Amazon today introduced in the United States a special edition of Fire HD 8, called Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition . It is a sort of compromise for those who want a real tablet, but at the same time love e-books.
The tablet has a 8 “screen with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, with processors MediaTek quad-core up to 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM , 8 GB of internal memory expandable , camera HD front and rear 5-megapixel camera, Wi BC-fi, and Dolby Atmos to enhance the audio industry.
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The price includes includes an elegant leather case that mimics the feel of an old book, a year subscription Kindle Unlimited free (worth $ 120) and functionality Blue Shade, that reduces the color blue on the screen so as to allow a night reading less tiring.
Amazon presents New Kindle Paperwhite . The new model now has a higher resolution, about twice as many pixels as the previous version and a new character for the digital readout, the Bookerly , in addition to a paging system that makes viewing more enjoyable and fluid. The device plays a text with the same quality of a book printed on paper, making it easy and comfortable reading with different font sizes, even the smallest, so as to get more words on each page. A striking feature is that although there has been an addition of features and enhancements, the Kindle’s battery can last for weeks. Let’s see some features:
High-resolution display of 300 ppi, the highest on an e-reader, to read as a printed
Now available with Bookerly, our exclusive, created to read comfortably and easily text in any size
Light Adjustable built to read day and night
Unlike the tablet, the screen has no glare even in bright sunlight
With a single charge, the battery lasts weeks, not hours
Large selection of books and prices. More than three million titles, including bestsellers latest
lighter than most paperback books, can hold thousands of books
Features exclusive to Kindle as Enrich your vocabulary and Kindle FreeTime
Kindle Unlimited offers you a chance to read what you want by choosing from over 800,000 titles. Try it free for 30 days
This is the Kindle that is on the market in 2015 with Christmas approaching. Definitely a great product, a must for those who love reading in and out of their home.
The story of Angelo consultant of Crotone and how he managed to discover books kindle x
That angel is his problem
Yet , it is quite complicated to discover books x kindle! Taking the business consultant of Crotone Angelo, middle-aged man from crewcut smoothed, it was felt an aura of mystery around him … Above all, never looked people straight in the eye. Well, Angelo happens to you an article about books and an idea suddenly attacks him. The situation is tragic: not later than tomorrow Angelo should discover x kindle, but this is the business consultant of Croton seems to have lost memory. In fact, he had completely lost sight of its task of discovering x kindle books, and now have trouble! For example, if a business consultant of Crotone were to discover books x kindle how could he do? Angel realizes it can not take the situation lightly and must mettetesi immediately to seek a solution to this problem.
As Angel solved the problem
The survey on the internet does not start in the best way for Angelo from thousands of web pages seemed very difficult to understand something, texts were long and often lose the desire to continue reading. Then the business consultant agrees to find a keyword more effective than previous attempts, and voila: the door to the URL www.libri-oggi.it, precious discovery for him. The finding, by Angelo, the web page relating to books was crucial, but even more so was look at the top right on the page and citing x kindle, direct access to a portal entirely focused on x kindle. Consequently Angelo, now that it has all the tools needed, it is considered good business consultant because you are completely freed of his trouble. Things will not change much over here as they were in Crotone, then smiled … if our business consultant with a little perplexity. All his doubts come quickly dissolved, with opening a page that lets you completely speechless. Angelo has trouble believing what he sees.
How has it changed the life of Angelo
Finally some good news for Angelo, which consists in being made partaker of several books x kindle existing. The consultant is breathing a sigh of relief, for real this time. Dear business consultant back immediately on the site, because now he knows that he can find what he wants about books, does not have to search with x kindle. For Angelo this is a discovery of great importance that determines the usefulness of libri-oggi.it. By overcoming the problem of discovering x kindle books, Angelo had the power to infuse himself a hope, a positive outlook for their future.
With Amazon Underground apps and games for free on Android and Kindle
Also available in Italy the store parallel Bezos: over a thousand titles to payment become free, without advertising and no in app purchases. You can be installed on the Kindle Fire, but also on tablets and smartphones with Google’s operating system
After a few months of experimentation in the United States and in other countries, starts today in Italy Amazon Underground . It is a new model of distribution of the app: are free for its users, but who develops makes money anyway, even if there is no advertising or in-app purchases. A charge is Amazon, with a mechanism reminiscent of Spotify, or – to stay among offers of Jeff Bezos – Kindle Unlimited: If the first pay the musicians for each listen, the second counts the fees depending on the number of pages read . Underground work time and every minute of actual use of the app brings to the developer 0.0018 euro. “We do not collect personal information – specify to Amazon – we count only the minutes of use: there is no advertising in the app, so there would outline its users.”
The initial offering is limited, about 1000 app, which will grow over time (“Only in the first two months of availability of Amazon Underground We tripled our selection of stocks with free content,” said Steve Rabuchin, Deputy President of the App-Shop Amazon). Underground is available as an upgrade of the mobile application shopping Amazon tablet on Fire HD and HDX and the recent fire, newest member of the family. It seems the perfect gift for children: a tablet by good features, designed with more robustness in mind that design, at a very low price. And now with free apps, without limits, without commercials and without purchases. There are currently about thirty games available, with titles such as Monument Valley, Final Kick, Ruzzle, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Goat Simulator, Angry Birds Slingshot Star, 8Bad Piggies . All free, including advanced features: downloaders Frozen Flashes of Gems , for example, will have free unlimited lives and in-app content to a value of EUR 31.87.
In Amazon Underground are not just games: the offer of productivity app is well-balanced, with various office suites, functional and complete ( DocsToGo, Polaris Office and OfficeSuite Professional ), voice recorders, computers, password managers; no shortage of weather apps, those for education, music, fitness, and more.
But why is it called Underground? “We could not distribute these directly in the app store Google” explain to Amazon. Yeah, and this is the great idea of Bezos: since the Kindle tablet work with a modified version of Android, all the underground app are compatible with the operating system of Google. So you download the app Amazon (not from the Play Store but the site of the US, and do not even need the registration), then through the app you can in turn install other free apps and paid on any compatible Android device . The catchment area for developers, then, is not just limited to the Kindle Fire, but – at least in theory – more than 80 percent of smartphones and tablets worldwide.
The business model is curious, but consistent with the vision of Bezos: “Let’s imagine that in addition to the free app, users acquire a number of securities payment directly through the Amazon app.” We’ll see: while the figures show that in 2015 in their smartphones, Italians on average 32 apps, of which only 5 used every day, against 13 app used at least once a month and the same number used only once or twice from the time of ‘ installation. But for Amazon Underground it is perhaps more useful to consider other numbers: in Italy, 71 percent of those who use Android devices download only free apps, compared to 55 percent of iPhone owners. The idea of Bezos may decrease this gap, as well as suggesting new forms of monetization for developers; even small shifts in the percentage gains could lead interesting, given that the total turnover of the Italian market of the app is worth about 400 million Euros.
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Now Amazon is completely changing the business model
‘ An app free every day ‘: this is the model with which Amazon has built the success of his App-Shop for Kindle and Android , in a short time become a reference point (and often the only one used by mass) between the app store alternative to Google Play. App to be available on a daily basis so A Free Sample Amazon had then assisted special days were proposed to cost tens of app. By the time the model has lost some of its strength, on the one hand for the shrinking number of quality app to make free for users and the other for the rise of the freemium model, that does not charge download of ‘ app and the early stages of the trial, but then asks for a fee to unlock the whole app, to advance (in the case of games) level more easily, or to access to interesting features. The approach was so widespread that recently it was difficult to find app really grauite on Amazon App-Shop: the search ended with the lantern pulping who wanted the free app at all costs, with a certain rate abandonment of the store.
Zero euro for download, but also for any in-app-purchase
Now Amazon completely changing the business model primary reliance to greatly simplify the user experience of the app. The approach is to put in a single container Amazon Underground , a whole series of app completely free: at zero cost as regards the download, but also the use, no system in-app-purchase, or if this is putting every ‘buy’ at a cost of 0.0 €. The model is very attractive for developers, who are paid from Amazon every time someone uses an app , namely $ 0.002 per minute. This way developers can focus on the experience of creating use app really in line with user needs, without having to come up with new ways to remove some euro portfolio. Developers do not have to change the app to be featured on Amazon Underground; They should only submit your app through the Portal Developer the App-Shop Amazon (Amazon Appstore Developer Portal).
Iain Gavin, Director / GM Amazon Appstore UK, who presented the project, we have clearly asked for “ But the money where Amazon makes them? “. “Amazon earns every time a user holds within its ecosystem, sooner or later when it performs in an action profitable for us ” – it was the answer. The approach is the same as the last Kindle, the Amazon hardware which does not derive profit, but that is the gateway by which users land on the deck of the giant set up by Jeff Bezos: once the platform will make a purchase of a well, a film, an MP3, an app. And – as we add this – to give Amazon important data on their habits ‘grazing’ in the shop of Android apps and the operating system that is the basis of the Kindle.
On Amazon Underground are a lot of games, but there are apps productivity : in any case is all offered for free, with the remuneration system of the developers we mentioned above. For users it is certainly an interesting twist, since the word free is the only one that really does rhyme with application to many. The app, as it was also for App-Shop, is not available to Android users on Google Play, but clicking on the link in the store (visiting amazon.it/underground) you will receive an email with the APK to download. The latest Kindle bring dowry Undergroud the arrival on the market, directly integrated in the menu, while the older models will function as part of the next update of Fire OS.
InnoGames TV starts the season of Christmas and introduces the December episode. The video reveals the winner of Kindle Tablet Competition , sums up the next in-game events, offering a teaser special winter event of Forge of Empires.
The game about building the city of InnoGames, Elvenar, begins the episode by offering an overview of the projects planned for next year. Timon and Oliver team anticipate what players should expect in the coming months. Following the hostess, Diana, announces the winner of the Kindle Tablet Competition while the game designer introduces Peer winter events of Forge of Empires.
At this point, David’s team Tribal Wars 2 summarizes the recent the Q & A of the game on Facebook while the strategy game Grepolis features new upgrades, including new graphics and some changes to the mobile application, as well as the announcement of the next event. Last, but not least, Tribal Wars shows the new version of Castle Assault: the team has in fact reported the event in the game after making several changes, to meet the growing demands of the players.
Through the monthly video podcasts, InnoGames provides the community the latest news about their games. While the host speaks English, nine languages are available via subtitles on YouTube.
Still, just for today on Amazon to buy only 99.99 euro the Kindle Paperwhite, e-reader with e-ink screen is 300 ppi screen and illuminated with light with adjustable intensity
If you enjoy reading e-readers do not give up, especially not miss the offer of the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite seventh generation, yet only for today, is in special offer 99.99 € instead of 129.99 €.
A discount of 30 EUR, what Amazon offers on its e-reader version that stands in the middle between the Kindle and the Kindle Touch classic Voyager. The list price may already be a good buy but, with the current discount, those interested to bring digital also on reading would do well to evaluate the purchase.
Macitynet has recently put to the test by comparing it with the basic version of the Kindle. By clicking here you can see the comparison between the two versions deepening the topic. Here we instead just remember that the Kindle Paperwhite, as well as guaranteeing a natural reading of books by the E-Ink screen that “print” characters on the screen, offers an ergonomic design and is very comfortable to handle, plus it can illuminate the screen and adjust the light intensity without in any way bother reading.
Last but not least, the resolution of 300 ppi, which neutralises the effect “pixels” on the characters giving every impression of reading a sheet of printed paper. This e-reader, which usually costs 129,99 euro, yet only until midnight today will be available in discount just 99.99 €.
Please note that not only being sold and shipped by Amazon but just, in this case, an Amazon product, the company offers the opportunity to buy the Kindle and try it free for 30 days normally, but in this festive period until January 31, 2016. So if you buy it for yourself and you remain dissatisfied or you buy for a Christmas gift, but then this is not acceptable, you can return it and recover the entire cost.
