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Amazon’s Kindle 2 Gets $US60 Price Drop, Now At $US299
3:57AM Adam Frucci | Amazon lobbed $US60 off the price of the Kindle 2, bringing it to $US299. Is under $US300 the sweet spot, or is that still too much to drag you over from the dead-tree alternative? [Amazon via Enadget; Image]
Software
Amazon Won’t Let Mobile Apps Use Its Product Info Anymore
9:40AM Matt Buchanan | Weird play by Amazon—they’ve changed their Product Advertising API so that mobile apps like Delicious Library, which pull product info from it, can’t use it. Its developers were forced to pull it from the App Store. More »
Gadgets
Amazon Patent Details Ad-Supported Kindle Books
6:45PM John Herrman | Amazon has filed a patent that describes how to take the obvious, heretofore un-stepped step of filling ebooks with contextual, timely advertising. Whether it would mean free, discounted, or tiered-price books (or none of the above) it’s an interesting idea. More »
Software
Amazon’s Unfortunate Windows 7 Freudian Slip
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Surely this is some kind of innocent SEO-related keyword slip, right? I mean, Microsoft definitely doesn’t want one of the biggest online retailers in the world billing it’s new OS as Windows Vista 7 Home Premium, right? Right?! More »
Gadgets
Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User The Books He’s Paid For
3:30AM Jack Loftus | Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous. More »
Gadgets
Kindle DX Surviving A 75cm Drop
5:40AM Jesus Diaz | According to this Amazon video, the Kindle DX can survive a 75cm drop with ease. Good, because apparently the old Kindle can’t survive some shaking in a padded sleeve, inside a laptop bag. More »
Gadgets
Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon EBooks On More Devices
1:00AM John Herrman | Amazon’s Kindle App for the iPhone was a definite clue, and now Jeff Bezos is just flat stating it: the Kindle doesn’t really matter—in the long term, ebooks are where the real money’s at. More »
Gadgets
David Sedaris On The Kindle: ‘This Bespells Doom’
7:20AM Adam Frucci | What happens when you ask brilliant humour essayist David Sedaris to sign your Kindle? You get a hilarious quote doomed for finger smudging on your expensive gadget. [NY Times] More »
Gadgets
Busted: Why I Can’t Wait For Flexible Displays
8:26AM Matt Buchanan | When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded corduroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. If only its display was flexible. More »
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