Amazon captured a significant proportion of the Android tablet market with the Kindle Fire, largely thanks to its cheap selling price. There’s still sadly no word on an Australian launch date — although that hasn’t stopped some importing them — but the current crop of rumours suggest that the Kindle fire may be getting bigger and/or cheaper.
Reuters is reporting that the next Kindle will be front-lit and will be coming out in July. It’s a smart move because it’ll let users read their Kindles in the dark and an obvious one for Amazon to make as Barnes & Noble already has a front-lit Nook.
Not only is Charlie Stross a published sci-fi author, but he is also an advocate for DRM-free ebooks. As such, he’s put together a thoughtful argument as to why DRM-free eBooks will be good for the publishing world…
Amazon’s pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon’s cloud servers.
Just hours after all of the Harry Potter books were finally made available on the Kinde, the Amazon Kindle Store is down. Did fanatical Harry Potter fans rushing to download ebooks cause the outage? It seems plausible.
Kindle retailing remains weird. Dick Smith has an Australian physical store exclusive on the Kindle Touch, which it is selling in-store for $185. But if you order it from Amazon directly, you’ll pay $149 including postage. I know what I’d do.
You know that free 3G connection on your Kindle that lets you download books from anywhere you are? Well a hacker named Andrew D’Angelo has found a way to tether to the ereader, giving you free internet access on another device.
Almost 5000 ebooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group’s contract with the online seller. The move is a result of Amazon’s demand for upfront payment from publishers, required to host their books on the store. [Paid Content]
