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Amazon Gets into the Tablet Biz with Kindle Fire

posted on September 28, 2011

Last week, I succumbed to temptation and bought an iPad. Now, I’m wondering if I made a mistake because Amazon’s new Kindle Fire is looking mighty good to me.

Kindle Fire is just one of four new Kindle-based products Amazon is launching today. On the lower end, there’s a new lighter, smaller, Kindle. Finally, there’s a Kindle Touch (for all those people like me who keep trying to scroll through Kindle ebooks by touching the pages) and a Kindle Touch 3G.

The big news is the Kindle Fire, a highly media-focused tablet which comes with a very reasonable price tag — only $199. For that price you get full Kindle ebook functionality with the addition of video, music and full color web browsing.

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Amazon to Offer Ad-Supported Kindle at Discounted Price

posted on April 11, 2011

There are ads on my TV, my mobile phone and on the screen at the movies. Now Amazon wants to take over my e-reading experience as well. They swear the ads won’t actually butt in just as I reach a cliffhanger moment. And I do have to agree to it. Actually, I have to buy in to it, as the ad-sponsored Kindle is a product all its own.

Amazon calls it Kindle with Special Offers, a name which was obviously crafted to make the reader feel like they’re getting something good out of the deal. Instead of showing the usual Kindle book-themed screensaver, the new edition will show a full-page ad. Black and white, only. Remember, Kindle doesn’t do color. What’s even sillier is the Kindle Ad-Mash up which asks users to vote on their preferred ads and only “screensavers with the most preferred votes qualify to become sponsored screensavers.”

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Can Kindle Resist Apple’s Attempt to Douse It?

posted on February 8, 2010

Since its unveiling last month, the iPad has been labeled a Kindle killer. The parallels are obvious—the largest (and newest) Kindle has the same size screen, both have Internet connectivity, and both can be used to read books. But that just about sums up the Kindle’s selling points, and the iPad’s features list continues on out the door. So could a full-color touchscreen tablet computer and a B&W eReader really be considered the competitors the media continue to make them out to be?

Heck yes, if Amazon has anything to say about it. Last week, Amazon acquired touchscreen maker TouchCo. The small startup had developed a new way to add touch screen technology. (Kindle direct competitor the Sony eReader already has a touchscreen version, which outsells its cheaper alternative.)

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Smart Device Activations Break Records on Christmas Day

posted on December 28, 2012

Shoppers said they were going to be more cautious with their spending this holiday season, but that didn’t stop millions of people from putting iPhones, iPads and other smart devices under the Christmas tree.

Flurry detected a record number of smart device activations on December 25 – a whopping 17.5 million. That’s a 332% increase over the average. For those of you who are visual learners. . . .

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This beats last years, record-breaking number of 6.8 million, single-day, activations.

Though smartphones usually out-do tablet activations, on Christmas it was a pretty even split with tablets squeaking ahead with 51%. Many of those tablets were iPads but Kindle did very well with their Kindle Fire line.

H-appy Holidays

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Win an Amazon Kindle 2 in the Easiest Contest in the History of Contests!*

posted on March 4, 2009

How would you like to win the brand-spanking-new Amazon Kindle 2 book reader?

Well, if you’re already subscribed to Marketing Pilgrim’s RSS feed or email updates, you’re half-way to being qualified for the April 6th drawing.

If you’re not yet a subscriber, it will take you less than 20 seconds to subscribe to either our RSS feed or sign-up for our email alerts.

Then, all you have to do is look for a secret message that will appear at the bottom of the posts for one day only–sometime between now and April 5th. This message will only appear in the RSS or email version of the posts, so that’s why you need to subscribe!

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Amazon Goes After Apple with Updated Kindles

posted on September 6, 2012

While Apple builds the buzz over their up-coming press conference, Amazon has slipped in with some big news of their own. CEO Jeff Bezos met with the press this morning to unveil a new line of Kindle Fires and a new Kindle e-reader and what I saw made me weak in the knees. I love my iPad but Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD is calling me with one feature I’ve been craving for a long while.

For the first time, Amazon shouldered its way into Apple’s space with a high end Kindle Fire HD model that retails for $499. This is well above the price points they were hitting and seems to go against the grain of Bezos statement:

“We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.”

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Radically Transparent Now Available on Amazon’s Kindle!

posted on August 31, 2009

The words “about time” come to mind, but better late than never: Radically Transparent is now available for the Kindle!

It’s been 18 months since the original print edition was published and today Radically Transparent is still the most comprehensive guide to online reputation management out there! Actually, it’s the only one out there! ;-)

If you own a Kindle, and would like to pick up a copy of Radically Transparent, head over to Amazon immediately!

And, don’t forget to leave a review while you’re there. Thanks! :-)