Kindle Oasis ship dates already dropping back to May, June
If you thought that the high $290 price point of the Kindle Oasis meant it wouldn’t sell well, better think again. Customers are already reporting that the ship dates for certain...
Amazon keeps sticking its thumb in the Kindle Unlimited fraud dike
Here comes the Tragedy of the Commons again.
The Observer has a report on an ongoing Kindle Unlimited scam that we’ve touched upon briefly when Amazon started pulling e-books with tables of...
How to send Instapaper articles to your Kindle
If you use Instapaper to clip interesting articles from the web for later perusal, did you know that you can have your Instapaper article collection sent to your Kindle every day?...
Will ‘Kindle Oasis’ be the name of the new top-of-the-line e-reader from Amazon? Waterproof?
"Kindle Oasis." Could that be the name of the new deluxe e-reader that Jeff Bezos tweeted about? And will it be waterproof?
The left image was up for a stretch at Amazon's site in Japan, on a...
Amazon 1-star review farming on Craigslist: How safe is your book?
Here's a particularly nasty abuse of the Amazon review system that brilliant science fiction and thriller writer and all-round superior human being Nick Mamatas tipped me off to. Some nice person...
You can repair your own Kindle Fire…but would you want to?
Apropos of my article about how manufacturers don’t want you to repair complicated electronics, it’s worth noting that doesn’t stop a lot of aftermarket repair vendors. Today on my Facebook, a...
Are libraries squeezing Kindle users out of ebook services by dropping OverDrive?
Some disconcerting reports on the KBoards and Amazon forums point to an unsettling trend among U.S. and other public libraries. Posters and respondents report multiple instances of local libraries dropping OverDrive...
Amazon finally launches an Instant Video for Android app
Amazon's lack of a native Instant Video app provided a nice run for TeleRead. The two workaround articles to get Amazon Instant Video on your Android device have been our two...
Creating and managing Collections on Kindle apps
A question came up an older post yesterday about managing Collections on Kindle apps. I said I would do an article with directions and screen shots to answer the question, so...
Want an alternative to the $50 Fire? You have plenty of cheap choices
Update: In light of recent developments, I can no longer recommend you buy any cheap Chinese OEM tablet, especially not those by the brand name of Allwinner. Security researchers have discovered...
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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...
