The Kindle is Amazon’s reader, originally gifted with plain e-ink display and EV-DO connectivity.
For a while the range included Android-based (but locked) tablets, the original model of which was based on the same hardware reference designs as the BlackBerry Playbook. These were later rebranded as the Fire tablets.
Resources
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-29 | Amazon’s Tablet Leads to Its Store | A decent summary. |
| 2010-07-28 | New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK | Looks very good. I’m going to wait and see what people say about the browser. |
| 2010-07-20 | Kindle Sales Triple | Impressive. |
| 2010-07-07 | Amazon’s graphite Kindle DX now shipping | Must… hide… credit card. |
| 2010-07-02 | E Ink explains the new Pearl display used in the updated Kindle DX | Hmmm. |
| 2010-07-01 | Graphite Kindle DX coming July 7th for $379, now available for pre-order | Graphite. Hmm. |
| 2010-07-01 | Amazon cuts the giant Kindle DX price to $379 from $489 and includes better-contrast display. Still a niche tool comp… | Now this is interesting… |
| 2010-06-30 | Kindle’s 70% Solution | With delivery costs. Hmm. |
| 2010-06-21 | Amazon’s Kindle conveniently falls to $189, Nook looks stunned and bitter | Makes it a lot more interesting. |
| 2010-06-15 | Kindle 2.5 firmware now available for keepsies | Took them long enough. |
| 2010-06-10 | Kindle 2.5.2 firmware available for manual update, but only for international types | For international devices only. |
| 2010-06-03 | Kindle 2.5 update pushed back a few weeks for some ‘small adjustments’ | Probably some teething issues. |
| 2010-05-31 | Slim Kindle ‘Shasta’ to be first with WiFi? | Makes a lot of sense, and will likely push down the device price. |
| 2010-05-29 | Amazon Kindle slimming down in August? | Would help if it was more widely available. |
| 2010-05-24 | Amazon’s Kindle 2.5 software update begins to roll out | Interesting. |
| 2010-05-18 | Kindle for Android | Worth looking into. |
| 2010-05-07 | Kindle’s social networking-friendly 2.5 update gets an early preview | A bit more detail. |
| 2010-05-07 | Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more | I have to wonder how far they want to take this. |
| 2010-04-29 | Kindle version 2.5 update gets Facebooked and Twitterized | A social Kindle? |
| 2010-04-22 | Kindle officially going on sale at Target on April 25 | Now this is interesting… I wonder if they’ll do an European retail deal with the likes of FNAC. |
| 2010-01-21 | Amazon Opens Kindle to Developers, Changes Royalties | They saw the freight train coming. |
| 2010-02-08 | More Authors Signing Exclusive Kindle Deals | |
| 2010-01-20 | Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch | |
| 2010-01-20 | Amazon to start paying 70 percent royalties on Kindle books that play by its rules | |
| 2010-01-06 | Amazon Kindle DX with global wireless: ships January 19th for $489 | I keep wondering what’s keeping them from shipping these babies from the UK or Germany… |
| 2009-12-27 | Kindle most gifted item in Amazon’s history, e-books outsell physical tomes on Christmas Day | Hardly a surprise. |
| 2009-12-25 | Amazon Kindle gets its DRM stripped (for the time being) | Predictable. |
| 2009-12-23 | Hackers break Amazon’s Kindle DRM | unswindle is already getting popular… |
| 2009-12-07 | Amazon beefing up Kindle’s functionality for vision-impared users as B&N’s Nook stays silent | Seems like a logical step forward |
| 2009-12-06 | Questions for Jeff Bezos | 48 e-copies for each 100 sold… Not bad. |
| 2009-11-30 | Kindle is the biggest selling item on Amazon, bests sliced bread | I wonder if it sells better than whole wheat bread. |
| 2009-11-26 | Kindle 2 finally gets native PDF support, screen rotation | A lot more info on the updates. |
| 2009-11-25 | Amazon promises update to better ‘organize Kindle libraries’ | I suppose they expect to have people buy hundreds of books. |
| 2009-11-25 | Kindle 2.3 software update available, generation 1 owners need not apply | I’m still waiting for a completely European DX edition. |
| 2009-11-25 | Kindle firmware update promises 85 percent battery boost, native PDF reader | Okay, so there was something clearly wrong with power management after all… Nevermind PDF support (which ought to have been there all along), I’ve always found it weird that my friends with a Kindle complained about battery life… |
| 2009-11-12 | Will Amazon’s Kindle Software Kill the Kindle Hardware? | No. I sometimes wonder if jkOnTheRun was added to the GigaOm network just to ask obvious questions and grab page-views by replying to them at length, but that may be just my cynicism creeping up on me. |
| 2009-11-11 | Amazon Kindle for PC: Now delivering books to your desktop | US-only. How quaint. |
| 2009-11-11 | Kindle for PC adds flexibility, but not a whole lot more | Summary: not worth the trouble. |
| 2009-10-24 | Kindle software coming to Mac OS X | I’m frankly curious, but use too many computers for comfort and, given the issues about international pricing, won’t spend a dime over what a regular Amazon purchase would cost me. |
| 2009-10-23 | Amazon Kindle for PC available ‘soonish’ | Not that I expect this to be as useful as the mobile versions, but it’s an interesting twist. |
| 2009-10-23 | Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle | The bit about their delivering content without any photos just has to be a bug - otherwise, they’re just killing their own product. |
| 2009-10-22 | Amazon’s international Kindle surprises owners with $20 refund, limited web browsing | So they’re coming to their senses - to some extent. Let’s see if the international edition of the DX will have proper browsing, otherwise I’ll certainly go for the burgeoning competition… |
| 2009-10-21 | Who Named the Kindle (and Why)? | Interesting. |
| 2009-10-14 | International Kindle won’t let you use terrible web browser overseas | I wonder if they will change this if they do a decent Euro version |
| 2009-10-09 | Amazon confirms international Kindle DX is on the way too | A lot more interesting. Now they only have to make the pricing more sensible. |
| 2009-10-07 | Kindle now $259, available worldwide with wireless delivery | I’ll wait for the DX and full integration with the UK store… |
| 2009-10-07 | Amazon Cuts Kindle Price, Offers Internation Edition | |
| 2009-10-01 | Kindle coming to the UK in October? Amazon might just tell us next week | Of course they will. It’s been brewing for months. |
| 2009-07-24 | Jeff Bezos issues humble apology over pulled Kindle title | Might not be enough to save face, though. |
| 2009-06-19 | Amazon Kindle DX Review | Bigger. Faster. Stronger. Worse keyboard. |
| 2009-05-25 | Kindle formatting for web geeks | Some interesting notes on how it handles HTML markup. |
| 2009-05-07 | Dallas Morning News To Senate: Amazon Kindle Is Not A Business Model For Newspapers | Me, I like their business model. |
| 2009-05-06 | The Kindle Lets Amazon Make a Lot From the Few | The ARPU from Kindle users must be amazing. |
| 2009-05-06 | Amazon Kindle DX announced: $489, ships this summer | Includes a gallery. |
| 2009-05-06 | Amazon Kindle DX first hands-on (with video!) | Not that exciting. |
| 2009-05-06 | Amazon supersizes Kindle for textbooks, newspapers | No Wi-Fi, no expansion, and I wonder why it doesn’t have a 2-up mode when rotated, but the PDF support is a nice add-on. |
| 2009-05-01 | Informal poll suggests nearly 70% of Kindle owners are over 40 | Strange. Here’s a copy of the graph:  |
| 2009-04-22 | iSuppli: $359 Kindle 2 costs $185 to build, Whispernet says shhh | The overall value seems about right, although the Novatel module price is for a fairly high-volume tier |
| 2009-03-09 | Kindle 2 Usability Review | Jakob Nielsen weighs in. |
| 2009-02-28 | Amazon Gives In To Ridiculous Authors Guild Claim: Allows Authors To Block Text-To-Speech. | Just sad. But the enlightened ones won’t be stupid and stingy. |
| 2009-02-28 | Amazon sorta capitulates, will let publishers decide text-to-speech availability | |
| 2009-02-28 | Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech | |
| 2009-02-26 | Evolution yields revolution: the Kindle 2 | Pretty thorough review. |
| 2009-02-26 | Why Kindle 2’s Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million | Interesting discussion regarding this interview on E-ink |
| 2009-02-26 | Amazon Kindle 2 review | Nice gallery and close-up shots. |
| 2009-02-25 | Kindle’s Text to Speech Under Fire | And it just goes on and on… |
| 2009-02-25 | Authors Guild Continues To Falsely Claim That Reading Aloud On A Kindle Violates Audio Rights | |
| 2009-02-25 | Further signs point to an international Kindle | Now this is a lot more interesting… |
| 2009-02-24 | Kindle 2 dissected, found to contain space for a SIM card | Of course, it’s not that simple - you need a lot more electronics than just a card reader… |
| 2009-02-24 | Kindle 2 First Look | Complete disassembly, with loads of pictures. |
| 2009-02-11 | Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech infringe authors’ copyrights? | This has got to be the stupidest legal issue regarding ebooks, ever. What about visually challenged folk? |
| 2009-02-09 | Hands on with Kindle 2: what a difference a screen makes | Apparently, the screen is improved. However, there are mixed opinions on that. |
| 2009-02-09 | Kindle 2: Slimmer, Smarter | In which we read that 10% of Amazon sales seem to be Kindle books |
| 2009-02-09 | Amazon Announces Kindle 2 Ebook Reader | Good (if biased) overview |
| 2009-02-09 | Amazon revamps Kindle, hints at bigger things to come | Not much to come, really, but comprehensive article nonetheless |
| 2009-02-09 | Kindle 2 first hands-on! (updated with video and impressions) | Nothing much to see, really, although the response time seems good. |
| 2008-05-18 | Amazon Kindle Review | Very detailed review |
| 2007-11-23 | Bookishness | On the device’s lack of ergonomics and style |
| 2007-11-22 | Amazon Kindle sells out on debut | Sold out, sure, but how many? |
| 2007-11-19 | Amazon Kindle first hands-on | A small gallery |
| 2007-11-19 | The Future of Reading - A Play in Six Acts | Mark Pilgrim, in his inimitable style, rips through the TOS. |
| 2007-11-18 | The Future of Reading | The Newsweek piece that started it all. |