Dump your Kindle, Amazon targets the bookseller Urges Australia - Sydney Morning Herald

Not an open market: Australian independent booksellers are campaigning against the Kindle, Which is locked to Amazon’s e-books. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe

An independent bookseller is urging readers to dump Their Kindle e-readers the Amazon makes its biggest push yet into the Australian market.

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Amazon launched its Kindle store Wednesday, offering Local eBook content through the local domain name the retailer has owned since 2004. Until now Local e-books have only been available through the global giant’s U.S. or UK online address.

Among the 2 million digital books on sale include Eyrie by Tim Winton, Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough, Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas, Di Morrissey’s Tears of the Moon and Graeme’s Simision The Rosie Project , with prices ranging from $ 0.99 to $ 17.99.

Sydney bookshop Pages & Pages immediately renewed its Kindle “amnesty” by Which Their customers can exchange the Amazon Kindle for $ 50 gift voucher If They purchase the e-reader the bookstore sells.

The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), Representing more than 400 specialty bookstores, is partnering with rival Kindle Kobo.

“We signed up straight away,” said Jon Page, of Pages & Pages, who is urging other independent bookstores to follow. “Kobo was born out of Canadian bookseller Indigo and is now the true bookseller’s choice When to eat and -books and e-readers.

“Our Kindle amnesty had a fantastic reception When we first launched it,” Page said. “It Helped to spread the word que the Kindle is an Amazon product que locks people into Amazon and there are alternative e-reading devices.

“What are Amazon doing with e-books and readers Affects bookshops all over the world.”

Page ACKnowledges que non-Digital Rights Management (DRM) books, Which are Mainly self-published books, can be added to Kindles. But, According to Page, all major book releases are protected by DRM and can not be converted to Amazon’s proprietary Kindle format, meaning a large Majority, more than 90 per cent, of e-books for sale (and not free) are locked.

Head of Dymocks, Australia’s largest book chain, Steve Cox, says any Australian bookseller would be “mad” to sell Kindles. “Retailers like Wal Mart took the Kindle off Their shelves in the U.S. and retailers who enable Amazon to gain access to Their customers’ database and do not offer a broad range of books, physical books, hardbacks or e-books, are doing Themselves a disservice. “

Amazon has more than 65 per cent of the eBook market in Australia and more than 75 per cent of e-readers in Australia are owned Kindles, According to the ABA. “Amazon limits readers’ choices and walls Them Into Their garden,” Page said. “But you do not have to be.”

The new Kindle

catalog includes Australian classics from Text Publishing and titles from indigenous publishing house Magabala books. All print books will still to be sourced from America.

Amazon Kindles Also Announced premium would be sold through its shopfront and Australian authors and using Amazon Kindle to self-publish would earn a 70 per cent royalty.

Neil Lindsay, vice president of Amazon Kindle, said the new Kindle Store was customized for Australian customers,” with Local bestsellers and curated lists relevant to Australians, and many titles from local publishers and authors such as Tim Winton, Karly Lane and Kate Morton”.

In the lead up to Christmas, Dymocks has been running a multimedia advertising campaign stressing the value of the curatorial passionate and knowledgeable bookseller. Cox said the chain’s profile had delivered “double-digit” sales growth last week and predicted a strong Christmas sales period.

Dymocks would be monitoring Amazon’s e-book prices, the “we do with other book retailers.”

“The bookseller Dymocks in Bundaberg can make a better recommendation than any algorithm on the website. They can deliver on a personal level and a bricks-and-mortar bookstore with online presence and a multi-channel strategy is a strong proposition. “

Tony Nash, co-founder of Booktopia.com.au – Australia’s largest online book retailer – was confident his company’s model of making readily available and current Australian back-list titles, free delivery offers for members and strong after-sales service would outmatch the global e-commerce retailer.

On track to record annual sales figures of $ 37 million, up 40 per cent on last year, Booktopia is appealing to readers’ sense of loyalty, through its sponsorship of readers and writer conventions, book industry awards and donations to literacy causes .

Some independent book stores, However, with or without Amazon on the scene, would need a strong Christmas to survive, said Nash.

Bookworld – the previous Borders online store, relaunched in August 2012 – is launching on Tuesday a major national marketing campaign Encouraging Australians to buy locally Their books this Christmas. The store is offering an “Amazon price guarantee” in Which it promises to beat Amazon prices by 10 per cent and provide free delivery so do Australians shop overseas.

Amazon eBook store opens Australian - The Australian

Amazon is launching two third generation Kindle Fire HDX model in Australia. They can access content from a newly opened Australian Kindle appstore. Source: TheAustralian

AMAZON has launched the refreshed Kindle Fire tablet range in Australia and a local eBook store features que Australian authors.

The Seattle-based company, Which dominates the Android tablet space in the U.S., today starts selling the new version of its 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, along with two new third-generation Kindle Fire HDXs, the 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle HDX, Which were launched in the U.S. by chief executive Jeff Bezos in September.

The 7-inch Kindle Fire will cost from $ 189 at Dick Smith and Big W. The 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX will sell from $ 329 for a 16 Gigabyte version later this month, while the 8.9-inch HDX will cost from $ 479 from December 10.

HDX Both models will run Amazon Fire’s operating system OS 3.0 “Mojito” – named after the Cuban white rum-based cocktail. Mojito is a derivative of Google’s Android OS and standard Android apps can run on it.

The most important development for the Fire is Amazon’s launch today of an Australian que Appstore will offer site content. Much of the U.S. content available globally before such as Amazon’s supply of movies Could not be accessed from Australia.

Whether the Australian Appstore offers anything like the rich music and video content available on U.S. Likely Kindle Fire models will determine its success here. So far Amazon has been spruiking apps such as QuickFlix, iHeartRadio, TuneIn Radio and Spotify. They already exist on other platforms.

Nevertheless there is a variety of games, entertainment and social apps, personal organization apps, and access to hundreds of Thousands of book titles. Amazon says “100,000 s” of apps are available.

The Kindle Fire HDX models feature a fast Snapdragon 800 quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, high resolution display of more than 320 pixels per inch, dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus audio, an 8 megapixel back-facing camera and, says Amazon, 11 hours of battery life and up to 17 hours for reading. The 8.9-inch HDX Also has a front-facing video conferencing camera.

The 7-inch Fire HD has a 1280×800 HD display, and a more modest dual-core 1.5 GHz processor.

Amazon’s other big news is the launch today of its Australian Kindle store with more than 2 million eBooks, including more than 26,000 free Inglês-language titles.

Most of the Australian content is probably already available in the U.S. global store, Nevertheless it will be better highlighted and promoted in the local store.

Works include At the Close of Play by Ricky Ponting, Eyrie by Tim Winton, Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, and offerings by authors such as Germaine Greer, Karly Lane and James Duigan. There’s Also Australian classics from Text Publishing and titles from Indigenous publishing house Magabala books.

Amazon says Australian customers can access more than 700,000 books priced at $ 3.99 or less and more than 1.4 million priced at $ 9.99 or less . Under Australian law, Consumers will no doubt pay GST.

Those wanting

goods other than eBooks from Amazon will still have to buy Them from the U.S. store. That includes paper editions.

Amazon says it will not block geo-Australian Consumers, who can proceed to buy eBooks from the U.S.. Kindle users can transfer Their account to the Australian store.

You can not operate more than one account on the same-consumer Kindle device, so you’ll need to buy consistently from either the Australian eBook store or the U.S. one unless you have multiple Kindle devices – ie it will be hard to choose a different store on a book-by-book basis in case of major price differences for an individual book.

Independent authors and publishers can decide to publish all Amazon to bookstores via the Australian portal using Kindle Direct Publishing , earn a 70 per cent royalty publishing in 175 countries, and be paid electronically in Australian dollars.

• Read more about Amazon’s push into Australia in the Personal section of Oz The Australian tomorrow.

HDX Kindle Fire 7 "review - Telegraph.co.uk

If there is a single device que put modern technology into the hands of new markets, new generations and new demographics, it is neither the iPhone nor Google’s Android. Amazon’s Kindle, after a slightly bumpy start, Convinced millions of users around the world que there was no need to carry books about the place, the holiday Could be happily completed with just a somewhat unglamorous gadget the size of the smallest paperback.

The supercharged

HDX Kindle Fire, However, is a very different proposition: this is a fully-fledged tablet que Encourages you to download films and TV from Amazon, as well as to read books and to browse the web or check your email . It competes with the Similarly sized iPad Mini in large part by being a lot cheaper – £ 119 v £ 319 – and it competes with Google’s Similarly priced Nexus 7 by providing what Amazon would say is an operating system that is Significantly easier to use than standard Android.

So in

que sense, the new Kindle Fire HDX has no rivals – it is a tablet que does offer an excellent screen for viewing Those films or TV shows, with 323 pixels per inch matched with superb, vibrant colors. Other new features include faster, 2.2Ghz processors and an updated operating system – it would be easy to say the new MayDay technical support emergency button Indicates that Amazon think users will need a lot of technical support. In fact it probably more que Indicates this is a mature product and intuitive que few people would need more than a very small amount of assistance to use.

Early

Kindle Fires were criticised for being underpowered and unfavourably Compared to the lovely experience of the Kindles Themselves – now que hardware has become cheaper and Amazon’s software has made huge strides, there are very few barriers to simply browsing the web, checking your email but above all buying stuff from Amazon. Your Media of all kinds is prominently displayed on the carousel; swipe up from the bottom for apps.

Indeed, that’s why the Fire is so cheap HDX, Despite feeling like a solidly built product. Essentially it’s sold at cost so that Amazon can Provide customers with a device through Which They can easily buy books, music, films and Also physical products to be delivered by Amazon.

superb Google’s new Nexus 7 is a tablet for people who want more apps and more freedom – although some apps are available for the Kindle Fire, Clearly that’s not Amazon’s focus. And the truth is que the vast Majority of users simply want a tablet for the web and entertainment – many want parental controls so that users can stop spending money or Their children seeing inappropriate content and decent battery life. It’ll last about 11 hours a day and it will let you in September limits on the team and the kind of content users can see younger. In all of these features, Amazon’s Kindle Fire excels HDX, and it now adds business features que allow VPN connectivity much more easily.

It’s not the most stylish tablet on the market, thanks in part to its angular design and its substancial bezels – although the clever ‘Origami’ cover offers neat touches que let you prop open the HDX in portrait or landscape.

But it is by far the best value for money tablet is what most people want. That lovely screen and adequate performance are now teamed with a mature operating system que does almost everything its users need. Other manufacturers Should Ignore at Their Peril Amazon.

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