Kindle steps down as Bombers manager – Sedalia Democrat

The Sedalia Bombers will have a new manager in 2015.

Jud Kindle is stepping down as manager of the Bombers. He will stay on as owner and general manager and will still be active in baseball as the head baseball coach at Smith-Cotton and the owner of Kindle Sports Academy.

"I'll still be at every home game, doing the advertising and things like that, making sure the games run smooth," he said. "My kids are getting to the age where I think it's important to put my family first and being home. The only thing I changed was being home about 25 days during the summer with my family and being able to be a part of my son's baseball team. He's five right now so he'll start in his youth program. I want to be there for that."

The new manger of the Bombers is Craig McAndrews, an assistant coach at William Woods who has also been an assistant coach with the Bombers for three years.

"I think he'll be great," Kindle said. "We have a very similar coaching style. You're still going to see a lot of small-ball tactics with moving runners and stolen bases. It'll be a fast team again. He'll do a good job of that."

Adam Steyer will join the staff as an assistant coach. Steyer was with the Omaha Diamond Spirit in 2014 and is an assistant coach at Midland University in Fremont, Neb. A coach with a pitching background, he was with Chillicothe when they won a MINK League title in 2009.

"The program is in great shape," Kindle said. "I'll still do all the recruiting. We've had the team for six seasons and we've been very successful with four MINK League South championships and one MINK championship and 28 draft picks. I don't think Craig will miss a beat with how the team is run."

Shades of gray: Amazon goes premium with Kindle Voyage e-reader … – Reno Gazette Journal

Jason Hidalgo, RGJ 12:33 am PDT September 29, 2014

The Kindle Voyage comes with a high-resolution display and the new feature lets you que turn pages by simply pressing its bezel (Photo: Amazon).

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Ever since Apple’s iPad reinvigorated the scene slate, tablets, e-readers have supplanted the the mid-size portable gadget du jour. Thanks to Their sharp, colorful displays and conduciveness to Internet browsing, video watching and consuming all sorts of media tablets can make e-readers and Their black-and-white display almost seem downright archaic.

Still, there’s one thing tablets can not beat on E Ink readers, and that’s book-like readability. Good luck reading in direct sunlight que tablet at the beach, for example. Add the advent of built-in backlights and e-readers have turned into viable devices can be used que During low light their situations as well

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In the case of Amazon, the Kindle Voyage Represents its continued dedication to the traditional e-reader, even the rivals such as Sony abandon the medium. You can even say que Amazon is doubling down on the technology by continuing to thread introduce new bells and whistles. For the Voyage, These include a sharper screen and more convenient page-turning mechanic. Throw in the $ 200 price tag that’s straight from the old days of e-readers and its obvious que Amazon is banking que e-ink loyalists are willing to fork over extra dough for a classic yet more refined reading experience.

Here’s a rundown of the key features for Amazon’s new flagship e-reading device

It’s a looker:.

The Voyage serves up a luxurious look Appears to answer the que rival Kobo Aura HD. At 7.6 millimeters, the Voyage is the thinnest Kindle to date. Also it uses premium materials such as the magnesium back and takes a page from tablet design by featuring a bezel que sits flush with the screen. It certainly does not look like your dad’s e-reader device or maybe your previous own. Weight is pretty light, coming in at just 6.3 ounces for the Wi-Fi version and 6.6 ounces for the variant with Wi-Fi and 3G.

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At $ 200, the Kindle Voyage is aiming for a more premium e-reading experience (Photo: Amazon).

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Sharper display: While the Voyage Retains the 6-inch size of Amazon’s main e-reader line, it boasts the sharpest screen quality of the Kindle so far thanks to a generous helping of pixels. Resolution is tack sharp at 300 points per inch. The use of micro-etched glass Also helps Eliminate glare by diffusing light, leading to a display que mimics the look of paper more closely. Meanwhile, an adaptive light sensor automatically adjusts brightness based on lighting conditions

Easier page turns:. Turning pages with a regular Kindle or the Kindle Paperwhite requires using the touchscreen. While you can still do that with the Voyage, the e-reader Also adds a new feature called PagePress que lets you turn pages via haptic feedback by pressing on the bezel for added convenience.

Battery life : Amazon likes to tout the battery life of six weeks to five Compared to 10 hours for the tablet and four to 13 hours for a smartphone. That’s a misleading, though bit, six weeks is the que for 30 minutes of reading per day with Wi-Fi off and the display set at 10 In short, its 21 hours, Which is not bad but still not as long the Amazon makes it sound. Charge time is about three hours.

Overall, the Voyage is a solid addition to Amazon’s Kindle line. It’s a bit pricey Compared to the base and the Kindle Paperwhite but throws in additional features not present in the two, including the sharper display and the PagePress technology. Regardless Whether you believe Those features are worth the extra dough or not, the Voyage is Undoubtedly the best e-reader in Amazon’s stable at the moment.

KINDLE VOYAGE SPECS

• Price: $ 199
• Screen size: 6 inches
• Dimensions: 6.4 inches long, 4.5 inches wide and inches thin 00:30
• Weight: 6.3 ounces for Wi-Fi; 6.6 ounces for Wi-Fi + 3G
• Display: 300 points per inch
• Storage: 4GB
• Supported formats: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle ( AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion
• Battery life: 21 hours

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Kindle Fire HDX bundle at a special price – The Gadgeteer

by Janet Cloninger on September 27, 2014

QVC's Today's Special Value is Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX bundled with a Belkin case and an Amazon multi-tip Kindle stylus.  The 7″ Kindle Fire HDX has a 2.2GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, Adreno 330 graphics processor, 7″ anti-glare HD color display with 1920 X 1200 resolution and an advanced polarizing filter, unlimited Cloud storage for Amazon content, Amazon's free App of the day allows you to download a new paid app for free every day, and a microUSB 2.0 port to expand the storage for the tablet.  It's available with 16GB of built-in storage for $ 169.96, 32 GB for $ 199.95, or 64GB for $ 229.95.  Each version comes with a Belkin case with adjustable viewing angles in your choice of dark gray, pink sorbet, slate blue, or purple color and with the Kindle multi-tip stylus.

The Today's Special Value pricing expires on September 28, 2014 at 2:59 a.m. ET.  Learn more about the features of the Fire HDX tablet on QVC.

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Amazon Kindle Unlimited UK: Everything you need to know about the Spotify for … – Pocket-lint.com

Following a successful launch in the US just a few months ago, Amazon has launched its Kindle Unlimited service in the UK.

You can use Kindle Unlimited to download and read an unlimited quantity of ebooks and audiobooks for a set monthly fee, and you can expect any kinks the service might have to already be ironed out before it reached these shores. Americans have been using the services since July, after all. Thus, if you’re looking for a way to get access to tonnes of books without having to spend a lot of money, look no further. Considered the Spotify of reading, Kindle Unlimited is likely the best option out there.

Keep reading if you want to learning more about what Amazon is offering, because Pocket-lint has explained everything you need to know.

What is Amazon Kindle Unlimited?

Online retail giant Amazon offers a monthly subscription plan to customers known as Kindle Unlimited. Once subscribed, you will have unlimited access to more than 650,000 Kindle ebook titles and 7,000 Audible audiobooks. It’s not every book on Amazon.co.uk or Audible, but many of the best sellers are included. You just need to look for the titles marked with the Kindle Unlimited logo.

How much does Kindle Unlimited cost?

Amazon’s subscription fee for Kindle Unlimited is £7.99 a month, it is not tied to a Prime subscription – which already includes Kindle Lenders Library, which is different. You can use your credit card on file with Amazon to pay the monthly fee, and you’re allowed to cancel your subscription at any time by visiting your Amazon account and adjusting your settings.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, there is a 30-day free trial available to all customers interested. Go to www.amazon.co.uk/ku-freetrial to start your free trial.

When does Kindle Unlimited kick off in the UK?

Kindle Unlimited is available now.

How can you access Kindle Unlimited books?

All ebooks and audiobooks available through Kindle Unlimited are accessible across a range of devices and platforms, not just Amazon’s own Kindle eBook readers or Fire tablets.

You will of course be able to read or listen with a Kindle or Fire device, for instance, or you could simply install the free Kindle Reading App on a separate compatible smartphone or tablet (iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, Android phones, Windows Phone, PC, Mac, and Windows 8).

What are some example titles available?

Amazon emphasised that customers can choose from many best-selling books such as the Harry Potter series, The White Tiger, and Hunger Games. There are also professionally-narrated audiobooks from Audible, including Life of Pi, A Day at the Office, and Great Expectations.

You can also browse “hundreds of thousands” of ebooks exclusive to Kindle Unlimited, such as: Because She Loves Me, The Thief Taker, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Hangman’s Daughter series, War Brides, Watching Over You, Cry Baby, and James Duigan’s Clean and Lean books.

Other notable ebook titles include The Hundred Year Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window, The Luminaries, The Etymologicon, Fractured, Death comes to Pemberley, The Detective’s Daughter, World War Z, Cold in July, The Moaning of Life, the Tom Gates series, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the For Dummies series.

And notable audibook titles include Into the Darkest Corner, Gray Justice, The Magpies, Watch Over Me, Finding Emma, Wuthering Heights, and Treasure Island.

How do you select a ebook or audiobook to enjoy?

As mentioned above, once you’ve subscribed online any ebook or audiobook that is Kindle Unlimited-eligible will have the Kindle Unlimited logo on it. You can simply select that title from Amazon’s Kindle Store, choose “Read for £0.00″, and away you go.

Does Kindle Unlimited feature Amazon’s Whispersync technology?

Yes, sort of. Only some titles – though Amazon described it as “thousands” of titles – in the Kindle Unlimited library are Whispersync for Voice-enabled, meaning you’ll be able to easily switch between reading an ebook to listening to an audiobook without missing a single moment of the story. It will pick up where you left of, even if switching from text to audio.

What are some other features?

Apart from Whispersync, Amazon said you can enjoy all the usual Kindle features such as Popular Highlights (identifies the passages with the most highlights), X-Ray (a reference tool), and customer reviews.

Want to know more?

For more details on Kindle Unlimited, visit www.amazon.co.uk/kindleunlimited.

Amazon introduce unlimited Kindle downloads for £8 a month – This is Money

• Subscribers can choose from 650,000 titles
• Service includes ebooks and audio books
• Readers can try the service using a free 30-day trial

By Amy Andrew

Published: 07:01 EST, 24 September 2014 | Updated: 10:42 EST, 24 September 2014

Amazon has created a Netflix-style service for books, allowing customers to download unlimited ebooks and audiobooks to their Kindle for £7.99 a month.

Starting from today, the new Kindle Unlimited service will allow subscribers to choose from more than 650,000 titles. As well as promoting bestsellers, Amazon hopes it will encourage people to discover new authors, taking a risk on books they might not have bought otherwise.

They can be accessed from Kindle devices or via Amazon's free Kindle reading apps. Readers can try out the service using a free 30-day trial, and will not be charged if they choose to unsubscribe before the end of the promotion.

bestsellers: Kindle Unlimited titles include the Harry Potter series and Life of Pi

Once signed up, users simply look for the Kindle Unlimited logo on the eligible downloads – Amazon has thousands of other publications but has selected 650,000 of its ‘top titles’ – and click ‘Read for £0.00′ to choose from bestsellers such as the Harry Potter series, The Hundred Year Old Man, the Hunger Games trilogy, 2013 Man Booker prize winner The Luminaries, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Maze Runner.

Bookworms will also have access to 2,000 professionally narrated audiobooks from Audible, including Life of Pi, A Day at the Office and classics such as Great Expectations.

Kindle Unlimited includes Whispersync for Voice, allowing customers to switch back and forth between reading and listening.

The service is available via Kindle devices, as well as free Kindle reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, Windows Phone, PC, Mac and Windows 8.

Subscribers can also take advantage of publications that are exclusive to Kindle, including new releases such as Because She Loves Me by Mark Edwards, The Thief Taker by C.S. Quinn, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Hangman's Daughter series by Oliver Pötzsch, War Brides by Helen Bryan, Watching Over You by Mel Sherratt, Cry Baby by David Jackson, and James Duigan's Clean and Lean books.

Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Kindle EU, says: ‘With unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of titles, Kindle Unlimited offers by far the simplest and most cost-effective way to explore and discover eBooks and audiobooks together, and you can even switch from reading to listening without losing your place.

‘Our US customers have shown us how much they love the opportunity to discover new authors and genres, and now we're delighted to offer the same freedom to our customers in the UK.’

 

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Why Kindle Fire proves Amazon wants to take on Samsung and Apple – The Independent

An instant hit, it helped to pave the way for the tablets of the future. But while Amazon produced successors to the Kindle, it didn't follow up with a fully fledged tablet of its own until late 2011, a year and a half after Apple announced the iPad. And it wasn't immediately clear whether the Kindle Fire, with its attractive price but mediocre quality, would have staying power.

As recently as a year ago, it was fair to say that Amazon was still "dabbling" or "experimenting" in the consumer electronics business. Not any more. Last week, Amazon announced not one, but six new devices: four Kindle Fire tablets and two Kindle e-readers. Not one is revolutionary. Each is either a successor or a variation on some device that has come before. But each appears to be a worthy competitor in its category, and at least a couple of them appear to set new bars in quality-to-price ratio.

Throw in Amazon's new smartphone and set-top box, and you have a product line whose range and quality is beginning to rival that of the world's leading consumer electronics companies. Heads up, Samsung and Apple: Amazon is not messing around.

Jeff Bezos (Amazon Fire Phone, 2014)
The flagship of Amazon's new line is a new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9in tablet. At £329, it's the finest of Amazon's offerings – but perhaps the least interesting. Yes, it's 20 per cent lighter than the iPad Air, boasts a snappy processor and high-resolution display, and comes with perks such as Dolby Atmos surround sound. Watch Transformers on it, and your senses will be as assaulted as director Michael Bay intended. It also pairs nicely with an ultra-thin Bluetooth keyboard and comes with some interesting software features, such as Firefly, that Amazon introduced earlier this year with its quixotic Fire Phone. In short, the new HDX looks like a worthy follow-up to its predecessor, but nothing scintillating in the scheme of things.

More intriguing are a trio of new low-end offerings, starting with the Fire HD 6in and Fire HD 7in tablets. At £119, the seven-incher is the same price as its predecessor, which was already extremely cheap for a tablet. But at £79, the 6in Fire HD's price is almost eye-popping. It's the price that a lot of industry watchers were hoping for when Amazon introduced the first Kindle Fire three years ago. Amazon couldn't pull it off then, but apparently can now. It came about, Amazon vice president Peter Larsen explained, because Amazon saw that a lot of people were buying sub-£60 tablets on its website. But those tablets, by and large, haven't received very good reviews. Among other problems, customers complain that their cheap tablets are poorly constructed, break easily, run slowly, and sound tinny. Amazon sought to address those issues with its Fire HDs, which offer crisp, high-definition displays, peppy processors, Gorilla Glass screens and sturdy frames that don't break when you drop them.

More importantly, at £79, the Fire HD 6in is priced more like a toy than a computer, which is refreshing at a time when Apple and Microsoft are making tablets that soar past the £300 mark and creep toward £600. Some might even be tempted to buy one just for their kids – which is where Amazon's fourth new tablet, the Fire HD Kids Edition, comes in.

 

The Kids Edition, which is a variant of the Kindle Fire HD that uses the same hardware, actually starts at £119 for the 6in version, not £79. But Amazon more than justifies the extra cost. First, it comes with a bulky, coloured case that keeps the tablet safe and it throws in a two-year "no-questions-asked" warranty. "If they break it, we'll replace it," Amazon pledges.

On top of that, the tablet comes with a year's subscription to FreeTime Unlimited, which offers free access to a wide library of child- orientated material. It also has built-in settings that block access to the Amazon stores and in-app purchases, so your four -year-old can't surprise you with £50 "presents" while your back is turned. The tablet also makes it easy to set time limits on children's usage of the tablet, or require them to complete certain educational tasks before they can play games.

Finally, there are two new Kindle e-readers. Devices with grayscale screens that do little more than display text aren't as exciting in 2014 as they were in 2007, of course. But Amazon has managed to keep the Kindle line relatively fresh with incremental improvements that hold value for bibliophiles. At £169, the new Kindle Voyage is pricier than you'd expect for an e-reader, but appears to offer about the best reading experience you can get anywhere (outside an actual book, of course).

Ultra-thin, with a razor-sharp display and an adaptive front light that automatically adjusts the brightness to match that of the room, it's really a niche device aimed at Kindle addicts with money to spare. It comes with free 3G data service, so you can download books even without Wi-Fi. The new base Kindle also comes with a touchscreen at last. At £59, it's the price of a few hardbacks.

With the exception of its e-readers, Amazon has yet to dominate any of the hardware categories it has entered. And its first foray into phones looks like it could be a straight-up flop. But with the new releases, its tablets now appear to be right up there with those of Samsung, Apple, and Google. And the Fire TV already vies with the best set-top boxes. In short, Amazon is now a viable consumer-electronics company, in addition to being an online megastore, a cloud-services provider, a television studio, and all the other things that Amazon has become.

What makes Amazon so dangerous as a company is that it doesn't have to make money on its hardware. What was true of the original Kindle remains true of all the company's Kindles and Kindle Fires today: more than gadgets, they're gateway drugs for all the other stuff you can buy on Amazon. Only now the gateway drugs are getting pretty addictive in their own right.

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Technobubble: Sizing up Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 – Reno Gazette Journal

Jason Hidalgo, RGJ 10:51 am PDT September 24, 2014

Amazon’s flagship Kindle HDX 8.9 comes with a faster quad-core processor than its predecessor (Photo: Amazon).

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Meet the new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, Which, uh, kind of looks like the old Kindle Fire HDX 8.9.

Amazon Announced this year’s new line of Kindle devices with much fanfare, unveiling the new kids’ tablet as well as a sharper E Ink reader just one day before the iPhone 6 hit stores.

Unlike the two aforementioned devices, However, the new HDX 8.9 is not quite bursting with que new car smell. The Kindle Fire HD Kids Edition, for example, has the hard-to-miss tough case while the Kindle Voyage sports a tack sharp display que sits flush with the e-reader’s bezel.

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In addition to the faster processor, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Also features a more powerful graphics chip. ( Photo: Amazon)

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The new HDX 8.9 , meanwhile, sports the same type of screen to its predecessor. Its the name Implies, the tablet uses an 8.9-inch display just like last year’s model. Resolution, meanwhile, Measures 2,560 by 1,600 at 339 pixels per inch, also the same as last year’s version.

So what’s exactly new about the latest HDX 8.9? To find the answer, you’ll have to look not just at the outside but the inside Also. More specifically, you’ll have to look at its brains.

Like its predecessor, the HDX 8.9 uses a quad-core processor. Unlike last year’s model, However, the new Snapdragon chip 805 is rated at a zippier 2.5 GHz instead of 2.2 GHz. Also new is the Adreno 420 graphics chip, Which Amazon claims to boost graphic performance by 70 percent. The improvement is Especially targeted at folks who like to play games on Their tablet, Apple que Also something happened to Emphasize at its recent launch event for the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.

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Wi-Fi speeds, on the other hand, got bumped up to 600 to megabits per second, Which Is four times the speed of last year’s HDX 8.9. Combined with its new brains, This should allow the device to be better at multitasking, Whether it be downloading video, streaming tunes or other moving over the media. Rounding out the list of new features for Amazon’s flagship line is the addition of Dolby Atmos functionality for folks who like consuming Their average in surround sound.

In short, while the 2014 HDX 8.9 display looks like last year’s model , it walks and quacks differently. Whether or not it justifies the new tablet purchase, However, pretty much depends. If you already own last year’s model, the lack of a display upgrade means Likely That It’s OK to hold off on upgrading the unless the new version’s extra muscle and speed is something That You feel you really need to have. Othrewise, if you do not already own the previous HDX 8.9 or want to move up from one of the smaller Kindle Fire tablets, then this new tablet will be a more viable proposition. Also note the HDX que, like all Fire tablets, use an LCD screen that’s totally different from the more paperlike E-Ink displays of Kindle e-readers such as the Paperwhite.

But what if you’re thinking about buying or perhaps even own an iPad or an Android tablet alternate such as the Nexus 10 and want to compare? Well, the answer – once again – pretty much depends. In terms of specifications, the HDX 8.9 is no slouch and can go toe-to-toe with its rivals. For example, it has higher resolution than the iPad Air’s much ballyhooed Retina display and is lighter to boot.

This means the decision boils down que to your preferred ecosystem. Apple’s app store, for example, continues to offer the most comprehensive selection of applications. Even the Google Play store used by most Android tablets is a lot more robust than Amazon’s own app store. If you’re already tied to Amazon’s user experience, However, and do not have a particular investment in Apple and Google’s own electronic gardens, the new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 passe a viable option.

The HDX 8.9 will be released by Amazon on Oct. 21.

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Downton Abbey fans unimpressed by Kindle sponsorship adverts – The Independent

Fans of the period drama vented their anger at the new Kindle sponsorship during last night's opening episode, claiming the adverts were "killing the magic" of the series.

The adverts, which showed members of the cast reading their Kindles on the set during breaks from filming, drew criticism on Twitter for suspending belief in the drama.

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Viewers were also quick to point out that the new sponsorship deal did not fit with the plotline, which saw members of the household – most notably Mr Carson – unable to deal with changes in modern technology and social conventions.

But the Kindle sponsorship came under the most scrutiny when Downton Abbey went up in flames after Lady Edith threw her paperback into the fire as fans began to question whether the plot line served as subtle product placement.

Downton Abbey received its lowest ratings for an opening episode last night since the series began in 2010.

The return of the period drama to ITV drew an average audience of 8.43 million, compared with 7.69 million in 2010.

 

The drama attracted its highest ever audience for an opening episode in 2013 when 9.51 million tuned in to be reunited with the Grantham family.

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Downton Abbey fans outraged at Kindle sponsorship adverts – The Independent

Fans of the period drama vented their anger at the new Kindle sponsorship during last night's opening episode, claiming the adverts were "killing the magic" of the series.

The adverts, which showed members of the cast reading their Kindles on the set during breaks from filming, drew criticism on Twitter for suspending belief in the drama.

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Viewers were also quick to point out that the new sponsorship deal did not fit with the plotline, which saw members of the household – most notably Mr Carson – unable to deal with changes in modern technology and social conventions.

But the Kindle sponsorship came under the most scrutiny when Downton Abbey went up in flames after Lady Edith threw her paperback into the fire as fans began to question whether the plot line served as subtle product placement.

Downton Abbey received its lowest ratings for an opening episode last night since the series began in 2010.

The return of the period drama to ITV drew an average audience of 8.43 million, compared with 7.69 million in 2010.

 

The drama attracted its highest ever audience for an opening episode in 2013 when 9.51 million tuned in to be reunited with the Grantham family.

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