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Article | 12/05/2009 Amazon hones Kindle store for iPhones
Amazon today launched a version of its Kindle digital download store specifically designed for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, the bookseller announced...
Article | 8/05/2009 Amazon's near-$500 price tag kills Kindle DX buzz
When it comes to e-readers, the hype machine has gotten ahead of the reality. Earlier this week, photos of the super-slim, sexy Plastic Logic Reader -...
Article | 7/05/2009 Interest high in new Kindle, but business model questionable
Amazon's newest Kindle raises more questions than answers about how the e-book market might evolve.
Article | 7/05/2009 Amazon launches larger-screen Kindle DX e-reader
As expected, Amazon.com Wednesday released a new version of its Kindle with a bigger screen, which is intended to present newspaper and magazine conte...
Article | 5/05/2009 New Kindle creates new challenges for publishers
Amazon.com Inc. is expected to announce a big-screen Kindle e-reader this week, and many are already wondering if newspaper and magazine publishers wi...
Article | 5/05/2009 Amazon may launch newspaper reader this week
Amazon may be working on a new device that is similar to the Kindle book reader but designed specifically for newspapers and magazines.
Article | 30/04/2009 Amazon to offer free cloud services to academics
Amazon is inviting students, educators and researchers to apply for grants that will give them free access to the company's hosted computing services.
Article | 23/04/2009 Panasonic HDTVs with Viera Cast add Amazon video on demand
Panasonic's Viera Cast-enabled HDTVs just got more interesting.
Article | 16/04/2009 Amazon EC2 extends 'reserved instances' to Europe
Amazon is now offering the "reserved instances" pricing plan for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to European customers, according to a post on the off...
Article | 14/04/2009 Amazon says listing problem was an error, not a hack
Web retailer Amazon.com blamed a glitch that knocked gay-and-lesbian-themed books out of its main product search engine on a "ham-fisted cataloging er...
Article | 19/03/2009 Discovery sues Amazon over Kindle
Less than a month after delivering the second version of its Kindle ebook reader, Amazon has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit from Disco...
Article | 16/03/2009 Site removes ebook script reference after Amazon threat
Amazon asked an online forum to remove links to software that lets people load ebooks they buy from sources other than Amazon onto their Kindles.
Article | 25/02/2009 Amazon.com's search engine suffers outage
Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction early Tuesday, with searches for well-known books and CDs producing no results.
Article | 24/02/2009 Kindle 2 starts shipping a day early
Amazon.com on Monday began shipping its Kindle 2 e-book reader a day earlier than originally planned.
Article | 19/02/2009 Adobe's new ebook reader ratchets up fight against Kindle
Adobe Systems this week announced its second major move in the e-book market in the last five months as the multimedia software vendor looks to build ...