Kindle Fire Falls Short of iPad2 in Price and Features

Amazon announced a new tablet today that will utilize Amazon.com and it's products to the fullest.

It will be called the Kindle Fire.

The Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199 on Amazon.com. Compared with the $499 price for Apple’s cheapest iPad. The device, a souped-up version of the latest Kindle, will run on a version of Google Inc.’s Android software, the Seattle-based company said.

There is camera or a microphone. The device will connect to the internet through Wi-Fi, and there is no 3G access. It comes with a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, the company’s $79-a-year membership service that includes streaming video and free two-day shipping.

To date, Apple has controlled the tablet market with its iPad.  This $199 price along with Amazon's reputation and one-stop shopping makes this a very compelling product for the masses.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Circle of Friends Cookbook - 25 Burger Recipes

There is a burger recipe for every taste in this book.

Here they've  gathered 25 of their very best recipes in this latest chapter of the Circle of Friends cookbook. You'll love Open-Faced Lone Star Burgers, Stuffed Bacon Cheeseburgers, Mexican Fiesta Burgers, Savory Chicken Burgers and many more!

Hungry yet?  Get tis Kindle cookbook.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Pixel Perfect Puzzles

More fun with games for your Kindle

Pixel Perfect Puzzles is a logic puzzle game that challenges you to make a picture from numerical clues.

Each picture starts out completely blank. Use the number clues in each row and column to discover the hidden image. Each clue tells you where to draw a run of consecutive black squares. The clues in a row or column appear in the same order as the runs in the puzzle grid, with at least one empty square between each run. Start with the largest clues first, and then cross out squares that you know should be empty. This will allow you to narrow down the possibilities and logically determine the remaining squares.

Pixel Perfect Puzzles contains 50 puzzles. The challenges can be tough, but there are 3 hints available on each puzzle to help you out if you get stuck. The game can even find and erase errors at any time. Time, hints used, and errors are tracked for each puzzle. Can you discover every picture?

If you like using logic to solve puzzles, you will love Pixel Perfect Puzzles!

Kindle Free Pick of the Week - The Everything Guide to Study Skills

With kids and adults heading back to school, students may want to pick up thus guide on study skills.

It includes all the basics, plus new information on web research, digital textbooks, virtual classrooms, and online study and writing tools• Fifteen percent of students take the SAT three or more times due to poor performance (Newsweek.com)• Only 63 percent of all students entering four-year colleges have their degrees within six years, according to government statistics (USNews.com)• The Everything® Study Book has sold more than 37,000 copies• Everything® education titles have sold more than 305,000 copiesStudying for school doesn't have to be a chore. This fun and accessible resource is perfect for students who want to develop better study habits and achieve academic success. Educational consultant Cynthia C. Muchnick helps readers improve transcripts for college applications; ace standardized tests; and become better, more successful students at any level of education.This indispensable guide shows students how to:• Get the most out of class time• Use the most effective strategies for note-taking and memorizing• Improve writing skills• Prepare effectively for tests• Safely and effectively conduct online research• Use Skype, iChat, or social media to form study groupsWith The Everything® Guide to Study Skills in their backpack, readers will be able to balance school and activities, avoid pre-test panic, and achieve consistently better results.

It really does cover everything and I remember when I was a student, I was always looking for the latest study tips.  Free for your Kindle.

Amazon Now Has Your Kindle Books in the Cloud

We are excited to take this leap forward in our 'Buy Once, Read Everywhere' mission and help customers access their library instantly from anywhere," said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. "We have written the application from the ground up in HTML5, so that customers can also access their content offline directly from their browser. The flexibility of HTML5 allows us to build one application that automatically adapts to the platform you're using - from Chrome to iOS. To make it easy and seamless to discover new books, we've added an integrated, touch optimized store directly into Cloud Reader, allowing customers one click access to a vast selection of books."

Features of Kindle Cloud Reader include:

An immersive view of your entire Kindle library, with instant access to all of your books

Start reading over 950,000 Kindle books instantly within your browser

An embedded Kindle Store optimized for your web browser makes it seamless to discover new books and start reading them instantly

New Kindle Store for iPad is built from the ground up for iPad's touch interface

Your current book is automatically made available for offline use, and you can choose to save a book for reading offline at any time

Receive automatic software updates without the need to download new software

Select any book to start reading, customize the page layout to your desired font size, text color, background color, and more

View all of the notes, highlights, and bookmarks that you've made on other Kindle apps or on Kindle

Sync your last page read across your Kindle and free Kindle apps so you can always pick up where you left off

Kindle Cloud Reader is available for Safari on iPad, Safari on desktop and Chrome starting today. Kindle Cloud Reader on the iPad is optimized for the size and unique touch interface of iPad. Without even leaving the app, customers can start shopping in the Kindle Store and will find a unique and immersive shopping experience built specifically for iPad's Safari browser.

Kindle Cloud Reader will be available on additional web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, the BlackBerry PlayBook browser, and other mobile browsers, in the coming months.

Amazon.com customers can start reading their Kindle books immediately using Kindle Cloud Reader at www.amazon.com/cloudreader.