Pottermore Delays E-Bookstore Launch, Citing Overwhelming Traffic Concerns
Pottermore, the interactive Harry Potter community site that recently launched in beta, was supposed to start its exclusive sales of Harry P… Read more »
We Need A Social News Reader That Highlights Opposing Views
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I have tried out quite a few social news readers, and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will… 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 »
The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple Directly
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To this point, the companies that have tried to challenge Apple’s dominance of the tablet market have failed in head-to-head comparisons whe… Read more »
Amazon Breaks $100 Barrier With New Kindle E-Readers; As Low As $79
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The Kindle Fire was the star of today’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) show but don’t ignore the retooled Kindle e-reader lineup. CEO Jeff Bezos knows… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Sell Millions, But It Won’t Threaten Apple’s iPad
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Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) revealed its new Kindle lineup, including a touchscreen E Ink eReader and Amazon’s first color touchscreen tablet,… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Stock Watch: B&N Plummets, Apple Unmoved On Kindle Launch
A knock for Nook? Barnes & Noble’s share price fell 10 percent as Jeff Bezos announced not just a Kindle tablet but a revision to Amazon’s c… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Stunner: New Kindle Tablet Will Go For $199
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) unveiled its new Kindle Fire this morning, and it will be priced at $199, well below Apple’s iPad, which dominates the s… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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)
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Not Just Random House: Over 20 Percent Of Hachette’s Sales Are E-Books, Too
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On the heels of the news yesterday that over 20 percent of Random House’s U.S. sales are e-books, Hachette Book Group says that e-books made… 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 »
Over 20 Percent Of Random House U.S. Sales Are Digital
2011 is widely believed to be a year of explosive growth for e-books, but few statistics are available yet for this year. However, here’s 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 »
New Sony Reader Is Kind Of Pricey For An E-Reader Nobody Wants
Like the Kindle Tablet, the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) Reader has not been officially confirmed for a launch this fall, but this weekend a MobileR… Read more »
Amazon Could Sell Three To Five Million Tablets In Q4 2011, Forrester Says
Watch out, Apple: The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet, widely expected to be released this September or October and to be cheaper than the iPad,… Read more »
Let Readers Share E-Books, And They’ll Really Take Off
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Limits on sharing and borrowing are limiting widespread e-book adoption. Remove those barriers, new research says, and the e-book market wil… 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 »
What You Haven’t Been Waiting For: Soundtracks For E-Books
A few of the items on many e-book readers’ wish lists: Proper formatting. Accurate page numbers. Low prices. Sharing. Library lending. “Bett… 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 »
Sex and the (E-)Single Girl: Cosmopolitan, Open Road Publish E-Original
Cosmopolitan is publishing its first e-single, a collection of three “naughty tales” by Jennifer Weiner, Jane Green and Meg Cabot, with Ope… Read more »
Plastic Logic’s E-Readers May See Light Of Day In Russian Classrooms
Remember Plastic Logic, the Cambridge, England, e-reader maker whose long-awaited first-generation device never came to market and was final… Read more »
