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Amazon Kindle Fire: First look

Key features of Amazon's would-be iPad "killer".
Amazon unveils $200 Kindle Fire tablet

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has shown off the Kindle Fire, a $US199 ($A201) tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-colour, multipurpose devices.
Snapshot of the new Amazon tablet

Rumoured to be called Kindle Fire, Amazon’s upcoming tablet will be unveiled in less than 24 hours.
US libraries lend digital books to Kindle

Thousands of US libraries have begun lending digital books over the internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices.
Kindle lets readers question authors

Amazon has launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.

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Why e-Readers Are a Worthy Business Investment

A Silicon Valley product development consulting firm called the Nielsen Norman Group (not to be confused with the Nielsen ratings company) published a study last week comparing reading performance with a book to reading with an e-reader. The results--which are suspect because there were only 24 people in the test group--find that users of the Kindle 2 and iPad read 10.7 percent and 6.2 percent slower, respectively, than on paper or with books.
iPad vs. Kindle: Can Amazon keep its e-book edge?

Apple's iPad goes on sale April 3 in the US triggering a challenge by Amazon to keep customers interested in buying its Kindle e-book reader and e-books.
Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.
Color E-readers a hit at book fair, to be sold like handsets

Taiwanese e-reader makers jockeyed to show off new technologies at the Taipei International Book Exhibition over the weekend and said the emerging model for the devices is to sell them as part of a content bundle.
Privacy guide for Kindle, other E-Book readers

If you're concerned about the privacy implications of reading digital books, take a look at a nice guide put up yesterday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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