently announced that Kindle users subscribed to The New York Times on their Kindle will be receiving free access to the news site. Just last week, The New York Times announced its paywall, allowing free access to only a limited amount of content. The Kindle subscription costs $19.99 per month, but now, users will not have to pay for full access to the website. Non-home delivery subscribers pay at least $15 every four weeks for access to the NYTimes.com and its Smartphone Apps, while subscriptions for tablet access costs around $20. More »


Sure, you could always fiddle around with the experimental text-to-speech feature on the third generation Amazon Kindle, or you could simply purchase and download audiobooks from Audible! While Audible books have been available to Kindle users for awhile now, the option to download these books directly to your Kindle via wi-fi has been non-existent. Well… until now! More »


In my previous posts, I have gone over most of the main features of the Amazon Kindle. Now I am going to take the time to explain some of the so-called “Experimental” features of the Kindle. These are the web browser, the MP3 player and the text-to-speech feature. More »


The new commercial for Amazon’s Kindle has been released lately. The ad for the wireless reading device shows people reading in a few ways including: solo, groups and even in action. In the commercial a couple words were added to enhance the greatness of the Kindle such as “over 800,000 books” (To choose from, my friends, not to store), “no glare”, “easy to read in bright sunlight”, “lighter than a backpack”, “battery life up to a month” and of course, “the book lives on” (All hail the mighty book!). More »


In an effort to stem the iPad tidal wave, Amazon has made minor modifications to its Kindle e-reader. The Wi-Fi only model is now $139, and the 3G enabled unit is $189. Both have 4Gb memory and will launch August 27th. More »


The Nielsen Norman Group has conducted a study that shows the iPad to be noticeably faster for reading than the Kindle, but both devices are substantially slower than paper. More »


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