Washington Post’s Sheikholeslami: ‘Year Of Experimentation’ For Paid Mobile App
Like so many of its peers, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is trying to find the right notes to play in just the right order when it comes t… Read more »
Washington Post Adds iPhone App With Annual Fee
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A few hours after Steve Case tweeted that Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) CEO Don Graham told a hometown crowd Tuesday the paper wouldn’t ch… Read more »
Macmillan CEO Promises Most (Older) E-Books Will Still Be Under $10
Weeks after Macmillan CEO John Sargent told Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) the publisher was switching to the agency model for e-book sales — promptin… Read more »
The E-Book Marketplace: Does Anybody Really Know What Price It Is?
Someone at Macmillan has a sense of humor. When I landed on the site Saturday night to check on e-book pricing and availability following Am… Read more »
Hachette Joins Macmillan In Rejecting $9.99 Baseline E-Book Pricing
Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group is joining fellow iPad launch publisher Macmillan in plans to demand higher prices for its e-books, the… Read more »
Amazon Kindle: More Than 3 Million Could Be Sold This Year: Analyst
That’s according to updated estimates from Doug Anmuth, analyst at Barclays Capital, in light of Amazon’s Q4 results and recent accounting c… Read more »
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner
It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian… Read more »
@ OnMedia: Mark Cuban: Google, Content Aggregators Are Vampires; Newspapers Are Zombies
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When Mark Cuban (image, left) thinks of newspapers, he thinks of vampires. Newspapers getting their blood sucked by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and… Read more »
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner
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It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Dr Who, VMED VOD, ITV PPV, Tory Broadband, Absolute Radio/Kindle
- Dr Who: The BBC is planning to extend the Dr Who franchise into games. This signals the BBC re-entering the gaming industry after shutting… Read more »
Amazon To Customers: ‘We Will Have To Capitulate To Macmillan’
Five major publishers were highlighted by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) at Wednesday’s unveiling of the iPad and the iBookstore. Two days later, one of… Read more »
How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide
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When we did the first version of this chart heading into the 2009 holiday sales season, four contenders — including the unexpected Barnes &… Read more »
Taking A Deeper Look At Media’s Appetite For The iPad
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For some critics, the lack of participation from content companies at yesterday’s iPad launch threw some cold water on predictions for how t… Read more »
Amazon’s ‘Millions’ of Kindles Are Drop In $9.5 Billion Sales Bucket; App Will Be On iPad
Jeff Bezos doesn’t mind telling analysts and investors millions of people own Kindles. How many have been sold? That’s another question. Des… Read more »
Nevermind iPad, Kindle’s Flame To Still Burn Strong
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Only if you were flying transatlantic the whole day, could you have missed the brilliant lights of reality distortion field hovering over th… Read more »
How Content Companies Should Deal With Apple In An iSlate World
Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as maki… Read more »
Amazon Offers Publishers A New Option: DIY Apps
One of the biggest knocks toward Amazon’s Kindle has been the closed nature of the Internet-capable device. That starts to dissipate today w… Read more »
Amazon Unveils New Kindle Royalty Option; Incentive To Keep E-Book Prices Down
As word spreads of book publishers talking to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) about a possible deal for its anticipated tablet device, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN… Read more »
Amazon In Europe Roundup: MP3s On UK Android; Kindle In German/French
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its larger Kindle, the DX, in Europe two weeks ago, the promotion around the product was noticeable for be… Read more »
Will E-Readers Help Spread Knowledge, Or Wall It Off? Here’s A Scorecard That We Can Use
Upendra Shardanand is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Daylife, which helps publishers add content and inventory without additiona… Read more »
Kindle DX Goes Global, But Still Not Truly Local
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Better late than never? Amazon today has started to sell the Kindle DX, the larger of its e-readers, outside the U.S. The launch comes three… Read more »
IRex Wireless E-Reader Will Miss The Holiday Party; Amazon Brags
The Nook can’t be bought to go in stores or ordered for December delivery any more but at least Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is fulfilling ord… Read more »
First Take: Nook Ready To Try; Buy? Not So Fast
I finally had the chance to try out the Nook this weekend, not the in-depth look needed for a full review but 30 minutes or so hands on as a… Read more »
Nook Fails First Test With Critics; Mossberg: ‘Wait’; Pogue: ‘Slow, Buggy’
It’s not that rare for Walt Mossberg and David Pogue to share some common views on new gadgets but when both of them wave you off a product,… Read more »
Bezos: Nook E-Book Lending Feature Is ‘Sophie’s Choice’
E-book sharing offers one of the more intriguing differences between the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle and the Nook from Barnes & Noble (NYSE:… Read more »
Which Companies Will Win The Battle For The E-Book Consumer?
We’ve been writing a lot about e-reader devices, but let’s focus on the content for a moment. Why? Because selling a lifetime of e-book cont… Read more »
Ten Predictions For The E-Reader/E-Book Market In 2010
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This has been a breakout year for e-readers and e-books–device sales will have more than tripled by the end of this year, and content sales… Read more »
‘Record’ Kindle Sales Send Amazon’s Stock Surging
While Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and *Sony* struggle to meet the demand for their new e-Readers, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is riding high on what… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Misses In-Store Date For Nooks
Planning a trip to your local Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) this week for a look at the Nook? Save the gas. In the weeks since B&N announced it… Read more »
Kindle’s Gift For The Holidays? Native PDF
Updated: Until today one of the biggest differences between the Kindle 2 and its top wireless e-reader competitors — aside from sheer avail… Read more »
Sony, B&N’s Kindle Challengers Could Be Scarce Come Christmas
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Updated: *Sony* and Barnes & *Noble* may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challeng… Read more »
DJ’s Hinton: WSJ Has 30,000 Kindle Subs
Roughly 30,000 users subscribe the Wall Street Journal Kindle Edition, *Dow Jones* head Les Hinton told the Paley Center conference Rafat is… Read more »
How Wireless E-Readers Stack Up
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the second-gen Kindle earlier this year, it had no competition in the wireless e-reader category. By the… Read more »
News Corp. Isn’t Talking To NBC Or About Travel; Online Fee Plans Delayed; Kindle Still Not Enough
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Rupert Murdoch knocked down at least one acquisition rumor — one he helped give life to at the News Corp annual meeting — and left one sta… Read more »
Amazon Combines Kindle 2, Global; AT&T Replaces Sprint On New Models; International DX In 2010
That $20 price drop for the international Kindle goes a little deeper than the obvious competitive move; it was the company’s way of signali… Read more »
How Long Will Amazon’s Silence On Kindle Sales Last?
As has now become typical, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) executives provided no specifics on Kindle sales during the company’s earnings call. But aske… Read more »
Earnings: Amazon Tops Estimates; Posts Big Profit Jump
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) posted big increases in quarterly net income and revenue Thursday; sales were up 28 percent, while net income jumped 68… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Tries To Stake E-Reader Claim With Wi-Fi, 3G And A Dash Of Color; On Sale Nov. 30
Updated: My local Barnes & Noble store says “The Nook” — the new e-reader being unveiled in New York today — won’t hit stores until Novemb… Read more »
IRex’s Hamilton Details Plans For Publishers; NewspaperDirect, News Stand, Storefronts
For the last couple of years, Amazon’s Kindle has owned the market — a very small one, to be sure — when it comes to delivering subscripti… Read more »
IRex Exec Won’t Rule Out Carrier Subsidies For New E-Reader
To hear Kevin Hamilton, the North American CEO for IREX Technologies, his company is talking to just about everybody about every possible sc… Read more »
