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 »
Google’s E-Books Store Will Start Off With Around 500,000 Titles
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is slowly rolling out details about its forthcoming online e-books store, which it is calling Google Editions. At the Fr… Read more »
Virtual ATM for Amazon: Piles On Kindle Fees, Increases Book Costs Outside U.S.
The international Kindle is starting to look like a virtual ATM for Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). Not only will U.S. Whispernet users have to pay $5… Read more »
Using The International Kindle Could Rack Up Fees
Not only does the new international Kindle cost more than its U.S. counterpart, owners who want to take advantage of the wireless connectivi… Read more »
Latest E-Reader Predictions 50 Percent More Optimistic But It’s All Guesswork
Just last month, Forrester Research was sticking with its May forecast that sales of e-Readers would hit 2 million this year. Now it’s drama… Read more »
Amazon Kindle DX’s NYT Discount Starts Rolling Out; Outside Delivery Area Only
Back when Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) DX launched, a big hype around the announcement was how it would optimize newspaper/magazine display, and that… Read more »
Verizon, iRex Teaming Up On E-Reader; Will Launch At Best Buy
*Sprint* has the Kindle. *AT&T* has *Sony* and still-to-launch PlasticLogic. Now Verizon (NYSE: VZ) gets the iRex DR800SG — and the wireles… Read more »
Dan Brown's New Book Selling Better On Kindle Than In Hardcover Via Amazon
Need more proof that we’re witnessing the beginning of the e-book boom? It appears that the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol, the latest th… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Earnings Call: Tweeting Murdoch: News Corp. Plans To Start Charging For More News Sites In FY10
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Some of my live Twitter coverage of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). FY09/Q4 earnings call. Among other things, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert… 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 »
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 »
Earnings: Amazon Follows Zappos Buy With 10 Percent Profit Drop
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) made its big splash for the week Wednesday, with its $847 million acquisition of shoe retailer Zappos.com propelling it… 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 »
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 »
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Report: German Launch Of Amazon’s Kindle Stalled Over Wireless-Connection Pricing
The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, a success if you believe the buzz around the device and some of the numbers analysts have come up with, is l… 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 »
WaPo’s Brauchli: Evaluating Online Fee Options ‘Prudently’
One question that inevitably comes up these days when a top newspaper exec talks online with readers: How can I pay you for online news? (Of… Read more »
Research Firm Sees Openings For Kindle’s Competitors
So far, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has dominated the nascent e-reader market (Just look at the attention being given to the company’s seemingly min… Read more »
Advertising Potential on Kindle: Showtime Starts With Script Downloads
Amazon’s Kindle is being touted by some in the industry as one of the surefire ways publishers and content providers can charge for content,… Read more »
Never’s a Long Time: Amazon May Not Release Full Kindle Sales Data, Ever, For Competitive Reasons
To quote Carol Bartz, the CEO of *Yahoo*, “never’s a long time”. But that’s what Jeff Bezos promised today at Amazon’s annual shareholder me… Read more »
Amazon Adds Kindle Self-Publishing For Blogs
As a publisher, getting on the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. We should know — paidContent was among the sites i… Read more »
Boston Globe Publisher: No More Layoffs Planned But That Can Change
P. Steven Ainsley runs the Boston Globe but the publisher says he wasn’t part of the decision to threaten a May 1 shutdown unless unions cam… Read more »
Dallas Morning News To Senate: Amazon Kindle Is Not A Business Model For Newspapers
Rupert Murdoch wasn’t the only one taking out after Amazon and Kindle the same day it announced a pilot program with the New York Times and… Read more »
Amazon Kindle DX: Sorry, No Newspaper Discount If You Can Get Home Delivery
Apart from unveiling the new, larger screen Kindle DX, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos announced that subscriptions for the Washington Po… Read more »
