Gadgetell | Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things

It should come as no surprise that Amazon is looking to compete better with Apple’s iPad, especially given the recent MacMillan issues.  It looks like the company’s move now is to acquire other companies that could help bring Amazon’s products closer to Apple’s. It looks as if Amazon has acquired… Continue Reading »

The whole mess with Macmillan and Amazon seems likely to spread to others at this point, which ultimately sounds like it will be bad news for Kindle customers in the long run. Just to recap, Macmillan was upset because of the $9.99 pricing with Amazon, Amazon pulled their content, Amazon… Continue Reading »

Nothing seems to have been officially announced in terms of a Zune HD price drop, however that has not stopped both Amazon and Newegg from recently lowering the price. Can you say price war? I hope so, because that generally means good things for the customers—well, potential customers. Bottom line,… Continue Reading »

The last we heard was that Amazon had halted sales of the Macmillan titles in the Kindle Store, but as you may have hoped or guessed that move was not going to last for long. Basically, it seems as if Amazon has given in, and has decided to once again… Continue Reading »

Amazon has yanked all books published by Macmillan in response to a pricing dispute. Macmillan is demanding the site raise the price of ebooks to $15, a $5 increase over the current $9.99 price. Macmillan told Amazon they could purchase ebooks using the same model being offered to Apple, where… Continue Reading »

With the economy recovering, this year has been good to many, especially the eReader community. And with the Kindle at the forefront of this clique it is going to show off some of its successes. Heading these successes is the $902 million net income increase since 2008, a 40% increase.… Continue Reading »

Any Kindle user that still prefers to read in the dark may want to check out a newly released accessory. Its called the Kandle, and is an LED light with a “WideLip” grip. Ok, in all fairness the Kandle could be used for any ebook reader, or regular book for… Continue Reading »

With the wide range of available ebook readers, and the allegedly looming Apple Tablet, Amazon seems to be looking for a way to make the Kindle even more appealing.  Of course, it could always try lowering the price or something of that nature, but that still makes the Kindle the… Continue Reading »

Amazon has announced that Digital Text Platform self publishing tool is now available to authors around the world and that support for French and German languages has been added. Previously only English was supported. The Digital Text Platform (DTP) allows writers to publish their own books for the Kindle by… Continue Reading »

The Kindle DX, is a bigger version of Kindle in terms of both screen size (9.7”) and capacity (3.3GB). It is recently announced that the Kindle DX is now available in over 100 countries worldwide. The Kindle DX comes with Global Wireless, allowing you to download books using 3G, EDGE… Continue Reading »