Get the Google Play Store going on your $50 Amazon Fire—without rooting: YouTube video...
Earlier TeleRead told how your $50 Amazon Fire could run apps such as Moon+ Reader Pro, Mantano, FBReader and Aldiko without rooting. And the diligent Paul St John Mackintosh, our newly...
Kindle hardware update adds Open Dyslexic font and more features, but where’s the all-text...
A new Kindle hardware update, v5.7.2, adds the Open Dyslexic font and other features listed below.
You’ll enjoy an improved home screen, for example, and speedier access to certain settings, including the...
BookDrop: Email ebooks to your Kindle from Dropbox—even ePubs and other formats not normally...
BookDrop lets you copy ebooks from your Dropbox cloud to your Kindle gadget or app via email.
That includes even ePub books and those in other formats that normally won't fly.
How-tos and more details are...
Amazon data mining to find customer tastes
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on Amazon’s original television programming pilot selection process, in which it winnowed down a long list of pilots using user ratings and feedback...
Facebook Lite: The answer to Amazon Fire memory limits?
As readers will know, I've recently had problems with the limited internal memory on my $50 7-inch Amazon Fire. One of the biggest culprits - literally - has been the official...
Whoever feels like innovating e-books, please raise your hand!
Why isn’t anyone innovating in the e-book market? More importantly, is there any reason why anyone should innovate? Jason Illian, founder and CEO of Bookshout!, poses the former question in a...
How to download books to your Kindle from your computer
We had a reader email us and ask us how he could get a TeleRead-mentioned e-book onto his Kindle. In case anyone else would like a tutorial, here's how to...
Fight for Kindle all-text bold option: Why you STILL need to write Amazon—and the...
The job isn’t done yet. Responding to complaints in TeleRead and in Slashdot, Amazon promises to make the Helvetica font easier to read than the anorexic version that the latest Kindle...
Is Amazon ‘requiring’ an update to the Kindle PC app?
Do you have to update your Kindle PC software or else have it stop working? It’s a good question, and I’ve been trying to determine the answer. So far, the results...
What will happen to your e-books when you die?
As more of our lives move into the digital realm, the bequeathing of digital assets has the potential to become a huge issue. iTunes has already taken away the one album...
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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...
