Amazon’s most recent Kindle Fire marketing effort is the introduction of Amazon Coins. They’ve released their own digital currency that can be used to purchase apps and games from the Amazon Appstore. On the surface it’s a confusing move, given the larger trend of companies moving away from internally controlled currencies, but there’s a lot [...]
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Introducing Amazon Coins: A Digital Currency for Kindle Fire Owners
Posted by on May 21st, 2013
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No Comments »Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More
Posted by on May 18th, 2013
A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers. Goodreads has become a great place to go for sharing reviews, recommendations, ideas, and more since its debut in 2007. While this is certain to be mutually beneficial in [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Goodreads, Kindle, more, Picks, Social No Comments »Reviewing ColcaSac Uintah for the Kindle Fire
Posted by on May 16th, 2013
I recently got the opportunity to try out a ColcaSac sleeve for my Kindle Fire and thought that it might be useful to share my thoughts. It’s proven to be an interesting product. First impressions The sleeve I ended up with was the $ 29.95 Uintah style for the Kindle Fire. A fairly minimal design [...]
Amazon Acquires Ivona Software
Posted by on January 30th, 2013
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Ivona Software. Ivona is the company that currently supplies the Kindle Fire line of tablets with its speech recognition capabilities. Although there is little in the way of details regarding the terms of purchase, we can be certain that this signals an increased emphasis on audio input in [...]
Kindle Fire Accessory Review: Plantronics BackBeat 216 Stereo Headphones w/ Inline Mic
Posted by on December 21st, 2012
I was recently offered the chance to try out a pair of Plantronics BackBeat 216 headphones and figured they were worth a shot. The Kindle Fire practically demanded good headphones to get good sound and while the Kindle Fire HD has more than made up for its predecessor’s shortcoming there are still plenty of times [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Accessory, BackBeat, Fire, Headphones, Inline, Kindle, Plantronics, Review, Stereo No Comments »Amazon Offers Unity Plugins to Kindle Fire Developers
Posted by on December 19th, 2012
Amazon has been making an effort to interest app developers, especially game developers, in their distribution platform lately. As has been mentioned here in the past, their GameCircle will allow for all sorts of social features to be integrated into just about any game without much trouble. Before this, many of the more popular Android [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Developers, Fire, Kindle, Offers, Plugins, Unity No Comments »Kindle Fire HD 8.9” Takes on iPad But May Face Other, Unexpected Competition
Posted by on December 18th, 2012
We’ve recently talked about the release of the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9”. It’s a solid device that gives every indication of being worth an investment. While not quite as versatile as many Android tablets due to Amazon’s proprietary software configuration that prevents access to the Google Play service, there is little else to complain [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: 8.9”, Competition, Face, Fire, iPad, Kindle, Takes, Unexpected No Comments »Daily Deals: 14 Kurt Vonnegut Books, Stolen and ShisenSho
Posted by on December 17th, 2012
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the greats, and today’s Kindle Daily Deal features 14 of his books for just $ 1.99 each (75% off). From Vonnegut’s short-story collection “Welcome to the Monkey House” to his satirical novel “God Bless You Mr. Rosewater,” today’s deal is perfect for Vonnegut fans and those just discovering his work. [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Books, Daily, Deals, Kurt, ShisenSho, Stolen, Vonnegut No Comments »Tablets Help Visually Impaired Readers Read More Quickly
Posted by on December 16th, 2012
Before e readers and tablets came around, blind and visually impaired readers had to rely on braille, large-print, or audiobooks. Now, the visually impaired can use a Kindle or other e-reader or tablet to enlarge the font right in the screen. I can attest first-hand that reading a Kindle is much less tiresome on the [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Help, Impaired, more, Quickly, Read, Readers, Tablets, Visually No Comments »Daily Deals: My Mother Was Nuts, Three “Horrid Henry” Books and Velocispider
Posted by on December 15th, 2012
Today Amazon offers My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall just for $ 1.99 Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie [...]
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