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Amazon launches iPad-optimized Kindle store

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

You may remember the good old days when you could use Amazon's Kindle e-reader app for iOS to pop right into the online Kindle store to purchase ebooks. That feature went away in July of 2011 in order to comply with Apple's policies. Amazon today launched an iPad-optimized Kindle Store website ...

Steve Jobs biography released early for Kindle, iBookstore (updated)

by Chris Rawson (Oct 23rd, 2011)

Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs has been released a couple hours early on the Kindle Store, and its release in the US iBookstore is expected at midnight. The US iBookstore is still showing the book as available for pre-order as of this writing, but it should be available for download ...

Kobo, Wall Street Journal, Amazon to stop directly selling through iOS devices

by Mel Martin (Jul 25th, 2011)

Apple is clearly enforcing its stated rules about not selling content through iOS devices unless Apple gets a cut in revenue. The latest companies to comply are e-book sellers Amazon and Kobo, and newspaper publisher The Wall Street Journal. The Journal is reporting this morning that it will ...

The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure

by David Winograd (Oct 14th, 2010)

It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its money. I figured that this would be a good time to see just how the iBookstore has progressed. The ...