Amazon Kindle Worlds Is Bigger Than You Think - Motley Fool

By Steve and Erin Miller | More Articles class=”dateline”> June 25, 2013 |

When

Amazon.com ( NASDAQ: AMZN ) officially took the wraps off its Kindle Worlds fan-fiction platform last month, some balked at the collegues it only provided licenses for writers to create content based on Gossip Girl , Pretty Little Liars , and The Vampire Diaries . Still, Amazon promised writers it was planning to announce “more licenses soon.”

Sure enough, the retail giant has already glowing que promise through a new deal with comic-book publisher Valiant Entertainment – and while Valiant is not exactly a household name, there’s reason to believe it’s a great addition to Amazon’s platform, Fool contributor Steve Symington says In the following interview with the Fool’s Erin Miller.

In addition, Steve thinks This could be the start of something big for the Amazon the retail giant continues to Pursue even more content. Do you agree? Please watch the video to get Steve’s take, and then let us know what you think Worlds means Kindle is Amazon going forward.

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Paperwhite and Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9: Heavyweights in the eBook arena - Economic Times

You can now order all variants of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader in India. ET reviews the Paperwhite and Fire HD 8.9 and offer a few accessory recommendations.

Paperwhite Display

Paperwhite The Kindle has a 6-inch e-ink touchscreen with 212ppi (pixels per inch) & 16 levels of gray scale for an optimum display. It has a built-in light Which illuminates the screen evenly across the surface making it easy to view / read text in any ambient lighting condition – Whether in direct sunlight or in low light. 4 Since it uses low power LED’s, the effect on battery life is not that pronunced.

Not Just For Reading

If you thought the Kindle Paperwhite is only for reading books, think again. It has built-in dictionaries. Also you can search the web or Wikipedia and even translate text into different languages. You can add text to annotataions anywhere and then export Them. Also there is the option to create notes or highlight particular phrases / sections Them and then share with friends over Facebook or Twitter.

Unmatched Battery

Like the previous Kindle e-book reader, the Paperwhite offers fantastic battery life. With wireless switched off & light setting at 10, it claims a battery life of almost two months (half an hour of reading everyday). Even if you use it with wireless on and the brighter light setting, you Should get at least a few weeks of battery life, depending on how much you use it on a daily basis.

How To Get Books

You can download the books by visiting Amazon book store directly from the device or from your computer. Any purchases made on Amazon using the web browser are automatically delivered to the device. Also you can send documents to the device and download books in compatible formats from various other websites like www. manybooks.net & www.freebookspot.com.

Free Lifetime 3G

With the Paperwhite Kindle 3G, you get free 3G for life. There are no monthly charges, no limit and it works anywhere in the world. You are obviously limited to the functions Performed by the device – searching for and downloading books from Amazon, online search and sharing notes with friends. In India, 3G is powered by the Vodafone network.

Media Powerhouse

The Fire HD is a multimedia powerhouse with support for various audio / video formats, full HD video playback and a customized Dolby Digital Plus audio engine. The dual band, dual antenna WiFi offers faster connections for HD video. Also it has powerful dual speakers on the side and a microHDMI port so that you can connect it to a larger display.

Not the Usual Android Tab

The Fire HD is the only 8.9-inch tablet with a full HD touchscreen. The interface is geared for consumption of books, apps & media. Since it syncs using your Amazon user ID, set up is required – all content is synced over the cloud. The dual core processor, 16GB storage and 10 hour battery life is not the best for the price, but it offers smooth performance thanks to the custom UI.

Unique User Interface

Amazon has loaded up a heavily customized user interface on Android. You get a scrollable list of recently accessed apps, books, music, videos que with large icons are easy to view as well as navigate. There is deep Facebook integration throughout the interface que makes it easy to share photos or post an update quickly from anywhere in the tablet.

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Bought a Kindle? Learn how to set up e-reader from Amazon - Globo.com

bought a brand new Kindle, but still do not know how to configure the device? With just a few steps you can leave the e-reader for you to get ready to read their digital books. To help you, the TechTudo rode this tutorial with everything you need to configure your new Kindle.

Paperwhite Kindle allows you to read in the dark (Reuters)

For this walkthrough was used Paperwhite Kindle Wi-Fi, touchscreen version and lighting system that allows you to read in dark or bright light environments.

Step 1. After turning on the Kindle, the first screen shows the options to the system language. Simply select “Portuguese (Brazil)” and, after confirming. Wait for the next screen loading bar.

Once powered on, the Kindle asks to choose the system language (Image: Playback / Daniel Pinto )

Step 2

. If you turned on the Kindle for the first time, you see the option to set up a wireless network so that all services operate correctly. Select “Connect to a Wi-Fi”.

Step 3. Select your network and enter the password suapreferência. If this did not appear in the list, select “Rescan”.

To configure the connection, simply select the network and choosing a password (Picture: Playback / Daniel Pinto)

Step 4. With the Kindle connected to the Internet, you must register it on Amazon to access e-books bought online. If you already have an Amazon account, either. ‘With’ or ‘com.br’, select “Use an Amazon account exists.”

Step 5. Place your registered email address and password. Then select “Register”.

To use the services of Amazon for the Kindle, you need to register it (Picture: Play / Daniel Pinto)

Attention! If you do not have an Amazon account, select “Create new account” and follow the registration steps, choosing the region and filling the data on the screens that appear.

To create a new account, select the region and fill in the registration (Picture: Playback / Daniel Pinto)

– Set a password lock

To maintain the privacy of your Kindle, you can set a numeric password lock. Just follow the steps below:

Step 1. On the homepage of the Kindle, select the Settings menu at the top right and go in the “Settings” option . Among the options settings, select “Device Options.”

The settings menu is accessible by the icon in the upper right (Picture: Playback / Daniel Pinto)

Step 2

. On the next screen, select the “Access Code Device” and choose a sequence of up to 12 numerical digits to protect your Kindle. Repeat the code in the two fields, and select “OK” to confirm the password.

is possible to put a sequence of up to 12 numbers to protect your Kindle (Image: Playback / Daniel Pinto)

– Set the dictionary Portuguese

Once you register a Kindle, it is automatically accompanied by some dictionaries to facilitate the understanding of words in different languages. In the following steps will show how to configure the dictionary in Portuguese for the Kindle.

Step 1. In the same menu “Device options”, where we set the password protection of the Kindle, select the “Language and dictionaries.”

Step 2

. On the next screen, and you can change the language of the Kindle, you can also edit the keyboard and set the dictionary for each language in the books you’re reading. Select “Dictionaries”.

There is a menu to configure all the options and language dictionaries in Kindle (Image: Playback / Daniel Pinto )

Step 3. In this case, we have the Kindle device at no dictionary, just in the cloud. Selecting the option that appears on the screen, you will be redirected to the cloud. Browse through it to find the collection with “Dictionaries” and select it.

Find , cloud, collection with dictionaries available for your Kindle (Image: Play / Daniel Pinto)

Step 4. By selecting it, will show all the dictionaries available for download on your device. For the Portuguese, the Kindle uses “Priberam Dictionary of the Portuguese Language.” Just select it to start your download. At the end, returning to the configuration screen of dictionaries (Step 3), you can see that, for Portuguese, the dictionary is already defined.

Among the dictionaries, choose ‘Priberam’ for use with books in Portuguese (Picture: Play / Daniel Pinto)

– Backup notes

Kindle is available not only as a device, but also in the form of application for multiple mobile platforms and desktop. Because of that, you can sync your notes so that they are displayed anywhere access your books or documents. To ensure this, do the following:

Step 1. In the settings menu, select “Options reading.”

To see your notes anywhere, just activate the ‘Backup notes ‘(Image: Playback / Daniel Pinto)

Step 2

. Ensure that the option “Backup pad” is the status “Connected”.

Ready! Now that your Kindle is already with all basic settings done, just enjoy the readings. If you have any other questions, ask a question in the Forum TechTudo

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Sorry Canada, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet was not worth the wait - Globe and Mail

The $ 214 Amazon Kindle Fire HD is Amazon’s latest attempt to capture a piece of the tablet already over saturated marketplace. Available to our American neighbors since September of 2012, it’s hardly new, but it’s new to us. Was it worth the wait? After spending a few weeks with the seven inch, 16GB iteration of the tablet, I can tell you que at least for the time being, Likely your money’s better spent elsewhere.

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Video: Canadian e-reader Kobo launches new, high-res version

Weighing in at 395 grams, the seven inch Kindle Fire HD is noticeably heavier than Apple’s iPad mini or the Google Nexus 7 (Which weigh 312 grams and 340 grams respectivamente.) The tablet wears its extra heft well – squeezing and torquing the hardware, I could not detect any creaks or pops. That’s a good sign in a piece of hardware designed to be tossed in a bag, thrown on a sofa or otherwise abused. It’s display is just as tough, as it’s made of Gorilla Glass. You’d have to work very hard indeed to scratch or shatter it. Thanks to it’s 1280 x 400 resolution display, the Kindle Fire HD Provides one of the best viewing and reading experiences any tablet of its size, outclassed only by Apple’s 10-inch retina iPad, and Google’s Nexus tablet 10. Audio? It does that well too, thanks to a pair of stereo speakers mounted on either side of the display. All of this is driven by a dual core processor with an Imagination PowerVR graphics core. I’ll spare you the technobabble, but suffice to say, with the exception of a short pause while changing the Kindle Fire HD’s orientation between portrait and landscape, I did not notice any interface lag, stuttering video or other processor-related irritants while using the tablet.

Amazon claims the Kindle Fire HD will run for 11 hours on a single charge. But I found the average runtime que I was able to pull out of its batteries after a day of answering email, watching videos, playing a few games and surfing the web in October averaged closer to nine hours. That’s still a respectable battery life.

And now for the bad news.

The Kindle Fire HD runs a heavily modified version of Android OS 4.0, but it’s almost certainly not the ‘droid you’re looking for. Unlike the the stock version of Android available on the competitively priced $ 209 16GB Nexus 7 (Which is a pleasure to use and navigate) the Kindle Fire HD’s OS is – to put it bluntly – a bag of hurt.

In an effort to make all of the tablet’s content easy to find and use, Amazon elected to display everything in a finger-flickable gallery. Apps are mixed in with recently visited web pages, kindle ebooks, video and user uploaded images. Users have the option to switch to a list view of the tablet’s contents, or browse by category. But no matter what I did, the OS felt like a hot mess. It’s Also worth mentioning que while the tablet is powered by Android, users do not have access to Google’s Play Store, and instead are forced to make due with Amazon’s App Store, Which, while boasting essential apps like Twitter, Netflix, Skype and Facebook , can not hope to rival the variety of downloadable applications available via the Google Play Store or Apple’s massive iOS App Store.

The lack of content

Also can be felt in the absence of Amazon’s Prime Video service and MP3 Store: que services in the United States, make the Kindle Fire HD a compelling option for Consumers in the market for a cheap tablet. Even the online shopping options available via Amazon.ca – the portal que the Kindle Fire HD was designed to leverage – are lackluster, and often Do Significantly more expensive in comparison to what our American cousins ??enjoy.

FINAL VERDICT:

Despite the excellent quality of its hardware, the Kindle Fire HD stumbles thanks in the small part to Amazon’s awkward skinning of Google’s Android operating system, a disappointing app store selection and an absence of Canadian iterations of a number of services que the tablet’s Currently American user base are able to leverage with the tablet. If you’re looking for a cheap tablet, you’re better off looking elsewhere.

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Amazon's Kindle Just Got More Exciting Worlds - DailyFinance

Well, that was fast. Less than a month ago, Amazon.com officially launched Kindle Worlds, calling it “the first commercial que publishing platform will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. “

But while the service

aspiring writers gave the rights to create fan fiction based on only three books from Warner Brothers Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment – Namely Gossip Girl , Pretty Little Liars , and Vampire Diaries – I Noted at the team que Also Amazon had promised “plans to announce more licenses soon.”

Valiant effort
Now, Amazon just Announced it has secured the rights to a decidedly more action-oriented genre, with content from comic-book publisher Valiant Entertainment.

Of course, I did mention last month que the holy grail of licensing deals would ideally involve signatures from DC Entertainment or Disney ‘s Marvel. After all, Disney was willing to fork out more than $ 4 billion for Marvel in 2009, thanks largely to the more than 9,000 distinct characters in its universe, including the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk.

And

DC, for its part, has more than 10,000 characters in its universe, most notably including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Catwoman.

Then again, while Disney and DC are doing just fine capitalizing on Their content by Themselves, I still Maintain Both que They could benefit by signing a fan-fiction deal with Amazon. The Valiant CFO and head of strategic development Gavin Cuneo stated in Friday’s release:

Comics

are well known for Their passionate and interactive fan communities, and, through the Kindle Worlds platform, we’re excited to give aspiring authors and fans the opportunity to work Within the Valiant Universe, Their stories make accessible to a large audience , and earn revenue for Their Work.

Besides, the I also Mentioned a few weeks ago, thanks to its recent Star Wars video game deal with Electronic Arts , we already know Disney is not new to the licensing game.

Back to Valiant, though. Even in the massive shadows of its rivals, it’s worth noting the small que company did win the Diamond Gem Award for Best Comic Book Publisher of the Year in 2012 for companies with less than 4% overall market share. In addition, Valiant boasts a library of more than 1,500 characters and has sold more than 80 million comic books since its founding in 1989.

For now, though, Valiant’s agreement with Amazon gives fan-fiction writers the rights to create and sell Their Own only works based on the comic book series Bloodshot , XO Manowar , Archer & Armstrong , Harbinger , and Shadowman , “with more to be added at a later date.” In addition, it includes Howey’s Silo Saga, Eisler’s John Rain novels, Crouch’s Wayward Pines Series, and the Foreworld Saga.

Source: ValiantUniverse.com.

In the end, However, This should give Kindle Worlds writers plenty to chew on while Amazon works on securing even more content for our literary pleasure.

But speaking of aspiring writers’ work, Amazon Stated que Also, later this month, the Kindle Store Worlds is finally expected to launch starting with at least 50 commissioned works.

At The Same Team, Also Amazon will release a self-service platform for submission Kindle Worlds, providing an easy way for any writer to submit his or her own completed work. And remember, Amazon is paying the standard royalty rate of 35% of revenue for works of at least 10,000 words, and 20% for shorter stories between 5,000 and 10,000 words. The rest, of course, will be split between Amazon and its licensors.

Foolish takeaway
In the end, my hat’s off to Amazon so quickly is fulfilling its promise to writers to bring more content to Kindle Worlds.

Of course, it certainly was not an entirely selfless pledge. By Extending its already-in-place publishing platform and taking the nitty-gritty details licensing out of the equation for fan-fiction writers, Amazon has intelligently created a fantastic, low-overhead new source of revenue with absolutely massive potential going forward.

But while everyone knows Amazon is the king of the retail world right now, at its sky-high valuation, most investors are worried it’s the company’s share price que will get knocked down instead of its competitors’. The Motley Fool’s premium report will tell you what’s driving the company’s growth, and fill you in on Reasons to buy and sell Reasons to Amazon. The report Also has you covered with a full year of free updates analyst to keep you informed them the company’s story changes, so click here now to read more.

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Turn your Kindle Fire into an Android 4.2 tablet - CNET (blog)

N2Aos New service gives you the tools to easily root your Kindle Fire, and can even do it remotely if you’re not the tech-savvy user. Plus: a free recovery utility.

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