But the electronic readers are not at all happy about it, according to Head Kindle Hedda.
"Amazon officials never discussed this whole thing with us," complained Hedda, continuing, "apparently they just annoyed Target so much that the business ass...
If the rumor mill is correct, Apple will be launching its iPad 3 on Wednesday, March 7, at a major press event. Customers are thrilled, but the older iPads aren't!
Apparently it's a severe case of sibling rivalry. As one of the older iPads state...
Amazon, the online all-in-one, uber efficient retailer has long been a pioneer in online retailing. Now they have gone one step further by allowing people to search their product base ordered not just by price or popularity, but also by colour.
"S...
At Amazon's Wednesday morning press conference in New York City, it wasn't only the long-awaited tablet computer (the Kindle Fire) that was introduced. It was also THREE other new Kindles.
Amazon had also brought along some earlier Kindles (fir...
London - Sports enthusiast reckon it's set to become the most popular subterranean whitewater freestyle kayaking/waterboarding site in all of Europe amid confirmation it dwarfs its surface counterpart from Boulters Lock at Maidenhead to Devil's Islan...
Concerned zoologists had a good reason to be cheerful today, following the discovery of a sizable community of Amazonian tree frogs in Scott Park, in Burnley, Lancashire.
The community of thorn-spitting yellow-backed Uppenattem frogs came to the a...
The discovery of another "lost" Amazonian tribe in dense rainforest, close to the Peruvian border, may have excited the world's scientific and archaeological communities, but according to reports, the tribesmen are none too pleased.
It seems that...
Researchers have reported that the Amondawa tribe, who were first discovered in the depths of the Amazon rainforest in 1986, have no notion of time as an abstract concept.
Chris Sinha, Professor of Psychology of Language at the University of Ports...
Scientists have discovered a remote tribe in the Brazilian rainforest who have no word to describe the male genitalia. The Dingaling tribe were only discovered in the 1970s and Brazilian linguists have been living amongst them for the last few years...
Not a bad way to kick off a business really, obtain a controversial commodity, even if that commodity embarrasses some world leaders, puts covert operatives lives in danger and damages state relationships, then make it available through paid links fr...
The BBC reports that Amazon, the online shopping shop, has just withdrawn "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" following complaints and threats to boycott the site.
The author, listed as Philip R Greaves II...
Kindles, Amazon's electronic readers, are in a snit. They are appalled that Amazon has announced, ". . . later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle...
There were cheers and jeers when Amazon introduced a new Kindle on Wednesday. The jeers came from the older model (Kindle2) electronic readers; they feel that they may now be put out to pasture.
Many of the older Kindles were too upset to talk...
Kindles were ecstatic this week when they read in The New York Times that Amazon had announced that, " . . . for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books."
To celebrate, Kindles stop...
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, is a lucky man. Father of Amazon's Kindle (regarded by many as the world's foremost electronic reader), he'll be getting lots of presents from his "kids" on June 20.
A group of Kindles was spotted Saturday in...
WASHINGTON - In an embarassing gaffe where Amazon is alleged to have deleted books from consumers' Kindle devices, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos maintains that not only was the book not deleted, it 'never existed to begin with.'
The book, a so-called 1984...
Amazon has denied banning gay and lesbian books from its searches and best-seller lists. The on-line retailer has issued a statement saying that the removal of these books, along with thousands of others designated as 'Adult' by Amazon, was a mistak...
LAREDO, Texas - President Barack Obama visited the border city of Laredo, Texas and told a crowd of over 50,000 that had assembled on Fulano De Tal's 100,000 acre John Doe Ranch that he understands their concern, worry, and apprehension regarding the...