by Joel Mathis, Macworld.com If you can’t beat the rules, go around ‘em. That seems to be the idea behind Amazon’s new Web-based Kindle Cloud Reader, a transparent attempt to give iPad readers direct access to both their Kindle books and the Amazon bookstore without cutting Apple a 30-percent slice of the pie. Amazon’s [...]
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Amazon launches Kindle Cloud Reader, sidesteps App Store
Posted by Gary on August 10, 2011
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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader gives alternative to Apple rules
Posted by Gary on August 10, 2011
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Kindle Cloud Reader carries offline support Amazon has quietly provided an end-run around Apple’s App Store rules. Kindle Cloud Reader brings a touch-friendly reading app that provides all the settings, highlights, bookmarks and other features of native apps in a device-independent form. The page takes advantage of HTML5 to work entirely offline and thus can [...]
Amazon Launches a Web-Based iPad Kindle Reader
Posted by Gary on August 10, 2011
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Amazon has quietly launched a new web app called “Kindle Cloud Reader” that allows Chrome and Safari users to access their Kindle eBooks through their browsers. The Cloud Reader also supports the iPad version of Safari, giving Amazon a workaround to Apple’s new subscription rules requiring any in-app sales to go through Apple’s purchasing system. [...]
Amazon unveils Kindle Textbook Rental
Posted by Gary on July 18, 2011
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by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com Amazon on Monday announced Kindle Textbook Rental, which will enable students to save up to 80 percent off the retail prices of textbooks, by renting them as ebooks from the Kindle Store, instead of purchasing them outright. It’s like a library—only one that you pay for the privilege of borrowing [...]
AT&T sponsors Amazon Kindle 3G to drop price down to $139
Posted by Gary on July 13, 2011
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ATT helps lower ad-backed Kindle 3G pricing Amazon landed a potential coup for e-readers by getting a unique sponsorship deal for the Kindle 3G with Special Offers. The ad-sponsored e-reader now costs as much as an ad-free Wi-Fi version does, dropping down from $164 to $139. The ads will continue to surface only at the [...]
Will Kindle App Survive Apple’s Deadline for iOS Content Purchasing Compliance?
Posted by Gary on July 1, 2011
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Earlier this year, Apple rolled out In App Subscriptions for App Store applications, offering content providers a way to provide ongoing content within their applications. As part of that rollout, Apple required that providers offer their content via In App Subscriptions at at least the same rates as other purchasing mechanisms and also barred apps [...]
Amazon introduces ad-supported Kindle with Special Offers
Posted by Gary on April 12, 2011
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by Jonathan Seff, Macworld.com How much difference does $25 make? Apparently enough for Amazon to release a separate, ad-supported version of its third-generation, Wi-Fi-only Kindle () for $114 instead of $139 for the standard version. Amazon describes the Kindle with Special Offers, announced on Monday, as the same Kindle, “plus special offers and sponsored [...]
Find free and discounted Kindle e-books
Posted by Gary on April 9, 2011
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by Rick Broida, PCWorld I love my Kindle. (Actually, I love the Kindle apps on my iPhone and iPad even more.) But you know what I hate? E-book prices. I know authors and publishers and everybody in between need to make a living, but there’s simply no reason an e-book should cost almost the [...]