"Kindle Fire HD" news, interviews, and features

News about Kindle Fire HD

• Once skyrocketing tablet sales growth sees a slowdown

  Market-research firm IDC says that tablet shipments grew 28.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

• Kindle Fire HD will be available through Dick Smith

  Dick Smith Electronics will sell Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet in Australia

• Amazon now selling Kindle Fire HD tablets in Australia

  Amazon will officially sell its Kindle Fire HD 8.9" and Kindle Fire HD tablets in Australia from next month

• A $US99 Amazon tablet would be good for consumers, bad for everyone else

  We look at what ever-cheaper tablets mean for competition and innovation.

• Apple vs. Amazon: Has the iPad mini kindled new competition?

  Amazon's Kindle line of tablets is more reminiscent of Apple's iPad lineup than other Android devices

Features about Kindle Fire HD

• The iPad as a comic-book reader

  Tablets, led by the iPad, have the potential to shake up the comic-book industry even more than ebook readers have begun to change the world ...