After years and years of holding out, I never thought I’d see the day that Amazon would voluntarily loosen its grip on the Kindle ecosystem. But here we are: Last week, the biggest online bookseller ...

As book retailers and distributors leverage artificial intelligence to offer interactive features, publishers are reckoning with the implications. Two prominent examples emerged last month: Amazon's ...

Editor's take: Amazon, like other Big Tech players riding the AI wave, is pushing chatbots and LLMs into as many products as possible. Even the Kindle app, designed for human-written content, is ...

Amazon will allow EPUB and PDF downloads for DRM-free Kindle books starting January 20, 2026. The change follows Amazon’s removal of the long-standing USB download option in 2025. Only titles where ...

Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who ...

In October 2016, when a new book about Jeffrey Epstein came out, he bought 17 copies. A few months after that, he picked up six books about narcissism. And in 2019, in Epstein’s last weeks of freedom, ...

Owning a Kindle is one of the easiest ways to enjoy reading without the constant distractions of modern screens. Since its debut in 2007, the Kindle has evolved dramatically, offering readers several ...

Amazon updated its Kindle Colorsoft FAQs with a candid disclaimer. The company says that black-and-white Kindles, like the Paperwhite, offer crisper text. Colorsoft screens still suit comics and PDFs, ...

Mercedes Ron never expected a viral TikTok video would change her life. The Argentine-born Spanish author, who started writing on Wattpad as a teenager, watched her Culpable book series explode on ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Louisville mailed its 500,000th book to children under 5, celebrating a milestone for the city's literacy program. The program delivers ...

Since kicking off early this year, “Stuff Your Kindle Day” will continue with a wide range of events in September. For a limited time, hundreds to thousands of e ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Recently, I made the choice to buy a Kindle ...