While DC Entertainment is insisting that the move is not necessarily a switch away from Comixology, the publisher has now made the transition to offering its weekly content directly through the Kindle, Nook, and iBooks stores. There is now very little reason to expect anybody to continue using the Comixology apps given that their main [...]
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DC Comes to Kindle Store & More, Ending Comixology Exclusivity
Posted by on December 10th, 2012
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No Comments »Release of Harry Potter for Kindle Magically Removes Buy Buttons From Kindle Store
Posted by on April 2nd, 2012
Now that J.K. Rowling’s last major addition to the Harry Potter experience, the Pottermore site, is about to go live, people are starting to get excited about the series all over again. The Pottermore Beta is ongoing, but things have advanced to the point where the eBooks are finally available and launch is expected some [...]
Amazon Opens a Spanish Language Kindle Store
Posted by on December 2nd, 2011
On Thursday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced the Spanish language Kindle and opened a Spanish Kindle store in Amazon.es. The online retailer added Kindle stores in France and Germany earlier this year. An Italian language Kindle Store was launched on Thursday along with the Spanish language store. The Spanish Kindle Store hosts over 22,000 titles and [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Language, Opens, Spanish, Store No Comments »Kindle Fire App Store Limitations Show Good Judgement
Posted by on November 23rd, 2011
When people talk about the Kindle Fire’s shortcomings, one of the most common objections is the fact that Amazon has closed their customers into an ecosystem that has no direct connection to the general Android Marketplace. While this is true and does mean that there are far fewer apps at the disposal of customers, that [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Fire, Good, Judgement, Kindle, Limitations, Show, Store No Comments »Amazon Bringing Kindle To Spain, Also Their Whole Store
Posted by on September 14th, 2011
Amazon is all set to launch their new Amazon.es site in Spain on September 15th, according to sources in several Spanish newspapers. While the service will cover only physical goods at the time the store opens, it will expand to digital content including a Spanish Kindle Store before the end of the year. This will [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Also, Amazon, Bringing, Kindle, Spain, Store, Their, Whole No Comments »Amazon Cracks Down On Kindle Store Spam
Posted by on September 3rd, 2011
After a few weeks of rather vocal complaints regarding the state of the Kindle Store and the increasing difficulty in finding worthwhile content, Amazon has come up with a response. Despite the potential for it to cause discomfort for a certain number of Kindle Direct Publishing users, it looks like significant measures are underway to [...]
The Many Advantages of Amazon’s Kindle Store Cleaning
Posted by on August 22nd, 2011
While the focus of Amazon’s new content duplication policy for the Kindle Store is clearly an effort to eliminate the Kindle spam that has become an ongoing problem for customers, it has a couple less obvious effects that work to the advantage of both the company and the customers. Much of the speculation regarding how [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Advantages, Amazon’s, Cleaning, Kindle, Many, Store No Comments »Amazon vs Apple App Store Battle Sees More Success In Germany Than US
Posted by on August 8th, 2011
The success of any Tablet PC is pretty much going to depend on the usefulness of the associated application offerings. It would be hard to argue that this is anything but a major factor in the success of Apple’s iPad. Naturally, with the Kindle Tablet in mind for the future, Amazon was depending on its [...]
Kindle Store Success May Indicate Percieved eBook Value Beyond Simple Savings
Posted by on July 7th, 2011
Something that most early adopters of the Kindle were eager to see was the impressive price drops that eBooks promised to bring. Compared to the expense of creating, transporting, and retailing a paper book, how could the eBook not make large libraries an inexpensive pursuit? To a certain extent, of course, we did see this [...]
Amazon Pulls Some Explicit Comics From Kindle Store
Posted by on May 11th, 2011
Amazon has recently decided to exercise their policy regarding explicit material to remove a selection of yaoi manga from the Kindle Store, much to the dismay of a vocal set of Kindle owning manga enthusiasts and anti-censorship enthusiasts. The decision is based around rules prohibiting “Pornography and hardcore material which depicts graphic sexual acts”. Pretty [...]
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