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 »
Publishers' Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The 'Book' In 'Facebook'
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Book-readers’ social commerce site aNobii has got the relaunch for which three book publishers invested in it back in March. Read more »
With Netflix For Nook Color, Barnes & Noble Fights Against Kindle Fire
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is blurring the lines between the $199 Nook Color and $249 Nook Tablet with a major update for the Color, adding… 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 »
Kids On Kindle: Amazon Starts Publishing Children's Books
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With the release of its color-screened, picture-book-friendly Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding into publishing books for a new… Read more »
Kindle Fire Offers 'Disappointingly Poor' Experience; 'Miserable' Magazines
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Will the projected 3.9 million Kindle Fire buyers this quarter end up disappointed with their new tablets? User-experience guru Jakob Nielse… Read more »
The Truth About Amazon Publishing, Part II
In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says it will double the number of original titles it publishes next year, to 400… Read more »
Kindle Fire To Ship 3.9 Million Units In Q411, 2nd Only To iPad: Estimate
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the second most popular tablet after the iPad and will ship 3.9 million units in the last quarter of this year, proj… Read more »
Kobo Will Give Away 1 Free E-Book Per Month, With Caveats
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) recently gave Kindle-owning Prime members a new perk: The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows them to borrow a… Read more »
New Android App Lets Users Buy E-Books From Independent Bookstores
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As more independent bookstores partner with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to sell e-books, the American Booksellers Association is releasing a free ap… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Misses Expectations, Though Digital Sales Increase
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As it enters the holiday season with the new Nook Tablet for sale and hopes to seize on the “$2 billion up for grabs” as a result of Borders… Read more »
Amazon Author Tim Ferriss Giving Away 50 Kindle Fires, Fire-Exclusive App
Nearly a year ahead of his book’s publication, Tim Ferriss–the first author signed by Larry Kirshbaum’s as-yet unnamed Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN)… Read more »
South Korean Bookstore Chain Launches Qualcomm E-Reader
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Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore chain, is launching the first e-reader to use Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology. It has a color screen th… Read more »
New Stats Show Tablet Gender Gap Shrinking
More women are using tablets as the devices become more popular, according to new stats from eMarketer, but men aren’t making it up on the e… Read more »
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
The tablet magazine opportunity is not all about iPad apps.
Although nearly half of U.S. magazine publishers have launched iPad apps, about… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Bullish, Even On Drastically Shrinking Print Market
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Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects th… Read more »
Has The Kindle Fire Already Fragmented Android Tablets?
Amazon’s Kindle Fire was easily the most anticipated Android-based tablet launched in 2011, and could wind up outselling all other contender… Read more »
Why Barnes & Noble's James Patterson Exclusive Is Important
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Barnes & Noble’s new holiday promotion–buy two James Patterson books, get a novella free–is good news for Patterson fans. More significant… Read more »
Authors Guild: Kindle Owners' Lending Library Is "Nonsense"
The Authors Guild is taking a stand against the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Amazon’s new initiative allowing Kindle-owning Prime members… Read more »
Los Angeles Times Starts Publishing E-Books
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The Los Angeles Times will publish up to ten e-books over the next year, beginning with the $0.99 A Nightmare Made Real, which is available… Read more »
Kobo Adds Cheaper Ad-Supported Option For Kobo Touch
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Taking the lead from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Kobo is now selling a $99.99 Kobo Touch with Offers, $30 off the regular price. Read more »
Updated: Amazon Decides To Ship Kindle Fire And Kindle Touch Early
In a move that surely has nothing to do with the impending launch of the Nook Tablet, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is shipping the Kindle Fire today… Read more »
Condé Nast Will Add All Its Magazines To Nook Newsstand
The battle of the tablet newsstands continues: Condé Nast is making all 18 of its magazines available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color. Read more »
Penguin Launches 'Penguin Shorts' E-Singles Series
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Penguin is the latest publisher to test out e-singles with the launch of Penguin Shorts, an ongoing digital series of original fiction and n… Read more »
Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?
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A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets. Read more »
Comparing E-Readers And E-Reader/Tablets: Kindles, Nooks, Sony, Kobo
Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device — not an e-reader with so… Read more »
A '39 Clues' E-Singles Series For Kids, Over Christmas Vacation
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Building on the massive success of its 39 Clues adventure series for kids–which includes not just print books but also online games and car… Read more »
How Independent Bookstores Sell E-Books
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Contests, neon signs, bookmarks and ninety-minute customer help sessions: Some of the ways that indie bricks-and-mortar booksellers are prom… Read more »
Spanish Newspaper La Vanguardia Starts Publishing E-Books
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Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, “E-books De Vanguardia.” It appears to be the first Spanish newsp… Read more »
Amazon Adds Self-Published Amanda Hocking to 'Kindle Million Club'
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Amanda Hocking, the 27-year-old self-published author who said in March that she had sold over 1 million copies of her e-books, is just now… Read more »
Muhammad Ali, E-reader Kobo Settle Over Bee/Butterly Slogan
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An upstart e-reader firm picked the wrong fight when it decided to use boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s slogan without permission in a full-page… Read more »
Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million
E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will c… Read more »
Open Road Launches 'Short Shots' E-Singles Publishing Program
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Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media is getting into e-singles with a new program, “Short Shots,” which will publish short-form fict… Read more »
Hollywood, Silicon Valley Inspire New Teen E-Book Publisher
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Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in… Read more »
Google eBookstore Launches in Australia
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On the heels of opening its doors in the UK and Canada, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore launched today in Australia. Google is also launc… Read more »
Who Is The Target Audience Of Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet?
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When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enou… Read more »
