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Kindle News: Federal judge refuses to toss out class action lawsuit on e-book pricing, citing damaging Apple statements. 56-page ruling download.

U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote refuses to toss out a nationwide class action lawsuit against Big5 and Apple filed in August 2011. Associated Press’s Larry Neumesiter reports that, in her written ruling, District Court Judge Cote cited Steve Jobs’s statements, one that was video’d in answer to Walt Mossberg of WSJ at the initial [...]

Kindle News: Front-lit Kindle said to be ready by July. Another tablet by the holidays. Possible Nook GlowLight light-layer fragility

The front-lit E-Ink Kindle reported by TechCrunch’s Coldewey on April 8 as in development and seen by him is now reported to be coming in July. At the time it was reported in early April, a front-lit Kindle seemed many moons away, but it could be that Barnes and Noble’s release of its Nook GlowLight [...]

Sunday’s Kindle Daily Deal is the Gold Box deal: 20 novels made into films. 99c each.  Also, huge discounts on many popular books are highlighted in alerts from the forums

Sunday’s Kindle Deal: “20 great novels that inspired movies” are $0.99 each on Kindle for the rest of this Sunday. The usual Kindle Daily Deal link for Sunday takes you then to today’s Gold Box Daily Deal.  It also serves to make more people aware of the daily Gold Box deal, I imagine. Also, this [...]

How to read DRM’d ePub books on the Kindle Fire. Amazon makes it doable.

Amazon makes it possible but doesn’t make it ultra-easyThe two most popular ePub readers for Android are not made available for the Kindle Fire, as Amazon concentrates on its own books but, as with about 3 million free books available these days for reading on the Kindle and which Amazon points us to on their [...]

Kindle News: All Harry Potter eBooks coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library; E-Ink Color Kindle E-Readers may launch 2nd Half of 2012; Wi-Drive gets web-browser update; 3 Solitaire programs in one set, by 7 Dragons, for Kindle Fire

Kindle Owner’s Lending Library will carry all 7 Harry Potter eBooks.   The Potter eBooks had already been part of an exclusive worldwide e-book and digital audiobook distribution agreement with Overdrive for public and school libraries.   However, waiting lists at libraries are notoriously long, and books are due within 2 weeks in some.  So, [...]

Kindle Tips: Kindle E-Ink and Kindle Fire – most reliable Gmail mode

I’ve noticed that E-Ink-Ereader and Kindle Fire owners have reported problems accessing Gmail lately. One aspect is that few settle for “mobile” version on the larger mobile devices and choose ‘desktop’ mode. I’m one of them. The one mode that always works for me on either the Kindle Touch or the Kindle Fire, though, is [...]

May’s 100 Kindle Deals $1.99-$3.99 – Editors’ Choices. May’s free non-classics by publication date.

^MAY 2012′s 100 Kindle Deals, $1.99-$3.99 I highlight this feature at or near the beginning of the month for newcomers, and even oldcomers who don’t know it exists. These are Kindle books “hand-selected” by Amazon’s Editors each month, and what you’ll see on that special monthly-deals page are the new ones for May 2012. (Link: amzn.to/100kbooks-2to4) [...]

NY Federal Judge stays e-book class action case against Hachette and HarperCollins

paidContent’s Jeff John Roberts reports that New York Federal Justice Denise Cote has stayed the class action suit against HarperCollins and Hachette “on the grounds that the publishers are close to a consumer restitution settlement with state governments.” The state governments’ deal trumps the consumer class action, he explains. The lead class-action lawyer, Steve Berman [...]

Nook GlowLight reviews and the Contrast question. Microsoft invests in new Nook books subsidiary.

When I’ve been quiet for awhile, some will brace themselves for another wordy piece on the way. Oldtimers to this blog may remember that I did a few blog articles about the lack of sufficient contrast in the Kindle 2 screen display for many, and although my own Kindle 2 was okay, the Kindle 1 [...]

Kindle Fire Update v6.3.1 READY with better Parental Controls

KINDLE FIRE UPDATE v6.3.1 was announced by Amazon at the Amazon Kindle Forum by Kevin G., Community Manager, and involves additional parental controls. The software v6.3.1 update was announced today, May 3, as ready for download.   Download it at the software-update page (good instructions there) and you can also read there the information they [...]