Freetime update deregisters Fires, loses user data
A number of Fire owners have found their tablets spontaneously factory resetting themselves. We first covered this issue in April, when some owners of Fire HD devices found their tablets spontaneously...
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has come to light. eReaderIQ, the price tracking...
Urgent: Time to update your older Kindle to stay connected
As readers may have already noticed, Amazon has announced a "Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers" with a warning that your device may be useless without it. Amazon warns that: "customers...
How to use the new Kindle Fire range’s microSD external memory
One of the most significant departures in Amazon's new Kindle Fire lineup from previous iterations of the brand - and one rather lost in all the hoo-hah over pricing - is...
Amazon goes into Sweden – but without Amazon.se?
As previously reported in TeleRead, Amazon has been in discussions for some time with Swedish publishing data clearing house Bokrondellen for some months regarding its plans to enter the Swedish market....
How to stream Amazon Instant Videos on a Nexus 7 or other Android Tablet...
Dan commented on my post last week about the Kindle Fire sale, asking if there really was no way to watch an Amazon Instant Video on an Android tablet (specifically a...
How to email e-books to ‘Send to Kindle’ with Calibre
Did you know that you can email e-books to your Kindle using Calibre? Long-time Calibre users may be familiar with hooking their Kindle up to their computer via a USB cable...
The new $50 Kindle Fire: To root or not to root?
As of November 1st, Amazon's new $50 Kindle Fire got root. XDA Developers Forum put up files and links for the root process. XDA also posted a video on the root...
Amazon Fire OS 5.1.1 update: Does it change anything?
Last night - well, around 7.30 am from the time the screen blinked - my $50 Amazon Fire finally updated itself to Bellini Fire OS 5.1.1. This is more than a...
How Barnes & Noble stole the first e-book I ever bought
Sit right back and I’ll tell a tale—a tale of a fateful e-book.
Back in 1998, I was attending college at Southwest Missouri State University for the second time. (It’s since dropped...