Users of the Audible app need to link their Audible and Amazon accounts to keep using the app on their Kindle Fire devices. There’s nothing fishy about this, you don’t need to be concerned about Audible having your Amazon account information because Audible is actually owned by Amazon. From the announcement email sent out by … Read more
Have you heard the news? The Harry Potter series is FINALLY available in Kindle edition, and the first three in the series are currently priced at just $7.99! (The rest are currently priced at $9.99)These books are being provided through author J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore site. From Amazon: Harry Potter Kindle books can be purchased at … Read more
Interesting statistics can sometimes come from unexpected places. In its due diligence on researching Amazon stock in order to determine how to rate the investment, Citi conducted a survey of 1,100 online consumers. Some of Citi’s questions pertained to the Kindle and Kindle Fire. As reported on eBookNewser: 23% of respondents report that they own … Read more
Yesterday, New Scientist reported that only about one-fifth of the typical free app’s power is spent on delivering app content, and the rest is spent on delivering the advertising that’s incorporated into most free versions of apps. From the report: For example, in Angry Birds only 20 per cent is used to display and run the … Read more
Amazon issued this press release today: Amazon Appstore for Android Celebrates First Birthday with a Week of Deals on Customers’ Favorite Apps and Games Since its launch one year ago, Amazon Appstore customers have bought millions of apps and games for Kindle Fire and other Android-based devices SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 15, 2012– Amazon Appstore for Android is celebrating … Read more
Amazon Prime Instant Video just keeps getting better and better! Today, Amazon announced a new deal with Discovery Networks to offer its excellent programming to Amazon Prime customers for free streaming. From Amazon: Dear Customers, Today we’re announcing our biggest addition yet, bringing nearly 3,000 more titles to Prime Instant Video. We’ve struck a deal … Read more
If you have an Audible membership, unless you’ve had your eye on a specific title, it can be difficult to know how to spend your monthly credits. Audible’s Award Winner categories can help to point you in the direction of some quality audio, and now we’ve added these lists to our Audible Audiobooks menu! Just mouse over … Read more
Apple and five major publishers, suspected of colluding to artificially raise and fix prices for ebooks, are under investigation by regulators in the U.S. and European Union. The whole thing began when Apple introduced its “agency pricing model” for ebooks last year. Up until that time, Amazon, as the dominant player in the ebook field, had … Read more