Amazon Sued Over Kindle Screensavers
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), already facing a number of patent lawsuits over its Kindle e-readers, was hit with a new one this week. Read more »
Why Amazon’s Kindle Battle With IPG Matters
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Amazon’s decision to yank almost 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishing Group after IPG refused to give the retailer be… Read more »
Update: Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms
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Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2.
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from dist… Read more »
Report: Barnes & Noble To Release Lower-End Nook Tablet On Feb. 22
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When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released the Nook Tablet in November, CEO William Lynch called the Kindle Fire “deficient” in part because i… Read more »
Sketchy Bloomberg Report On Amazon Prime Contains Little Real Data
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime has three to five million members, according to “people familiar with the matter” cited Bloomberg. The main thrust… Read more »
PO’d Parents Petition Against Cut To Amazon ‘Mom’ Benefits
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is cutting back “Amazon Mom,” a Prime-like program that gives parents and caregivers big discounts on baby supplies and… Read more »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
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Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
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Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
Amazon Adds Clinton Alum Gorelick To Board
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding a power presence in the other Washington and a corporate governance advisor to its board: Jamie Gorelick, who… Read more »
Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly
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It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more »
Beloved Librarian Who Signed With Amazon: ‘The Vehemence Surprised Me’
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Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-prin… Read more »
Oh Baby, Lovefilm’s CEO is Bouncing To Mothercare
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO… Read more »
Jersey Shore, Dora, iCarly To Amazon Prime Instant In Viacom Deal
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming v… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
An Amazon Store In Seattle?
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A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
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The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Another Chain Says It Won’t Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter?
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Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amaz… Read more »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
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Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more »
Books-A-Million Won’t Carry Amazon Titles, Either
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Books-A-Million — the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) — announced today that, like B&N, it will n… Read more »
Survey: Kindle Fire Owners Happy With Their Purchase But Not iPad-Happy
Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most… Read more »
Amazon Launches Junglee.com Marketplace In India
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Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today. Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Amazon: Print Book Unit Sales Up; More Content For Prime
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: We Will Not Carry Amazon Publishing Titles In Our Stores
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About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement sayi… Read more »
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more »
Analyst Estimates Amazon Has Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires
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Given Amazon’s reluctance to disclose hard numbers regarding the number of Kindles it has sold and the interest in the Kindle Fire as a tabl… Read more »
As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books
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Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with oth… Read more »
Can A Streaming Audiobooks Service Work?
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Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
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With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A re… Read more »
The Best Quotes From Businessweek’s Amazon Piece
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry… Read more »
Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Increases Sales
Amazon’s early data from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to bo… Read more »
Amazon Lawsuit Tests ‘No Harm, No Foul’ Rule For Leaked Personal Info
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) subsidiary Zappos, an online shoe retailer, faces a second lawsuit over a hacking incident involving 24 million customer… Read more »
Well, Here’s How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its Books Into Barnes & Noble
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Booksellers should not expect to be visited by a friendly Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing sales rep anytime soon. Rather, in an agreement ann… Read more »
Pew Internet: U.S. Tablet, E-Reader Ownership Doubled Over Holiday Season
‘Twas the season for tablets and e-readers, according to a new survey released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The num… Read more »
iBooks Author Rules: Audacious, No Big Deal Or Sign Of Wars To Come?
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t mention this at the Guggenheim yesterday, but post-event the complaints are spreading across the Internet: Accordi… Read more »
Penguin's DK: Goodbye Books, Hello 'Flat' Content. Make Once, Use Anywhere
Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to… Read more »
Why Amazon's Plagiarism Problem Is More Than A Public Relations Issue
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Plagiarized editions for sale in Amazon’s Kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. At… Read more »
Amazon Hit With Class Action Over Zappos Data Breach
Shoe retailer Zappos is facing a national class action suit one day after it warned customers that its servers had been hacked. Read more »
Did Self-Publishing Hype Hit Its Peak In 2011?
The average price of a self-published Kindle top-100 bestseller continues to drop, but a new look at these titles’ performance in 2011 sugge… Read more »
Kindle Startup Focuses On Interactive Fiction For Adults
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Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. Th… Read more »
