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Amazon’s new high-end e-reader, the Kindle Voyage, starts at $199 but has fancy page turns

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Remember all that speculation that Amazon would one day start giving away Kindle e-readers for free? In fact, the company is going in the opposite direction: Amazon introduced on Wednesday a new, high-end e-reader, the Kindle Voyage, that starts at $199 for the version with ads and goes all the way up to $289 for an ad-free, 3G version. Not only is it expensive for an e-reader, it is twice as expensive as the most basic tablet that Amazon also launched Wednesday.

So what will you get for your money? The Kindle Voyage is thinner and lighter than previous devices. It has a totally flat glass screen, without the raised plastic bezel that is present on cheaper models, and the screen is high-resolution, with 300 pixels per inch. Like the Kindle Paperwhite, the Voyage is front-lit, but its light is better — it can go “39 percent brighter” and…

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Amazon launches KDP Kids, a tool to help authors self-publish illustrated books

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A whole lot of people think they have a book in them. And even more think they could write a children’s book. Amazon made that a little easier Wednesday with a new tool, KDP Kids, that aids in the creation of illustrated ebooks.

“No one should have to be a computer programmer to create a beautiful, illustrated Kindle book for kids,” Russ Grandinetti, SVP of Kindle, said in a statement. (Of course, you will still need to have the illustrations at hand and in digital format. Amazon’s not doing your artwork for you, at least not yet.)

KDP Kids largely consists of a free software program, Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, that is downloadable to Mac or PC and lets authors “import artwork from popular formats, including jpg, pdf, tiff, and png,” add text to the pages and preview how it will look across Kindle devices (clearly, illustrated books…

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Kindle Paperwhite 2 Update

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Kindle Unlimited

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The links below are to articles that look at Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited service.

For more visit:
– http://kindleworld.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/amazons-new-kindle-unlimited.html
– http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/amazon-enters-ebook-subscription-market-with-kindle-unlimited
– http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/kindle-unlimited-goes-live-with-ebook-audiobook-titles
– http://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/is-kindle-unlimited-good-for-indie-authors
– http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/amazon-reveals-kindle-unlimited-ebook-subscription-service_b88175
– http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/its-official-kindle-unlimited-is-here-with-639621-titles/
– http://www.infodocket.com/2014/07/16/get-ready-here-comes-we-think-amazons-all-you-can-read-subscription-e-book-subscription-service/
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/kindle-unlimited-now-live/
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-start-kindle-unlimited-service-similar-scribdoyster/
– http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/07/18/amazon-launches-kindle-unlimited-will-take-international-september-october/

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Amazon officially launches Kindle Unlimited, ebook and audiobook subscription service for $9.99/month

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Amazon(s AMZN) has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, the $9.99/month ebook and audiobook subscription service we told you about on Wednesday.

The details are, pretty much, what already leaked. The service is only available in the U.S. for now. About 640,000 titles are available, most from Amazon’s own publishing imprints or by self-published authors who’d previously enrolled their books in KDP Select. There are books from traditional publishers as well — no big-5 publishers — but Abrams, Algonquin, Workman, Open Road and Bloomsbury, among others. Two thousand audiobooks from Audible are included, and a membership to Kindle Unlimited comes with a free three-month Audible subscription.

“You can keep up to ten books at a time and there are no due dates,” according to Amazon’s help pages. “Read your Kindle Unlimited books on any Kindle device or free Kindle reading apps.”

One splashy series of note that is available: The first…

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Kindle: How To Send eBooks, Documents, And Articles To Your Kindle App Or eReader

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The link below is to an article that looks at how to send content to a Kindle App of Kindle Ebook Reader.

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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/send-ebooks-documents-kindle-app-ereader/

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Ebook subscription site Oyster expands to Android, Kindle Fire and Nook tablets

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The $9.95 per month ebook subscription service Oyster, which was previously only available on iOS(s AAPL), expanded to Android(s GOOG), Kindle(s AMZN) Fire and Nook(s BKS) HD tablets Tuesday — thus removing one of the differentiating factors between it and rival service Scribd. New features include “read time” for books (there is a similar feature on Kindle e-readers) and the ability to turn a book’s pages using the volume buttons on an Android device. Oyster, which is based in NYC and launched in fall 2013, now has over 500,000 titles, with two of the big-five publishers — Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — participating.

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Creating and managing Collections on Kindle Apps

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The link below is to a tutorial on how to create and manage collections in Kindle Apps.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/amazon/creating-managing-collections-kindle-apps/

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Kindle Used to Swear in U.S. Ambassador

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The link below is to an article that reports on one of the first (if not the first) times a public figure was sworn into office using an ebook reader (in this case a Kindle).

For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/kindle-used-to-swear-in-u-s-ambassador_b86720

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Kindle for iOS Updated to Version 4.2

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The link below is to an article that looks at the latest Kindle for iOS Update.

For more visit:
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2014/04/24/kindle-for-ios-updated-to-version-4-2/