The hot rumours are that Amazon are to release a Kindle Tablet, with industry insiders predicting an announcement by late November. This probably means that Amazon will miss the lucrative Christmas season with the device. A recent report on Tech Crunch confirmed the exitsance of the tablet which will use the Android OS. Reports are that the Kindle Tablet resembles the Blackberry Playbook
George R. Martin joins the Kindle Million Club -
Amazon announced Monday that George R.R. Martin, author of the Song
of Ice and Fire series, has become the 10th author to sell 1 million
Kindle e-books. The popular series, the basis for the HBO television series "Game of
Thrones," has just five, fairly massive books: "A Game of Thrones," "A
Clash of Kings," "A Storm of Swords," "A Feast for Crows," and "A Dance
with Dragons." The long-awaited "A Dance with Dragons" was published in
July to an enthusiastic reception, debuting at #2 on Amazon. It remains on the LA Times bestseller list after spending five weeks at No. 1.
With the development of electronic technology and the popularity of 3G,
eReading has to occupy in people's lives more and more important
position. IT consulting firm Analysys International recently released a
report, 45% of users use mobile phones every day to read. The
consumption of reading by mobile phone is expected to become the new
hot spot of Mobile Internet. The rise of electronic reading brings diversity to reading styles. On
the one hand is the brand of electronic readers at home and abroad are
faced with intense competition; other hand, on the other hand, the
function of the increasingly powerful smart phone has become an
electronic reading choice of large number of users.
Monday 19 September 2011
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