Tag Archive for: Kindle

Kindle’s Real Page Numbers (Kindle Post US)

Kindle Post US:
Kindle’s Real Page Numbers  —  We’ve seen a lot of interest from customers about our new real page numbers feature for latest generation Kindles and what makes them “real”, so we wanted to tell you a little more about this feature and how we did it.  —  An e-book, like a print book, is at its core a stream of text.

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Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle (Tim Carmody/Gadget Lab)

Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle  —  Screenshot of My Kindle, Getting Beat By the Computer – Image: Tim Carmody  —  This might be the happiest chapter in Scrabble’s short digital history: Electronic Arts has released an official version of Scrabble for Kindle.

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Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’ (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Wall Street Journal)

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’  —  Amazon Digs in Heels by Introducing New, Cheaper Version of E-Book Reader  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a cheaper Kindle e-reader next month, said Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, laying out a strategy to go “mass market” with an inexpensive gadget designed …

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As Part Of Its Kindle Everywhere Strategy, Amazon Prepares An HTML5 Web Previewer (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
As Part Of Its Kindle Everywhere Strategy, Amazon Prepares An HTML5 Web Previewer  —  Jeff Bezos wants Kindle books to become ubiquitous and the standard in digital reading.  “Buy once, read everywhere,” is his motto.  He already has the various flavors of the Kindle e-reader …

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