Birthday: Amazon's Kindle is five years old!
The launch of the Kindle Paperwhite coincides with the fifth anniversary of the eBook reader from Amazon. The first reader for electronic books from the year 2007 until now followed ten other types.
Sold more eBooks than printed books
Appeared five years after the first Kindle on 22 November 2012 with the Kindle Paperwhite the latest eBook reader from Amazon. Between these two models are ten other devices and the advent of electronic books. Amazon sold by its own account since 1 August 2012 for every 100 printed books, 108 eBooks. Overall, the online retailer has to count in his own Kindle Store currently has more than one million titles in electronic form. Among them are more than 110 000 German-language eBooks.
Evolution of the devices
First introduced Kindle Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ago in November 2007. In retrospect, it was a very bulky device that was already much slimmer in the second model in February 2009. Remained unchanged until today - with one exception - the size of the e-ink displays. Whether Touschscreen, e-ink display or backlight as with the White Paper: Six inches is the opinion of Amazon, the optimal size for reading digital books. Therefore the price of the model declined steadily from an initial $ 399 for 79 euros now.
In October 2009, launched the official sale of the Kindle 2 in Germany. In January 2010 came the big Kindle DX. On the in August 2010 presented Kindle 3 had buyers in Germany to wait until April 2011. The fourth version of the Kindle was released in September 2011 simultaneously in the U.S. and in Germany. The only 99-euro base model with the added Amazon Kindle Touch and the Kindle Touch 3G UMTS version.
Kindle Fire: Customized Android tablets
At the same time in September 2011, Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire before its first Android tablet. The operating system of the tablet with a seven-inch touch screen is tailored to the offers from the online store. The users are, according to Amazon more than 22 million movies, music titles, ebooks and apps to choose from. Use your Google Account, and the Play Store is not provided.
The sale of the Kindle Fire started in Germany but only in October 2012 - with the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD HD 8.9. These two tablets are less bulky, offer higher screen resolutions, faster processors and some have a larger touch screen. The Fire HD 8.9, from which a LTE version exists, Amazon sold initially only in the United States.
Kindle everywhere
In addition to the Kindle devices, Amazon also Kindle software. These allow buyers their eBooks read on smartphones running iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7 as well as on computers running Windows or Mac OS X. In addition to the Kindle Cloud Reader is a plugin for the browser Chrome, Firefox and Safari to download.
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