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Amazon will double royalty payments for authors who offer works for Kindle
Amazon will double royalty payments to 70% for authors and other providers of content for its Kindle e-book platform. The e-retailer also unveiled new technology that lets game developers and others distribute and sell content for the Kindle.
Posted 01/22/2010Zak StamborPost a comment
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Electronic books outsell paper volumes at Amazon for the first time
Amazon shoppers bought more e-books on Christmas day than they did paper books, Amazon says. Many consumers likely were filling up their newly unwrapped Kindles, as Amazon says the e-book reader was the most gifted item in its history.
Posted 12/28/2009Zak StamborPost a comment
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Amazon will ship the Kindle to Canada
Amazon.com has announced that the Kindle is now available for shipment to customers in Canada for US$259. At the Kindle Store, Canadian Kindle owners can buy more than 300,000 books, along with more than 90 newspapers and magazines.
Posted 11/18/2009Zak StamborPost a comment
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Amazon introduces software for reading Kindle e-books on a PC
Having dramatically increased demand for electronic books with the introduction of its dedicated e-book reader, the Kindle, Amazon today announced plans to make it possible to read Kindle e-books on another popular device—the personal computer.
Posted 10/22/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment
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/ E-Retailers
Amazon lowers the price for the Kindle and takes it international
Amazon.com Inc. has reduced the price of its Kindle to $259, down from $299. The largest online retailer also announced a new model with international wireless capability.
Posted 10/07/2009Bill BriggsPost a comment
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Amazon CEO Bezos apologizes to Kindle owners for deleting books
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has personally apologized for Amazon’s deletion last week of George Orwell’s “1984” and other novels from the Kindle e-book readers of customers who had purchased and downloaded the digital books.
Posted 07/23/2009Don DavisPost a comment
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Amazon books an acquisition to grow Kindle
Amazon has made a key acquisition to help grow its Kindle e-book reader business. Amazon has purchased Lexcycle Inc., the developer of Stanza, a software program for downloading and purchasing digital books for PCs and mobile devices.
Posted 04/28/2009Don DavisPost a comment
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Discovery files a lawsuit against Amazon over the Kindle e-book reader
Discovery is asking for triple damages for Amazon’s alleged infringement of a patent related to the secure distribution of electronic books.
Posted 03/18/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment
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Kindle could spark $740 million revenue blaze by 2010 for Amazon
The Kindle electronic reading device could contribute between $400 million and $740 million in revenue to Amazon by 2010, according to estimates in a Citigroup Global Markets report.
Posted 07/16/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment
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Amazon’s Kindle adds 5,000 backlist titles from Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 additional titles available on Amazon Kindle, the online bookseller’s electronic reading device, in 2008. The initiative will more than double the number of Simon & Schuster titles available on Kindle.
Posted 06/04/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment
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