May 8th, 2013
Amazon has updated its Kindle app for iOS to open up e-books for blind and partially-sighted people. The update brings the app into line with Apple's accessibility features, using the built-in magnification...
April 2nd, 2013
Amazon sprang a pre-Easter surprise on the e-books world by announcing plans to acquire social recommendations startup Goodreads.
The deal is expected to close at some point in the second quarter of...
March 20th, 2013
This is simple, but potentially significant for web publishers: an official Send to Kindle button launched by Amazon to fuel more article-reading on Kindle devices and apps.
The Washington Post, Time...
January 25th, 2013
Amazon has bought Ivona, the Poland-based company which provides text-to-speech technology for its Kindle devices. The move has, inevitably, brought talk of a Siri for Kindle, building on the rather limited...
November 26th, 2012
Amazon has trumpeted strong sales of its Kindle devices in the UK last week, although in characteristic fashion, it's not saying how many of them it actually shifted.
"In response to strong customer...
November 8th, 2012
DC Comics has agreed deals to sell monthly comics in the Kindle, iBookstore and Nook Book stores, after experiencing a near 200% rise in digital sales over the past year. Previously the publisher’s monthly...
October 24th, 2012
The official magazine of hit TV series The Walking Dead has been released for iPad, Nook and Kindle Fire, as well as via US newsstands. The Walking Dead, The Official Magazine features an inside look at...
October 16th, 2012
The ever persistent rumours that Amazon is to launch its own smartphone have ramped up a notch with reports that the company has bought Texas Instruments’ mobile-focused OMAP chip line. The unconfirmed...
October 16th, 2012
Magazine publishers face stiff competition from their own physical product as they try to migrate readers to digital, Amazon told a meeting of publishers yesterday. The company’s VP for Kindle Content...
