

The $90 Kindle, Amazon's base model, comes with 8GB of storage. Why would you want to use an e-book reader in the first place? One reason is that a single e-book reader can hold many titles. These factors give the Kindle a leg up on the competition. Amazon also has a large customer base, which means a big audience for e-books - and lots of publishers and self-published authors wanting to jump into that market. You can buy a book or subscribe to an electronic version of a newspaper on Amazon and download it directly to the Kindle. All Rights Reserved.Because Kindles are wireless, you can access the store without connecting the device to a computer. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Audio book sales were up 25.8% for the year. In the U.S., e-book sales dropped 15.6% in 2016, according to the Association of American Publishers.

Listening to audiobooks is becoming increasingly popular. People aren't just reading digital versions of their books on the devices either. The company recognizes smartphones and tablets are a fast growing segment of its e-book business. It announced its newest Kindle, which is waterproof, earlier in October. Amazon, however, claims last year was its best year for Kindle sales yet. According to Euromonitor, e-reader sales peaked in 2011 and have declined more than 40% since then. If you don't use Goodreads, you can still see activity here from popular reviewers or authors.Į-readers are dropping in popularity. You can see or share notes or highlights, and then comment on them. A tab shows an information feed about what your friends are reading and reviewing. The new social features on the Kindle app are meant to keep people flush with reading recommendations. Related: Amazon finally made a waterproof Kindle Amazon Prime members have access to more than 1,000 books and magazines through the app. Kindle Unlimited subscribers, who pay $10 a month, can download millions of e-books. Meanwhile, Android app users continue to be able to buy e-books through the app. Mike Torres, a Kindle product director at Amazon, said the company is still waiting on acceptable business terms from Apple before it can add the feature.
