Oct 01

Engadget gets hands on with Kindle Fire.

Engadget offers its first impressions and some cool video of the new Amazon Kindle Fire. Take the leap for pics and more.

Sep 30

Will Amazon Fire burn the Apple iPad?

TimeTechland investigates whether the new $199 Amazon Fire full color tablet is indeed an Apple iPad killer. The industry has been waiting for this to happen since iPad took the top spot in the fledgling market and refused to budge.

By the look of it, with a little tweaking Amazon Fire may force Apple to do a bit of pruning on its end.

Sep 29

Are Free Kindles in our future?

With the release of Amazon’s new Fire tablet and reasonably priced sister Kindles, the Mobile Gadgeteer at ZDNet asks the question: Since these devices are being sold at a loss to lock consumers into the Amazon Cloud of content, when will the online giant give the machines away to seal the deal?

Sep 28

Amazon Launches $199 Color Tablet. Starts price war with $79 Kindle!

Engadget was at the event in New York where Jeff Bezos of Amazon made this announcement. You can find the play-by-play and product descriptions at the link.

Fire (color tablet) for $199,  Touch 3G for $149, Touch for $99, and Kindle for $79. Kindles compared here.

Here is an open letter and product description at Amazon.

This is going to shake the eBook Revolution to its core. (Notice the $79 price we’ve been predicting all year? Just saying…)

Sep 27

Amazon Kindle Launch Update

Techland offers an update on Amazon’s news conference tomorrow that is now rumored to offer not 2 but 3 Kindle eBook readers. Included in the clutch will be the Kindle full-color tablet (Kindle Fire codenamed Hollywood) that is designed and priced to compete head to head with Apple’s iPad. The article calls it “aggressively priced” so that might put the Kindle tablet inside our $250-$299 prediction.

After that comes a pair of black and white, dedicated E Ink Kindles for their dedicated readers: the low priced “Tequila” $99 and “Whitney” (bells and whistles/higher price undisclosed).

If Tequila hits the market at $99, can the $79 E Ink eBook Reader be here in time for Christmas?

Sep 27

Amazon Tablet hits tomorrow?

Digital Home offers more on the much-anticipated launch of Amazon’s ‘rumored’ tablet version of its Kindle eBook Reader.

This news should be confirmed tomorrow, the 28th from a news conference in New York. Let’s hope they keep the machine between $250 and $299. If the device is designed to be an Apple iPad killer, an affordable price for the mainstream is a must.

Sep 26

It’s looking like a tablet Christmas!

PCMag reports that Barnes and Noble is getting ready to launch another Nook Color tablet. The machine will be added to their existing line of E Ink and full color devices.

This holiday season is going to be explosive if B&N’s tablet hits the market at the same time as Amazon and Kobo’s.

Get ready for a price war!

Sep 25

Kobo to release Vox tablet.

With Amazon soon to announce the release of its rumored eBook reading tablet, it isn’t surprising to see that Kobo is getting its tablet Vox ready for market. Read the full story at GoodeReader.

Sep 24

Amazon Tablet to launch Sept. 28?

Amazon is rumored to have picked a Sept. 28 press conference in New York to reveal the new Kindle Tablet(s). Read more on the Android device, and Apple iPad competitor at Bloomberg Businessweek.

Sep 23

Profits shifting with digital publishing.

An Aptara study shows 20% of publishers generate 10% of their income via digital titles. More on the study at eBooknewser.