The eBook Reader Blog

Perusing the Kindle store this morning, I noticed several new Kindle games and active content available for Kindle E Ink ereaders. I also noticed some of the older games have been updated to support the Kindle 4 and Kindle Touch. So if you have either of the new Kindles, now would be a good time [...]

If you saw my Kindle 4 video review and first impressions, you know that not all Kindle apps work on a Kindle 4. The fact that it lacks a physical keyboard and has less RAM than the Kindle 3 leaves a good share of the Active Content out. Purchased apps for earlier Kindles—Kindle Keyboard, Kindle [...]

Amazon is running a 99 cent sale on a dozen Kindle Games. Lots of good ones too, including Scrabble, Slingo, EA Sudoku, Triple Town, and Panda Poet. The sale ends September 12th. Aside from the sale, there seems to an influx of new Kindle Games and Active Content hitting the Kindle Store. Below is a [...]

Amazon released another free game for the Kindle yesterday called Jigsaw Words, making it the eleventh free game that Amazon has made specifically for the Kindle (sorry, it won’t work with the Kindle apps, just Kindle devices). Jigsaw words is a word game with some twists. It’s kind of a mix between a crossword puzzle [...]

Amazon is running a sale until March 27th on twelve Kindle games and crosswords, including SCRABBLE, EA Solitaire, Triple Town, EA Texas Hold’em, Mahjong Solitaire, NY Times Crosswords, and others. They cost $0.99 each. The regular prices are between $1.99 and $4.99. Below is a list of free ebooks from Amazon for the Kindle and [...]

Earlier today an email appeared in my inbox regarding a press release for a couple of new educational Kindle apps designed for kids, apparently the first of their kind released for the Kindle. The apps are from a company called Digi Ronin Games. There’s Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions for [...]

Several new Kindle games, crosswords, and interactive ebooks (similar to choose your own adventure books) have been added to the Kindle store over the past couple of months. In fact, Amazon recently created a new sub-section specifically for Kindle games and active content. Here’s a list of 18 new additions. Make sure to get this [...]

Amazon is running a promotion until January 2nd for five popular Kindle Games by Electronic Arts. The games include Monopoly, Scrabble, Texas Hold’em, Solitaire, and Sudoku. These games work on Kindle devices and not Kindle apps. After discounts, Monopoly and Scrabble cost $2.49 each and the other three games cost $1.99 each. The Monopoly game [...]

Amazon released a new interactive ebook a couple of days ago, the first of its kind, called Dusk World. It’s a blend between a choose your own adventure book, a comic book, and in some strange way a little like a role-playing game.

Several new Kindle Games have been added to the Kindle Store in recent weeks. Most cost $1.99 to $3.99, but this first one is free. Here are the product descriptions from Amazon: