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- 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
- 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
- paidContent Quick Hits: 8.05.09
- » An attempt to explain CNBC's 28% drop in audience over the past year. [Slate]» The new owners of The Pirate Bay plan to put the company on the NASDAQ—assuming pending lawsuits don't sink the ship. [TorrentFreak]» ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is trying to curb the tweets, blogs and Facebook...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Irex enters e-reader race with Barnes and Noble
- iRex is teaming up with book retailer Barnes and Noble to launch an e-book reader to rival Amazon's Kindle. The iRex device will include a 8.1-inch touch screen and 3G wireless connectivity. The touch screen will be controlled with a stylus rather than the user's fingers. iRex is the...
- Articles 2009-08-24
- E-book advocates point to a content evolution
- Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading division, stood in the New York Public Library last week with a picture of a stone tablet, a book and the electronic book reader he was there to unveil.The evolution from pages to pixels was as profound as that from CDs to...
- External links 2009-08-30
- 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
- Asus Set To Enter E-Reader Market; Can It Win Based On Price?
- Add Asus to the list of consumer electronic companies set to enter to the e-reader market. By the end of the year, the company plans to unveil as many as two e-readers, a spokeswoman tells the Times of London. The devices will have two side-by-side screens so that users...
- External links 2009-09-07
- 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
- Verizon and Best Buy back iRex e-reader
- US mobile operator Verizon is teaming up with iRex to offer mobile e-book downloads for the new iRex DR800SG e-reader, a challenger to Amazon's Kindle. Verizon’s involvement marks the US mobile operator’s first foray into providing services for the e-book market. It means that the top three US operators are now all engaged in...
- Articles 2009-09-22
- How to Kill a Kindle: Barnes & Noble's Digital Playbook
- Barnes & Noble is finally plunging into the e-book fray after realizing how much it stands to lose once Apple and Google join the exploding digital book business already championed by Amazon. But the dominant bookstore chain will need to master the e-commerce, social community and mobile networking skills of its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Time Gets Its Electronic Freak On â€" Considers E-Reader
- Things certainly have changed if Time is deciding whether it should be in the consumer electronics business with an e-reader. You'd think that after the brick-wall-smashing disaster known as the AOL acquisition, any executive in that company would have learned the danger of stepping too far outside of your own...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Nature Knows Best: The Future of e-Readers
- Boston Imagine this: A butterfly's wings and the way they use ambient light to generate colors all along the spectrum, as needed. Or this: The microstructure of opals, and the magic by which a substance made up of nothing but glass and water (both...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Major Magazines Collude! And That's a Good Thing
- Following on the stilettos of Conde Nast's decision to kick Gourmet and a few other magazines to the curb, there's news that major magazine publishers are colluding on two fronts in order to get more traction out of their digital businesses: Ad Age's Nat Ives reports that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Five Reasons Newspapers Must Embrace E-Readers
- The accelerating pace of e-reader adoption, spurred by lower prices and an exploding inventory of books and other print materials, presents newspaper publishers with a second chance to get in the digital game. Amazon's decision to lower the price of its Kindle to $259 and to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Magazines, Newspapers, E-Readers And Device Fatigue
- One thing the magazine industry's new digital storefront initiative shouldn't include is a proprietary e-reader. How many devices can one person carry? by Catharine P. Taylor
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- 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
- Investors may block sale of Amazon supplier E Ink
- E Ink investors are reportedly opposing a deal to sell the company for USD215m to Taiwan-based manufacturer Prime View International PVI. It is thought that the shareholders want a higher price for the company, and will try to prevent the sale when it comes up for vote. The company’s...
- Articles 2009-06-16
- Spring Design Seeks Injunction Against Barnes & Noble Over E-Reader Tech
- Finally got the actual lawsuit Spring Design filed in federal court against Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) over their dueling e-readers and a little time to look through it. (The full PDF is embedded after the jump.) Spring claims that it only shared certain info about its own e-reader...
- External links 2009-11-04
- 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
- Interead Picks QVC To Launch Its "Cool-er" e-Reader In U.S.
- Forrester Research’s prediction that consumers will buy nearly a million new e-Readers this holiday season came with a big caveat—sales will only spike if retailers can figure out how to better promote the devices, not to mention educate shoppers about them, too. That may not be a problem for...
- External links 2009-10-08
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