Kindle in the News

You may have bought your ebook reader to enjoy a good book wherever you are and whenever you feel like doing so. But now you can do something more than just read: you can play Amazon Kindle games on it as well.

Not only has the Amazon Kindle taken the USA by a storm, it is in global demand. Certainly Amazon has created a product that enables the user to download books easily and quickly where ever they are. The Kindle global wireless limitations are being lifted, and Amazon is at the top of their game when it comes to offering a diverse ebook reader.

Online retailer giant Amazon.com introduced this week the latest generation of its popular Kindle DX. With this new version — the Kindle DX International 2, Amazon has indeed put out all the stops to come up with a device that’s superior in capabilities and striking in looks compared to its predecessor.

Kindle vs Nook anew? It seems we’re going to see the ebook reader price war go full force. In a totally unprecedented move, Amazon slashed the price of the Kindle 2, making a nosedive from $259 all the way to $189. Now that’s a whooping $70-drop!

According to the appendix in the Kindle user guide, the Kindle generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency (RF) energy and, if not used in accordance with its instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications and electronic equipment. Read more about it here.

Worldreader.org, an organization that aims to to send ebook readers to developing countries to help in educating children has picked out the Amazon Kindle as the ereader of choice. Read more about it here.

It would be safe to assume that Amazon is looking to improve on the Kindle web browser. The evidence is in a recent job listing, which clearly indicated that the company is on the lookout for a Software Development Engineer for its ereader division. Is this the next step in the Amazon vs Apple battle?

You may have heard that Amazon and Microsoft signed a patent cross-licensing deal last week. Currently, the Kindle uses Linux OS, but the question is will this deal open the “window” for Microsoft to take the place of Linux OS? This deal could change the future of how Amazon operates.

That was big news for Blackberry users indeed when Amazon launched its Kindle for Blackberry App. But did you notice the sentence that mentions a Kindle app for iPad in the press release as well? What?

A semester-long pilot recently came to an end at Princeton University, where student participants used the Amazon Kindle DX and proved that the device assisted in eliminating paper usage by 50%.