Reports: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up
Amazon’s long-awaited Android tablet appears to be just two days away from making its first public appearance, and a few details trickled ou… 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 »
Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More
From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content. A couple… Read more »
Amazon Kindle Users Finally Can Check Out (Some) Library E-Books
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Roughly five months since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) promised library lending that would work for Kindle, the service is live at more than 11,000 U… Read more »
Why RIM Won’t Kill The PlayBook And Nokia Is Its New Biggest Danger
You’ll recall that I didn’t think that much of Research In Motion’s (Rim) PlayBook – its 7in, Flash-enabled tablet – when I reviewed it in J… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… 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 »
Authors, Publishers Set To Part Ways In Google Books Settlement?
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), authors and publishers have been locked in a stalemate since last March when a federal judge rejected their ambitious b… Read more »
Can’t Find ‘Orphan’ Authors? Writers Group Says It Had No Trouble
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Several universities recently declared, against the wishes of the Author’s Guild, that they will begin sharing digital versions of so-called… Read more »
Amazon Launches In Spain
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Hola, Amazon: The company is officially launching in Spain today, as reported last week. 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 »
Starbucks Chooses Splashy Magic Title As First E-Book Pick Of The Week
Starbucks’ first e-book choice for its expanded pick-of-the-week program is The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern. Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) vis… Read more »
Apple Highlights E-Singles In iBookstore
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has its Kindle Singles store and now Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is highlighting shorter reads in its own “Quick Reads” section,… Read more »
Authors To Universities: Give Up Your Google Books
In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital… Read more »
A Few More Details Emerge On Amazon’s E-Book Rental Plan
Following the report this morning that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is in discussions with publishers about an e-book rental service for Amazon Prime… Read more »
A New Headache For Borders: Bookseller Countersued Over Its Customer List
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Next Jump, the firm that managed Borders’ Perks program and was then sued by the bookseller, is fighting back. Two weeks ago, Borders sued N… Read more »
Scribd Reader App Float Adds 100 Pubs; Subscriber Plans, Ads Coming
Float, the social reader iPhone app from document sharing site Scribd’s has added content from another 100 publishers to the 150 launch part… Read more »
Community Writing Site Wattpad Raises $3.5 Million In First Round Funding
Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $… Read more »
Report: Amazon Considering E-Book Rentals For Prime Members
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is in discussions with publishers about launching an e-book rental system for Prime members, according to the WSJ. But i… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-12-11
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» BostonGlobe.Com Launches Today; Shifts To Paying Subscribers Only Oct. 1 (paidContent)
» Righthaven: We Might Have… Read more »
Updated: As Print Book Revenues Plunge, E-Books Aren’t Making It Up
Looking at book publishing statistics and noting huge e-book growth is fun–but not in the case of the new statistics released by the Associ… 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 »
Blast From The Past: Interactive Fiction Games Come To Kindle
The year is 1603, and you are in Elizabethan London. When you receive an invitation from an old acquaintance, you expect nothing but an ente… Read more »
UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
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Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-9-11: Intel Meego; Apple/Samsung; Apps; Microsoft
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Intel is remaining committed to the MeeGo wireless OS, despite reports that… Read more »
Wiley’s Professional/Trade E-Book Revenues Triple To 11 Percent Of Sales
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Book publisher John Wiley & Sons’ professional/trade book division made $11 million from e-book sales in the first quarter of fiscal year 20… Read more »
Kobo Sues To Keep Its E-Reader Away From Borders Buyer
Borders was e-reading company Kobo’s first — and, so far, only — U.S. bookstore partner. And when it became clear in recent months that Bo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Starz; NBCU; Zinio; Houghton Mifflin; TAN; AudienceScience
– Starz Digital Media: Mara Winokur is now SVP of digital media, business development and strategy at Starz Media — a position that makes… Read more »
Huffington Post Starts Publishing E-Books
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The AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huffington Post Media Group is the latest news organization to become an e-book publisher. The site will release two tit… Read more »
Kobo To Sell E-Reader Through German Etailer redcoon.de
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Kobo, which launched its German e-bookstore in July and introduced the German-language version of the Kobo E-Reader just a few days ago, now… Read more »
Here’s Something That Counts As Good News For Borders
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Next Jump, the company that Borders sued for contacting Borders Rewards customers and redirecting them to its own site, has agreed to take t… Read more »
Reports: Amazon Launching In Spain Next Week; Kindle On The Way
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Amazon.es in Spain on September 15, according to Spanish newspapers El Pais and El Mundo, with a Kindle sto… Read more »
A New Transmedia Initiative For Kids
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Last September, Rick Richter, the former president of Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) Children’s, launched Ruckus Media Group, a kids’ book app… Read more »
The Rise Of Agent-Publishers Is Bad For The Book Business
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Nearly two thousand years ago, Plutarch wrote of a great ship that bore Theseus home from Crete. As its planks decayed, the plucky Athenians… Read more »
Sony Brings Its E-book Store To Europe
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Five years after launching it elsewhere, Sony (NYSE: SNE) is finally ready to open up its electronic book store in Europe.
Reader Store fir… Read more »
Report: Amazon Kindle Tablet Is The Real Deal, And It Looks Like A PlayBook
The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet that has been the subject of so much speculation has just taken one leap closer to reality: a report just out… Read more »
Borders’ Claim That Its Customer Names Were Stolen Could Mar Asset Sale
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A federal judge said today that he will wait until next week to rule on whether Borders can wrest back control of a list of half-a-million c… Read more »
An E-Book For Every War
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A bestselling thriller author and financial journalist is self-publishing a series of e-book novellas, each featuring the same two character… Read more »
Amazon’s New Kindle Book Promotion: The Breakdown
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is moving from periodic e-book sales (like Sunshine Deals and Big Deals) into regular month-long Kindle promotions (alon… Read more »
