I Dream of Gadgets

Whilst there’s no doubt that the lauch of Apple’s iPad has had an impact upon sales of Amazon’s Kindle reader, the online retail giant doesn’t appear to be overly concerned. In the wake of further price reductions and an upgrade, the 6″ version of the Kindle has sold out. Current estimates suggest that there will [...]

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader has been an enormously successful product for them. It was first launched in November of 2007 – but it was the launch of the enhanced Kindle 2, in February 2009, which saw e-book readers really take off. Amazon followed up with the large format Kindle DX model in the [...]

E-Readers and Ebook readers have been attracting a massive amount of recognition in recent years. Publishing and how we obtain and soak up media is shifting all the time. One of the most notable places this is beginning to become clear is the upward push of e- readers and digital books. With [...]

What do Hilary Clinton, Stephen King, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oprah Winfrey have in common? Apart from the ability to scare you on occasion that is. The answer is that all of them have, at different times and in different ways, been the source of good publicity for Amazon’s Kindle reader.
Oprah was a fairly early adopter. [...]

The Amazon Kindle e-book readerhas clearly shown that it is the ideal product for Amazon. Bearing in mind that Amazon has, in the perception of the buying public, a very strong link with both is a great fit for the Amazon business model.
Over the course of 2009, e-book readers as a whole, and especially the [...]

Amazon has had a great deal of success with its Kindle e-book reader family. It’s the number one selling product on Amazon’s website right now. The Kindle accounts for 60% of all American e-book reader sales and both the Kindle 2.0 and its larger sibling the DX are now on sale to customers in more [...]

Amazon enjoyed a fantastic year in 2009. Much of the credit for that must go to the Kindle ebook reader family. The Kindle 2.0 and its larger sibling, the DX, have been a runaway success for Amazon. The Kindle is now Amazon’s number one selling product.
At the moment, 60% of America’s e-book reader market is [...]

Internet search giant Google has been found guilty of copyright infringement by a court in Paris. French publisher, La Martiniere, received 300,000 Euros ($ 430,000) in damages and interest. Google was also required to pay the sum of 10,000 Euros ($ 14,000) each day until it withdraws the book extracts from its database. The court [...]