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On Wednesday, September 28th Amazon presented its first multimedia tactile tablet: Kindle Fire. More than an improvement of the previous Kindle, Kindle Fire allows to browse the Web and thus directly comes to compete with iPad. And another good news, Kindle Fire would cost only 199 dollars (less than 150 euros)!
Kindle Fire plays on the iPad ground
Amazon had launched in 2007 a dust cover in black and white, Kindle, which had met a big success in the United States. Actually, the Amazon e-reader represents 67% of the American market. With Kindle Fire, the e-commerce leader intends to play on another ground: 7-inch-color screen, Internet browsing in WiFi, access to all types of contents (video, music). And a particularly attractive price.
With Kindle Fire, Amazon put on the sale of contents
To compensate for a low price, Amazon is going to develop its activity on the sale of contents. In fact, the site launched, at the beginning of 2011, the blind of Android applications, a service of on-line music and videos in streaming. A discussion would be in progress with publishers to set up the rent of digital books and an agreement was found with Fox American studios to enrich the offer of live-stream videos.
Release of Kindle Fire planned on November 15th in the United States but the date was not given for the European market.
To know more about it, have a look at the Kindle Fire d'Amazon.