Today during the company's Q3 earnings call, Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak predicted record sales of Kindle and Kindle Fire products. He also said that since much of the profit from...

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Amazon has announced that the Kindle Store is now available in France, as well as the availability of the first French-language Kindle device. The French store offers  825,000 titles, including 35,000 French-language Kindle books. All 28 L’Express best sellers are included – Amazon says this is the the most in a digital store in France. It's available [...]

Read More: Amazon launches Kindle Store in France and first French language Kindle device

Amazon has announced that the Kindle Store is now available in France, as well as the availability of the first French-language Kindle device. The French store offers  825,000 titles, including 35,000 French-language...

Read More: Amazon launches Kindle Store in France and first French language Kindle device

The Amazon Kindle Fire isn't the only low-cost tablet option in town. Sure, it might be the hot new kid, but there are a multitude of tablets that can be had for $300 or less. Some are cheap and clearly only for enthusiasts. Other tabs are legitimate deals that offer Honeycomb on modern CPUs. Best of all - and Amazon knows this - all of them can run the Kindle app, instantly turning them into Kindle Fire competitors.

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Despite the widely accepted public knowledge before the big reveal today (including pre-announcement photos on TechCrunch), Amazon managed to pull of a Steve Jobs type "one more thing" this morning by announcing not just one but four new Kindle models and a new web browser that uses its own considerable cloud services.


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It's called simply the "Amazon Kindle". But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.

Rumors of Amazon making a full-fledged tablet device have persisted for a while. I believe we were one of the first to report on the possibility from a credible source — the same person who accurately called Amazon's Android Appstore. That source was dead-on again, it just took Amazon longer than anticipated to [...]

Read More: Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It.

Amazon and other ebook reader app providers recently had to modify their iPad apps to comply with Apple's policy for not allowing links that lead to the purchase of content from outside of the in-app purchase mechanism. Amazon just made available a new service that could eventually lead to working completely around Apple's policies. Amazon's new cloud based web ebook reading service works with desktop browsers (Chrome and Safari) as well as the iPad's Safari mobile browser.Kindle Cloud ReaderHer [...]

Read More: Kindle Cloud Reader for the Desktop and iPad: All You Need is a Browser

Just last week we posted a video of the new Nook (which we just reviewed) running Angry Birds. Not exactly the best match for an e-paper display, but it does show that the underlying Android install is sound and functional. Further proof comes this weekend, with forum-dwelling hackers installing the ADW Launcher home screen and even the Kindle app on it.

Read More: New Nook Hacked Further, Gets Launcher, Bluetooth, And… Kindle