3 posts and columns on Ian Freed

Amazon’s iPad App Will Be All New, but It Won’t Be Ready by April 3

in Media on March 22, 2010 at 3:39 am PT

Want to read the books you bought for your Kindle on your new iPad? You’ll have to be patient. Amazon promises that the iPad version of the Kindle app it is working on will be cool, but it won’t be ready when the first Apple devices show up next month. That’s because Amazon, like most developers, hasn’t been able to test the app on a real device yet.

Kindle on Campus, Fall 2009: Will You Be One of the Lucky 300?

in Media on May 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm PT

All geared up to use a Kindle DX when you head back to school next fall? The odds are against you: Amazon and six colleges are conducting the most preliminary of tests. Which means only a few dozen students at each school are going to get their mitts on the $489 gadgets.
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Kindle on Your iPhone? Not Today.

in Media on February 9, 2009 at 11:36 am PT

At today’s Kindle 2.0 unveiling, CEO Jeff Bezos took pains to point out that at some time you will be able to read Kindle books on non-Kindle devices. Of course, he didn’t provide any other details. So does an iPhone tie-up make sense at some point? Or does he have something else up his sleeve?