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
We’re happy to share this post from our sister site, Kids Corner @ Kindle Nation Daily, where you can find all things Kindle for kids and teens, every day! Student Reviews are sponsored by the Kids Corner Book of The Week – Sam D & Ray East’s Voluspa-A Magical World – Think Harry Potter Meets … Read more
You can always find a bargain in the Amazon MP3 Music Store, and all Amazon MP3s are DRM-free and totally compatible with iTunes, iTunes Match and iCloud. But did you know there’s plenty of excellent, FREE music to be had in the Amazon MP3 Store too? Here are some current highlights taken from Amazon’s current … Read more
Carolyn McSparren’s All God’s Creatures (4.5/5 stars) is today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults, priced at $1.99 today only. From Amazon: Often compared to the novels of James Herriot, ALL GOD’S CREATURES follows the life of a woman veterinarian in modern Tennessee. From an unlikely start as a white-glove debutante in the 1960’s to a … Read more
Many of today’s hit family sitcoms on kids’ cable channels like Nickelodeon and Disney Channel are modeled after the squeaky-clean, hit family sitcoms of the 80’s. So it’s not surprising that even today’s techno-savvy youngsters find those classic sitcoms of the 80’s and earlier so enjoyable. Here’s a sampling of those you can find in … Read more