by Admin | Oct 15, 2015 | General
Waterstones, London based UK’s largest retail book store chain has decided to discontinue with Amazon’s ‘kindle’ after nearly three years. This decision has been taken because of the reduced sale of Kindle ebooks. In a statement to The Booksellers magazine, the Managing Director of the company Mr. James Daunt said “Sales of Kindles continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back in more and more shops. It feels very much like the life of one of those inexplicable bestsellers; one day piles and piles, selling like fury; the next you count your blessings with every sale because it brings you closer to getting it off your shelves forever to make way for something new,” he told the magazine. It was reported by Guardian that in December2014, sale of paperbacks at Waterstones has increased by 5%. However spokesperson of Amazon in his statement informed that they are pleased with the constructive momentum and mounting distribution of Kindle and Fire tablet sales. He also stated that their devices are now obtainable in over 2,500 retail locations across the UK, including Argos, Tesco, Dixons, John Lewis and recent additions like Sainsbury’s, Boots and Shop...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog, Kindle ebook
Amazon introduces a new Kindle Fire tablet just for $50 and is offering it in a pack of six at a price of five only. Amazon tablets are already quiet popular among the eBook readers and this initiative seems to be lucrative enough. It is a 7-Ich tablet though not a top-of-the-line tablet and not one of the new Fire HD tablets, and it’s certainly not the Kindle Fire HDX. It has a 1024 x 600 resolution display (although, with IPS), a 1.3Ghz quad-core processor, 8 gigabytes of internal storage, one gigabyte of RAM, and your basic front- and rear-facing cameras. It runs on the latest version of Fire OS and claims seven hours of battery life with average use. Amazon claims this tablet to be more durable than iPad Air, and has two times more processing power than Samsung’s competing Tab 3 Lite. Since 2011 Amazon has been in the low-priced tablet game — when it launched the first Kindle Fire tablet, one of the first high-quality $199 tablets in the market. But $50 sets a new bar for tablets as commodities, at least when they’re made by well-known brands such as Amazon. This move of Amazon is in the same direction as other tablet makers. There is no doubt in the fact that Amazon is offering its Kindle e-readers at so very affordable prices because all it wants is to sell its Kindle E-Books. This idea has thus far worked well for Kindle e-reader and Amazon is expecting the same for its tablets too. The latest version of the Fire Kids Edition tablet, a follow-up to previous year’s dedicated...
by Admin | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Kindle ebook
Amazon comes with an alluring service in India for all the ebook lovers; also for the ones using Kindle iOS or Android apps on their smartphone. The read-all-you-can subscription service brings an initial 1 million e-books. Kindle Unlimited comprises of several well-liked titles like Harry Potter series (books 1, 2 and 3); Indian authors such as Chetan Bhagat, Amish, Rashmi Bansal and lot of self-published titles as well. The readers can read all genre of books whether it is of literature, fiction, health, productivity, business, economics, biographies and others without any kind of hassle. They can easily download any book which attracts their attention and can start reading it there and then. For the first month this service will be available for Rs.99 , which is evidently a way lower price in comparison. There is a limit of 10 books per month that readers can add to their library every month. To sign up for six months subscription readers need to pay INR 999 and INR 1799 for 12 months subscription. Titles that are supported by this service will be tagged with a Kindle Unlimited icon. Using the keyword “Kindle Unlimited” on Amazon.com Inc.’s India website readers can see 11,400 results for just books that shows how to get the most out of the valuable Kindle Unlimited subscription. This service is already available in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and...
by Admin | Jul 3, 2015 | General
Australia has joined the growing number of countries to pass anti-piracy laws in an attempt to help protect the music, publishing and entertainment industries. The law in question allows publishers or rights holders to challenge various torrenting websites. The challenge can force the pirating websites to close in order to maintain the rights of the copyright holders. This legislation is expected to greatly decrease the number of piracy websites that have eBooks, movies, music and more available for download for free or at reduced prices from those of the original owners. While the legislation does require the original owners to challenge the websites, it does allow them with a governmental route to help protect their assets and property. The challenge requires internet providers to block the websites in question. Some are seeing this as an infringement of personal right, but the government has sided with the entertainment industry in this case. This is not the first instance to be seen of internet providers being required to block pirating websites at the insistence of the government and copyright holders. A similar program has been established in the UK and actually had its first big court case last year. The outcome of the case required internet providers to block access to multiple websites that were hosting pirated eBooks. It will be interesting to see how the legislation works in...
by Admin | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, General
Amazon has recently unveiled a new font for their iPhone and iPad apps that is intended to increase readability of the text across various platforms and devices. The font has been specifically designed for Kindle and is supposed to increase the readability of texts by 2%. The font itself is called Bookerly and is replacing the font known as Caecilia. In addition to the new font, Amazon has updated the layout engine. Users will see improvements in kerning, drop caps, text justification, image positioning and even more options and features. The new font has been set as the default font for Kindle Fires and all their apps. It was custom made by Amazon and is similar to Google’s Literata. The hope is that the new font will help improve some of the aesthetic issues that bother users when they are using eBooks. While the font is only 2% better than the previous one, that is still an improvement over the previous font. Overall, it is expected that the improvements to the layout engine are going to be more lauded than the font itself. The changes have made eBooks appear more like print typesetting which makes it easier for readers overall. The changes should particularly help those that often adjust the sizes of the...
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