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Amazon Literally Makes No Money When You Buy a Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Fire HD

Jeff Bezos revealed to the BBC that Amazon makes no profit off the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD. Both devices are sold at cost, which means, both devices’ price is how much it costs Amazon to make them. That selling hardware for no profit is certainly much different from Apple’s strategy (they make a…

This E-Book Subscription Service Could Be Great for Amazon-Hating Avid Readers

Bibliophiles on a budget may have some bright news on the way: a burgeoning startup is getting ready to hit the literary world with the Spotify-style book service, Oyster. A yet-to-be-determined monthly fee will give the voracious readers of the world unlimited access to Oyster’s library. And while the launch date remains a mystery, we…

Author Rank lists Amazon’s bestselling authors. Now you can shop as intelligently as the herd! [Forbes]

Amazon is now giving sellers loans now with interest rates as high as 13 percent. What happened to going to the bank?

Kindle Paperwhite Review: Forget Everything Else, This Is the E-Reader You Want

The Kindle Paperwhite is a pivotal step forward for the technology of ereaders. It makes previous generations feel like a pulpy paperback held up next to an ornately illustrated tome. In short: this is the best ereader you can buy. What Is It An e-ink reader with a frontlight and a high-res capacitive touchscreen. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-a-frontlit-display-5940965…

The Nook GlowLight Gets a Price Cut to Match the Kindle Paperwhite

With the new Kindle Paperwhite on the horizon, Barnes and Noble is making a move to try and keep its backlit e-ink reader relevant. In order to do that, they’ve dropped its price to $119, the same as the ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite. Both Target and Walmart are advertising the new, lower price for the Nook…

How the Kindle Paperwhite Got Its Shine

We know first-hand that the new Kindle Paperwhite is a stunning little device, but how did it get so good? The Amazon employee’s who developed the reader have gotten together to explain. Interestingly enough, they cite the ultimate goal as being able to make a device that sort of “disappears” as you use it. That’s…

JK Rowling’s New Book Is a Total Disaster on the Kindle (Updated)

JK Rowling’s new book The Casual Vacancy—her first for adults—is a pretty big deal in the publishing world. So is the Kindle. And that is why it is so very funny and great that the Kindle version of the ebook seems to be a woefully misshapen train wreck. So this is obviously a file formatting…

Amazon’s New Shopping Site Is Tailor Made for Hippies

Amazon will sell you just about anything through its subsidiaries, and now it’s adding a new site targeted specifically at a wide swath of dirty hippies environmentally-minded citizens. Vine is a new enterprise operated by Amazon’s Quidsi, the same company that runs Diapers.com and Soap.com. The idea is to sell people products that they can…

Kindle Fire HD’s ad opt-out will include getting rid of Recommended items on the home screen after an upcoming patch.

Walmart just broke up with Amazon; the megachain is going to stop selling all Kindle products, according to Reuters.

Kindle Fire HD vs. Nexus 7: What’s the Best 7-inch Tablet Display?

Less than a year after the first generation of smaller tablets gained traction, a second generation of 7-inchers has arrived—the Google Nexus 7 launched in July and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD in September. There are many other manufacturers making small tablets, but these are the only models seeing significant demand. As we’ll see, in…

How to Root the Kindle Fire HD (Already!)

The crafty hackers from the XDA Developers forum have already figured out how to root the new Kindle Fire HD. Initially, some developers suggested that the new Kindles would be hack-reistant, but as the video above demonstrates, it’s already been done. Head over to RootzWiki for full instructions on how to execute the root. But…

Google Play Finally Starts to Catch Up With 600 New Fox Titles

Google and Fox are teaming up to make the movie selection on Google Play much better. That is to say, better in the way of 600 new titles added to the storefront. In the next few weeks, new shows and movies like Family Guy, New Girl, Black Swan, X-Men, and hundreds of others will arrive…

Nokia has finally confirmed that Amazon is definitely licensing its Location Platform for maps and geocoding. [TNW]

Kindle Fire HD or Nexus 7?

The Kindle Fire HD is out now, and it’s plenty great. But given the choice between Amazon’s latest and greatest and the power packed Nexus 7, which should you choose? Here’s your guide for picking the cheap-but-awesome tablet you should get. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-review-everything-a-tablet-should-be-an-5942283 For just watching some movies or reading some books This is about as…

Kindle Fire HD: The Pretty Little Tablet Spills Its Gorgeous Guts

The DIY maniacs at iFixit got their hands on the new Kindle Fire HD, cracked it open and found out some neat new details about the beautiful new 7-inch tablet’s guts. Until now, we knew Amazon’s spec battery life for the awesome the Kindle Fire HD, but we didn’t actually know how big the battery…

Developers Suspect the New Kindle Fires Will Be Hack-Resistant

If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that they expect the new range of Fires to be too sophisticated to hack. In particular, a forum post provides evidence which suggests…

Amazon Is Going to Start Charging Sales Tax (in California)

Californians. Dudes. Dudettes. The gig is up, folks. Starting midnight, Amazon customers in the Golden State of California will have to start paying tax on purchases made on Amazon and “other large internet retailers”. Go click crazy now while you can! Amazon currently charges tax in seven states right now (Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North…

The wait is over: Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and Fire HD 7 are now in stock. They start shipping today. [Amazon]