The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and marketed by amazon.com. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking.
The hardware platform, developed by amazon.com , began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers and android -based tablets with color LCD screens. As of June 2015, there are over 3.6 million e-books available in the Kindle Store.
The Kindle name was devised by branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma. Lab 126 tasked them to name the product, so Cronan and Hibma suggested Kindle, meaning to light a fire.They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.
Kindle hardware has evolved from the original Kindle introduced in 2007 and the Kindle DX
(with its larger screen) introduced in 2009. The range includes devices
with a keyboard (Kindle Keyboard), devices with touch-sensitive high
resolution and contrast screens (Kindle Paperwhite), a tablet with the Kindle app (kindle fire), and a low-priced model with touch-sensitive screen (Kindle).
Amazon has also introduced Kindle software for use on various devices and platforms, including microsoft windows, iOS, blackberry, Android, and Windows phone .Amazon also has a "cloud" reader to allow users to read and purchase Kindle books from any web browser.
The device features a 6 inches (diagonal) 4-level grayscale display, with 250 mb of internal storage, which can hold approximately 200 non-illustrated titles. It also has a speaker and headphone jack that allows the user to listen to audio files on Kindle.It is the only Kindle with expandable storage, via an SD card slot. Kindle was the first device to include free nationwide 3G access to download ebooks from Amazon's Kindle Store. Amazon did not sell the first generation Kindle outside the US.
" If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it! "
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