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Amazon has updated its iOS Kindle app with accessibility features to allow blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries and read books. “With this update, we’re also making customer-favorite features-such as X-Ray, End Actions, sharing, highlighting and bookmarking — more accessible.” said Dorothy Nicholls, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. Relying on Apple’s VoiceOver…
It was Cyber Monday, 2012, and Amazon was offering a deal on their Kindle tablets. I quickly snatched up a 2nd-gen Kindle Fire for my mom’s x-mas present, as she (like everyone else this holiday season) wanted a tablet. When the unit arrived a few days later on the doorstep, I immediately had my greedy…
Passbook is creating quite a bit of buzz and anticipation for the release of Apple’s newest mobile firmware, iOS 6. Though there is still come debate as to whether the iPhone 5 will feature NFC technology that is currently already being seen in some Samsung phones with Google Wallet, iOS 6’s Passbook is sure to…
Amazon is eager as ever to keep its Kindle apps up to date. Their latest endeavor includes releasing a new version of the Android client, which can now read Kindle Format 8 files. Moreover, Kindle users can now access a larger assortment of illustrated children’s books, comic books and graphic novels. In fact, there are…
A recent Best Buy ad is jumping the gun a bit, suggesting that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has access to apps for Twitter and Kindle, when sadly it does not. Instead of assuming Best Buy just got their facts wrong, it’s much more likely that it knows something we don’t: Twitter and Kindle are coming…
Amazon has once again updated its Kindle app for Android with few tweaks here and there, as well as some bug fixes under the hood. Version 3.4.0 is smaller to download, while also including page numbers. As a result, you’ll be able to track your reading progress using numbers that match the real book. Not…
Amazon introduced a Kindle store optimized specifically for the iPad today. It’s not a native app available in the App Store, so don’t think Amazon gave into Apple’s strict in-app purchasing rules. Rather, the iPad-optimized Kindle store is accessible at amazon.com/iPadKindleStore. It only works when typed into Safari on iPad. Once there, you are greeted…
Amazon has crossed a long way from its beginnings as the world’s largest bookstore. Today the online retailer is selling all kinds of products and services, effectively opening up many fronts against other companies. This year alone, they’ve launched three new products or service offerings that challenge the market dominance of an established player. Of…
Amazon has recently updated its Kindle app for Android with few important features. Perhaps most notably is the support for PDF documents, allowing users to have a single app for all their reading needs. But wait – it’s not that cool actually. You see, when you read PDF file in the Kindle app, you can’t…
The once super-popular ebook reading Stanza app got its final update and is now compatible with iOS 5. Amazon, which acquired Stanza in May 2009, is pushing users toward the Kindle app, though Stanza still offers a wider array of document formats and more customization options. That said, we’re kinda sad to learn this is…