Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
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 »
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This 'Kindle Christmas'
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In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab. Read more »
USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This ti… Read more »
Amazon Dances Around Kindle Sales Numbers (Again), But Kindle Fire Was Hot
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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 »
What's Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
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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 »
How Publishers And Authors Are Promoting E-Books For The Holidays
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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 »
The Queen On Kindle
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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 »
Updated: Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Update; New Features In iOS Apps
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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 »
Millennial Media Says Kindle Fire Impressions Growing 19 Percent Each Day
We still don’t have any exact figures from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold, but the latest figures out from… Read more »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
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 »
Self-Published Authors Debate Amazon's KDP Select
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more »
Under Fire, Amazon Says Kindle Fire Is Getting An Update Within Two Weeks
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Several weeks into the U.S.-only sales debut of the Kindle Fire, and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has been facing up to mixed reviews for the tablet,… Read more »
Amazon's Apple-Like Growth Is Missing One Element: Rising Profits
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Considering the amount of money Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) shareholders have pocketed in recent years, Amazon deserves its spot next to Apple a… Read more »
Amazon Expands Kindle Owners' Lending Library To Self-Published Authors
As rumored, self-published authors who agree to make their e-books available exclusively on Kindle for 90 days are now eligible to include t… 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 »
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more »
Surprise! Apple Forecasts Raised On Big Demand For iPhone 4S, But Not iPad
HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all ha… 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 »
The End Of The Streak: Dells Stops Selling Android Tablet In U.S.
Another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of the tablet market — specifically in the area of those many Android vendors that have failed… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of publishers releasing apps exclusively for the Kindle Fire. 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 »
Byliner Kicks Off Original Fiction With 'Joy Luck Club's Amy Tan
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Longform journalism site Byliner kicked off its narrative nonfiction “Byliner Originals” publishing program this past spring, with Jon Kraka… Read more »
Consumer Reports Launches iPad Subscriptions, 7 New Smartphone Apps
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Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers t… Read more »
Amazon Widens Its Kindle Footprint With €99 Device On Sale In Spain, Italy
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It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more »
Hearst's Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
Yes, HP May Finally Have Some News On WebOS — In The Next Two Weeks
After a disastrous wireless turn from HP (NYSE: HPQ) that culminated last week with HP taking a charge of $1.66 billion to wind down its web… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
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A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… 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 »
Has Microsoft Missed The Boat With A Tablet OS? Forrester Says Yes
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Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently d… Read more »
Black Friday Roundup: Strong Start, But Will Sales Hold?
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Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity tha… Read more »
An E-Book Gifting Campaign, Starting On Cyber Monday
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In a holiday season when e-readers are more popular than ever, many consumers still don’t know how to give them to others as gifts. So today… Read more »
White Friday For Samsung: A Lifeline In Aussie Galaxy Tablet Injunction?
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Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one… Read more »
How Will Facebook's Buffy Phone Look? There's An App For That
Facebook has not approached anything resembling a confirmation of the reports that it is developing its own phone with HTC, code-named “Buff… Read more »
