Amazon Builds Up Kindle Fire Content With Disney-ABC Deal
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with… Read more »
More Flip Flopping From HP? Todd Bradley Says WebOS Closure Is Just A Rumor
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) may have resolved one major item on its agenda when it announced last week it would hold on to its PC division; but now it se… Read more »
Amazon’s China Story Continues: Planning For Kindle, Kindle Fire Release?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese gov… Read more »
Amazon Goes It Alone In China, With A New Name And URL
The American e-commerce site Amazon has made some big changes to its China site today – there’s now a new name and a new short URL, in a s… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CF… Read more »
Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher… Read more »
Amazon Earnings Down Sharply For Q3 2011, Even As Sales Rise
With the $199 Kindle Fire tablet shipping in a little over two weeks, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced $10.88 billion in revenues for Q3 2011,… Read more »
Platform Wars: Internet Video Vs. TV
There’s battle lines being drawn. Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong. Young people speaking their minds, Getting so much resistance from be… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Steve Jobs And The Importance Of Pre-Orders
On the official morning of its release, Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is #1 on the Kindle bestseller list, #1 in Apple’s iBookstore and #2 on… Read more »
Here’s How Much Money You’ll Get If You Trade In Your Old Kindle
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is now accepting Kindles, and other brands of e-readers, in its trade-in program. Come with us on a scaaaaaaaaaary voyag… Read more »
Amazon May Launch Kindle In Japan This Year
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Kindle may come to Japan as early as the end of this year, according to reports today in Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily and wire s… Read more »
How Many Copies Is My Book Selling? Now Authors Have More Answers
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It is surprisingly hard for an author to know how many copies his or her book is selling. Now Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) is giving its aut… Read more »
Online Movie Choice In UK Pales Against DVDs
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Ahead of the coming connected TV opportunity, availability of movies through UK online services is still poor – and Lovefilm has amongst the… Read more »
Kobo Announces Kindle Fire Competitor, The $199.99 WiFi Vox Tablet
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In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, e-reading company Kobo is launching a tablet of its own: The $199.99 Kobo Vox, a 7-inch A… Read more »
Amazon/PBS Deal Brings Julia Child To Prime Instant Video
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Julia Child’s The French Chef is going digital for the first time: 200 episodes of the show are coming to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime Instant… Read more »
What Will It Take For International E-Book Markets To Take Off?
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Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more »
Motorola Xoom Discounted Again In The Tablet Race To The Bottom
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There were such high hopes for the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Xoom when it was first unveiled at the beginning of this year: meticulously crafted,… Read more »
Actress Sues Amazon For Publishing Her Age
It’s no secret that Hollywood can be cruel to aging talent. Now, a 40-year-old Texas actress who lost acting gigs is taking Amazon (NSDQ: AM… Read more »
Updated: Kindle Fire Privacy Concerns–Is ‘Big Browser’ Watching You?
Fearing that Kindle Fire users who buy an e-book version of 1984 may not realize that they, too, are being watched, congressman Edward J. Ma… Read more »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Is Now Going Into Production
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On the same day that Apple’s newest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, goes on sale, comes news of the latest development in its best-selling tablet… Read more »
Microsoft Signs Kindle Fire Manufacturer To Patent-Licensing Deal
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The company behind Amazon’s Kindle Fire became the latest licensee of Microsoft’s mobile patents Thursday, when Quanta signed a deal that co… Read more »
Netflix Goes For Fountain Of Youth With Full-Season CW Deal
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has locked in a full slate of teen angst from now through the 2014-15 season. The four-year pact covers full past seaso… Read more »
The Biggest Thing Amazon Got Right: The Platform
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) engineer Steve Yegge was trying to start a robust internal discussion, not post a viral hit, when he published a 4,570-w… Read more »
Why Children’s Books Could Take Off On The Kindle Fire
When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle boo… Read more »
The Amazon Publishing ‘Premium’: $100,000?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing’s general trade imprint, headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, reportedly paid $850,000 for Lave… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-12-11
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» RIM’s Service Outage Enters Day Three And Company Admits It’s In The Dark (paidContent)
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Kobo France Takes Run At Le Kindle
Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it’s… Read more »
Amazon Publishing Launches New Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Imprint
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Science fiction/fantasy is one of the most popular e-book genres, so Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing wants to be there. A project earlier thi… Read more »
Chart: How Netflix, Blockbuster, Hulu And Amazon Stack Up
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This category changes as fast we update charts. The latest shift: Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has abandoned plans to spin off its DVD-by-mail busin… Read more »
Kindle Fire Hit With Patent Suit
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Amazon’s new tablet won’t be available until November 15, but it’s never too early to file a patent suit. Smartphone Technologies LLC, which… Read more »
That Was Qwik: Netflix Dumps Qwikster, Won’t Split DVD-Streaming Accounts
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It took Coca-Cola 77 days of New Coke to bring back Coke Classic. It took *Netflix* co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings less than three weeks t… Read more »
Kindle E-Readers Will Outsell Kindle Fires In 2012, Barclays Says
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The Kindle Fire has been getting most of the attention, but it won’t make up the bulk of Amazon’s device sales in 2012, Barclays says in a n… Read more »
Bonjour, Amazon. Kindle Store Debuts In France With Its First French Kindle
Yesterday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its first eBookstore outside of the U.S. in the UK, but it will have to step up the pace by quite a b… Read more »
How To Get Rid Of Ads On The New Kindle With Special Offers
Sick of the ads on your ad-supported Kindle 4 with Special Offers? You can get rid of them, but it’ll cost you. The quick fix fits right int… Read more »
Analyzing Kindle Fire Sales Estimates
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Stephen Colbert added “truthiness” to the lexicon, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is surely the master of “mathiness”–fuzzy numbers-ish public sta… Read more »
Jumptap Figures Suggest Tablet Penetration Is Higher Outside The U.S.
Using stats from a mobile advertising network do not give the most complete picture of the mobile market, but they do highlight some interes… Read more »
Updated: Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Netflix’s Red Pill, Lovefilm’s Blue: DVDs Dowsing Amazon’s Fire?
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In the movie The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered a choice between a blue pill (“the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believ… Read more »
