Amazon’s multi-billionaire founder Jeff Bezos is the moneybags behind the secret rocket project known as Blue Origin. Lately, there’s been more information leaking out about New Shepard, Blue Origin’s first full-sized spacecraft designed to lift humans into... 

Over the weekend, Amazon and book publisher Macmillan got in a tussle over the price of Macmillan’s e-books. In short, Macmillan wanted to—and ultimately did—hike the main price for e-books from around $10 up to between $13 and $15. Naturally, it got us wondering:... 

You don’t often hear about powerhouses caving in. However, it looks like Amazon lost at a game of hardball with e-book and real book publisher Macmillan. Up until now, Amazon could set the prices for the e-books sold for the Kindle — typically, $9.99 for a current... 

Are you satisfied with the $9.99 price point of eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle, or do you think that publishers should be allowed to price the books higher? Every consumer wants to get the best deal, us included, unfortunately it seems that Macmillan are in the midst of a little... 

We were wondering how Kindle’s impending active content (read: apps) would be harnessing that free Whispernet bandwidth. As it turns out, there’s just a smidgen allowed for gratis. According to the terms laid out by Amazon, there’s a 70 / 30 revenue split, with... 

Amazon’s just announced the Kindle Development Kit, or KDK for short, which will be rolled out starting next month in limited beta and then to wait-listed folks “as space becomes available.” The apps, here called “active content,” will eventually... 

Amazon has announced that authors and publishers around the world are now able to use its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store. Previously DTP was only available to authors... 

With e-book readers being all the rage these days, have you asked yourself when you’re going to pick one up if you haven’t done so already? The Owen E1 e-book reader ain’t too shabby features-wise, where it is slightly smaller than the Amazon Kindle, featuring... 

AT&T makes a different claims about a temporary halt on online iPhone sales to the New York metro area, the Kindle and its books dominate Christmas day shopping, and the most popular cellphone encryption scheme gets busted. AT&T dancing around mysterious New York iPhone... 

An Israeli hacker has found a way to defeat the digital rights management (DRM) on e-books for the Amazon Kindle. Of course. Ever since DRM-protected e-books came into existence, this day was inevitable. Now if you want to copy a Kindle book over to your IREX or Sony Reader,...