Kindle

Amazon builds Kindle for the Web, eyes Android tablet?

This morning Amazon released a new Kindle Web interface, but their plans don't stop there if recent rumors are true.

It makes perfect sense.  You can read your Kindle books on your iPad, your Kindle, your Android device and your PC or Mac with a dedicated app.  Why not just make a Kindle reader for your browser?  That will be a pretty important feature if Google's ChromeOS, which doesn't let users MORE

iPad owners: younger and more male. Kindle's: richer and better educated

What Nielsen has learned about the owners of tablets and other connected devices

As part of Advertising Week's Mobile Ad Summit Tuesday, the Nielsen Company released the results of a survey of 5,000 consumers who own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media player or smartphone – including 400 iPad owners. The survey found some curious demographic differences. Among them:

Apple (AAPL) iPad owners skew younger and male. 65% of them are male MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.

"In my opinion, your motives are driven by self-serving factors around ego satisfaction and 'making a buck.'" -- Angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the morning's most newsworthy bits below.

Amazon's Kindle 3 gets a sleek new look

The market leading e-reader gets refreshed with a Wi-Fi only option and a zippier screen.

Amazon today introduced a new version of the Kindle eReader -- Kindle 3 -- that shows it's not backing down from selling dedicated electronic reading devices.

The new Kindle, code-named Shasta, doesn't have a color display or a touch screen, both long-rumored to be in the works, but it is smaller and lighter, and has a longer battery life MORE

Barnes and Noble's Nook comes to Android

The Android-powered Nook now comes as an application on other Android devices.

Joining Kindle on Android, the Nook app looks to expand Barnes and Nobles' reach to millions more devices.  Strange because the Nook device is Android powered itself – except that you can't install apps on it.

I noticed when reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S phones from T-Mobile (Vibrant)  and AT&T (Captivate) that reading was so much easier on the Super MORE

Amazon scoops up Woot, drops price on Kindle DX

The vast empire of Amazon.com continues to expand, and its price war with competing e-readers heats up.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Amazon.com.

Days after slashing the price of its Kindle eReader by $40, the company announced yesterday it would acquire discount retailer Woot.com for a reported $110 million. According to a statement, Amazon will "foster the long-term growth of Woot, allowing it to continue its passion for MORE

Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big

In the face of Kindle price cuts and wild iPad sales, Jeff Bezos is taking Amazon into new markets and onto every device he can. Will it be enough?

Jeff Bezos has been dismissed before. For most of the dot-com boom, he was assumed to be a one-shot wonder, inches away from having his bookstore, Amazon.com, (AMZN) extinguished by Wal-Mart (WMT). Now, with Apple's (AAPL) mad rush into books and MORE

Android-powered Nook eReader drops to $149/$199

Barnes and Noble dropped the price of its Nook eBook reader today to $199 and introduced an even cheaper $149 Wifi-only Nook, sparking a price war with Amazon.

The race to 'free' in eBook readers is on today as the standard Nook was dropped from $259 to $199 by Barnes and Noble (BKS).  The biggest news however, is that they introduced a new device that costs only $149 but can only use MORE

In praise of reading

Amid all the talk about the "death of print" and the ill effects of multitasking and our shrinking attention spans, we have overlooked the fundamental truth that storytelling will never die.

There's so much jawboning lately about e-readers and tablets and e-ink and pay walls. The debate rages. Will Apple's (AAPL) iPad flatten everyone else? Is Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle franchise fading? What about Sony (SNE) and Barnes & Noble (BN)? MORE