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Amazon Coins Goes Live, a Digital Currency for the Amazon App Store and Kindle

Arnold Zafra — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:51:00 +0000

Amazon has just gone live with its own digital currency dubbed Amazon Coins. Announced in February 2013, Amazon Coins is described as a new way to buy Kindle Fire apps, games and in-app items from the Amazon App Store and on Kindle Fire. To kick off the launch of Coins, Amazon also announced that they [...]

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Kindle Fire users: Check out your Amazon Coins!

Juli Monroe — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:02 +0000

When I stopped by Amazon this morning to check the Daily Deal, I saw something cool for you Kindle Fire owners. You’ve got free Amazon Coins! In case you missed the announcement of Coins earlier this year, they were supposed to start in May, and it looks like this announcement is the launch. What can [...]

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Deal Alert: Amazon Slashes Price on 7-Inch Kindle Fire HDs in Time for Mother’s Day

Adrian Diaconescu — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:30 +0000

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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Amazon Rumored To Be Working On 10-Inch Kindle Fire With Impressive Display

Adrian Diaconescu — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:02:31 +0000

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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Amazon Appstore Expanding to Almost 200 Countries

Juli Monroe — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:17:37 +0000

This story has been making the rounds of tech blogs today, and it’s interesting to watch the reactions. First, the story: Amazon announced today that developers can now submit their apps for distribution in nearly 200 countries. As I’ve said before, I think competition is a good thing, and the more competition Google has with [...]

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Beyond a Digital Attic: How the DPLA can honor the Five Laws of Library Science

David Rothman — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:48:20 +0000

This is the era of bits and bytes and multimedia and 3D printing, not just books and other texts. But Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science would still apply today in spirit even after more than eighty years. Educated originally as a mathematician, S.R. Ranganathan was a library-science genius who studied librarianship in Great Britain and worked as the librarian [...]

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Morning Links: Microsoft’s new 7-inch design specs

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:04:40 +0000

Kindle Fire to Now Accommodate Video-Enhanced E-Books (Good e-Reader) Why Microsoft’s new 7-inch design specs will help Windows 8 tablets succeed (Computerworld) Why ebooks are a different genre from print (The Guardian) The Role of Reading in Growing Asian Economies (Publishing Perspectives) Kindle Daily Deals: 6 Twilight novels by Stephanie Meyer (+ 3 others)

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DBW’s “When will Kindles become free?” misses the mark

Juli Monroe — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:33:56 +0000

It’s interesting to me how often people misunderstand the appeal of Amazon and its products. Over at Digital Book World today, Beth Bacon asked, “When will Kindle’s become free?” While it’s not a bad question—and I do think the day of the free Kindle (or another brand of e-reader) is coming—I think she missed an [...]

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New York Times Now Available on Flipboard for Android and Kindle Fire

Juli Monroe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:02:58 +0000

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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Show off your baseball pride with e-reading accessories

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:00:16 +0000

Pitchers and catchers report to spring training this week. For baseball fans, this marks the beginning of a rocky ride with tumultuous feelings that crush or elevate you throughout a season. And it’s wonderful. But what baseball fans love are ways to show their pride. Nothing says you’re a big New York Yankees fan than [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire HD One-Ups iPad Retina Screen in New Ad (Video)

Matthew Marchesano — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:26:48 +0000

“You may not be able to tell the difference,” says the advertisement’s narrator, as both the iPad and the Kindle Fire HD sit side-by-side displaying the same images. “But your wallet definitely can.” Amazon’s new 30-second ad draws the comparison in screen resolution between the iPad and the (new, larger) Fire HD 8.9-inch screen. Visually, [...]

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Amazon Coins — A second look

Juli Monroe — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:00:12 +0000

This is an idea that’s been needed for a long time: Amazon will soon be adding the ability to make purchases of apps and games with a virtual currency known as “Coins,” according to this Amazon press release. Here’s a question I see parents asking all the time: “How can I limit the purchases my [...]

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Amazon Coins Will Pay For Your Next Kindle Fire App

Matthew Marchesano — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:48 +0000

Amazon just announced this morning that come May, the company will be rolling out a virtual currency program known as Amazon Coins. Owners of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets will be able to use the virtual funds to purchase apps and games within the Amazon Appstore. In-app purchases will also be possible with the new currency, a [...]

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Deal Alert: Save $50 on Selected Kindle Fires

Juli Monroe — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:15:52 +0000

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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Morning Links — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:55:44 +0000

E Ink Now Being Sued for Patent Infringement (The Digital Reader) Kindle Fire Nabs 33% of Android Market Share (The Digital Reader) Spending on Digital Content Tablet on Tablets Soars, New Research Says (Digital Book World) How Digital Comics Change the Way Comics are Drawn and Imagined (Gizmodo) Making Money from Kindle Publishing (PC Pro) [...]

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