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Amazon’s Echo can now play Spotify

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

You can now walk into a room, say “Alexa play Spotify” and Amazon’s internet of things offering to the smart home will obey your instruction. Okay, you need to be in the US and need to have a Spotify Premium account.…

Amazon to pilot The Man in the High Castle

November 11, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Based on Philip K Dick’s alternative history, Hugo Award-winning, the pilot episode is an hour long and will be part of seven shows in a season airing via Amazon Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany.…

Dungeons & Dragons tops Amazon US’s best sellers; Amazon UK has month long delay

August 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s good news for Wizards of the Coast. The initial reaction to Dungeons & Dragons 5 by the media has been positive. The response from fans also seems to be good.…

LEGO robot to combat DRM

September 14, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This LEGO bot combats DRM. Designed by Peter Purgathofer the Mindstorms bot holds a Kindle, flips through pages and takes pictures. He stresses this was a private project, not part of the Vienna University of Technology, not an invitation or instruction on how to get around digital rights management.…

Amazon launch Kindle Matchbook

September 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book-selling powerhouse Amazon has announced Kindle Matchbook. The program means anyone who buys a paperbook unlocks access to a cheap Kindle version of that book. Cheap or free. Of course, the Kindle book needs to be available in the first place.…

Amazon launch Jet City Comics

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics.…

Narr8 expands to the Amazon Appstore

June 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the year Geek Native noticed Narr8’s growing range. Narr8 is an interactive story platform that takes the concept of motion comics and takes it up a level.…

Amazon suspend SimCity downloads, blaming EA

March 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In an unusual twist Amazon have suspended downloads of SimCity and issued a warning about EA’s servers. In effect they’re saying; you could buy this from us but you’ll not be able to play it and then you’ll be angry at us.…

Amazon to rebate some US customers

October 14, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A coalition of American Attorneys Generals have made significant progress in an antitrust lawsuit brought against publishers and retailers. The claim was that the price of ebooks had been rigged unfairly.…

Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?

June 25, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This blog took part in the Pottermore speculation. It was fun. When the news was finally announced it felt, at first blush, a bit of an anti-climax. JK would let Harry Potter eBooks be sold from the site.…

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Amazon’s Echo can now play Spotify

Amazon to pilot The Man in the High Castle

Dungeons & Dragons tops Amazon US’s best sellers; Amazon UK has month long delay

LEGO robot to combat DRM

Amazon launch Kindle Matchbook

Amazon launch Jet City Comics

Narr8 expands to the Amazon Appstore

Amazon suspend SimCity downloads, blaming EA

Amazon to rebate some US customers

Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?

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