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Amazon: No New Kindle This Year; ‘Sometime Next Year Earliest’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 28 Aug 2008 08:17 PM PST

What a buzz kill ... Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) spokesman Craig Berman tells the NYT: “Don’t believe everything you read. ... There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle.…

Citigroup Analyst Switches Gears, Hypes Amazon’s Kindle As ‘iPod Of The Book World’ - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 11 Aug 2008 12:22 PM PST

Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney has upped his original estimate of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle sales, forecasting 380,000 units sold in 2008. That’s double the 190,000 he forecast earlier for Kindle’s debut…

Amazon E-Book Sales To Hit $2.5 Billion In 2012; Will Add $330 Million To Op Income: Analyst - 5 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:43 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat ever given out is…

Update: Amazon Down, Takes Kindle Store Down With It - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 06 Jun 2008 10:35 AM PST

The internet is buckling a little bit, but at least it’s Friday… Not only is Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) down—going to it just gets you “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”—but so is the…

Bezos On Kindle: ‘We Would Love To Have Color’—And Every Book Ever - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 02 Jun 2008 08:51 PM PST

Just before D6, Rafat and I—both Kindle users—were talking about books on our respective reading lists and how many of them, particularly new non-fiction, couldn’t be downloaded to the device. …

More Titles Available For Amazon’s Kindle Despite Fears By Other Publishers - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 02 Jun 2008 03:30 PM PST

The book publishing industry is not sure what to make of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle wireless reader. The device’s creator, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, addressed the industry in front…

@ D6: Jeff Bezos: Kindle Contributes 6 Percent Of Title Sales - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 08:21 AM PST

Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent…

Amazon Drops Kindle Price By $40 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 04:06 PM PST

Besides the Jeff Bezos sighting at D6 this evening, some more news from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), a slightly surprising one considering the sellout status of Kindle: the company is dropping…

Bear Stearns Media Con: Martha, Murdoch & The Kindle - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:09 AM PST

Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d…

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, Explaning The Kindle - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 20 Nov 2007 06:14 PM PST

His laugh is what gets me everytime, the 10-years notwithstanding. Here’s how a FastCompany story from 2001 described it: “His laugh, which has been described as sounding like ‘a jackass…

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First Look: Amazon’s Kindle Reader: The Gap Between Description and The Device - 10 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 19 Nov 2007 12:30 PM PST

After today’s festivities concluded, I eventually got a chance to sit down and play with Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The first thing to note is that the screen isn’t like…

@ Kindle Launch: Understanding the Business Model; Still Some Unanswered Questions - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 19 Nov 2007 09:37 AM PST

Following the Jeff-note (doesn’t quite have the same ring does it?), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) offered up a few company representatives to answer questions for the detail-hungry audience. One of the…

@ Kindle Launch: Amazon’s Book Reader Unveiled - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 19 Nov 2007 07:24 AM PST

There’s a packed house on hand here at the W Union Square hotel in NYC for the official unveiling of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) much-hyped, oft-delayed e-book reader dubbed Kindle. Most…

Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Reader: The Details And The Devil - 20 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 18 Nov 2007 12:50 PM PST

So it is a bit ridiculous that Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has been trying to keep us from disclosing the details on its Kindle e-book device, while giving Newsweek a cover…

Amazon.com Finally To Launch Reader Next Week: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 Nov 2007 04:42 PM PST

So says report in News.com, saying it will be launched on Monday in NYC. We have written about it before, here. News.com says that “Kindle” is equipped with a Wi-Fi…

Amazon.com To Launch Wireless eBook Reader; Google To Start Charging For Digital Books Access - 6 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Sep 2007 09:47 PM PST

Two separate developments in the eBooks/digital books world, reported by NYT: -- Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching an eBook device called The Kindle, in October, and will be priced at…