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Amazon delivers strong Q3; shares skyrocket after hours

Amazon easily beat Wall Street's estimates for its third quarter, reporting a net income of $199 million, or 45 cents per share, on sales of $5.45 billion, a 28 percent jump from the year-ago quarter. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 33 cents on sales of $5.03 billion. Statement ...

Tags: E-reader, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Gallery: Kindle comes to the PC

In a surprise announcement at the public launch of Windows 7, Amazon is working on a Kindle reader application that will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines. by Andy Smith

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Amazon, Kindle, Microsoft, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-10-22

Amazon cuts Kindle price, goes global as competition ramps

Amazon cut the price of its Kindle from $299 to $259 and launched and international version. First, the price cut Techmeme. The move comes as e-reader competition ramps up. Sony has e-readers with broad retail distribution. In addition, Barnes & Noble plans to sell a handful of...

Tags: E-reader, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Tech which back-to-school students should avoid

These 10 bits of technology are for the back-to-school student to avoid at all cost. They're either pointless, economically unviable, or have a fatal flaw. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Student, Security, iGeneration, School, Technology, Kindle, Backup, Portable, Zack Whittaker, Pointless, Wireless

Image galleries 2009-08-07

Gallery: Sony launches touch-screen, pocket e-readers

Sony unveils two new e-book devices, a pocket edition with a 5-inch screen for $199 and a touch-screen version starting at $299. by Andy Smith

Tags: Touch Screen, E-reader, Sony Corp., Keyboards, E-books, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Sony, e-readers, Kindle, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-08-05

While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited

Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Image Gallery: M-Edge e-Luminator2, Latitude jacket, Kindle/DX Sleeve jacket

M-Edge makes some of my favorite Kindle cases and they continue to innovate with a new book light that adds two brightness levels, new AAA battery support, and more. M-Edge also has a new Latitude jacket design and Sleeve jackets for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. by Matthew Miller

Tags: Dell Latitude, Jacket, M-Edge, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, product photos, amazon, kindle, book light, reading, case, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-07-20

Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?

The Kindle's real benefit to Amazon may never show up in the profit and loss statement directly. Instead, the Kindle is about keeping the top 5 percent of Amazon's customers engaged since they account for 20 percent of the e-tailer's sales. That argument was laid out by...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, CRM, Kindle, Edward Weller, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Security, Marketing, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-20

JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOU

Amazon's removal of George Orwell ebooks from every Kindle with a paid entitlement is not only ironic in context but has frightening ramifications in terms of privacy and content ownership. Without warning or any sort of advance notification on Friday, Amazon...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-18

Amazon's Kindle price cut: Thank Prime View's acquisition of E-Ink

Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299, a $60 drop that may stoke demand. But Amazon's move has more to do with scale than any competitive threat. Let's face it: A $299 Kindle 2 still isn't cheap, but it is quite notable that...

Tags: Acquisition, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Sales, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Amazon CFO fields Kindle questions, mum on digital video, music expansion

Amazon fielded a number of questions this morning during a presentation at the Credit Suisse First Boston conference. But what attendees really wanted to know more about, gauging by the questions they were asking, was the Kindle e-book reader, the company's plans to expand digital music and video offerings and...

Tags: Digital Video, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Camera, Kindle, Szkutak, Camera Phones, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Kindle for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Buy a Kindle book from your Mac, PC, or iPhone using a Web browser and wireless transfer the books to your iPhone, read first chapters of any book for free before you buy, download the Kindle books you already own for free they are automatically backed up on Amazon.com, adjust...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-05-20

Amazon Kindle DX revealed

Shots of the Amazon Kindle DX, straight from the live press conference in New York. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, product photos, Amazon, Kindle, e-reader, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals the Amazon Kindle DX

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in action as he reveals the Amazon Kindle DX e-reader live in New York. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, product photos, Amazon, Kindle, e-reader, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Kindle DX

A look at Amazon's Kindle DX. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Amazon Kindle, amazon, kindle, dx

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks

When I first held a Kindle the first generation, I was instantly enamored. I was also in public education, so I couldn't afford one. However, there are few things on this planet that I like more than reading, so a little device that could hold a bunch of...

Tags: Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Kindle, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Textbook

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Books: Entering the Age of Glosses

Here's the key to thinking about the future of writing, something straight out of the manuscript era: the humble gloss or "scholia," for those who prefer the Latin. They are the notes, in margins, footnotes at the bottom of a page (the standard starting around 1700) and later in the...

Tags: Movie, Audible Inc., Cryptography, Books, Copy, Kindle, Master File, Page Number, E-books, Digital Security, Security, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Image Gallery: M-Edge Prodigy and Platform Jacket cases for the Amazon Kindle 2

The Amazon Kindle 2 is now available, however no case ships with the device like what Amazon provided with the Kindle 1. You therefore need to buy a case through Amazon or another 3rd party. M-Edge creates some of the best Kindle cases, that also work with their lighting solution...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Prodigy Communications, Amazon Kindle, M-Edge, Amazon Kindle 2, product photos, amazon, kindle, ebook, case, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-03-10

Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone app

What do you call a Kindle app for the iPhone? A good start. The company is listening to its users, if not actually doing much to build the community it could have around the Kindle. Amazon unleashed the iPhone application this week with relatively little fanfare, but...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-03-04