Amazon has been running their Whispersync for Voice promotion for the past five years. This was a promotional system where every month Amazon would giveaway a free classic audiobook each month. When a user downloaded the free ebook and audiobook, it would start immersion reading. This is where the word in an book would be highlighted as the audiobook plays. Amazon has just … [Read more...] about Amazon Discontinues their Whispersync for Voice Promotion
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Amazon’s Whispercast Update Meets the Needs of K12 Classrooms
FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a classroom teacher for almost twenty years, the last seven of which were spent using a classroom set of Kindle e-readers. My classroom had more than 200 ebooks for the students to choose from, and it was a nightmare trying to make that innovation work. But nightmares no more! Amazon has released an update for its Whispercast feature that will make … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Whispercast Update Meets the Needs of K12 Classrooms
A Compilation of All the Latest Amazon Kindle Features
The Kindle launch event was not just about Amazon launching a slew of hardware to make the best of the ever changing tablet landscape. The online retail giant also used the occasion to bring forth some of its latest creations on the software front, which it believes will change the way we perceive tablet usage and bring about a quantum change in the entire ownership experience … [Read more...] about A Compilation of All the Latest Amazon Kindle Features
New Kindle for Windows 7 Phone App to launch soon
Surely its Kindle all the way sort of scenario that Amazon wants and with that in mind, they are intent to let loose Kindle on as many platform as they can. And the latest platform to have been graced with the Kindle e-book reading app is the Windows Phone 7. Amazon has announced the new Kindle application, which will be the first of its kind dedicated e-reader application for … [Read more...] about New Kindle for Windows 7 Phone App to launch soon