This is pretty significant news out of Amazon: all seven Harry Potter books are now available in the Kindle Lending Club. It is the all-time bestselling book series and is a testament to Amazon’s willingness …

This is the front page of Tuesday May 1st’s Wall Street Journal. It’s a well done graphic overlaying Microsoft’s big-dollar entrances into “markets where it lags behind rivals”:

Reminder yet again that Amazon and Kindle are important parts of the mobile, cloud, content and application universe… these are the registered Kindle devices to my family: it’s a combination of devices, platforms, formats, etc. …

Note: this article originally appeared on TechCrunch: Designing for Mobile: 7 Guidelines for Startups to Follow
As an investor, I’ve seen hundreds of mobile application pitches. And as a consumer, I’ve downloaded hundreds more – some …

I’ve long argued that Apple’s iTunes and the app store are woefully unintelligent. They are akin to merchandising in a storefront… when there is data available to make the store experience more compelling and better …

In the last month alone, I have purchased three books on the Amazon Kindle store (I use the Kindle app on the iPad)… had Amazon’s new Kindle Lending Library program been live, I would have …

Amazon finds a promotional ad unit they like… and they stick to it. I’ve written before about Amazon effectively selling the “buy / create once, access anywhere” tagline. It’s simple and it speaks to:

When Amazon announced the new Kindle product line and the $199 Kindle Fire – I declared that Amazon did more than introduce a disruptive product… they changed the non-iPad market with remarkably disrupitive pricing:

There are several reasons why Amazon’s new Kindle Fire – and the larger Kindle line – is disruptive (my take here).

Amazon’s $199 tablet, the Kindle Fire, is now available for pre-order. The product page is really terrific: colorful, informative, fun and all on a single page. It’s great:

There is nothing groundbreaking about what I am about to say… but: it is easy to overlook how simple and powerful making purchases with a single-click is.

Amazon’s marketing message for the Kindle is simple: buy once, read everywhere. It’s a compelling selling-point and the reason why othr services with similar propositions (ala Evernote) are so popular. The promo unit shows seven …