Amazon has released a new PC app that lets you send documents from your computer with a right-click in Windows Explorer. Just find the file you want to send and instead of emailing it to your special Kindle email address you can just choose Send to Kindle to fire up the Kindle software and choose the device you want to…

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Amazon has pushed out an updated version of its Kindle app for iOS, and it adds features that had previously only been available on the Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle E Ink devices. Kindle 2.9 for iOS  lets iPad users can now read magazines from the Kindle Store as well as digital reproductions of textbooks. But iPhone and iPod touch…

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With Christmas just a few days away, Amazon is betting that a lot of folks are still shopping for last minute presents — and the company wouldn’t mind at all if a few of those gifts were Kindle devices. So Amazon is offering free 2-day shipping on all of the latest Kindles. If you place an order by 8:00PM Pacific…

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Amazon may have just given you one less reason to consider a NOOK Tablet or NOOK Simple Touch over a Kindle Fire or Kindle Touch. During yesterday’s launch event for the new NOOK Tablet, Barnes & Noble pointed out that you could walk into a bricks and mortar store to try out a NOOK before buying it. But Amazon’s working…

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Amazon really wants you to pay $79 per year to become an Amazon Prime member. Initially that subscription fee only entitled customers to free 2-day shipping on all packages. But earlier this year the company started letting Prime members stream thousands of TV shows and movies for free. Now Amazon is adding free eBook loans to the mix. The new Amazon…

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Amazon introduced three new Kindle devices this morning: two eBook readers and the Kindle Fire tablet which is designed to access music, eBooks, movies, and apps from Amazon’s digital content stores. All three devices are expected to ship in November, but you can place pre-orders starting today. Kindle Fire This 7 inch tablet sort of stole the show at today’s…

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Amazon has officially unveiled the Kindle Fire — its new 7 inch tablet. As expected, it basically looks like a BlackBerry PlayBook — you know, if the BlackBerry PlayBook ran a customized version of Android and tied into Amazon’s app store, movie store, music store, eBook store, and digital newsstand. The Kindle Fire will be available November 15th. It’s available…

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The long-anticipated Amazon tablet is almost here. The company is holding an event in New York City to officially introduce its 7 inch Android device this morning, but the folks at Bloomberg just couldn’t wait — and they’ve spilled some of the beans. Here’s what we know so far: The device will be called the Kindle Fire and it will…

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Amazon is holding an event in New York on Wednesday, and plenty of folks are expecting the company to introduce its long-rumored Android tablet. In advance of the event Amazon has announced that it’s reached a deal with FOX to add thousands of TV shows and movies to its online video streaming service and there’s a rumor that the company…

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Earlier this year Amazon announced that the Kindle eBook reader would be joining the ranks of digital book devices that you could use to read books from your public library. Last night it looks like at least a few libraries flipped the switch, because the Seattle Public Library and King County Public Library are both offering eBooks for the Kindle. The…

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There’s mounting evidence that Amazon will start offering a 7 inch tablet with a color touchscreen display soon. Last week TechCrunch published a report saying Amazon’s first tablet will be called a Kindle and that it will be available in November for about $250. The tablet will reportedly run a highly customized version of Google Android (much like the Barnes…

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Amazon is rumored to be working on a line of tablets that will be bundled with the company’s Kindle eBook service, Amazon MP3 music service, and the Amazon Appstore. Last we’d heard Amazon was preparing to launch a 7 inch tablet in October, with a 10 inch model set to follow early next year. Now TechCrunch’s MG Seigler reports that…

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