We still don’t have any exact figures from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold, but the latest figures out from mobile ad network Millennial Media are the latest to suggest that it is selling very well, and that people are using the device to…

Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device—not an e-reader with some frills. That announcement was followed by Kobo’s announcement of the Vox. And, as expected, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—which already had a touchscreen color e-reader that…

One question that inevitably comes up these days when a top newspaper exec talks online with readers: How can I pay you for online news? (Of course, that shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign that enough readers want to pay for online news to make it work.)  Today was Washington…

So far, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has dominated the nascent e-reader market (Just look at the attention being given to the company’s seemingly minute announcement today that the next version of the Kindle—the DX—will come out on June 10). But a report out from Forrester this morning identifies several openings for…

Amazon’s Kindle is being touted by some in the industry as one of the surefire ways publishers and content providers can charge for content, but Showtime is thinking a bit laterally on it: the CBS-owned subscription cable channel network is offering a free, downloadable version of the pilot script for…

To quote Carol Bartz, the CEO of *Yahoo*, “never’s a long time”. But that’s what Jeff Bezos promised today at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting, when asked about Kindle sales data: “I’m not sure we will ever reveal all the numbers…Our point of view is that there is a competitive advantage…

As a publisher, getting on the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. We should know—paidContent was among the sites included in the Kindle Store when the first gen device launched in 2007. But bloggers who want a shot at incremental subscription income by self-publishing their RSS feeds through…

P. Steven Ainsley runs the Boston Globe but the publisher says he wasn’t part of the decision to threaten a May 1 shutdown unless unions came up with $20 million in concessions on a tight clock—or to do it right after a round of layoffs and buyouts. “That was made…

Rupert Murdoch wasn’t the only one taking out after Amazon and Kindle the same day it announced a pilot program with the New York Times and the Washington Post. Turns out the subject came up during the U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on the future of newspapers. Dallas Morning News Publisher…

Apart from unveiling the new, larger screen Kindle DX, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos announced that subscriptions for the Washington Post, NYT and its troubled NYTCo sibling The Boston Globe will offer reduced monthly Kindle subscriptions. But as Amazon’s press release points out: only in areas where home delivery…

While corporate sibling Boston Globe fights for survival, the head of The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Media Group is taking his turn online at Talk to the Times. Scott Heekin-Canedy, president and GM of the group, is the latest NYT exec to answer reader questions during a week-long stint.…

The next big thing in e-book readers: Larger screens. Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is set to introduce a bigger-screen version of its Kindle e-book reader before the 2009 holiday shopping season, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people who have seen the device. That means that by the beginning of 2010…

News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert Murdoch wants to back an e-reader device to rival the Kindle. But the company has run into some delivery problems. Today, WSJ content was delivered to the device at about 7 a.m. instead of the usual time of 5 a.m. Here’s the message that…

Turn away for a second and the damnedest things drop in your inbox: Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA), home of Shark Week, filed a suit today in U.S. District Court against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), claiming that the sale of the Kindle and its electronic book delivery infringes on one…

This afternoon Ian Freed, the *Amazon* VP for Kindle, told me books in the e-book format would be available “soon” on other devices. What he didn’t say is that “soon” was tomorrow, as in Wednesday. That’s when the free Kindle app showed up in the iPhone App Store for use…

Following criticism by some authors, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is pulling back on the experimental Text-to-Speech feature in the new Kindle 2. Instead of making the automated reader available across the board, the company announced late Friday it will let rightsholders choose title by title. Amazon maintains that it has the…

A few eye-catching items from the tsunami of post-shipping Kindle 2 coverage: — What would Kindle do?: Not all K2s work out of the box and it’s Amazon’s bad fortune that the device sent to author/blogger/consumer advocate/Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) shareholder Jeff Jarvis turned out to be one of them. Jeff…

I’ve only been using it off and on for a few hours but so far Kindle 2 is the trophy wife—sleek, Botox tight and a lot less comfortable than its predecessor. Part of my reaction surely is due to the way I adapted to K1 during my months with my…

It’s been less than a month since *Amazon* unveiled the Kindle 2, but there’s been no shortage of speculation about whether it will live up to the hype. Most recently, Forbes’ Tim O’Reilly cautioned that the device would be “gone within two or three years” if Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) didn’t…