Amazon today announced a tie-up with retail chain Croma to distribute its Kindle ebook reader in India. The latest generation Kindle will be available at most Croma outlets for Rs 6,999. Prior to today’s announcement, consumers had to order the Kindle online from Amazon or buy it from abroad. However, Kindle variants like the Kindle Touch or the Kindle Fire won’t be available at Croma and will have to be bought via Amazon’s online shopping site.Amazon has also launched the Kindle Store for I...

SolarFocus has announced it has started shipping the world’s first solar-powered e-Reader cover called the SolarKindle for the Kindle Touch and standard Kindle devices. Priced at $80 (nearly Rs 4,000), this unique cover was first unveiled at the CES, where received the Innovation Award. The SolarKindle is quite light in weight, flexible and the company claims its built-in solar panel will provide three days of reading time with just one hour of charging in direct sunlight.This casing also features an in...

Amazon’s first Android tablet will launch this coming November at a price point significantly below Apple’s entry-level iPad 2, TechCrunch reported on Friday. According to the site, which claims to have handled a prototype of the device, the Amazon tablet bears a strong resemblance to RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook and it runs a highly customized pre-Honeycomb version of Google’s Android operating system. It also features deep integration with various Amazon services such as the Amazon Apps...

Amazon on Monday revealed a new discounted version of its popular Kindle eBook reader. Amazon’s announcement came on the same day Barnes & Noble announced its all-new NOOK eReader. When asked during a Q&A session after Monday’s press conference if Barnes & Noble would ever consider releasing an ad-supported NOOK, CEO William Lynch laughed and said it was highly unlikely — but Amazon seems to be having some success with the ad-supported model. Joining the company’s $114 ad-suppo...

Epson and E Ink have together developed an e-book reader display with a 300 pixels-per-inch display which practically means that you won’t be able to see those pixels while you read stuff on any device with this display. Apps containing engineering diagrams, illustrations, Asian symbols and other intricate content, which couldn’t run on Amazon’s Kindle 167 pixels-per-inch display, will now be able to run on this technology by Epson and E Ink. The former will manufacture the 300 dpi or pixels...

Amazon has added another feather to the cap – or rather more books to the digital bookcase – of its e-book reader, the Kindle. In a move announced a few hours ago, the company announced Kindle Library Lending, which will allow Kindle users (whether they use the e-book reader or the Kindle app) to borrow Kindle ebooks from more than 11,000 libraries in the US. Kindle users will be able to borrow a Kindle edition of a book from their local library and start reading on any Kindle device or Kindle app...