Gold-plated $290 Amazon Kindle Oasis: Less screen contrast than $120 Paperwhite
Amazon's $290 Kindle Oasis has a screen contrast ratio of just 18.7 compared to 20.8 for the $200 Voyage and 20.5 for the $120 Paperwhite. That's not rumor. The specs are from a PR firm working...
Mirage at the Kindle Oasis? Some users report issues with lighting, finish
Although many users are happy with their new Kindle Oasis readers, it seems a good many of them aren’t. A ten-page-and-growing thread has sprung up on MobileRead’s Kindle forum complaining about...
First look: Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet
I received my $50 Fire tablet yesterday, and spent the next few hours playing with it. It’s been an education, to be sure. The tablet is similar to an ordinary Android...
When will your Kindle Oasis e-reader arrive? MAYBE not until September. My sympathy, Merlot...
Mystery solved. Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles, my favorite Kindle podcast, told me of two would-be Oasis customers cancelling their orders because the $289 e-readers wouldn't ship until September. I...
Amazon says only 40 successful self-published authors? I don’t think so
One of the oddest pieces of misreading to come my way arrived earlier with the headline "Only 40 Self-Published Authors are a Success, says Amazon." This was based on a New...
Getting the Google Play Store on the new Kindle Fire
Following the technique outlined in the XDA Developers Forum and linked to by David Rothman, I've managed to install the full Google Play Store on my new Kindle Fire 7. I've been...
Is Amazon Trying to Kill Interactive E-Books?
My colleague Chris was asking just a few days ago why people are not 'innovating' in e-books these days. Well, here's why: Amazon doesn't want us to. They seem to be...
Calibre breakthrough: Convert sideloaded e-books to the new Kindle KFX format offering enhanced typesetting
Want to be able to read sideloaded books in the fancy KFX format with your recent-model Kindle?
Craving for dropped caps, hyphenation, better kerning?
Now, even if a book didn’t come from the...
Kindle Paperwhite horror story shows risks of tweaks—and Amazon’s controlling ways
Want ePub for your Paperwhite? Or maybe a wider choice of fonts than the pitiful selection Amazon offers? In the past at least, Paperwhite owners could install tweaks. But...
Comixology Unlimited not quite as ‘unlimited’ as advertised
Amazon subsidiary Comixology has just launched a $5.99 per month “Comixology Unlimited” comic reading subscription plan, featuring thousands of comics from major publishers. None of those publishers are Marvel or DC,...
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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...
