Analysis Of The Kindle Fire

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On September 2011, Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, a new product created by Amazon that offers many features such as Amazon Web Services, Prime, Kindle, Instant video streaming and the app store. This product provided 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, and magazines available for streaming or download. Kindle Fire cannot be categorized only as an e-reader because it offers many features that are present in tablets. Usually, e-readers offer to their users the possibility to read different material especially eBooks but they also allow many additional options such as definitions and word search. However, the Kindle Fire do much more than an e-reader can do. It incorporates a software application (app), allows users to browse the web check their

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