Tag Archives: Amazon Kindle

About 608 days ago Internet and Online Business | Managing Technology

How Netflix Botched Its Apology

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After two months of customer discontent over a price increase, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings poured fuel on the fire Monday with an email to his subscribers. He meant it as an apology. It read more as pure arrogance splashed over 661 words. Now subscribers have turned their anger directly on him. In other words, Hastings completely botched the whole thing, says L. Todd Thomas, a professor on business leadership at Northwood University. “I’m not even sure what he thought the outcome of that email was going to be,” Thomas says. “So yeah, it was a dumb move.” READ MORE »

About 613 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Location-based services | Online Marketing

Amazon to Add Local Deal Promos to Kindle e-Readers

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Amazon has recently unveiled a plan that could shift the daily deals market. AmazonLocal will be placing local deal promotions onto wi-fi and 3G Kindles with Special Offers as part of overall digital ads strategy on these devices. READ MORE »

About 622 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Online Marketing | Setting Up a Website | Tablets and eReaders

Amazon Redesigns Web Site to Be Tablet-Friendly

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Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, is giving its Web site a new “airy” look, with fewer product photos and a larger search box. The new homepage also pushes more digital goods–books, music, video and software, according to The Wall Street Journal, which says the redesign correlates with Amazon’s new 7-inch tablet, expected next month. READ MORE »

About 645 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Video

Walmart, Amazon Cut out Apple While Delivering iPad Versions of Vudu, Kindle Cloud Reader

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Walmart and Amazon have figured out how to bypass Apple’s mandatory 30 percent cut for apps distributed through the iTunes store, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. Walmart has launched an iPad version of its Vudu online video streaming service using a desktop shortcut that lets customers click an “Add to Home Screen” button on Vudu.com to install an app-style icon on the iPad desktop. Likewise, Amazon unveiled the Kindle Cloud Reader which lets customers read Kindle e-books on the iPad even without an Internet connection. Both services use the HTML5 Web browser protocol and follow on the heels of The Financial Times of London which in June launched a Web-based version for smart phones and tablets to avoid Apple’s fee. “The flexibility of HTML5 allows us to build one application that automatically adapts to the platform you’re using – from Chrome to iOS,” said Dorothy Nicholls, director of Amazon’s Kindle division, in a statement. Amazon made its Kindle Cloud Reader compatible with Safari on the iPad as well as Google’s Chrome browser, and plans to add Internet Explorer, Firefox and the BlackBerry PlayBook browsers in coming months. Read more at The San Francisco Chronicle.

About 673 days ago Internet and Online Business

While You Were Off the Grid

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Happy Monday and welcome back to all you returning vacationers.  For those of you wondering what you missed last week while you were off the grid, here’s a quick catch-up in tech. READ MORE »

About 674 days ago E-Commerce | Hardware | Innovation | Tablets and eReaders

Amazon Plans iPad Rival

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Amazon plans to release a tablet computer by October, reports the Wall Street Journal. The nine-inch tablet will run on Google’s Android platform, and won’t have a camera. A few questions loom, such as how Amazon will keep its tablet from cannibalizing sales of its best-selling Kindle and about marketing. Apple has brick-and-mortar stores to sell its devices and Amazon does not. READ MORE »

About 678 days ago E-Commerce | Tablets and eReaders

Google eBook Reader to Be Released July 17th

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Google Books holds over 3 million free eBook titles in addition to a few hundred thousand paid titles, and on July 17th the search giant will release an e-reader, called the iriver Story HD, optimized for the Google eBook platform. Like the iriver Story before it, released in 2009, the new iteration supports a large number of e-book formats. In fact, Google’s push for inclusiveness–Google Books is accessible by computers, Nook, Sony e-readers, and Android and iOS devices, and its API is open to all publishers, retailers, and manufacturers–mean Mountain View’s own reader must face stiff device competition for Google’s own eBook content. READ MORE »

About 704 days ago Apps | E-Commerce

Apple, Amazon Set for Showdown Over Kindle for iPhone App

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Apple will begin enforcing its new iTunes App Store rules come June 30, and Amazon’s frequent Top 100 Kindle e-reader app is likely in Cupertino’s crosshairs. At issue is the prominent “shop in the Kindle store” button that takes users out of the App Store and into a web browser from which they can search for and purchase e-books. READ MORE »

About 735 days ago Apps | Tablets and eReaders

Rumor: Amazon To Release Two Tablets

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As new details emerge surrounding Amazon’s still-unconfirmed run at the tablet industry, an unnamed source reveals that the popular online retail store plans to release not one, but two tablets. According to PaidContent.org, Amazon’s lower-range model, codenamed “Coyote,” will run on a Tegra 2 chip from NVIDIA, while its higher-range “Hollywood” model will be built on a quad-core, NVIDIA T30 Kal-El processor. READ MORE »

About 739 days ago Apps | E-Commerce | Smartphones and PDAs | Tablets and eReaders

iFlow Reader App Quits Apple

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Pity the plight of BeamItDown, maker of the iFlow e-reader app for iOS. The company sells e-books, at prices set by publishers, and keeps 30 percent of the purchase price. Then along comes Apple’s new market policy requiring in-app sales to pay Apple a commission of…30 percent. With literally no way left to make a buck, BeamItDown was forced to shut down, taking the iFlow reader with it. It did so, with some very nasty things to say about Apple and its new policy. READ MORE »