Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Amazon Goes Global With World Kindle; Cuts U.S. Price
- For all of you who have asked over the years when the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle would be available outside the U.S., the answer is finally “now.” The Amazon World Kindle is now being sold for $279 with international 3G wireless covering more than 100 countries and territories—and it...
- External links 2009-10-07
- UK Round-Up: Google; News Corp; Amazon
- Some snippets from our sister site paidContentUK:-- Google turns to hard alcohol, relaxing ad rules in January: Here's one for the New Year hangover? Google (NSDQ: GOOG), whose UK ad income has plateaued in recent quarters, will relax its paid search advertising rules to allow hard alcohol to be...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Sony, Kindle E-Reader Sales Grow Before Christmas; But Still No 'iPod Moment'
- The twist in this plot? "Turns out Sony (NYSE: SNE) E-Book Readers sell after all," WSJ.com notes. Indeed, it's sold about 300,000 of them and three million e-books worldwide since launching in October 2006. That's exceeded the gadget-maker's forecasts, personal mobile unit SVP Steve Haber tells the site. But,...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Chart: Who Owns E-Readers?And Who Are The Next Wave Of Buyers
- The current crop of e-reader buyers are mostly men who have money and are into gadgets. But the next wave of purchasers, according a Forrester study, will be largely women who just tend to read a lot—like five books a month. Meanwhile, the following chart, published with the report,...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Report: Sony's New E-Readers Come With Discounts?But Still No WiFi
- *Sony* plans to launch two new e-readers tomorrow—one with a touch screen, priced at just $299—to better compete in an e-book market that has grown increasingly crowded with rivals like Plastic Logic, Samsung, and of course, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). The Sony (NYSE: SNE) readers will hit stores later this...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Murdoch Sees Eventual 'Break' With Amazon Over Kindle; 'Active' Talks With Sony
- A little more detail about an item we reported on during the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). earnings call: the rocky relationship with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) over the Kindle. Once again, Rupert Murdoch was openly critical of the way the Kindle separates media outlets from their customers by controlling the...
- External links 2009-08-06
- EMI Taps Amazon MP3 For Direct-To-Consumer Retail
- We first reported the fourth-place major music label's launch of its new EMI.com site back in December—an artist showcase, rather than a corporate showroom, offering visitors personalised playlists, widgets and eventual retail options.Now it has emailed users to say it has made some changes to the pseudo-social network, chief...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Apple's iTunes Increases Its Lead In The Music Market
- A year-and-a-half after surpassing Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) as the biggest music retailer in the United States, Apple’s iTunes now accounts for a quarter of all music sales in the U.S., up from 21 percent a year ago, according to the NPD Group. And it likely has lots of room...
- External links 2009-08-18
- AT&T Gets Readies Its 3G Network For Sony eBooks Device
- The big news Sony’s press conference for its new line of eReaders was the deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) to provide its 3G wireless connection to the Daily Edition, Sony’s first wireless reader. Neither Sony (NYSE: SNE) nor AT&T would say what the revenue split is. But it’s probably...
- External links 2009-08-25
- No Way To Go Mass Market With $199 E-Readers
- Never mind all the digits and ink being expended on e-readers—until the price comes down to $150 and below, the number of devices sold won’t be close to creating a mass market. Heck, despite all the attention to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Sony (NYSE: SNE) and other efforts, only 6...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Dan Brown's New Book Selling Better On Kindle Than In Hardcover Via Amazon
- Need more proof that we’re witnessing the beginning of the e-book boom? It appears that the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol, the latest thriller from The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, is out-selling the hardcover version on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). Kindle Nation Daily first noticed first noticed...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Verizon, iRex Teaming Up On E-Reader; Will Launch At Best Buy
- Sprint (NYSE: S) has the Kindle. AT&T (NYSE: T) has Sony (NYSE: SNE) and still-to-launch PlasticLogic. Now Verizon (NYSE: VZ) gets the iRex DR800SG—and the wireless U.S. e-reader market gets a bit more crowded. The $399 touchscreen device from iRex Technologies, the spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics, will be...
- External links 2009-09-23
- 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
- Sony Pictures TV seeks UK distribution partners
- Sony Pictures Television International SPTI is reportedly looking for UK distribution partners for its multi-platform series Gemini Division. Launched in the US in August, Gemini Division is a futuristic thriller broadcast via online and mobile portals such as Amazon Unbox,...
- Articles 2008-11-27
- Haven't Ordered Your Holiday Kindle Yet? Never Mind
- *Amazon* is promoting the heck out of its Kindle digital reader on its front page and across the e-commerce site but won't be shipping any until well into Q109. The current wait time: 11-13 weeks. Dan Frommer confirmed with the company that it has sold out of the devices....
- External links 2008-11-26
- Latest E-Reader Predictions 50 Percent More Optmistic But It's All Guesswork
- Just last month, Forrester Research was sticking with its May forecast that sales of e-Readers would hit 2 million this year. Now it’s dramatically revising that estimate to 3 million units in 2009, predicting that 900,000 devices will be sold during the holiday season, that 40 percent of all...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Using The International Kindle Could Rack Up Fees
- Not only does the new international Kindle cost more than its U.S. counterpart, owners who want to take advantage of the wireless connectivity will be paying more for it. In addition to the $2 per-book fee for non-U.S. downloads, paidContent has learned from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) that it will...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Amazon Piles On Kindle Fees, Increases Book Costs Outside U.S.
- The international Kindlle is starting to look like a virtual ATM for Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). Not only will U.S. Whispernet users have to pay $5 a week for accessing their subscriptions, as we reported yesterday, and $2 per book download, downloads of single issues run $2. The fee for...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Google's E-Books Store Will Start Off With Around 500,000 Titles
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is slowly rolling out details about its forthcoming online book store, which it is calling Google Editions. At the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week, the company said that the store—which will compete with Amazon’s rival offering—would launch in June 2010, according to Reuters and...
- External links 2009-10-15
- 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
- << Previous
- page 1 of 2
- Next >>
Content Types
Refining Tags
- Companies (25 results)
- Amazon.com Inc. (21 results)
- Books (18 results)
- Media & Publishing (17 results)
- Kindle (17 results)
- eReaders (16 results)
- Personal Technology (13 results)
- Staci D. Kramer (12 results)
- Consumer Electronics (10 results)
- Sales Strategy (7 results)
- Sales (7 results)
- E-reader (7 results)
- Wi-Fi (6 results)
- Wireless And Mobility (5 results)
- Cellular Phones (5 results)
- Gadgets (5 results)
- Sony Corp. (5 results)
- Digital Media (5 results)
- Finance (5 results)
- Apple (5 results)
- Digital Music (5 results)
- 3G (5 results)
- Joseph Tartakoff (4 results)
- Entertainment (4 results)
- Apple Inc. (4 results)
- Music (4 results)
- Apple iTunes (4 results)
- E-Commerce (4 results)
- Newspapers (4 results)
- Sony (4 results)
- Mobile (4 results)
- E-books (4 results)
- Microsoft (3 results)
- Wireless (3 results)
- Sales Force Management (3 results)
- iPhone (3 results)
- News Corp. (3 results)
- Google (3 results)
Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
