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• Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading

  Tuesday, will likely become one of the summer's favorite reads. It has received admiring reviews and reached the top 10 on Amazon.com well before its official release.Hosseini, 48, is slightly grayer since "A Thousand Splendid Suns" came out six years ago.   Read more »

• 'Alpha House' review: Amazon series is bitter but funny

  launched 14 streaming pilots this past weekend (free for members) with the goal of creating a new series -- or 14 of them -- depending on viewer response, which so far is good. (Viewing pilots is free if you've registered; you'd pay to watch any series.) The   Read more »

Around the web

• Ex-Penn State player takes battle vs. bullying to book

  efforts she supported during her playing days in Happy Valley. Gizelle Studevent's book, "Bridges," debuted this month on Amazon.com. It draws partly on Studevent's own experiences of being bullied in high school while growing up in southern California, and 5:44 AM from The Delaware County Times Read more »

• Amazon Appstore for Android now available in India

  Delhi: Amazon.com has announced the availability of the Amazon Appstore for Android to customers in nearly 200 countries, including India, thereby giving them access to apps and games from brands like Disney and Electronic Arts, new releases including Angry 5:29 AM from IBN Live Read more »

• Canada gets tablet

  -- About a year and a half after the first model was released in the U.S., Amazon is bringing its Kindle Fire tablet to Canada. The company announced Thursday it had begun taking pre-orders for two versions of the Kindle Fire HD in Canada. A seven-inch model 4:19 AM from Winnipeg Free Press Read more »

• Kindle invades international markets

  was opened in only seven countries – Germany, China, the UK, Japan, Italy, France and Spain. It is more than logical for Amazon to make these two expansions at the same time. After all, Amazon’s applications are exclusively developed for Kindle tablets. Presently, 3:58 AM from Dubai Chronicle Read more »

• Amazon confirms India not in the list of 170 countries to get Kindle Fire HD

  said and done, it is more likely than not that Amazon would launch the Kindle Fire HD in India around the same timeline of June 13 when the rest of the world is getting it. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Nokia is laser-focused 3:55 AM from BGR.in Read more »