Amazon Kindle 1st Generation News, Rumors & Updates

With summer blockbuster season ramping up, the Kindle editors are taking a moment to recognize the literary characters whose day-saving antics have proved prime material for movies. There’s the Caped Crusader, of course. But what about other heroes who...

Dallas-based startup BookShout, which aims to promote social reading and aid book discovery, has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round, the company announced Thursday. But the company is, at least temporarily, no longer permitting users to import...

Broke and desperate but determined, 26-year-old Ken Ilgunas decided to buy a cheap van and secretly live in it in a Duke University parking lot to afford grad school. Walden on Wheels, his self-deprecating travel memoir, is a frank,...

Amazon May Finally Release Color Kindle E-Reader Thanks to Latest Acquisition is a post by Chuong Nguyen from Gotta Be Mobile.Amazon has confirmed that it had acquired the Liquavista business from Samsung, a move that could potentially allow the Internet...

Author: Antonio Tabucchi, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks 2013, Archipelago Books Filed Under: Literary, Short Stories C4 Ratings...out of 10 Language..... 8 Entertainment..... 6 Depth..... 8 The good people at Archipelago Books are out with a new Antonio...

If you visit Amazon today, you'll see the big announcement that Kindle Fire users will now be able to use something called Amazon Coins to purchase apps, music and games directly on their Fire devices. And we've got the...

Updated 10:18AM PST: Amazon has confirmed the purchase Amazon’s Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but its original and still-strong-selling Kindle and cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in 1950′s-style black and white. That may soon...