The eBook Reader Blog

Woot currently has the Kindle Paperwhite 3 on sale for just $69.99, but the deal is exclusively for Amazon Prime members. They are brand new Kindles, not refurbished like most Woot deals, and both black and white versions are available. Shipping is also free. They are the Wi-Fi models with Special Offers (ads). The offer […]

This is probably the weakest Kindle sale that I’ve ever posted about; I think Amazon must be running out of ideas at this point. They’re now advertising a deal where you can get a whopping 10% off the new Kindle Paperwhite when buying 2 at the same time. Wow. A whole 10% off. That’s really […]

Amazon currently has the Kindle for Kids bundle on sale for $59—that’s its lowest price ever. The regular price is $99. They used to put it on sale for $79 and few times it was $69 but $59 is a new low. It includes the 2016 Kindle that was just replaced by the new entry-level […]

Amazon has released a new firmware update for all Kindles released in the past six years dating back to the Kindle Paperwhite 2, the 6th generation Kindle model. The new software version is 5.11.1 for the new Kindle Paperwhite 4 and 5.11.1.1 for the other Kindles. The previous version was 5.10.3. It appears to be […]

Last week I posted about some deals on refurbished and scratch and dent Kindles at Woot, and now they’ve added some additional deals on the Kindle Voyage. Considering the Kindle Voyage has sharper, clearer text with better contrast than any of the current Kindles, and the fact that Amazon has yet to replace it with […]

Last week when Amazon announced the upcoming release of the new entry-level Kindle with a frontlight, they also revealed the fact that the new Kindle will have some new software features. More specifically the press release stated that Kindles and Kindle apps will be getting the option to sort ebooks by read and unread, which […]

Amazon never reveals any actual Kindle sales figures so you never know how well they are selling or not, but you can use customer reviews to somewhat gauge overall interest. One interesting thing about Kindle reviews is the fact that the new Kindle Paperwhite has already surpassed the Kindle Oasis with the number of overall […]

With Amazon announcing a new entry-level Kindle that’s getting released in April, let’s take a look at the differences between it and the new Kindle Paperwhite that was released four months ago. I’ll post a hands-on comparison with a video review showing the differences between the two latest Kindles after the new one gets released, […]