Sad news for global freeloaders travellers looking to keep up with Gmail and Twitter on their Amazon e-reader. The online book seller has started closing in on excessive free web browsing, policing a 50MB data limit on its keyboard Kindle iterations. According to users on MobileRead, you'll still be able to browse Amazon's Kindle store and Wikipedia, but anything beyond that gets locked down. After some further investigation, it looks like Amazon added a provision outlining the data limits on its site, dated around July 1st. It stipulating that users "may be limited to 50MB of browsing over 3G per month." The data cap only applies to older Kindle versions, including the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle DX. If you've got Amazon's latest e-reader hardware, then you're not missing anything -- the free web browsing option was sidestepped on the likes of the Kindle Touch.Filed under: InternetAmazon puts 50MB limit on 3G Kindle's 'free' experimental browser originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink The eBook Reader | MobileRead | Email this | Comments Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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(Reuters) - Germany's largest newspaper publisher will introduce a paywall for its flagship national daily Die Welt by the end of this year and is confident competitors will follow suit, Axel Springer Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner said. In an ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to the terms of a settlement between the DoJ and three major American publishers, some customers may receive refunds on their ebook purchases. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has announced it will give Kindle owners refunds on past ebook purchases if a settlement with publishers accused of fixing prices is approved. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon contacts some US customers to detail partial refunds for ebooks as part of a settlement regarding price fixing. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon will offer partial refunds to customers who bought ebooks between April 2010 and May 2012 a result of the settlement in a price-fixing case between publishers and the attorneys general of most U.S. states. The retailer is notifying eligible customers by email. Compensation ranges from... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buy a lot of ebooks? Thank your state attorney general for the credit you'll get next year. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Bezos, in the U.K. to launch the Kindle Paperwhite and Amazon's Lending Library service, has told the BBC that his firm makes no money on its Kindles. "We make money from when people use our devices, not when people buy our devices," he told technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. "That... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is to launch its controversial Kindle Owners' Lending Library in the UK from the end... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Association of American Publishers A Pennsylvania District Court judge seems to be fed up with copyright holders wasting the courts’ time and resources, ordering an adult movie studio and five anonymous alleged copyright infringers to present their respective cases to court in a bellwether... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The majority of Canadians still prefer print, and more than a quarter of book purchases were made... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an effort to gain subscribers, Fortune has relaunched its iPad app with a mix of free and paid content. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hints at a Kindle launch for Japan in October have been upstaged by Google’s sudden... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller, producer Scott Rudin and publishing executive Frances Coady are investing in a book venture that will attempt to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s dominance in the industry. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anobii has postponed until 2013 an affiliation scheme it devised to enable independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon will not release its Kindle Paperwhite device in Europe this year, as the etailer prepares... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new printed book celebrates all of the quirky flaws of the world’s most famous ebook. Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wow. Judge Denise Cote certainly knows how to put a spring in the step of mega corporations. Mere days have passed since she ordered HarperCollins to let retailers to set their own ebook prices, and yet already Kindle bestsellers from that publisher are selling for around $9.99 -- in some cases... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Fire HD are available to order through Waterstones, the chain... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo is launching a new tablet and e-reader in an attempt to wrest the market away from Amazon and Apple, both of which will probably release new tablets soon. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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