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Authors and Publishers: How to Opt Out of Amazon’s Kindle Lending Service for Your Kindle Book

While the new Kindle Lending program may be good news to a lot of people, not everybody loves it. In particular, if you are an author or publisher whose book is carried on Amazon in Kindle format, you may not want people sharing your copyrighted material freely with others. If that describes you, here’s how to opt out of Kindle lending of your book.

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How to Cancel the Kindle Unlimited Service on Amazon

So let’s say that you tried the new Kindle Unlimited service, and now you want to cancel it. Just how do you unsubscribe and cancel Kindle Unlimited on Amazon? If you search Amazon, they provide this spectacularly unhelpful guidance: “You may cancel your subscription at any time by visiting your account and adjusting your settings.”

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Amazon Introduces Kindle Unlimited All-You-Can Read Service

If you are a voracious reader, then Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited service may be for you. For just $9.99 a month, you can belly up to the Kindle Unlimited ‘all you can read’ buffet. But, just like an all you can eat buffet doesn’t have every food in the restaurant, Kindle Unlimited does not feature all of the Kindle books that are available.

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Amazon Kindle Kiosk Coming to Airports and Malls

Now here’s an idea that makes perfect sense: a vending machine that sells Amazon Kindles – called the “Kindle Kiosk”. The Kindle Kiosk is slated to be installed in select airports and malls around the country, but have only just now been spotted in the wild at an airport, and we are building a list of airports that have the Kindle Kiosk.

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Amazon Mayday Button and Privacy Concerns Debut with Newest Kindle

Amazon just announced its newest Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX tablet, which is 7-inches of awesome. However, it’s not different enough from the previous generation of Kindle Fire to warrant covering it – except for this one new feature: the Mayday Button. “What is the Kindle Mayday Button?”, you may ask? It is a controversial new feature that allows you to connect directly to an “Amazon expert” for tech support, 24/7/365.

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New Kindle Paperwhite Joins Confusion of Kindles – Which Kindle is Right for You?

Amazon announced this week that its newest Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite, will start shipping at the end of ths month. So what does the new and improved Kindle Paperwhite have to offer that the original flavour Kindle and the Kindle DX don’t? (It makes no sense to compare the Kindle Paperwhite to the Kindle Fire, as they are completely different animals – the Fire being a full-fledged tablet, and the Paperwhite being a reader only.)

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Market to Barnes and Noble: Your Nook is a Bomb, Go Back to Books and Leave Tablets to the Kindle and iPad

Readers of all ages and backgrounds love a trip to Barnes & Noble for the selection, the atmosphere, and the service. And that really great coffee. But lovers of e-books have ignored Barnes and Noble’s proprietary Nook e-reader in favor of the iPad from Apple and Kindle from Amazon. As a result, the foray into its own tablet has hemorrhaged loses to the point that the retailer appears to have given up on the much ballyhooed effort.

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Amazon’s Kindle Readers to See Credits After Antitrust Lawsuit Settlement with Apple, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Hachette, Pearson, Penguin and Simon and Schuster

This weekend Amazon sent an alert to all of their Kindle customers, informing them of a recent antitrust lawsuit settlement over ebook pricing (some people are calling this a ‘class action’ lawsuit, but it was actually an antitrust suit filed by the government). The settlement is expected to be approved sometime in February 2013, at which time those who have purchased Kindle books can expect to see an estimated credit of $0.30 to $1.32 per each eligible Kindle book that they purchased.

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The New Kindle Fire: The First Tablet to Get it Right and Offer Full Parental Controls?

The new Kindle Fire HD has broken the mold by being the only tablet to finally offer parental controls over what their kids access. While parents go to great lengths to control their child’s TV and PC usage, the tablets have managed to slip by the radar, allowing children unhindered access to the very same things that parents have kept them from on other devices. And at only $199, this kid-friendly tablet has quite an attractive pricetag.

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Fake Kindle E-Book Order Confirmations Lead to Malicious Sites

Starting early this morning, a rash of fake Kindle ebook orders hit the Internet. Sent out as part of the Sakura exploit malware, the email is designed to alarm the recipients into thinking that their Amazon accounts have been charged outrageous amounts for ebooks that they didn’t order, going to addresses they don’t recognize (including “Gahanna, United States”), but the links to “your account” actually take the unsuspecting recipients to malicious sites where the Sakura exploit will infect their computer, adding it to their botnet. The subject of the email is usually “Your Amazon.com Kindle e-book order confirmation” or “Your Amazon.com Kindle e-book order receipt” and appears to come from digital-no-reply@amazon.com “Thanks for your order (your email address)!” the email starts out, going on to say “Did you know you can view and edit your orders online, 24 hours a day? Visit Your Account.” Don’t fall for it!

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Fascinating! 120 “Best of” Articles on Computer History and Predictions for Only $9.99 on Kindle!

Now you can own a little piece – no, scratch that – a big piece of computer history, for your own, for less than $10.00! This compilation of more than 120 articles, from the Best of Creative Computing, circa 1978, is sure to appeal to and fascinate geeks of all persuasions: science fiction buffs, science fact buffs, technology history buffs, educators, and just average Joes who find this sort of thing interesting. It is at once a fabulous overview and review of both computing history, and computer predictions of the future. Now you can look back from that future, boggle at how far we have come, and marvel at who got it right, and who got it oh-so-wrong. All for just $9.99!

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Amazon Ships New Kindle Fire

Amazon started shipping their new tablet based Kindle, the Kindle Fire today. Here is what Amazon sent today to those eager customers who had pre-ordered the Kindle Fire.

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Amazon Introduces Kindle Owners Library – Borrow Instead of Buying Kindle Books

Amazon has rolled out a new free feature for Kindle users who are also Amazon Prime customers: the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. Really it should be called the “Kindle Owner’s Borrowing Library”, so as not to confuse it with the feature where you can loan a Kindle book to a friend. In any event, with the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library you can borrow books to read on your Kindle – but a word to the wise: it only works on actual Kindles, not with any of the Kindle apps.

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New Amazon Tablet: Kindle Fire – What it Is and What it Isn’t

Amazon has announced their new Kindle tablet – the Amazon Kindle Fire (Get it? Kindle…Fire…), and while it may not be an iPad killer, the Amazon tablet very well may be some serious competition for the iPad. In addition to being able to access all of Amazon’s catalogues – books, music, movies, and more – on the tablet, you can access Amazon’s Android app store (the Kindle Fire runs a modified Android under the hood), you can subscribe to magazines, you can check email, and you can browse the web using Amazon’s snappy new web browser, Amazon Silk (not sure what silk has to do with fire), and, you can run Flash with the Kindle Silk browser – which the iPad can’t (or rather won’t) do. All this for only $199!

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The Amazon Prime Win a Free Kindle 3G Sweepstakes – It’s Legit, But with a Catch

Many of you received an email from Amazon this week which invited you to enter the “Win an Kindle 3G from Amazon.com” contest in honor of Amazon Prime, and, of course, and as you should, you were suspicious and are wondering whether it’s a scam. in fact, the “Win a Free Kindle 3G Sweepstakes” is legitimate! No purchase necessary, and here is how to enter (even if you didn’t get that email). You’ll need a Facebook account, as it involves the Amazon Facebook page, and that’s where the catch comes in.