Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Has a Better Cover than Nook Color - http://clapway.com/2015/12/08/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-8-has-a-better-cover-than-nook-color-123/

The new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 features a new cover that puts it miles a head of the Nook Color, with a rustic leather case that gives readers the feel of reading an actual book. The case opens like a book and folds flat for single-handed reading, and costs nearly $100 more than the original Kindle Fire HD 8.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition Features Hands-Free Reading

In addition to coming with a beautiful case, the new version of the Kindle Fire has landscape and portrait orientation, so readers can enjoy a hands-free reading experience. It also comes with one year’s worth of Kindle Unlimited. This service usually costs Kindle users $10 a month, which is about $120 per year, and gives readers access to over a million e-books and thousands of audiobooks.

Amazon E-Readers Help Keep You Awake and Alert

The 8″ color display gives users the best reading experience available, and it’s thin and light for easy carrying. The latest update for the tablets included a new feature called Blue Shade, which allows readers to adjust the hues and colors on their screen to filter blue light in or out. This causes a difference in alertness, as blue encourages the secretion of melatonin in the brain. Melatonin decreases mental alertness as if signaling the body that it is time to rest. Blue Shade gives readers the ability to control just how much blue light they are reading with. Amazon is the only company with a line of tablets that have this feature built-in.

The Original Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 and Kindle Fire HD 10 Are Great Alternatives

If buyers aren’t really interested in the extra perks, Amazon’s other e-readers still provide with a great reading experience. All of Amazon’s tablets in the Kindle Fire HD line feature a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. The Kindle Fire HD 8 (non-Reader’s Edition) and Kindle Fire HD 10 come in an 8GB and 16GB capacity. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition only comes in an 8GB version. All tablets feature excellent speed-reading tools, different fonts, multi-color highlights and a font that is unique to the Kindle.

None of these features are in devices like the Nook Color, as Barnes and Noble still struggles to follow behind Amazon. E-Readers have been steadily popular throughout the years, and it seems like Amazon is still at the lead of the flank in this industry.

 

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Has a Better Cover than Nook Color

The new #music #tech with #PrimeMusic. - http://clapway.com/2015/07/28/amazon-launches-prime-music-to-combat-apple-music-and-spotify-325/

Amazon has launched a new music streaming app as a part of Prime service, with more than a million songs available to users.

PRIME MUSIC WENT LINE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THIS MORNING

Prime Music has gone live in the UK this morning, and comes as a part of Amazon Prime membership. The £79 yearly plan that gives users free same day shipping from the e-commerce giant, as well as Prime Instant Video, full access to Amazon’s existing TV and film streaming service, along with other benefits.

The United States based company launched the music service in America last year, and now it has used its database of the users in the United Kingdom’s buying habits to rebuild the app tailored for the customers overseas.

AMAZON MUSIC WILL HAVE OVER A MILLION SONGS

The app will enable users to stream over a million songs at no extra cost to the user, but it also allows them to combine them with other digital tracks that they have purchased from Amazon in the past.

This streaming service will appear within the current Amazon Music app, which is free to download. The managing director at Amazon UK, Christopher North, said that the UK costumers loved it when they added the unlimited photo storage and Prime Instant Video into Prime last year. This was all in addition to the unlimited one-day delivery items of millions of items, as well as access to over 800,000 Kindle titles that can be borrowed.

AMAZON SAYS THAT THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

They said in many press releases that they were just getting started on making a lot of programs and promotions and the Prime Music is just the beginning. There are more than a million songs from a plethora of best-selling artists plus over a hundred Prime Playlists that are hand-build by their team of music experts. This is all at no cost to the customer.

This announcement comes jut three weeks after Apple launched its own music streaming service, Apple Music, to compete with Spotify. However, Amazon says that they are not looking to compete with Apple Music, and pointed out that Prime membership contains a series of services that benefit users with Prime Music being just one component.

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Kindle Update Allows Private Messaging to Better Share Books - http://clapway.com/2015/06/27/kindle-update-allows-private-messaging-to-better-share-books877/

Amazon Kindle’s latest update is making it easier for its users to socialize with their friends about their favorite books and quotes. This new update will be utilizing mobile messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, texting, WhatsApp and more.

PRIVATE MESSAGING IS THE PREFERRED WAY OF COMMUNICATION

This change is in response to private messaging and sharing being the most popular way of connecting with friends, in comparison to larger, more public platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Over the past few months, Kindle has made a huge impact on the e-book industry. It has been widely known as one of the first choices for readers. A lot of this has been credited to Amazon’s investment in the app and its frequent updates.

MAKES FOR BETTER CONVERSATION

This will be the first time that Amazon is allowing readers to share information via messaging apps. The most recent updates include an option for users to converse with their family and friends about their favorite books through a messaging app.

The new ability to share quotes makes sense for a lot of Kindle e-book readers. As book clubs grow, you can take advantage of the private sharing option to get more in-depth conversations going around the current book.

MAKES SUGGESTING BOOKS MORE PERSONAL

Users can also share their book recommendations with their friends by messaging, in contrast to just posting a status on Facebook to everyone. This makes book sharing more personal instead of being so widely seen.

This sharing feature was previously available for quote sharing, conversations and recommendations on the larger social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter only. It has definitely been narrowed down to allowing you to share only with the ones you want to share with. The perfect quote for certain friends isn’t always the perfect quote for everyone on your social network.

If a user receives a recommendation from a Kindle owner, he or she can start reading a preview of the book on their mobile devices or desktop. It is not going to be required that you have Kindle app or Amazon account.

This update will be released on the Kindle app first and then on the Kindle reader, as well as on other devices later this year.

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Kindle Update Allows Private Messaging to Better Share Books