TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Amazon Kindle Fire http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Deal Alert: Amazon Slashes Price on 7-Inch Kindle Fire HDs in Time for Mother’s Day http://www.teleread.com/kindle/deal-alert-amazon-slashes-price-on-7-inch-kindle-fire-hds-in-time-for-mothers-day/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/deal-alert-amazon-slashes-price-on-7-inch-kindle-fire-hds-in-time-for-mothers-day/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:30 +0000 Adrian Diaconescu http://www.teleread.com/?p=84569 As if to confirm a 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet is in fact in the works and coming our way soon, Amazon has decided to slash the prices of the thing’s existent smaller siblings, namely the 7-inch Fire HDs. However, the promo likely has nothing to do with the alleged coming of the 10-incher, being instead a special, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/deal-alert-amazon-slashes-price-on-7-inch-kindle-fire-hds-in-time-for-mothers-day/feed/ 0 Amazon Rumored To Be Working On 10-Inch Kindle Fire With Impressive Display http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-rumored-to-be-working-on-10-inch-kindle-fire-with-impressive-display/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-rumored-to-be-working-on-10-inch-kindle-fire-with-impressive-display/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 01:02:31 +0000 Adrian Diaconescu http://www.teleread.com/?p=84517 You’re familiar with the saying “Go big or go home?” Well, it doesn’t exactly apply to the tablet market nowadays, but the tide could turn soon enough. One of the biggest ongoing battles is for the small tab crown, with Google, Asus, Amazon, Apple, but also Acer fighting each other guns blazing. Meanwhile, the bigger [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-rumored-to-be-working-on-10-inch-kindle-fire-with-impressive-display/feed/ 0 Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ now in Japan and Europe, and at a lower price http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-fire-hd-8-9-now-in-japan-and-europe-and-at-a-lower-price/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-fire-hd-8-9-now-in-japan-and-europe-and-at-a-lower-price/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:57:24 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=81305 Amazon has lowered the price on its Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ on the same day it introduced the device in Japan and Europe. The Fire HD now sells in the US for $269 for the Wi-Fi-only version, and $399 for the 4G version. Good news, or a sign that sales of the device are suffering? [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-fire-hd-8-9-now-in-japan-and-europe-and-at-a-lower-price/feed/ 0 Survey finds half of tablet consumers plan to buy an iPad http://www.teleread.com/apple/survey-finds-half-of-tablet-consumers-plan-to-buy-an-ipad/ http://www.teleread.com/apple/survey-finds-half-of-tablet-consumers-plan-to-buy-an-ipad/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:00:46 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=80673 When looking for a new tablet, it seems consumers have Apple on the brain. The Yankee Group recently disclosed the results of a December survey in which it asked, “What brand of tablet do you intend to buy [next]?” For Apple, it was good news as nearly half of the 506 questioned picked the iconic brand. Apple [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/apple/survey-finds-half-of-tablet-consumers-plan-to-buy-an-ipad/feed/ 0 New York Times Now Available on Flipboard for Android and Kindle Fire http://www.teleread.com/new-york-times/new-york-times-now-available-on-flipboard-for-android-and-kindle-fire/ http://www.teleread.com/new-york-times/new-york-times-now-available-on-flipboard-for-android-and-kindle-fire/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:02:58 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=80313 Flipboard made my list of great productivity apps in a previous post I wrote for GadgeTell (one of TeleRead’s sister sites), but until today I only used it on my iPad. Why? Because the New York Times was only available in the iOS version. Not only that, but previously, if you logged into Flipboard on Android, you lost Times access on your [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/new-york-times/new-york-times-now-available-on-flipboard-for-android-and-kindle-fire/feed/ 0 Deal Alert: Save $50 on Selected Kindle Fires http://www.teleread.com/kindle/deal-alert-save-50-on-selected-kindle-fires/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/deal-alert-save-50-on-selected-kindle-fires/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:15:52 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78095 Now until Feb 8, you can save $50 on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ and Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G LTE with the code FIRELOVE at checkout. Here are all the details. A couple of restrictions to note: The deal is only good for one Fire per customer. And because you have to enter the code, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tablet/acer-plans-to-launch-99-tablet/feed/ 0 Amazon Turns Kindle FreeTime Into a Paid Subscription Service http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-turns-kindle-freetime-into-a-paid-subscription-service/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-turns-kindle-freetime-into-a-paid-subscription-service/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:22:37 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75379 By Jeremy Hill | for Technology Tell Earlier this year, Amazon turned on a new service for its Kindle Fire HD tablets called FreeTime. FreeTime is a kid-friendly interface that allows parents to pick and choose which apps, videos and web content their kids can access. On Tuesday, Amazon announced its plans to automate the service [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-turns-kindle-freetime-into-a-paid-subscription-service/feed/ 1 On Black Friday, Kindle Fire comes with a free gift card http://www.teleread.com/kindle/on-black-friday-kindle-fire-comes-with-a-free-gift-card/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/on-black-friday-kindle-fire-comes-with-a-free-gift-card/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:00:57 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=74895 Jon Cog of the Me and My Kindle blog gave us a very convenient heads-up yesterday about Amazon’s Black Friday plans for the Kindle Fire. As he reports on his site: Amazon’s retail-store partners, like Best Buy, OfficeMax, Staples, or Office Depot, [are] reportedly not allowed to lower the actual price of the [Kindle Fire], but they’re doing [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/education/amazon-dips-its-toes-into-the-educational-pool/feed/ 1 Kindle Fire-usable version of OverDrive is now available in Amazon’s app store http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-fire-compatible-version-of-overdrive-is-now-available-in-amazons-app-store/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-fire-compatible-version-of-overdrive-is-now-available-in-amazons-app-store/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:27:52 +0000 David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/?p=73095 A Kindle Fire-usable version of the OverDrive e-library app has now reached the Amazon app store. That could give the app’s Android version a nice boost—the Fire is essentially an Android machine turned into an Amazon cash register. Fire owners earlier had to go to the OverDrive site to download the app unofficially. But for me personally, the big [...]

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