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Also known as Amazon Kindle product line, Kindle product line

e-book reading device

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Subclass of
tablet computer
Owned by
Amazon
Developer
Amazon
Manufacturer
Foxconn
Image
2023 Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2).jpg
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Commons category
Amazon Kindle
readable file format
Kindle File Format
units sold
4000000
operating system
Linux
social media followers
471592
name
Kindle
input device
touchscreen
native label
Amazon Kindle
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Encyclopedic overview

Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, Audible audiobooks, and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. The hardware platform, which Amazon subsidiary Lab126 developed, began as a single device in 2007. Currently, it comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. All Kindle devices integrate with Windows and macOS file systems and Kindle Store content and, as of March 2018, the store had over six million e-books available in the United States.

Naming and development

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