Amazon is now shipping preorders for its Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G in both the UK and Germany, a week ahead of schedule. While eager e-reader… readers in the likes of France Italy and Spain have to wait a little longer, Germans and Brits can…
Rumors relating to a new Kindle, or three, land in our inbox with surprising frequency, but when they come from our brethren at TechCrunch, we’ll definitely give it a listen. Devin Coldewey reports how he was lucky enough to snatch a glance at an in-d…
Own a Kindle Fire? Can’t find an audio dock made specifically for your gizmo, and not an iThing or Android device? Say hello to Grace Digital’s FireDock, the $130 solution to your quandary. While we’ve seen Kindle-compatible docks before, this stereo …
Own a Kindle Fire? Can’t find an audio dock made specifically for your gizmo, and not an iThing or Android device? Say hello to Grace Digital’s FireDock, the $130 solution to your quandary. While we’ve seen Kindle-compatible docks before, this stereo …
Good news for our friends on the other side of the pond waiting to get their fingers on the Kindle Touch’s e-ink display: nearly half a year after hitting the States, the e-reader is getting ready for its official European debut. The reading device w…
According to one of Japan’s big dailies, The Nikkei, Amazon will attempt to brave the tricky e-reader waters of Japan, aiming to launch its Kindle Touch as the flagship device in April. The newspaper reports that the device will land for less than 20…
Ever since Amazon unveiled its cheap-as-chips Kindle Touch, the thing’s been selling like mad here in the US. However, our friends on other continents haven’t been able to enjoy swiping and tapping its multitouch E Ink display — until now, that is. Am…
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Hi there, folks. It’s that time of the week where we share our …
It wasn’t all that long ago that the Nook Simple Touch got a bit of freshening up thanks to some new code, and now it’s the Kindle Touch’s turn for an upgrade. Amazon has just released software version 5.0.3 for its newest e-reader that brings “genera…
Amazon announced on Thursday that the 2011 holiday season was the best ever for sales of its Kindle devices. While the online retailer didn’t specifically say just how many devices were sold by model, it did say Amazon customers purchased “millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle eReaders” and more than 1 million devices per week during the month of December. The company also noted that its #1 and #4 best-selling eBooks released this year were published by independent authors through its Kindle Direct Publishing platform. “We are grateful to our customers worldwide for making this the best holiday ever for Kindle,” Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos said. “And in a huge milestone for independent publishing, we’d also like to congratulate
