B&N Comes Down To Kindle Fire’s Level With 8 GB, $199 Nook Tablet
Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more »
Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more »
Social reading site Goodreads says the primary way its users discover new books to read is through search. Read more »
Independent bookstore are unlikely to ever make money from e-books, in the opinion of Praveen Madar of San Francisco independent bookstore K… Read more »
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Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a… Read more »
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more »
Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more »
Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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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 »
The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still hig… Read more »
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more »
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 »
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying a… Read more »
Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more »
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 »
Last year was widely perceived to be a year of outrageous e-book growth, but some new research suggests otherwise. According to new data fro… Read more »
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to get a Nook device in the hands of every person in your family, except maybe your baby. Babies, it turns… Read more »
The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows. And teens are slow… Read more »
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 »
Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. Th… Read more »
As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to b… Read more »
Depressing new research by Forrester indicates that book publishers are becoming increasingly disheartened about the state of the industry:… Read more »
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are… Read more »
Some reports today suggest that Kindle Fire sales will cut into sales of Amazon’s other Kindles. For a variety of reasons, though, it’s too… Read more »
In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subs… Read more »
In a *CNBC* interview today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch told David Faber, “Whatever we do, we will continue to have a tigh… Read more »
Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to sepa… Read more »
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 »
In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
This is the second in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
Ahead of the release of the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com is running a survey on reading habit… Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader will hit the UK “in the not too distant future,” a company VP said yesterday. The Kindle and Kobo are already… Read more »
$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 »
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