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- Runaway Bestseller "The Last Lecture" is Sold Out Everywhere, But Not For Amazon Kindle Owners
- SEATTLE -- The extraordinary national best seller "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow has become so popular that it is sold out everywhere, but not for owners of Amazon Kindle (NASDAQ:AMZN), a revolutionary portable reader. Kindle owners can get "The Last Lecture" downloaded wirelessly onto their Kindle...
- Research articles 2008-04-19
- Is an "Open" Strategy Right For You?
- Some critics called Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader overpriced and poorly designed, while others hailed it "the book of the future." There may be truth on both sides of the debate, but nonetheless, consumers have spoken, and their response has been highly favorable. Now there's just one thing standing in the way of...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Should You Get Amazon's Kindle?
- Should You Get Amazon's Kindle?No wayI'm an e-book fan from wayyyyy back, but I do my reading on my PDA or smartphone whatever I happen to be carrying at the time. You can get countless great titles from sites like eReader.com and Fictionwise, and at discount prices to boot.That said,...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Introducing Amazon Kindle
- Revolutionary Portable Reader Lets Customers Wirelessly Download Books in Less Than a Minute and Automatically Receive Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Simon & Schuster, Inc. to Make 5,000 Additional Books Available for Amazon Kindle
- Book titles representing the vast majority of sales from Simon & Schuster's catalog to be made available in 2008
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- Amazon Kindle? $3K for Miley Cyrus? We explain (sorta) below; Confused by media news? Our columnist serves up more NSFAQ (not-so-frequently asked questions).(MediaWorks)
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- Research articles 2007-11-26
- Looking for a Last Minute Father's Day Gift? Amazon Kindle is the Top-Selling and "Most Wished For" Consumer Electronics Product on Amazon.Com—Order Today and Get Free 2-Day Shipping
- Amazon Also Announces New Kindle Content Available for Wireless Download, Including Popular Books Such as Barbara Walter's "Audition" and Scott McClellan's "What Happened," Periodicals Such as US News & World Report, Shanghai Daily and the International Herald Tribune, and Blogs Such as TV Guide Hotlist and PopMatters
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Amazon's Kindle and ASUS' Eee PC: Bellwethers for Mobile Internet Device and UMPC Markets, According to ABI Research
- NEW YORK -- Amazon's new "Kindle" reader device and ASUSTek Computer's ultra-mobile "Eee PC" are conspicuous examples of a whole new class of Internet-connected products which will become popular over the next five years. Hailed by some as "the first improvement to the book in centuries," Kindle is a portable...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- Guy Vs. Guy: Amazon Parties Like It's '1984'
- Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this recurring feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. This week’s topic: The Amazon Kindle. Recent headlines haven't done the beloved device -- or the company that sells it -- any favors. How can Amazon recover...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Amazon, the Kindle, and the Future of All Books
- New York City This massive city is home to many things, one of which, of course, is the domestic book publishing industry. Any time you spend a few days here, then, it's inevitable that, by design or chance, the current state of book publishing...
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- The Amazon Kindle 2: A Good Tool for Business?
- Yesterday, Amazon took the wraps off the Kindle 2 e-book reader, which offers a slimmer design, a better screen, and longer battery life. The original Kindle was a runaway hit with consumers. Could the Kindle 2 find its way into the briefcases of business users? PC World's...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- The Book Business Blues
- You may have read that the economy is taking a chunk out of brick-and-mortar book sellers such as Borders, which earlier this month named a new CEO to try a turnaround. But the worst may still be ahead, warns former Random House CEO Peter Olson, who now teaches at...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Amazon's Kindle Expands Its Library
- Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Amazon Kindle DX's NYT Discount Starts Rolling Out; Outside Delivery Area Only
- Back when Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) DX launched, a big hype around the announcement was how it would optimize newspaper/magazine display, and that the media companies would subsidize the Kindle, or perhaps the other way around. In the end, it was a bit anti-climactic, as David pointed out back then:...
- External links 2009-10-02
- Google signs up second e-book partner
- Google is partnering with the firm behind e-book store Coolerbooks to open up Google's public domain archive of digitised literature to a larger audience. The partnership comes little more than a week after Google announced a similar deal with Sony. The arrangement,...
- Articles 2009-09-01
- Sony Unveils New 'Reader Digital Books'?Pocket, Touch and Now, 3G Wireless
- [In progress] Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ramping up its challenge to Amazon’s Kindle with two versions of its eReader: two new Reader Digital Books, which it unveiled at a press conference at the main branch of the New York Public Library. The choice of venue was, in part meant...
- External links 2009-08-25
- EBook Reader Market Overview And Future Prospects
- Interest in eBook contents or device business is growing from small and medium sized manufacturers to big players, such as Google and Apple, and companies brace for competition to challenge Amazon's Kindle, the market leader. However, even before Kindle was launched, there were other eBook readers with similar specs available,...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- IRex's Hamilton Details Plans For Publishers; NewspaperDirect, News Stand, Storefronts
- For the last couple of years, Amazon’s Kindle has owned the market—a very small one, to be sure—when it comes to delivering subscriptions to U.S. e-readers. It’s also irked publishers with a 70-30 rev share in the retailer’s favor and by retaining control of customer relationships, sending them scurrying...
- External links 2009-10-19
- Amazon's Kindle to go international
- Amazon said it would begin selling an international version of its popular e-reader that will work in more than 100 countries on October 19.The world's largest online retailer also said it was lowering the price of the Kindle 2 in the US from $299 to $259, a move likely...
- External links 2009-10-07
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- Amazon Kindle For PC App Released, But Color Kindle Is Unlikely
- Amazon.com generally released the beta version of its Kindle for PC application, which will display e-books on a Windows PC, on Nov. 10. Originally debuted during the Windows 7 launch in New York City on Oct. 22, the application will sync with users' Kindle devices. Although some media reports are...
- News items 2009-11-10
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