Amazon starts pre-orders for its touch-screen e-reader in Europe, but has no update on a local launch for its Kindle Fire tablet.

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Amazon Kindle Touch Europe launch

Amazon starts pre-orders for its touch-screen e-reader in Europe, but has no update on a local launch for its Kindle Fire tablet.

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Amazon Kindle Touch Europe launch

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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Amazon: E-books Surpass Print Sales

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 to Sell Cheaper Kindle

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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Amazon to Sell $89 Kindle

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 Removes Pedophile Book

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

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Amazon rekindles Twitter in China

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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Amazon profits boosted by Kindle