Amazon fraud-fighting efforts sweep up innocent ‘prawny’ authors in their net
As I’ve mentioned before, Amazon is a victim of rampant click-fraud attempts, as scammers out there think they’ve found some new way of banging on the Amazon piñata until some money...
Amazon tightens its grip on e-mail blast promotions; but why?
Hugh Howey has an interesting perspective on some of the changes Amazon has been making lately. It starts with a great post Nate Hoffelder made over at The Digital Reader: Amazon...
Amazon Books to come to Portland, Oregon
Amazon continues its plans to build a chain of Amazon Books bookstores and Kindle showrooms. Fortune has broken the news that it plans to open a third store in Portland, Oregon,...
Kindle firmware v5.8.1: It’s all about dots and sharing
I don’t know why it is, but for all that my Kindles claim they download and apply updates automatically, neither my old Kindle Touch nor my more recent 6th-generation Kindle Paperwhite...
Amazon books $3 billion passage to India – but with or without books?
Amazon head Jeff Bezos, during a meeting of the US-India Business Council on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US, announced that Amazon was ready to...
Amazon puts Kindles, Fires on sale for Father’s Day
Remember the Mother’s Day sale Amazon ran on tablets and such? Well, it’s doing it again. There are a whole passel of sales on for the impending Father’s Day. Most notably,...
Using Amazon VoiceView to listen to Kindle books on your Fire
As TeleRead readers may recall, I mentioned the recent introduction of Amazon VoiceView to the Bellini OS running on Amazon's Fire tablets. I finally got a chance to try out this...
Print + digital = a growing business in book bundling: Interview with Shelfie’s Peter...
Peter Hudson, co-founder and CEO of BitLit Media, now known as Shelfie, has grown his startup book bundling firm significantly since I spoke with him last, in December of 2014.
In this...
Does Amazon permit URL linking inside its e-books?
After my post regarding Amazon's crackdown on 'interactive' e-books, I started asking for a clarification of just what this means.
Is any form of URL linking permitted inside an e-book?
How, exactly, is Amazon defining...
Amazon: Buy a Kindle Paperwhite, get a free paperback
Amazon appears to be offering another limited-time offer bundling deal for Kindle fans and bibliophiles. This time it's a free book (paper variety) with your new Kindle Paperwhite.
As you can see...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
