Lessons For The Nook E-Book Reader, From Zune
The biggest distinguishing feature of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader is its ability to wirelessly "lend" e-books to another Nook user for 14 days. During that time the lender cannot read the...
View ArticleAmazon Targets Last-Minute Shoppers With Kindle Promo
The online retailer is offering free one-day shipping on all Kindle orders for shipment in the continental U.S. made on Dec. 23. Amazon also says it recently recorded the best sales day for the Kindle...
View ArticleMore Electronics Brands Join E-Reader Fray, But How Big Is The Market?
Amazon talks up the Kindle as its best-selling product, but even the market leader won't say how many digital readers it has sold. Sony has long had its own readers and Barnes & Noble has jumped...
View ArticleAmazon Pitches New Royalty Option For Kindle E-Books
As word spreads of book publishers talking to Apple about a possible deal for its anticipated tablet device, Amazon is taking a preemptive strike by offering a plan that gives content owners a greater...
View ArticleApple Set To Steal Amazon’s Thunder And Maybe Media Sales Too
Apple’s putative tablet computer will likely serve as a book reader, Web-surfing device and games player, a combination of features that could lure potential buyers of Amazon’s Kindle. Even more...
View ArticleAmazon Takes Wraps Off Kindle App For iPad
Amazon announced that more than 450,000 Kindle books would be available through its Kindle app for the iPad, when Apple’s tablet arrives on April 3. The app will automatically synchronize the last page...
View ArticleAnalysts: iPad or Not, Amazon Will Still Make $1 Billion From e-Books
Analysts at JP Morgan assert that much like music and video games, e-books have the potential to reach over 25 percent digital penetration. This in turn means a sizable market for more than one player....
View ArticleeBooks Outselling Print Editions At Amazon
For every 100 hardcover Amazon.com has sold over the past three months, it sold 143 Kindle eBooks, the company announced yesterday. The data spans Amazon’s U.S. book business and includes sales of...
View ArticleU.S. Attorneys Reportedly Looking Into Amazon’s E-Book Pricing
Two U.S. attorneys, one in Connecticut and another in Texas, are investigating whether Amazon.com’s pricing of Kindle e-books runs afoul of federal anti-trust laws, according to the Huffington Post....
View ArticleFor Mysteries Writer, Sales Of Kindle E-Books Far Outstrip Apple Versions
A fiction author who has self-published more than three dozen titles on various e-book platforms claims on his blog that his sales on Amazon’s Kindle store outstrip sales on Apple’s iBooks by a 60 to 1...
View ArticleKindles Catch With Consumers, Amazon Says; E-Book Exclusives Deal Comes Undone
Amazon.com says that its latest generation Kindle e-readers, which begin shipping today, are the fastest-selling models ever, with more ordered in their first four weeks of availability than previous...
View ArticleAs Kindle Heads to Staples, Borders Cuts E-Reader Prices
Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader — which to date has been sold only online and at Target outlets — is expanding its physical retail presence, heading to 1,500 Staples stores this fall. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleDigital Media Pricing: Two Kindle Bestsellers Fetch More than Print Editions
Even as e-book price points generally settle at Amazon.com’s Kindle store, publishers are continuing to experiment with charging premiums for marquee titles. Two such new releases — “Fall of Giants” by...
View ArticleMedia Sales up 12% at Amazon in Q4; E-Books Overtake Paperbacks
Highlights of Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings, announced Thursday: • Net sales for the quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2010) rose 36% from the same period in 2009, to $12.95 billion — marking the first...
View ArticleAT&T Stores to Sell Amazon’s Kindle
AT&T is adding to its retail offering of connected devices, with its company-owned stores planning to market Amazon’s Kindle 3G e-reader beginning March 6. AT&T continues to be the exclusive...
View ArticleApple Reportedly Trims iPad Supply Orders; Amazon Could Announce Tablet This...
While tablet computers are poised to be a top-selling product this holiday season, Apple has cut its fourth-quarter manufacturing orders for the iPad 2 by 25 percent, according to JPMorgan analysts...
View ArticleDisney-ABC Re-ups with Netflix for Streaming; Network Also Licenses to Amazon
While Disney renews its licensing agreement with Netflix for streaming episodes of ABC television series, it also has struck a similar deal with Amazon, Netflix’s aspiring competitor in the...
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