It’s November 1! Is your Christmas tree up yet? Well, of course not, but Amazon is off to an early start in spreading holiday cheer around the world with today’s launch of its Black Friday store full o’ deals. You can check it out here, and while you are at it, you can bookmark Amazon’s … Read more
Amazon is in the process of rolling out a potentially very cool new set of features that they are calling FreeTime, and as is so often the case with 1.0 versions of new functionality, we have good news and bad news. First, we’re excited about the things that we expect FreeTime will allow us to do … Read more
Kindle Nation Daily founder Stephen Windwalker received this update from Amazon on 10/22/12: Hi Stephen, It’s been just a few weeks since we started shipping $199 Kindle Fire HD, so we wanted to send few quick updates. Since launch, the $199 Kindle Fire HD is the #1 best-selling product across all of Amazon worldwide. Kindle … Read more
We know many Kindle Fire owners have been anxiously awaiting the announcements this week to learn if two of their most-wanted Kindle Fire features, Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Collections, would be included in some kind of firmware upgrade for existing KiLarndles. Kindle Fire Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton attended the press conference this week, and … Read more
One point made very strongly by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in Amazon’s press conference this week was that while Amazon of course wants to make devices its customers will like and want to buy, if customers don’t find themselves actually wanting to use the device very much, the device is a failure. It doesn’t matter how … Read more
(April Hamilton provided the eyes and ears for Kindle Nation at today’s blockbuster press conference — you can check out her live tweets here.) The theme running through today’s Amazon press conference was integration: not in the technological sense, but in the sense that Amazon wants to become so seamlessly integrated with consumers’ lives that … Read more
We said it could be Amazon’s biggest press conference ever, but it was even bigger than we’d imagined. Amazon had a press conference today in Santa Monica and absolutely blew away the competition in the tablet and ereader spaces with its new Kindle Fire and Kindle eInk ereader offerings. The biggest news is an 8.9″ … Read more
Yesterday, Amazon announced its new Instant Video Player app for the iPad, now available for FREE in the iTunes app store! Now you can stream Amazon Instant Videos to your iPad, and even download any you’ve purchased to your iPad (which has a LOT more onboard memory than the Kindle Fire), too! This new, free … Read more