The Week: In advance of the Kindle Fire's launch later this month, Amazon announces that Prime subscribers will get to check out a free Kindle book every month
Almost a year has past since Amazon updated the Kindle line, the Kindle Paperwhite being the last device released by the company. A refresh to the tablet line was an expected occurrence, and some diligent people have spotted a Kindle Voyage listing on German and Japanese Amazon stores.
TechFrag - "Amazon, the world’s largest retailer, had been haggling with Hachette, one of the world’s largest publisher, over who gets what chunk of the sales of eBooks."
Gigaom: The launch of Amazon’s new “lending library” feature through its Kindle devices this week means that another form of content or media — namely books — is becoming something that we rent or stream, Netflix-style, rather than owning a physical copy of. There are plenty of reasons to prefer renting or streaming over actual physical goods: It’s often cheaper, and you don’t have to lug around heavy books or CDs or DVDs everywhere, since your content is (theoretically at least) available anywhere. But there are also downsides to renting content; moving to a rental model changes our relationship to that content, and not always in a good way.
