Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more »
Can Investors Still Win Big On China's Google Or Facebook? Probably Not
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Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone populari… Read more »
Amazon Ends Lawsuit Over Kindle Fire
In a surprise development, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has quietly resolved a lawsuit that alleges its Kindle Fire violates four patents related to… Read more »
Jumptap: Apple Has Highest Click-Through Rates Among Mobile Ad Platforms
The latest monthly figures from independent mobile ad network Jumptap reveal that Android has continued to solidify its lead as the most dom… Read more »
Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new o… Read more »
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This 'Kindle Christmas'
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In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab. Read more »
USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This ti… Read more »
Report: Apple To Hold Event In NYC. Publishing, Advertising In The Mix?
A new year, and a crisp, new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) rumor to kick things off: the company is reportedly planning an event for the end of the mon… Read more »
Amazon Dances Around Kindle Sales Numbers (Again), But Kindle Fire Was Hot
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Amazon’s desire to tell the world how well its redesigned Kindle devices are selling keeps bumping up against its inability to deal in real… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
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This is the second in a series of posts over the next week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sect… Read more »
Report: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix
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Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more »
How Publishers And Authors Are Promoting E-Books For The Holidays
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I asked publishers and authors how they’re promoting their e-books for the holidays and got answers from bundling and free samplers to Kindl… Read more »
The Queen On Kindle
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When you unwrap your new Kindle on Christmas morning and are wondering what to read first, may I suggest Her Royal Majesty’s Christmas Day s… Read more »
LoveFilm Signs Streaming Deal With Sony Pictures Television
Amazon’s LoveFilm is continuing its film and TV content rights war with U.S. rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Update; New Features In iOS Apps
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has released its promised Kindle Fire software update, which the company says will resolve some of the problems users ha… Read more »
Updated: Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon All Mulled Bids On RIM
What the hell would Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) have done with Research in Motion? (NSDQ: RIMM) A report Tuesday indicated that Amazon considered ma… Read more »
Publishing Insider Tipped Law Firms About E-Book Price Fixing Conspiracy
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The decision by major publishers to strike a pricing deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been the source of speculation and several antitrust i… Read more »
Millennial Media Says Kindle Fire Impressions Growing 19 Percent Each Day
We still don’t have any exact figures from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold, but the latest figures out from… Read more »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
Amazon Includes Circular In Weekend Newspapers
Among the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from A… Read more »
Stop Treating $9.99 As The Magic E-Book Price
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$9.99 is often treated as a magic price–the cost of a New York Times bestseller on Kindle back in the good old days, before big-six publish… Read more »
ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
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If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
China E-Reader Sales Down Thanks To Lack Of Content
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Though the e-book phenomenon is now taking off around the world, Chinese e-reader sales actually fell 5.1 percent, according to Analysys Int… Read more »
Here's A Real-ish Kindle Number From Amazon
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has released a real number for how many Kindles are selling. Well, sort of. Read more »
Does Anybody Care About Tablet Stats That Don't Include The Kindle Fire?
Let’s find out! Research firm IDC released its Q3 2011 report on media tablet shipments today. You’ll recall that the Kindle Fire and Nook T… Read more »
Samsung Electronics Reorg: Apple's Friends On One Side; Foes On The Other?
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It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. W… Read more »
If Netflix Is In Play, Here's Some Companies That Would Be In The Hunt
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Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
Self-Published Authors Debate Amazon's KDP Select
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more »
The Albert Pujols Deal Shows What's Wrong With The Pay TV Business
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When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more »
A Closer Look At Apple's Role In The E-book 'Conspiracy'
In the mushrooming controversy over e-books, it’s easy to understand the publishers’ motives. But what about Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Did the com… Read more »
Under Fire, Amazon Says Kindle Fire Is Getting An Update Within Two Weeks
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Several weeks into the U.S.-only sales debut of the Kindle Fire, and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has been facing up to mixed reviews for the tablet,… Read more »
Amazon's Apple-Like Growth Is Missing One Element: Rising Profits
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Considering the amount of money Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) shareholders have pocketed in recent years, Amazon deserves its spot next to Apple a… Read more »
Updated: YouMail App Yanked From Android Market After T-Mobile Complains
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed… Read more »
Update: Amazon Eyeing Up Mobile Carrier Billing With New Bango Deal?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has been jumping with two feet into the mobile world — launching an app storefront, an enhanced selection of cloud-base… Read more »
Amazon Expands Kindle Owners' Lending Library To Self-Published Authors
As rumored, self-published authors who agree to make their e-books available exclusively on Kindle for 90 days are now eligible to include t… Read more »
China's Dangdang Does An Amazon With E-Books, Apps, E-Reader
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The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when… Read more »
Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International
Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
The E-book Investigations: Are Publishers And Apple Breaking The Law?
It’s been a week to forget for publishers after both the Justice Department and the European Commission announced investigations into e-book… Read more »
