Amazon Introduces Kindle Tienda With Spanish Language Store

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Administrator

Amazon has emerged as a leading player in the eBook industry with its family of Kindles and offering of thousands of eBooks that users can instantly download to read. Today, the Seattle-based company announced a new Spanish-language eBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, called “eBooks Kindle en Español“, or Kindle Tienda. Additionally, Amazon is offering additional features specially implemented for U.S. Spanish-speaking customers like extensive help pages, and phone and email customer support in Spanish.

With over 30,000 titles in total, Amazon says that the new eBooks Kindle en Español store offers customers the most Spanish-language bestsellers, as measured by Nielsen, and in addition to store, the new $79 Kindle and many free Kindle reading apps can be easily customized for complete Spanish-language reading and navigation, including popular highlights and other social features.

Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content, said that “We’re excited to introduce Spanish language storefronts on all Kindles, as well as a dedicated store for our Spanish-speaking customers in the U.S.” He added that “We expect our Spanish-speaking customers to enjoy both the newly-added books in Spanish, and the improved shopping and reading experience-including dedicated customer service in Spanish-that we’ve added to eBooks Kindle en Español. And we’re looking forward to continued expansion of our store for Spanish language readers around the world.”

Amazon notes that if users wish to to set their Kindle store experience to Spanish, U.S. customers simply change their language to “Spanish” under Store Language Preference in Manage Your Kindle.

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100,000 titles landmark reached by Amazon Kindle Lending Library

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Administrator

The Netfix for ebooks, or the Amazon Kindle Lending Library provides its subscribers with an awe inspiring 100,000 free books to read at their convenient time. This business giant reached this amazing milestone after releasing a large number of ebooks recently. This is soon becoming one of the best features of the Amazon Prime, and of Kindle as well.

At $79.00 per annum, Amazon Prime earlier offered unlimited two-day shipping for all Amazon-inventoried items, and $3.99 for overnight shipping. However, now, at the unbelievably same cost, they also offer access to thousands of streaming TV show episodes and movies for free, and can download one free Kindle book per month through the Lending Library program also.

Each time, a book is borrowed from an Amazon Prime member, the publishers make around $1 which serves as a very nice bonus to those independent publishers whose books don’t cost beyond $5. This amount of $1 accounts for nearly an entire royalty on a book purchase, and as expected, it is those independent publishers who are the most excited about this. Off late, more than one million independently published books have been checked out from the Lending Library.

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Two piracy sites shut down by Ebook publishers

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Administrator

Taking a lesson out of the music industry, the book publishers too are not allowing piracy coming their way. One of the group also announced that it has taken off a couple of sites responsible for ebook piracy accounting to $10 million.

This week, AAP (Association of American Publishers) and international alliance of book publishing houses took legal action against two sites library.nu and ifile.it as they were found guilty of ebook piracy. In Ireland, these sites had to serve court orders where they were located after a seven month identification and enforcement process as part of an eBook anti-piracy drive.

Up to 17 publishing firms requested for injunctions for around 170 books before a regional court of Munich, Germany.

The publishers said that the site “Library.nu” acquired more than 400,000 copyrighted ebooks and made them publically available to the readers for free. They allowed anonymous downloading by disguising themselves as legitimate ebook providers and alluded to serving as an authorized library for such content. It was also highlighted that this site made an annual income of €8m annually ($10,602,400) by letting out advertising space to third agencies and also through donation to the “internet library” through online payment services.

As a result of this, library.nu were made to “voluntarily” shut down its site, and iFile.it is still running but has disabled uploading for anonymous users.

Even after the success of the enforcement action, Tom Allen, President and CEO, AAP stated “While this action is a significant step in shutting down two major rogue websites stealing content from publishers and others, it also captures the enormous investment of time and cost required for rights-holders to protect their work.”

Praising the high profile anti-piracy web censoring US bill

SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), Allen continued: “For every rogue site that is taken down, there are hundreds more demanding similar effort. I can’t think of a timelier example of the need for additional tools to expedite such action.”This is a part of worldwide crackdown on sites involved in piracy. This includes sites like the high profile closure of Megaupload website last month and the shutdown of the music website music website

RnBXclusive.com this week.

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Four Million Sales Estimate hit by Kindle Fire for Quarter 4 – HIS

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Administrator

Amazon’s Kindle Fire chomped away at Apple and Samsung’s tablet market shares in the fourth quarter of 2011

The Amazon managed sales of around 3.9 million Kindle fire tablets during Q4 for the seven-inch Android slate, as expected by the analysts’ sales estimate before it was launched on November 15 for just $99 – said researcher HIS iSuppli.

As Usual, the Apples ipad dominated the fourth quarter sales market (with 15.4 million units sold commanded 57 percent), followed by the Kindle fire which seized up 14.3% of the nascent tablet market which is very good for the number two position. Third in place were the Samsung sales, selling 2.1 million units of Android Honeycomb tablets of its Galaxy tab family with, ranging from seven to 10.1 inches in display size.

In comparison to Q3 2011 sales, the iPad commanded 64 percent market share on sales of 11.1 million iPads, while Samsung sold 1.9 million Tabs for an 11 percent share. Apple and Samsung lost seven percent and four percent tablet market share, respectively, since the Fires arrival.

To compete with the existing Fire, Samsung, Motorola and HTC are cutting down on their tablet prices, said IHS. While Fire was cannibalising some of the iPads huge tablet market share, IHS also inferred that the iPhone 4S actually whittled some of the popular tablets share for Q4.

The arrival of the iPhone 4S in October generated intense competition for Apple purchasers disposable income, doing more to limit iPad shipment growth than competition from the Kindle Fire and other media tablets,” said IHS analyst Rhoda Alexander. Since the Amazon does not provide unit shipment figures for its Kindle family of e-readers or tablets, analysts are left to speculate sales channel checks.

Alexander said to eWeek that she estimated Fires unit sales and market share using a combination of supply chain input, calculated factory shipments out, channel feedback and reductions to January factory orders. Alexander, however was not very sure about Fire’s future due to its strategy application, since the company right now is selling each tablet at a price and looking to get back its value by content and services, such as online books and other goods, applications, and streaming music and video.

Other analysts though are more confident about the future of Fire and the strategy applied by Amazon. The device possible comes with a larger screen, for the longer term. RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler estimated the e commerce giant could make $ 136 (86) in content and goods from each device over its lifetime.

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