No Way To Go Mass Market With $199 E-Readers
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Never mind all the digits and ink being expended on e-readers — until the price comes down to $150 and below, the number of devices sold wo… Read more »
UK eBook Publisher Signs Google Books Content Deal
As Google (NSDQ: GOOG) faces international scrutiny and legal hearings over its plans to digitise and publish millions of out-of-print books… Read more »
Earnings: Bertelsmann Swings To Loss On Falling Magazine, Book Sales
“Strong increases” in e-book sales in the UK, Germany and the US couldn’t stop book publisher Random House’s January-to-June profits falling… Read more »
AT&T Readies Its 3G Network For Sony eBooks Device
The big news Sony’s press conference for its new line of eReaders was the deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) to provide its 3G wireless connection to… Read more »
Sony Unveils Three Would-Be Kindle Killers– Pocket, Touch and Now, 3G Wireless With AT&T
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ramping up its challenge to Amazon’s Kindle with three versions of its eReader, which it unveiled at a press conference… Read more »
Murdoch Sees Eventual ‘Break’ With Amazon Over Kindle; ‘Active’ Talks With Sony
A little more detail about an item we reported on during the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). earnings call: the rocky relationship with Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »
Chegg Founder’s New Venture: Electronic Books?
Updated: Is the founder of online textbook rental firm Chegg about to make a play in electronic books? Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid has now… Read more »
Sony Breaks $199 Barrier With New E-Reader — But Still No WiFi
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Updated: *Sony* plans to launch two new e-readers tomorrow — one with a touch screen priced at $299 and one at $199 — to better compete in… Read more »
Chart: Dissecting The E-Reader Market
The current crop of e-reader buyers are mostly men who have money and are into gadgets, but the next wave, according a Forrester study, will… Read more »
Don’t Expect A Microsoft E-Reader Any Time Soon
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We’ve heard a lot lately about companies piling into the e-reader business. One company that’s not: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Entertainment an… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Teams Up With AT&T For Free WiFi
Barnes & Noble is on a roll with digital media announcements. The latest: AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide unlimited, free WiFi access the chain’… Read more »
Google Tries Luring Book Search Users With … A (Sony) e-Reader
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For all the legal drama with the Justice Dept and authors’ and publishers’ trade groups about potential ad revenues and anti-trust concerns… Read more »
Samsung Enters E-Reader Market; Hopes To Best Amazon, Sony
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Samsung has big ambitions for the pocket-sized e-reader it introduced Monday. “We seek to become a bigger player than Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) or… Read more »
Amazon’s Bezos Apologizes For Removing Orwell Books From Kindle: ‘Stupid, Thoughtless’
Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos was traveling during the company’s earnings call Thursday but managed a virtual cameo appearance to apologize for la… Read more »
AT&T To Provide Data Connectivity For Plastic Logic’s E-Reader; More AT&T Network Overload
Plastic Logic’s upcoming e-reader — they better come up with a more catchy name– will get wireless connectivity from AT&T (NYSE: T), repor… Read more »
B&N’s E-Book Store: Details From Conference Call
The news is here. Below are notes from the conference call announcing the deal. William Lynch, president of BN.com, was the exec on the call… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Enters E-Book Market; Exclusive Deal With Plastic Logic
Barnes & Noble, in the midst of severe cost cutting and reorg, is getting serious about the e-book market again, following Amazon’s lead: it… Read more »
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Murdoch Says News Corp. Kindle-Like Device ‘Isn’t Likely’: ‘We’ll Be Absolutely Neutral’
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Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from Ne… Read more »
Amazon Drops Kindle 2 Price To $299
Two price cuts don’t make a pattern but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is making the same move with Kindle 2 that it tried with Kindle 1: sell it with… Read more »
Amazon Filings Suggest Ads May Be Coming To E-Books
Three recent filings by Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicate that the company is thinking about additional w… Read more »
Penguin Axes 100 Staff To Meet Digital Challenge
Newspapers aren’t the only paper-based businesses taking some painful decisions right now…Pearson-owned Book publisher Penguin is making a… Read more »
Like Earlier Kindles, The DX Is Plagued By Shortages
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Amazon.com’s Kindle DX is now sold out “due to heavy customer demand” and is taking four to six weeks to ship, according to a message on the… Read more »
The Real Genius Of The Kindle? The Return Of ‘Unitasking’
Thomas E. Weber is the Editor of SmartMoney.com and a veteran business and technology journalist. A former Wall Street Journal senior editor… Read more »
Analysts: Kindle Book Price Hikes Are Coming
Don’t expect the majority of Kindle books to be priced at $9.99 for too much longer. In a report Friday, Bernstein Research Analysts Claudio… Read more »
