How to lend eBooks with your Kindle
One of the major downsides of eBook readers is the price of books — they feel like they should be cheaper than they are. The Kindle’s portability means I take it everywhere, and am therefore tearing...
View ArticleWhy Kindle eBooks are outselling paper on Amazon
Amazon has very excitedly shared a couple of stunning stats with the world. First, sales of eBooks overtook new paperbacks for the first time, after doing the same for hardcover books last year....
View ArticleWanted: IT orchestrator for private cloud deployment
Reza Malekzadeh is a trooper. I don’t mean he’s in the military or anything: I mean, he fought his way through a rotten cold in the depths of winter, to talk to me a few weeks ago about Nimbula. Take a...
View ArticleTextbook service from Kindle tech support
Customer service really is rubbish, isn’t it? I mean how often have you rang a support line, or stared into the glassy eyed bubble of human-shaped ignorance that is 98% of this nation’s support staff...
View ArticleBlack Friday tech deals in the UK
Like Halloween and the NFL, Black Friday is the latest American import that the British love to moan about, but secretly actually quite like. And with good reason — tech retailers are offering some...
View ArticleThe best free books to read on an Amazon Kindle
There are so many free books available for the Kindle that you never need spend anything more once you’ve bought the device. You have the entire canons of out-of-copyright writers such as Oscar Wilde,...
View ArticleHow Apple forced consumers to pay more for ebooks
Who would you rather had the monopoly on ebooks: Amazon or Apple? That’s the question Forbes asked last month, and now the US authorities have chosen the former. The Department of Justice has sued...
View ArticleKindle Fire HD means price is now everything for Microsoft
So Amazon has launched its Kindle Fire range in the UK, and it’s no understatement to say the two we’re getting in the UK come with sizzling price tags. A 7in Android 4 device with an IPS screen and...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Nook HD and HD+ review: first look
Amazon’s Kindles have ruled the roost for the past couple of years in the UK ebook reader market. But over the next couple of months, its position looks set to be assailed as never before. One of the...
View ArticleHow adult books ended up on my young son’s Kindle
At £99, the Kindle Fire looked the perfect gift for a seven year old, with plenty of content aimed at children, some very playable games and a fairly rigorous set of child-friendly filters built into...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Paperwhite (2013) review: first look
In among the heap of product announcements at IFA this week, another has quietly slipped under the radar: Amazon has launched a new version of its superb Kindle Paperwhite ebook reader. The...
View ArticleAmazon vs Kobo: how much to make the ebook switch?
Amazon has been locked in an epic battle with publishers for control of ebook prices for years now, and the fight has lately taken a nasty turn. Among other things, the retail giant has recently...
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