Last week Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos apologized to Kindle owners for the way Amazon handled the remote removal of copyrighted material from Kindles. Now, however, Amazon is facing a lawsuit over the issue. The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog reports that a 17-year-old high school senior is...

In the latest issue of travel magazine Sky, the Crown Princess of Greece is featured in a piece called “What’s in My Bag?” She counts a Kindle among her favorite travel items. She says she always has, Books from The New York Times best-seller list, and I always download lots of interesting...

The Periscope Lighted Folio is a cover for the Kindle 2 (or Kindle 1) that has a built-in booklight. This feature makes nighttime reading easier since the Kindle does not have a backlight. I have written about the Periscope before, but I hadn’t had a chance to try one at the time. Now that I’ve...

Amazon has received a flood of negative press in the past few days for an unfortunate incident where they removed illegally published books from Kindles remotely. Previously a spokesperson for Amazon spoke up, but now CEO Jeff Bezos is speaking out. On the Kindle forums on Amazon.com, he wrote: This...

My biggest current problem with the Kindle is the lack of an unread status marker for books. With the increase in authors offering their books for free, I’ve been downloading a lot of books I haven’t gotten around to reading yet. That, combined with the fact that I’m reading more magazines...

Recent news of a class action lawsuit against Amazon over their official Amazon Kindle case causing cracked screens had Kindle owners worried. Amazon was requiring a $200 replacement fee for the screen damage. After the negative feedback storm, Amazon has conceded. According to SlashGear, Amazon will...

This story about Amazon deleting purchased books from Kindles remotely surfaced late last week while I was away on vacation. The short version of the original story is that a publisher decided it no longer wanted George Orwell’s books available digitally. Amazon removed the books from the Kindle...

Kindle owners have been experiencing broken screen issues since the original Kindle. Up until this point, Amazon’s response has been that the user put too much pressure on the device, and therefore disrupted the e-ink inside the screen. They have replaced Kindles for consumers who have experienced...

In the technology and gadget industry, patents can reveal a lot about the plans of a company. Amazon recently filed several patents that are clearly related to their Kindle line of devices. One of the patents could give publishers the ability to bundle an e-book (or Kindle) version of a book with a physical...

Amazon has decreased the price of the 6″ Kindle (what some are still calling the Kindle 2) from $359 to $299. This is good news for those that have been hesitant to buy the Kindle due to the high price, although $300 may still be too high for some. The good news for customers who purchased one...