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 »
New Deal Lets B&N Get Borders Customer List
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A bankruptcy judge in New York approved Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property, including its valuable cu… Read more »
Judge Halts Sale Of Borders Name To B&N
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Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property assets is on hold after a federal judge said he needed more time t… Read more »
Privacy Policy May Sink B&N’s Purchase Of Borders Name
The messy liquidation of Borders has taken a new twist. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) indicated in a court filing late yesterday that it would… Read more »
B&N, Others Buy Borders Intellectual Property For $15.8 Million
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Multiple bidders separately acquired a variety of intellectual property assets from bankrupt Borders, including its trademarks and website a… Read more »
New Stats Find E-Reader Use Up 167%; E-Readers Under $100 By Holidays
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If all you want for Christmas is a $99 e-reader, Santa is listening, according to research firm IDC. The company also finds e-reader shipmen… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-13-11: Samsung; Apple/China; Dolby/RIM; Nokia; HP Refunds
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» In the patent battles with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), software is Samsung’s Achille… Read more »
Books-A-Million Closing Four Stores, But Buying More From Borders
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With Borders on its way out, the Alabama-based Books-A-Million has taken its place the second-largest bookstore chain in the United States.… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-2-11: AT&T; Patent Suits; Nook 2; Nokia N9; Bitbop
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» AT&T looks like it is prepping for a “no” on its deal to buy T-Mobile, now d… Read more »
Buy Sony’s New E-Reader, Get…A Coupon For One Harry Potter E-Book
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has officially announced its new e-reader, the details of which leaked out earlier this week. It’s called the Reader WiFi a… Read more »
Updated: B&N’s Digital Sales Up, Can’t Compensate For Falling Store Sales
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Barnes & Noble’s digital sales continue to increase–but not enough to make up for falling in-store sales, the company announced in its Q1 2… Read more »
Who Loves E-Readers? Your Mom
Yet again, research suggests that women love e-readers and men prefer tablets. A new study from Nielsen finds that 61 percent of e-reader ow… Read more »
Time Inc. Launches Its First Four Magazines On Nook Color
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Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines’ presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Spor… Read more »
Updated: Barnes & Noble Gets $204 Million Investment From Liberty Media
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It is not the outright buy that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) was hoping for, but *Liberty Media* is making a strategic investment of $204 mill… Read more »
In Savvy Nook Promotion, Barnes & Noble Reminds Us It’s A Publisher, Too
Barnes & Noble’s last Nook promotion was best described as lame (so we did), but the company’s new back-to-school offer is smarter: Buy any… Read more »
Why Isn’t Kindle Promoting Its Social Networking Features?
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Twitter is abuzz over the discovery of Amazon’s “new” Kindle social network, but these features–sharing notes, following and finding users… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Michael Connelly And The Art Of E-Book Price Cutting
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How did a book first published in 1992 suddenly land at the top of the Kindle and Nook bestseller lists in 2011? Read more »
Kindle And Nook Target The Back-To-School Set
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Toys ‘R’ Us is a popular place to buy things like Lego kits, Crayola markers and Barbie tricycles. But the chain’s latest addition skews mor… Read more »
Amazon’s Tablet Price Strategy: Go Low(-er Than The iPad)
Here’s one way Amazon’s new tablet can compete against the iPad: Price. Nobody claims the iPad is cheap. And the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet… Read more »
Stanford Math Professor Tests A New Book Publishing Equation
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When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an ar… Read more »
Google Integrates Its eBookstore Into A Little-Known E-Reader
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The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore has yet to become a dominant player in the e-book market, but it is hoping that the launch of the new iri… Read more »
IDC: Nook Color Leading E-Reader Sales For First Time Ever, As Tablets Lag
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Kindle’s sales are suffering from Amazon’s lack of a color offering, at least that’s the read from a new e-reader report released this after… Read more »
Liberty’s Malone Bets On B&N’s Digital Side, But It’s Not A Done Deal Yet
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Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at… Read more »
Hitting Online Bestseller Lists Is Key For E-Books’ Success
How much do e-books benefit when they hit the Nook and Kindle bestseller lists? A lot, new findings suggest. Meanwhile, the New York Times b… Read more »
Updated: Kindle and Nook NYTimes.com Subscribers Finally Get Digital Access
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Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would “soon” also have free access to NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) the… Read more »
A New Batch Of Digital Picture Books Comes To Tablets
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Tablets and color e-readers offer a brighter palette for kids’ e-books–and an opportunity for publishers. HarperCollins is the latest to lo… Read more »
Tablets Are For Men, E-Readers Are For Women? So The Research (And Ads) Say
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A recent Fox News article asking, “So are men iPads and women Nooks?” raised my hackles….especially when the piece went on to say, “Nooks… Read more »
Poll: Plenty Of E-Book Shoppers Buy Directly From Author Or Publisher
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E-retailers like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) are still the primary places that people buy e-books. But publishers and… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: Buy A Nook, We’ll Give You Some Lame E-Books
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which is struggling with lower in-store sales, has a new promotional offer: Bring an old e-reader into a store,… Read more »
B&N Hopes Angry Birds ‘Mighty Eagle’ Will Lure App Users Into Stores
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Barnes & Noble’s website sales are surging, but in-store sales are down. The retailer’s secret weapon to lure shoppers back into stores? Ang… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com
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As Barnes & Noble’s board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a bu… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr… Read more »
B&N Says Foreign-Language E-Books Selling ‘Outrageously’ Well in U.S.
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Selling foreign-language print books in the United States has always been tough due to high prices, hurdles at customs and the difficulties… Read more »
Update: Barnes & Noble Announces New Nook; Amazon Responds with Cheaper 3G
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Barnes & Noble’s new Nook, the Simple Touch Reader, aims to compete with the paperback. Following a couple of weeks of rumors (and an intern… Read more »
Updated: Liberty Media Offers $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble; Would Buy 70 Percent
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Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: Microsoft Misusing Patents To ‘Dominate’ Android
Barnes & Noble’s response to Microsoft’s lawsuit has opened a revealing window into the company’s patent attack on Android. The new filing d… Read more »
Why The Nook Upgrade Is A Big Deal For The E-Reader Market
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That’s right, I said e-readers. True, it looks like a tablet, runs like a tablet, and delivers a lot of the value tablets deliver, but the N… Read more »
Newest Update Makes Nook Color More Of A Real Android Tablet
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Some people have been pushing the Android envelope on the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook Color for months with a variety of hacks, using th… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-11-11: Verizon iPhone, Thunderbolt; Jobs Biography
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: the iPhone is the current best-seller at Verizon while some are murmuring about the HTC… Read more »
