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In a deal stuck with the U.S. Justice Department, three universities testing the Amazon Kindle DX in the classroom have agreed to stop using e-book readers until they are fully functional for blind students. The original pilot program,…

... Monday’s meeting of the Yankton School Board. “I think there is a lot of confusion across the board of what is and what is not considered an excused absence,” said high school principal Dr. Wayne Kindle. “We used to use ... annual Safe

Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Prime View International Co., supplier of the E Ink technology used in Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle and Sony Corp.’s Reader, plans to triple capacity as clients release new color, touch-screen and flexible electronic book…

With the launch of the iPad, the Kindle saw a possible competitor, as the new device is capable of operating in e-reader mode. With a slew of new tablet devices on their way, the Amazon Kindle will naturally have to bring something to the…

(PhysOrg.com) -- Portable e-readers such as the Kindle are unlikely to win readers back to the newspaper habit unless they include features such color, photographs and touch screens, according to research conducted at the University of…

The amount of CO2 the Kindle could save by replacing three books a month The Kindle can produce a potential savings of 1,074 kg of CO2 if it replaces three books a month for four years, or a whopping 26,098 kg of CO2 if the Kindle DX is…

I use it to listen to music, watch TV and movies, read my Kindle books, and to access email and the internet. I downloaded the WordPress app but never used it to blog because no matter how good I get at typing on the iPhone, there is a…

Over the weekend, a momentous game of chicken took place in the book industry. As the dust clears, it looks like the world will be a much less friendly place for Amazon.com's e-reader device, the Kindle. After negotiations on e-book pricing…

Last week, Apple announced their entry to the burgeoning slate computer market with the iPad. Just one of a handful of companies shipping slate tablet devices this year, Apple was touted as coming up with a "Kindle Killer." While the jury…

While many may have written off Amazon’s Kindle — along with the rest of its e-reader brethren — after the announcement of Apple’s iPad, I haven’t been so quick to judge. If anything, we may have to thank the iPad for spurring on more ...