What we need is an ecosystem characterized by new approaches to education that will re-kindle the desire to pursue STEM-oriented disciplines.
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Customers can view their city's AmazonLocal deals and purchase the deal directly from their Kindle, without re-entering account or credit card information.
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And now we're hearing alarming tales of Kindle owners who have had their accounts turned off when inadvertently running afoul of company policy.
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Yes, we're talking about Amazon's Kindle Fire: the dark horse tablet entry priced to sell.
"We're thrilled with customer reaction to Kindle Fire HD 8.9".
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We hit this milestone in the US less than four years after introducing Kindle, so to reach this landmark after just two years in the UK is remarkable and shows how quickly UK readers are embracing Kindle, " said Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president, Kindle EU. "As a result of the success of Kindle, we're selling more books than ever before on behalf of authors and publishers.
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If we're going to read Kant on the Kindle, or Proust on the iPad, then we should at least experiment with an ugly font.
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Weight-wise, we're talking roughly the same ballpark as the Kindle Touch.
"We're grateful to the millions of customers who have made Kindle Fire the most successful product launch in the history of Amazon, " said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.
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We're excited and very grateful to our customers for their response to Kindle and our ever expanding ecosystem and selection.
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Amazon Coins gives customers an easy way to spend money on developers' apps on Kindle Fire in the Amazon Appstore-and we're giving customers tens of millions of dollars in Amazon Coins to get started.
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Plus, with Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store, and any notes or annotations you create, are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon.fr where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
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We should preface this entire section by saying we're clearly used to the experience of buying books OTA on the Kindle or Nook and on their associated applications, so you can probably understand why we think the process of sideloading books seems so last decade.
Customers' Kindle books are automatically backed up in the cloud, so they can re-download their books wirelessly for free.
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Free Cloud Storage: Books purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up for free in the Worry-Free Archive where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly, anytime.
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