Tablet Crunch

In the month of December, Amazon ended up lending 295,000 books through its Kindle Lending Library, a program that allows Amazon Prime members who own a Kindle device (or Kindle Fire) to borrow books. One of the things that are fueling this growth is the Kindle Direct Publisher's fund (KDP Fund) which allows publishers to earn ...

Business leaders and entrepreneurs alike should be taking note as to the business practices that are on display from Amazon.  Specifically, look at the strategy that Amazon is implementing with the Kindle Owner's Lending Library program.  Basically, anyone who owns a Kindle device can chose to borrow (for free) one of over 5,000 premium books - 5,377 ...

Amazon is definitely putting more heat on the publishing industry as a whole by bringing Kindle Owner's Lending Library to Kindle devices. This offering is part of Amazon's larger Amazon Prime Membership package where customers get free two day shipping on millions of products and unlimited instant streaming of nearly 13,000 movies and TV shoes. The lineup of free ...

Amazon is getting ready for the Christmas holiday season just like everyone else.  And this season, the focus for Amazon is going to be the Kindle, and perhaps even the highly anticipated Amazon Android tablet. Some recent domain purchases suggest that Amazon has some plans up its sleeves in regards to the Kindle e-reader. Two domain names ...

Amazon has released two new versions of the Kindle.  1) The ad supported Wi-Fi Kindle for $114 and 2) the ad supported 3G Kindle for $164.  In exchange for the low price, the 6 inch device the use agrees to the occasional special offer advertisements. Some of the special offers are reportedly going to be ...

Amazon announced in July of 2010 that they were selling more e-books than hardcover books.  However, today Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, has announced that e-books are outselling both paperbacks and hardbacks. Mr. Bezos went on to say, " We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this ...

Amazon announced today during an analyst call that the ad supported Kindle is ahead of production, and they are ready to ship tomorrow.  The ad supported Kindle is scheduled to be available at Amazon.com, but also at Target and Best Buy.  The ad supported Kindle is priced at $114 - this is a $25 price ...