Staci D. Kramer
Laura Hazard Owen
Amanda Natividad
Nov 14, 2011 4:59 AM
Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device—not an e-reader with some frills. That announcement was followed by Kobo’s announcement of the Vox. And, as expected, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—which already had a touchscreen color e-reader that…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 25, 2009 6:20 AM
Does the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) know something we don’t? Mail Online MD James Bromley tells NMA he’s talking with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to launch the British paper on to the US-only device “and the UK version” “in the near future”. What “UK version”? Despite Kindle 2.0 having been unveiled…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2009 11:51 AM
So Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has confirmed the second iteration of its Kindle e-book reader - with lighter, thinner body, space for 800 more books and text-to-speech synthesis - will hit US stores on February 24. But one thing conscpicuously absent from the announcement - any semblance of UK or European…
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Dianne See Morrison
Oct 17, 2008 6:57 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) won’t be releasing its Kindle e-book device in the UK in time for Christmas, thanks to the complex agreements that it must secure with European operators to ensure the gadget works. In the US, Kindle uses whispernet, the Amazon data MVNO that uses the Sprint (NYSE: S)…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 20, 2008 4:08 AM
News International and FT Group have launched The Times and Financial Times on to Amazon’s clunky Kindle e-reader, even though the gadget isn’t available in the UK. Priced $14.99 (£8.04) and $9.99 (£5.36) per month respectively, the digital editions come at a considerable saving over the dead-tree editions and are…
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