As you open your Kindle or iPad on Christmas, consider this publisher who suggests that e-books and print books can live peacefully together.

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Bits Blog: The Book Beyond the Book

Three new Kindle e-book readers from Amazon fall short of full-featured tablets, but they have much to offer at comparatively low prices.

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State of the Art: The Fire Aside, Amazon’s Lower-Priced Kindles Also Shine

Amazon’s souped-up color version of its Kindle e-reader hopes to undercut the iPad in price and steal away a couple of million in unit sales by Christmas.

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Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad

That was fast. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced that sales of electronic books had surpassed sales of print ones. Since April 1, the online retailer has been selling 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 print books, hardcover and paperback…

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Retail giant Amazon has announced a cheaper version of its popular Kindle device which displays adverts to users.

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Amazon sells ad-subsidised Kindle

Amazon has revealed a new $114 Kindle model, but the discount comes with a price: Readers will have to watch ads in exchange for the $25 savings. The new model is called Kindle with Special Offers, and it will be available May 3 at Best Buy and Target,…

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Amazon previewed a Kindle update, including page numbers and social features, that could make it easier to read e-books in classrooms or book clubs.

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Gadgetwise: Kindle Books Get Page Numbers

Amazon announces that it sold more Kindle downloads in the US than paperbacks, but says its profit margins slid.

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E-books now outselling paperbacks, says Amazon

Phillip Ray Greaves II, the author of a guide for pedophiles that caused an outrage when it was available for sale on Amazon’s Kindle store, was arrested on Monday on obscenity charges. Greaves was booked at his home in Colorado on a Florida arrest…

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Author of Pedophilia Book Arrested

The best part is you won’t even have to wake up at 3 a.m. to wait in line: Amazon.com will sell a Kindle for $89 as part of its Black Friday sales. It won’t be the newest model; rather, it will be the second-generation Kindle, which has worse contrast…

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Guess this means you won’t be seeing it on The New York Times’ new e-book bestsellers list: After an internet uproar, Amazon has removed the Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child Lover’s Code of Conduct from the Kindle store. The book,…

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Amazon’s Kindle is proving popular in China because it allows users to log on to banned websites.

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Sales of the Kindle help lift Amazon profits 16%, but news that the firm’s costs are rising sends its shares down in after-hours trading.

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This article titled “Amazon launches UK Kindle Store” was written by Josh Halliday, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 5th August 2010 14.11 UTC

Amazon today launched its UK Kindle Store, with more than 400,000 ebooks now available to download. The price and scope of the digitised books marks a significant point in Amazon’s move towards domination in the ebooks market.

Up against increasing competition in the market, Amazon last week unveiled two more advanced versions of its Kindle e-reader.

The company is looking to pick up consumers who cannot afford Apple’s iPad. In the US, Amazon has slashed the price of its Kindle device to compete with the iPad, which uses the iBook store to sell ebooks.

More than 80 of the 100 Nielsen UK bestsellers are available to download from the new UK store, retailing at relatively low prices. One of the new bookstore’s featured authors, the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, last week became the first author to sell more than 1m ebooks through Amazon.

Larsson’s novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is currently second in the Kindle store’s bestsellers list and available for £2.70 to UK buyers.

“The Kindle Store offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read at low prices,” said Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content at Amazon.

In the US, digital books account for 6% of consumer sales. Many publishers now realise the need to follow the direction of the market.

Amazon’s new Kindle devices are lighter, faster and smaller than the previous generation. The Wi-Fi model costs £109 in the UK, while the model supporting both Wi-Fi and 3G will retail at £149 – both around £25 more than the US retail price.

Previously, UK Kindle owners had to get their device shipped from the US, with subsequent book purchases retailed in dollars.

Greg Greeley, vice president of European retail at Amazon, said: “The opening of the UK Kindle Store allows customers to buy content in pounds sterling and offers a great shopping experience including UK customer reviews, recommendations, bestseller lists and customer service.”

Though Amazon rarely releases definitive figures on Kindle sales, the company says the original device has sold “millions” – it has been the bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running.

Last month, the company revealed that it sold 143 Kindle ebooks for every 100 hardbacks sold in the previous three months in the US, although no figures were released about the relative proportion of paperbacks sold in this time.

Amazon and Apple face investigations into their ebook retailing. The office of Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut attorney general, says that the companies could be “potentially depriving consumers of competitive prices” and that the burgeoning nature of the market “warranting [a] prompt review of the potential anti-consumer impacts.”

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