TechBytes: eBooks Now Available For Macs

Release Date 19 Mar, 2010 in ABC News

 
   

TechBytes: eBooks Now Available For Macs

ABC News - Rod Jussim, Tina Trinh - 19 Mar, 2010
Amazon is looking to expand the market for its eBooks. The company has introduced a Mac-compatible version of ...

First Look: Kindle for Mac

Wired News - Charlie Sorrel - 19 Mar, 2010
Amazon has at last released Kindle for Mac, which means you can now read your Kindle books on most any device. It joins the iPhone, ...

Amazon Puts Kindle On Mac

Forbes (blog) - 19 Mar, 2010
Amazon on Thursday announced "Kindle for Mac" which puts the online retailer's electronic books on Apple's personal computers. The Seattle-based Amazon says ...

Amazon Launches Kindle For Mac

InformationWeek - Antone Gonsalves - 19 Mar, 2010
The Apple Mac software expands the number of devices on which e-books bought from Amazon can be read, which now include the iPhone, BlackBerry, ...

The iPad will kill ebooks as we know them

ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 19 Mar, 2010
Apple iPad will be a game-changer in many ways, but one area of tech that it will radically shake up is that of the ebook market. ...

Ahead of iPad Launch, Amazon Announces 'Kindle for Mac'

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Amazon this morning released a version of its Kindle e-book software that works on Mac computers â€" a small move, ...

Amazon plays hardball with publishers over e-book pricing

Entertainment Weekly - Keith Staskiewicz - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
The Amazon rainforest is a pretty inhospitable place, where the law of survival of the fittest is taken to a harsh extreme. ...

Amazon.com Said to Be in Talks to Alter E-Book Prices

BusinessWeek - Greg Bensinger - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest Internet retailer, is in talks to change some prices of Kindle e-books by no ...

Amazon allows Kindle application for Mac computers

Reuters - Kimberly White, Alexandria Sage - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Journalists look at the new MacBook notebook computers after a news conference in Cupertino, California, October 14, 2008. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online ...

Amazon Releases Kindle for Mac App

PC Magazine - Brian Heater - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Amazon on Thursday announced the release of its Kindle e-book reader app for the Apple OS X. The fittingly (if not creatively) titled Kindle ...

Amazon Playing Hardball With Publishers Over E-Book Pricing

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Amazon.com (AMZN) has threatened to stop selling books from some publishers unless they agree to a list of concessions on selling e-books, ...

Amazon Brings Kindle to Macs, But What's Next?

PC World - Jared Newman - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Amazon has raised the stakes in a turf war among e-book sellers by releasing a beta of its Kindle software for Mac computers. To date, you can download ...

Amazon Kindle Mac app cuts need for the Ipad

Inquirer - Asavin Wattanajantra - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
ONLINE BOOKSELLER Amazon has made a move that could cut sales of Apple's Ipad by offering an app which allows Apple users to read ...

Kindle Comes to the Mac

PC World - Harry McCracken - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
Mac OS users will now be able to read their Kindle e-books on their computers. Amazon has released its Kindle for Mac software, letting OS users get at all ...

Kindle for Mac application now available to download

ZDNet (blog) - Rachel King - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
After a very long wait, Amazon has finally released the Kindle for Mac e-book reader application. Who needs an iPad now? Well, even though Amazon notes “No ...

Amazon Brings Kindle App to the Mac

PC World - Scott McNulty - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
After months of anticipation, Amazon on Wednesday night released a beta of Kindle for Mac, software that lets you read Kindle ...

Amazon releases Kindle app beta for Mac

CNET - Stephen Shankland - ‎Mar 18, 2010‎
First came the Kindle electronic book reader device itself. Then the applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry, and for Windows. ...

Kindle for Mac is now available

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - ‎Mar 17, 2010‎
Last fall Amazon rolled out Kindle for PC so you could enjoy your purchased Kindle content on your Windows computer. Last night Amazon released a beta of ...

Introducing "Kindle for Mac" -- the Free Application for Reading Kindle Books ...

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Mar 17, 2010‎
SEATTLE, Mar 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced "Kindle for Mac," a free application that lets readers around the ...

Amazon Threatens Publishers as Apple Looms

New York Times - Motoko Rich, Brad Stone - ‎Mar 17, 2010‎
Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of ...

Are eBook Readers the death of bookstores?

NewsBlaze (press release) - Tim Martin - 19 Mar, 2010
This has been a question more people are starting to ask, especially with the upcoming release of the Apple iPad coming up on April 3, 2010. ...

Price War in ebooks: Amazon vs. Apple

OS News - 19 Mar, 2010
A serious dispute is brewing in the world of ebooks, pitting publishers and Apple against giant online retailer Amazon. A significant part of the appeal of ...

Amazon Wrangles Publishers as iBookstore Grand Opening Looms

MacNewsWorld - Katherine Noyes - 19 Mar, 2010
Apple's newest charmed pair, the iPad and the iBookstore, will amble onto the publishing scene in just a couple of weeks, and Amazon is ...

iPad vs Kindle: Amazon battles publishers over pricing

ElectricPig.co.uk - Mic Wright - 19 Mar, 2010
iPad and its iBooks store are leading Amazon to play hardball in negotiations with publishers. Apple's plan to allow publishers to choose their price for ...

Amazon Quietly Releases Kindle eBook App For Mac

ITProPortal - 19 Mar, 2010
Online retail giant Amazon, has dished out the Mac version of its Kindle eBook reader software, in an attempt to tackle the threat poised by Apple's ...

What We're Reading: Hacked Cars and E-Books for the Mac

Gainesville Sun - 19 Mar, 2010
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely - Wired.comNick Bilton says: In Austin, Tex., more than 100 Web-connected cars were disabled by a disgruntled ...

Amazon Releases Kindle for Mac

Gadget news and reviews (blog) - Tanya Hall - 19 Mar, 2010
In news to excite Apple fans world-wide, Amazon has expanded its e-book reach by unveiling the Kindle for Mac application. The free application is available ...

Amazon's Kindle for Mac Sets the Stage for iPad World Domination

Geek Shui Living (blog) - 19 Mar, 2010
March 19, 2010 â€" A little more than a day ago, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) quietly posted a seemingly innocent piece of software, for download, on its mega-store ...

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Seeking Alpha (blog) - Sandeep Baliga - 19 Mar, 2010
Amazon appears to be responding to the Apple threat by waging a publisher-by-publisher battle, trying to keep as many books as possible ...

Amazon Kindle now available on Apple Mac

The Tech Herald - Stevie Smith - 19 Mar, 2010
The Kindle eBook experience. You can have it through the Kindle device itself, you can have it on your mobile phone ...

 

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