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- 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
- 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
- A Tale Of Two Books: Dan Brown Sells Big On Kindle, Kennedy's 'True Compass' Can't Be Found
- It could change—and probably will when the first flurry is over—but, as I type, the Kindle edition of Dan Brown’s latest thriller The Lost Symbol is outselling the hardback on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). Meanwhile, Ted Kennedy’s True Compass, the other hot book release this week, can’t be bought via...
- External links 2009-09-17
- 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
- Media Roundup: Internet Ads Down at New York Times, Congressional Quarterly For Sale and More
- In Today's Media Roundup: Internet ads down at New York Times, Times Publishing to sell Congressional Quarterly, English Al Jazeera gaining popularity, NBC has sold 94 percent of Super Bowl ads, Amazon to release Kindle 2 February 9th, McClatchy suspends dividends and MGM, Paramount, and Lionsgate team up to create...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Analyst: Half a Million Kindles Sold in '08
- For reasons that have never been entirely clear, Amazon.com has not been at all forthcoming about its Kindle e-book reader. One aspect no doubt has to do with the company's choice to employ a proprietary technology in an age when open-source products are proliferating. But Amazon's brass...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Smashwords CEO Evaluates e-Book Market
- Regarding today's news that Amazon sold an estimated 500,000 Kindles last year, I asked Mark Coker, founder/CEO of Smashwords, the digital self-publishing company, for his reaction: "If the number is accurate, I wouldn't be surprised," he said. " Amazon has aggressively promoted the Kindle from day one,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- The Google Book Search Case -- for Dummies*
- * That would include me. Imagine this â€" a free global virtual library containing almost every book published over the past century and beyond in many languages and formats â€"all reproduced in digital form, courtesy of Google. These e-books will be searchable,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Amazon Feels Pressure on Kindle
- After keeping its e-book readers U.S bound, if you'll pardon the pun, Amazon is now going to sell the Kindle internationally and is also dropping the price to $259. But coming after a price drop just three months ago, the moves suggest that the company is feeling pressure from a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Kindle Software Coming to PCs
- Now here's a potential game-changer: Amazon will soon offer Kindle software for Windows PCs. That means you'll be able to purchase and read e-books on your desktop, laptop, netbook, or even tablet, no Kindle required. Of course, you can do that already using the various methods discussed...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Barnes & Noble Tries To Stake E-Reader Claim With Wi-Fi, 3G And A Dash Of Color
- My local Barnes & Noble store says “The Nook”—the new e-reader being unveiled in New York today—won’t hit stores until November. So far, no display either. For now, that leaves B&N pitching its retail-centric device the same way as rrivak Amazon: online at BN.com. The pitch includes a side-be-side...
- External links 2009-10-20
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