Tag: Amazon

Amazon Moves Towards E-Book Non-Exclusivity
James Atlas will be selling a series of short (25,000-40,000 words long) biographies for Amazon called "Amazon Lives." He will buy and edit at least 12 of them. Aside from the Kind...
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Amazon Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Hits 100,000 Titles and Grows Royalties for Authors
One million Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) select books have been borrowed since the launch of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library program in November. The library now houses over 1...
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Apple Rejects eBook Because It Links To Amazon
Any good and successful company knows that it probably shouldn't go out of its way to promote its competition. I mean, you don't see Microsoft putting out ads that talk about how...
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Exclusive Interview: Self-Published Author Kerry Wilkinson Outsold Patterson, Stieg Larsson
Kerry Wilkinson was the best-selling ebook author on Amazon for the last quarter of 2011. And, Kerry Wilkinson does not have a publisher. Let's take a moment to let that process...
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Fancy Launches New Commerce Platform
New York startup Fancy, an online catalog and high-end Pinteres...
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Amazon Disputes Terms With Publisher
Amazon has removed any e-book offerings from Independent Publishers Group (IPG) until some new terms can be reached regarding compensation. Though print editions of the distributor...
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Amazon: Simple Workflow Service Webinar March 13th
If you're a web developer, Amazon has created an exciting new product for you. Simple Workflow (SWF) is a service for building scalable, re...
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Kindle Fire Owners Want The iPad 3 [SURVEY]
On a day where we saw some supposed leaked images of the iPad 3 emerge as well as heard...
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10-Inch Kindle Fire Set For Q2 2012?
According to reports, Amazon has tapped Foxconn to manufacture a 10-inch version of their popular Kindle Fire tablet, and you could have your hands on one pretty soon. The rep...
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Amazon Sellers Complain
Amazon is encouraging their retailers to comply with new 24/7 buyer communication requirem...
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iPad’s Biggest Competitor Is iPhone 4S, Not Kindle Fire
According to a recent study by iSuppli, the iPad so thoroughly owns the tablet market that its nearest competitor isn’t a tablet at all: it’s the iPhone 4S. In the fourth quarter o...
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Kindle Touch Gets Handwriting Recognition
The Kindle Touch just got a new functionality - handwriting recognition. Puzzazz, a developer of puzzle games for Kindle devices, announced their new game yesterday....
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Amazon Prime Might Not Be As Popular As You Think
Apparently, Amazon Prime isn't as popular as many would like to think. Current estimates from analysts have put the amount of Amazon Prime subscribers at 10 million or even mo...
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Amazon Original Programming On The Way, Job Listings Hint
It looks like Amazon is on its way to producing some original video content, not unlike Netflix and Hulu. Well, actually, it's a little unlike Netflix and Hulu. Rather than out...
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Texas Jury Kills Patent Troll That Claimed To Own The Interactive Web
It’s a good day when patent trolls get what’s coming to them - a slap in the face by a federal jury. Eolas Technologies may be the biggest patent troll the Internet has ever se...
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