MORE 'AMAZON-COM' POSTS
Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent.org writes about Jakob Nielsen’s usability report about the Kindle Fire. As the headline indicates, Nielsen says the Fire has a lot of problems. The article also points out that Nielsen’s report doesn’t take into account technical issues that some users have with the device. From the Article: Will the projected […]
UPDATE: Some New Kindle Fire News: Kindle Fire Auto-Update Scorches Roots and Potentially Shutters Android Marketplace (via Gizmodo) Info and tools to re-root your device. From Computerworld (IDG News Service): Amazon told a Massachusetts congressman that the Silk browser in its Kindle Fire tablet doesn’t pose a privacy threat to consumers, but the lawmaker wasn’t […]
From a Summary/Announcement: This annual feature includes the Editors’ Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year and Top 10 lists in more than two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children’s Picture Books to the new category Kindle Singles. Set of All Lists: www.amazon.com/bestbooks2011. List: Top 10 Editors’Picks for the Year 1. […]
At launch, Kindle Cloud reader was only available for Chrome and Safari. Today, Firefox users can utilize. From an Amazon.com Announcement: Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Cloud Reader, the HTML5-based web app that lets customers read their Kindle books in their web browser, is now available for Mozilla Firefox so the hundreds of millions of […]
From an A9 (Amazon Subsidiary) Info Page: Flow uses both barcode and image recognition to continuously recognize tens of millions of products (books, DVDs, CDs, video games, or millions of packaged household items, and/or point your camera at a UPC ) in a live camera view, with seamless transition between product packaging and barcodes. Users […]
Amazon Updates Kindle For Mac App With Support for "Book Extras", Print Replica, and Your PDF Files
|We just noticed that the Kindle For Mac app has been updated with support for some new features. Here’s a List of What’s New in Version 1.8.1 (via iTunes App Store): Support for Lion, including Lion’s full-screen mode. Support for collections allows you to take control of your Kindle library and organize your books with […]
UPDATE: “Amazon Profit Plunges; Shares Tumble” (via Bloomberg) From Amazon.com’s Q3 2011 Earnings News Release: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Operating cash flow increased 19% to $3.11 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.62billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2010. Free […]
Kurt Anderson from PRI’s Studio 360 talks with Jason Boog, Editor of GalleyCat. The audio runs 5:30. Here’s a 5:30 minute report from PRI’s Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson talking about Amazon.com, the publisher. From a text summary: “Jason Boog, editor of the book industry blog GalleyCat, said Amazon is poised to become the next […]
UPDATE: Full Text of Complaint (13 pages; PDF) From Media Post: An actress is suing Amazon for allegedly using information from her credit card to discover her true date of birth and append it to her public Internet Movie Database listing. The actress, who filed suit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, says in her complaint […]
UPDATE: Questions for Amazon on Privacy and the Kindle Fire (via NY Times) From Congressman Markey’s News Release: “Markey to Amazon: Don’t Hold a Kindle Fire Sale on Privacy” Concerned that the pairing of the new Kindle Fire tablet with its must-use Silk browser means Amazon could track each Web click of Kindle Fire users […]