forbes.com - 12/2/2008
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Digital bibliophiles may have hoped Amazon would offer up a new e-reader before the holidays. But they haven't let their disappointment--or the tanking economy--put a damper on Christmas Kindle-mania. Since Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) sold out of the digital reader last week, ...
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Amazon App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Buy
millions of products from the palm of your hand....
Amazon App now available in the App Store. Introducing Amazon Remembers
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Amazon Mobile for iPhone
torrentfreak.com - 12/3/2008
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torrentfreak.com —
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under
attack by online pirates. An addon for the Firefox...
browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, ...
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Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
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Will e-book tech stand still for Amazon’? And what about this estimate of 400,000 units sold?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
In Why Amazon Doesn’t Need Kindle 2.0, has a Forbes writer unwittingly provided ammo for those of us worried about Amazon’s excessive clout in the e-book world?
Perhaps.
Andrew Greenberg writes that E Ink, whose tech Amazon uses, isn’t planning major changes for around a year. And he believes that Amazon can get away without huge innovations.
400,000, not a mere 50,000
Greenberg passes on an estimate, from Forrester Research, that 400,000 Kindles have been sold. That’s supposedly about ...
Sony, Kindle E-Reader Sales Grow Before Christmas; But Still No 'iPod Moment'
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... ) won't break it out, Forrester Research (via Forbes) reckons 400,000 Kindles have sold since launch in November 2007, though ...
WSJ: "E-book readers are for real"
Amazon & the online retail blog —
... Trachtenberg and Christopher Lawton write. The reporters note the advantages of e-book readers -- they are lightweight and convenient for travelers -- and also consider what they call "the whim factor." Downloading a book within a minute gives instant gratification. Sony Electronics plans to launch a wireless e-book reader, The Wall Street Journal also reports. (The current reader connects to a computer to retrieve books.) Check out the article for more . Separately, Forbes reports that Amazon doesn't need to release Kindle 2.0 to be the dominant e-book reader player.
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Amazon's Team of Rivals
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/5/2008 — Amazon has done something improbable: it features direct competitors on its own site.
kindle 2 Resources
updates.zdnet.com 2/9/2009 — Additional Resources Kindle 3 should be an iPhone app Amazon today announced the new Kindle 2 ($259) the successor to its a purpose-built eBook reader. The update is thinner, lighter, has more storage, a better display, better button placement and ...
Amazon gets ready for second-generation Kindle
usatoday.com 1/28/2009 — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is expected to attend. But Amazon won't reveal the plot. "We are not sharing details," Amazon director of communications Drew Herdener wrote in an e-mail. The company has said there will be a new version of Kindle sometime this ...
Amazon Launches Experimental Mobile Shopping Feature -- Amazon.com -
informationweek.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory. Amazon said its new mobile ...
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon's new iPhone app includes an "experimental" feature called Amazon Remembers that is designed to funnel sales from the offline world to the Internet.
Amazon Press Event: Kindle 2?
obsessable.com 2/9/2009 — Amazon is expected to announce the Kindle 2 at a press event in NYC this morning.
This morning Amazon is expected to announce the next generation of it's popular e-book reader Kindle. Internet rumors have swirled about the device since Amazon announced the press conference a few weeks ago. ...
Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 10/28/2008 — With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks , Amazon has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label’s gone. It can run Windows applications. By investing in firms like Elastra , it’s tackling enterprise deployment. And there’s ...
G1G1 Round 2: OLPC and Amazon —
CNET News.com 12/2/2008
Glaskowsky talks about the new Give One, Get One program for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. This year's program is being handled through Amazon.com, which is running TV commercials to promote awareness (and sales).
Great Pentax K2000 DSLR Deal on Amazon —
I4U News 12/2/2008
Although Cyber Monday is history great sales offers are still available today and will be until Christmas. Amazon has today the well reviewed Pentax K2000, which was introduced in September.
You can buy the Pentax K2000 for only $599.94 on ...
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