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Buying from Amazon directly is guaranteed to be cheaper than anywhere else in South Africa! Every reseller of the Amazon Kindle buy their Kindle's from Amazon at the same price as you do. The "buy it now" buttons below will take you directly to Amazon's international shipping page.
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Want a Kindle Fire in South Africa?
The Kindle Touch and Kindle fire is not currently available for delivery to South Africa. There is a good possibility we won't see it in South Africa until 2012. We have however notice a few reasonably priced Kindle Fires and Kindle Touch readers on BidorBuy.co.za. Kindle Fire Tablets start at around R1800. Please click on the image below to start your search.
Will the Kindle Fire work in South Africa: My thoughts
We’ve been receiving a few questions about the usability of the new Kindle Fire in South Africa. We all agree it looks to be an awesome piece of kit. I noticed a few importers taking orders for the Kindle Fire in South Africa, however the questions remains. Can you use the Kindle Fire in South Africa?
This does not mean that the Kindle Fire will be useless to Amazon customers in South Africa but it does seem that you’d need to own the content first, then you would need to upload it to your Kindle Fire before you can enjoy it. With only 5GB storage and without a way to add apps, it seems to be a Kindle in color and would only be worth it if and when Amazon opens their streaming media services to the rest of the world.
I’ve really been looking forward to getting my hands on the new Kindle fire. At this point in time there is no international release date for Kindle Fire. I think I will stick with my Kindle Keyboard until Amazon makes their cloud services, appstore and streaming media available to South Africa. Watch this space.
25 October 2011 New Software for Kindle Keyboard:
News just in from Amazon is that they released a free software update for the Kindle 3 Keyboard. The Kindle update is only available over Wi-Fi and will deliver cracking new enhancements to your Kindle reading device. The new features will include:
** You can now download your archived personal docs on your Kindle Keyboard which means you can view then anywhere at any time. You can access your documents in your Kindle library and it will remain there until you remove them from the “Manage Your Kindle” page.
** Whispersync for Personal Documents on Kindle Keyboard: Just as with Kindle books, Whispersync automatically synchronizes your last page read, bookmarks and annotations for personal documents (with the exception of PDFs) across the Kindle devices. Learn more about Kindle Personal Document Service on www.amazon.com/kindle personal documents.
How to update your Kindle: Turn your wifi on and connect to your local network. From the Home screen, press Menu and select "Sync and Check for Items." The new update will now be downloaded to your Kindle in the background and will automatically install next time your Kindle goes to sleep mode.
03 October 2011 Amazon launches new Kindle Touchand Kindle Fire Range
There were a few rumors and now it’s a reality. For the past year I have been receiving emails from Kindle South Africa supporters asking when there will be a color version of the Kindle available to the South African market. We are nearly there!
Talk of the town is that Amazon will subsidize the Kindle Fire to ensure it is a real competitor to the tablet market which is steadily getting more crowded. Yes, that is right; it will be less than half the price of an Apple iPad at only $199.00.
26 May 2011 The Electronic You - in
Amazon built their multi billion dollar business with the idea to be the biggest book store in the world. Even if they employed wizard, Gandalf the Grey, they could not have predicted that sales of eBooks would surpass that of hard copies, 5 years ago.
After less than 4 years of selling eBooks, Amazon announced that they are now in fact selling more electronic books than printed books.
The ratio is close, but the fact remains that Amazon is selling 110 Kindle books for every printed book. This does not include any free eBooks which is an astonishing feet! They expect to sell 3 times as many eBooks to printed books by July this year.
I have been asked on numerous occasions by reputable businessmen in
The technology is there. It is cheap and even to buy a Kindle in
21 April 2011
Once you decide to buy yourself a Kindle in
Once you receive your Kindle, it is time to configure it. Setting up your Kindle to store and display your favorite South African kindle books and magazines is not easy, however I’m sure Amazon is working on that for their next generation Kindle. But what else can they add? Well I’m writing this on my overclocked PC and thinking, would it not be nice to do it on my Kindle. It is so mobile and when I go traveling I really don’t want to be carrying my 2.5kg laptop with charger with me. Would it not be nice to have a little plug-in or infrared keyboard for typing? Perhaps the folding keyboard could be part of the case. This would make my life so much easier as the Kindle is compact, light with amazing battery power.
I have heard that Amazon has opened up the OS for developers to add apps and make it more like an iPad. I have never been a fan of the Apple fad, however it holds a lot more promise than the Kindle at present. I think there is massive potential for Amazon to make the Kindle a true competitor for the iPad. I love my Kindle! If you bought a Kindle in
18 January 2011 Another Millionaire club milestone for Amazon Kindle Author
Amazon announced on the 12th of January that Nora Roberts joins Stieg Larson, Author of Millennium trilogy and James Patterson in the Millionaires club. It is regarded as one of the highest achievements selling more than a million books in electronic Kindle format.
Nora Roberts, who uses who pens under the name of J.D. Robb sold over 1.17Million books as of the 11th of January. J.D. Robb has been a bestselling author for over 15 years with over 200 novels such as the series, “In Death” and other best sellers such as “Northern Lights”, “The Search” and “The Garden Trilogy”. Nora has won numerous awards and nominated by Times Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in 2007 and sometimes called,
Amazon has done exceptionally well for authors by launching the Kindle 3. We get numerous emails a day from people in
12 January 2011 New Study: Amazon's Kindle tops Twitter tweets
Graph of 'relevant' Twitter conservations about consumer satisfaction.
(Credit: Crimson Hexagon)
It is a well known fact that neither Amazon on B&N disclosed their respective numbers for the number of eBook readers sold. Crimson Hexagon took it upon them to investigate and draw their own conclusions about the Amazon Kindle’s popularity, compared to other eReaders such as the Nook and iPad.
Kindle South Africa suggests that you don’t take the study on face value seeing as there are a few factors in the study which doesn't’t add up to us. The reason Kindle South Africa says this is that Crimson Hexagon's blog post title is, "Nook emerges as serious contender in the e-book reader universe," followed by the heading, "Online opinion indicates new color Nook blooms late but bright for Barnes & Noble."
Their blog also says that, "While the Nook readers have certainly established a solid and growing position in the e-reader market during 2010, our analysis also revealed that Amazon's Kindle is still by far the most popular e-reader on the basis of total conversation volume on Twitter."
Buy comparing the amount of tweets from Twitter users containing keywords regarding the relevant eBook readers, Crimson Hexagon found that the Kindle far is the most popular device when it comes to tweets. There are on average around 1,000 tweets per day about the Amazon Kindle and only around 500 per day for Barnes & Noble’s, Nook.
The amount of tweets, with regards to Apple’s iPad as an e-reader, did not come close at around 120 per day. We feel the key to this study is relevance as it seems to involve “customer satisfaction”, a tricky thing to analyse on twitter. Anyway, here are a few highlights from the study carried out:
Each device got positive feedback except for the iPad as an eBook reading device. (The Kindle and Nook both received around 80% positive conversation).
The iPad’s downfall was its reflective, non-gloss LCD screen and size, in comparison to the other ereaders.
The Kindle’s affordability played a big part in tweets whilst both saw a drop in price in summer.
Both the standard Nook (e-ink) and Nook color came out on top in terms of percentage of total positive feedback.
Although Kindle South Africa feels that Crimson Hexagon’s study is useful, none of this came as a big surprise to us. We do feel there is room to take all ereading devices into consideration and so that importers in
06 January 2011 Kindle App for Windows Phone 7 - Ready to download
As mentioned in one of our previous news stories, the Amazon already allows Kindle books to be read on the Kindle WiFi, WiFi 3G,DX models as well as electronic devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, PC, Mac, Blackberry and Android. On the 04th of January, Amazon announced that the Kindle App will now also include Widows 7 devices. This is the first major book reading applications for any Windows Phone 7 device and will also allow personal recommendations on the home screen. You will also be able to recommend books to friends once your Kindle app has been installed. To learn more or to download the new Windows Phone 7 Kindle App, please visit www.amazon.com/kindleforwindowsphone.
Customers who download the Kindle app for Windows Phone 7, can also look forward to the following features:
Smooth integration with the Kindle reading device. The Whispersync technology will allow you to read and syncronise your library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the devices and platforms of your choice (Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Android-based devices, and Windows Phone 7-based devices).
Whether you read the same book on your Kindle, tablet PC, or on your smart phone, the Kindle software will always keep track of bookmarks
Access to over 775,000 books in the U.S. Kindle Store
Kindle's Worry-Free Archive automatically backs up your Kindle library on Amazon, so your books can be re-downloaded wirelessly anytime.
Shopping without leaving the app.
Send an email to a friend with a link to the book you're reading or to any book in your library without leaving the app.
Five different font sizes and three options for background color.
Portrait or landscape mode, and to turn pages by flicking or tapping.
Try a book before you buy. The beginning of any eBook is always free and you’ll receive personalised recommendations from Amazon.
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