Buy Tablets: October 2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

Amazon introduces Prime Reading for subscribers – USA TODAY

To provide members a library of over 1,000 books Time

The Amazon logo is seen on the new logistics center of online merchant Amazon in France. Amazon is a major presence in the online retail overseas, with the United Kingdom, German and Japan being its largest non-U.s. markets.(Photo: Michel spingler, AP)

Add one more perk to Amazon’s Prime subscription service.

The retailing giant unveiled the Prime Reading, which gives subscribers to the $ 99-a-year service access to more than 1,000 Kindle books, as well as magazines and other published works for free.

Books, including “Harry Potter” and “The Sorcerer’s Stone” and “The Hobbit” are available, as well as travel guides from Lonely Planet. Subscribers also gain access to current issues of premium magazines including People and Sports Illustrated. Comic books, short works and children’s books are also part of the package.

Prime Reading is among several book initiative tied to Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle Owners Lending Library allows owners of a Kindle to download one book a month. There’s also the Kindle First, where users choose one of six new books to read before its official release. Kindle Unlimited is Amazon’s spin on the Netflix model, where users can download and read one of thousands of books for a monthly subscription fee. Unlimited, is separate from Amazon Prime.

The addition of Reading, give Prime members another incentive to hang on to the Amazon subscription service. For $ 99 a year, users receive free two-day shipping on most Amazon items, along with access to the Amazon Video streaming service and Amazon Music.

Amazon has not disclosed how many people subscribe to Prime. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated in June that Amazon has about 63 million Prime members.

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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Up To $50 off Various Amazon Kindle Models, Limited Time Discount for Prime Members Only – Deal Alert – PCWorld

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Amazon has quietly released a good deal on its popular Kindle series of e-readers, but it’s available only to Prime Members, or anyone who has an active 30-day free trial. For a limited time, the Kindle’s price sinks from $ 80 to $ 50, Kindle Paperwhite from $ 120 down to $ 90, the Kindle Voyage drops from $ 200 to just $ 150, and the worry-free the Kindle for Kids Bundle is reduced from $ 125 to $ 100. Which dovetails with the new “Prime Reading” benefit they just announced (See: “Prime Members Now Get Unlimited Reading On Any Device, Amazon Announces – Deal Alert” @ Techconnect.com). Kindle discounts applied during checkout.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

Amazon’s Kindle Family: Weekend Sales More Than Double On Last Year, Cyber Monday Biggest Of All, TechCrunch

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Amazon has released some detail on Kindle sales over Thanksgiving Weekend: as usual, it’s giving no hard numbers but instead providing general buying trends. It says that Kindle device sales more than doubled worldwide, and with discounts running on the Kindle Fire Tablet, Monday was the biggest sales day of all, and overall the whole weekend set a record for the company.

It’s a frustrating release, to be honest, because while on the one hand it appears to point to obvious popularity for the Kindle devices — and how effective the combined machine of online marketplace+products can be — it doesn’t give enough clarity on how something like the Kindle Fire is performing. However, and separately analysts have noted that the Kindle has the tests to be one of the most popular of all Android-based tablets on the market.

As I mentioned yesterday when noting Amazon’s UK sales figures — in which the Kindle family sales tripled on Black Friday — it sometimes feels like Amazon spins them to help promote particular items, such as the Fire tablet, rather than giving a frank picture of what is actually proving to be popular, and by how much.

Still, here are some more of the details. Make of them what you will. These are global figures, so covering sales across www.amazon.com, http://www.amazon.co.uk, http://www.amazon.de, http://www.amazon.co.jp, http://www.amazon.fr, http://www.amazon.ca, http://www.amazon.cn, http://www.amazon.it, and http://www.amazon.es.

As in previous years, the Kindle family has taken the top slots in Amazon’s best sellers list, it says, and taking into account the Kindle products, including accessories, e-books and other digital content, the range takes up nine out of the top 10 best-selling products worldwide since September 6.
Amazon does not spell out what ranked as the most popular device sold. It notes that aggregating both items sold and items "wanted", Kindle Fire HD is the most gifted and most requested product on Amazon worldwide since launch.
"Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fires have held the top 4 spots on the Amazon worldwide best sellers list since launch, and that was before the busiest shopping weekend of the year," said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle, in a statement.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Kodansha: Amazon Japan’s Kindle Subscription Service Removes Over 1000 Titles – Anime News Network

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the Kindle Unlimited service offers titles for a monthly fee; Kobunsha also claims removal of 550 titles

Japanese publisher Kodansha lodged a protest with online retailer Amazon Japan on Monday after Amazon removed more than 1,000 Kodansha titles from its Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service.

Amazon Japan launched the service in Japan on August 3. The subscription service allows users to read titles on the victims for a monthly fee. The service offers 120,000 Japanese publications, and about 1.2 million foreign publications. The Wall Street Journal reports – citing a source in the Japanese publishing industry – that Amazon would pay publishers a year-end premium for every user that read up to 10% of an offered publication, in addition to regular fees. According to the source, manga, magazines, and photo collections began disappearing from the service in mid-August. The Japan Times additionally cited a publishing industry source that stated Amazon told the publishers of the its budget ran out after some titles saw demand beyond what Amazon expected.

Amazon said in an email statement to The Wall Street Journal that “titles regularly rotate in and out of the catalog.” The statement noted that this is common in subscription services for any medium.

Kodansha‘s protest claimed that Amazon made a “one-sided decision” to remove the titles, without informing the publisher beforehand, and further stated that Amazon had removed the titles on the evening of September 30. Kodansha asked that Amazon reconsider the tiles’ removal.

Japanese publisher Kobunsha also claimed on Monday that Amazon removed 550 of its titles from the service.

Sources: The Japan Times, The Wall Street Journal (Megumi Fujikawa)

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Kodansha: Amazon Japan’s Kindle Subscription Service Removes Over 1000 Titles – RocketNews24

Kindle Unlimited service offers titles for a monthly fee; Kobunsha also claims removal of 550 titles

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Japanese publisher Kodansha lodged a protest with online retailer Amazon Japan on Monday after Amazon removed more than 1,000 Kodansha titles from its Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service.

Amazon Japan launched the service in Japan on August 3. The subscription service allows users to read titles on the victims for a monthly fee. The service offers 120,000 Japanese publications, and about 1.2 million foreign publications. the The Wall Street Journal reports – citing a source in the Japanese publishing industry – that Amazon would pay publishers a year-end premium for every user that read up to 10% of an offered publication, in addition to regular fees. According to the source, manga, magazines, and photo collections began disappearing from the service in mid-August. the The Japan Times additionally the emd is a publishing industry source that stated the Amazon told the publishers of the its budget ran out after some titles saw demand beyond what the Amazon expected.

Amazon said in an email statement to The Wall Street Journal that "titles regularly rotate in and out of the catalog." The statement noted that this is common in subscription services for any medium.

Kodansha's protest claimed that Amazon made a "one-sided decision" to remove the titles, without informing the publisher beforehand, and further stated that Amazon had removed the titles on the evening of September 30. Kodansha asked that Amazon reconsider the tiles' removal.

Japanese publisher Kobunsha also claimed on Monday that Amazon removed 550 of its titles from the service.

Sources: The Japan Times, The Wall Street Journal (Megumi Fujikawa)

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Monday, October 10, 2016

Kodansha: Amazon Japan’s Kindle Subscription Service Removes Over 1000 Titles – RocketNews24

Kindle Unlimited service offers titles for a monthly fee; Kobunsha also claims removal of 550 titles

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Japanese publisher Kobunsha also claimed on Monday that Amazon removed 550 of its titles from the service.

Sources: The Japan Times, The Wall Street Journal (Megumi Fujikawa)

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Sword Art Online: Progressive Manga Artist's Twitter Art Gets Anime Shorts
Ghost in the Shell Arise Manga Artist Launches New Historical Manga
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Kodansha: Amazon Japan’s Kindle Subscription Service Removes Over 1000 Titles – Anime News Network

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the Kindle Unlimited service offers titles for a monthly fee; Kobunsha also claims removal of 550 titles

Japanese publisher Kodansha lodged a protest with online retailer Amazon Japan on Monday after Amazon removed more than 1,000 Kodansha titles from its Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service.