Amazon’s new Whispercast service is looking to compete with Apple’s iPad in schools, and now has the technology to prove it.

If you’re an Amazon Kindle customer, you may have a check coming your way. Today Amazon sent out an email to everyone who has ever purchased a book via Amazon Kindle informing them that they may have a check coming.

According to several news sources, Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire is sold out. This couldn’t have happened by accident.

Amazon Kindle and the Kindle app is one of the best devices/apps to read books. In addition to reading books, Amazon also allows you to upload your personal books and documents to your Kindle library. This feature is missing in Google Books.

I have used several different book readers including Google Books and iBooks but have found the Amazon Kindle app to be the best software to read books on the go. The Kindle Reader is also one of the best ebook readers you can come across.

Amazon has finally launched India Kindle Store with the largest selection and lowest prices of any e-bookstore in India.

Amazon is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams’s Dilbert, by bringing the four volumes of the Dilbert 2.0 anthology in digital format for the first time ever, exclusively on Kindle Fire.

The Amazon Kindle Touch receives a jailbreak via XSS embedded in an MP3 file.

Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Fire customers will instantly be able to download thousands of popular apps.

Amazon has announced the opening of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. The library allows Prime members to borrow Kindle books for free.

It won’t run faster than the iPad. It won’t have more apps, and it won’t do neat and fancy things that the iPad doesn’t. It will compete on the one plane that Apple refuses: price.

Amazon announced in a press release today, “an expansion of a licensing agreement with PBS Distribution that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream, at no additional cost, current and archived PBS programming”.

Amazon has introduced a new feature – @author – in a limited beta release on Kindle and Amazon Author Pages that connects readers with their favorite writers and their books. Readers can ask questions directly from their Kindles or post them to Amazon Author Pages.

Amazon has released Kindle Cloud Reader, based on HTML5, that allows you to read Kindle books instantly in your browser – online or offline – with no downloading or installation required.

The Kindle’s low price, convenient form and huge library of titles make it a no-brainer for many, but anyone considering a Kindle should know both its hidden drawbacks and lesser-known benefits.