Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo insists that the Kindle wants to be free, and someday will be. The truth of the matter is…Amazon has been slowly reducing the price of the Kindle because their interest in its manufacture is the purchase of content, not the purchase of the device itself. Personally, we’re skeptical about free…with...
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We’ve had a long road in cloud music. Back in December of last year, we compared the limitations of Google Music to that of Amazon MP3. At the time, Google won. The Amazon web player was not feature filled, the Google Music interface won, for ability to enter metadata, among other things. But that has changed....
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Amazon announced Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player, a digital storage and music locker service. The first 5GB are free, 20GB is $20 a year(first year is free with the purchase of an album), 50GB is $50, etc. The service will allow storage of any sort of file, but Amazon Cloud Player, which...
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First, Amazon announced that Kindle Books were outselling Hardcovers. Now, Kindle Books have outpaced paperbacks. For every 100 paperback books the company has sold, they have sold 115 Kindle books. During the same period, they sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books. These numbers are for the United States, of course....
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Engadget offered screenshots yesterday of Prime members who were noticing "Prime Instant Videos", unlimited streaming on select movies for those who join Prime. It includes the note: "Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited, commercial free instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost.
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Hot on the heels of gifting Kindle books, Amazon has arranged for the ability to gift an MP3 from the Amazon. Like the Kindle book gifting, it is keyed to one's email address, and can be exchanged for store credit.
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It is time to revisit the pros and cons of the Kindle, which has finally plummeted into the land of reasonable pricing. Let's go back to some of the reasons we quoted for buying and not buying a Kindle last year, and update it a bit.
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Image via CrunchBase Amazon is cutting the price of its Kindle 2 to $259, the second drop in the last few months. It is also offering an ‘international’ Kindle for $279, with shipping to begin on October 19th. Books downloaded internationally will cost an extra $1.99. This does free up a gap in the...
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Image by davidking via Flickr Last week, Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle to $299, a reduction of $60. We want a Kindle, but we don’t want to want a Kindle. It is still a bit pricey for its limitations. What does that mean? Well, the Kindle is the greatest e-book reader out...
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve maintained, and continue to maintain the Kindle is not yet at the price point where the upfront cost is offset enough by the benefits. Endgadget, however, reports that Amazon has dropped indications it sees the Kindle readers and Kindle books as two separate businesses. This is actually...
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