Amazon And Apple Have Mirror Opposite Tablet Content Strategies
Amazon’s announcement of their media tablet the Kindle Fire was long anticipated. I won’t add to the countless virtual column inches discus… 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 »
Amazon’s Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has revealed its price-busting Kindle Fire tablet for $199 alongside a new touchscreen Kindle Touch. But that news will… 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 »
The Morning Lowdown 09-28-11
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» Publishers’ Digital Download Hopes Rise Ahead Of Kindl… Read more »
Can Publishers Capitalize On Kindle Tablet To Boost’ Digital Downloads?
Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versi… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Will Be The First True Media Tablet
Tomorrow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) holds a major launch event and will likely unveil its first tablet, according to TechCrunch named the Kindle Fi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-27-11
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» Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up (paidContent)
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Gains Dream… 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 »
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 »
Updated: Amazon Appstore Outside The U.S.? Not So Fast
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) thrives on scale for its business model. But when it comes to launching new products, the company has often taken a caut… 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 »
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 »
A Few More Details Emerge On Amazon’s E-Book Rental Plan
Following the report this morning that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is in discussions with publishers about an e-book rental service for Amazon Prime… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Why Amazon’s Tablet Will Challenge Apple In A Way That Google Cannot
The rumours are unstoppable: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is going to unveil a tablet in the next few weeks, and if the hands-on description of an in… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Bestselling Self-Published Author Signs Deal With Simon & Schuster
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John Locke, the first self-published author to sell over a million copies of his books on Kindle, is the latest to sign a deal with a tradit… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-22-11: Amazon; WebOS Future/TouchPad sales; Apple LTE; LG
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A look at some of the top stories in mobile today:
» Amazon has been spotted trademarking the name and logo for Lab126, the divis… Read more »
‘The Help’ 1st Single Title To Sell A Million Kindle Copies (Says Amazon)
Two more authors, Kathryn Stockett and Janet Evanovich, have joined the growing group of authors who have sold over a million copies of thei… Read more »
Amazon Is Finally Cracking Down On Kindle Spammers
Folks looking to make a quick buck have turned to selling spammy and stolen e-books on the Kindle Store. A few months after the problem firs… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11
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» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
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Amazon Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App
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Another day, and another app publisher moves to the web to get around Apple’s in-app purchasing rules. This one is a biggie: Amazon today of… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-10-11: Amazon/Apple; Moto; Walmart; Nuance; AT&T/T-Mo
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple/Amazon: One solution to the change in charging terms that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has m… Read more »
The Lawsuit Against Apple And Big Publishers: What’s In It
This evening, Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman filed a class action lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five of the “big 6″ publisher… Read more »
In Savvy Nook Promotion, Barnes & Noble Reminds Us It’s A Publisher, Too
Barnes & Noble’s last Nook promotion was best described as lame (so we did), but the company’s new back-to-school offer is smarter: Buy any… Read more »
Why Isn’t Kindle Promoting Its Social Networking Features?
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Twitter is abuzz over the discovery of Amazon’s “new” Kindle social network, but these features–sharing notes, following and finding users… Read more »
Updated: Kindle’s Free Sci-Fi Mag Hits #1, But Policy Confuses Shoppers
Amazon’s attempt to reach out to science fiction fans is working: Less than 24 hours after it was released, the free digest edition of Fanta… Read more »
Kindle Tests New Subscription Model On Science Fiction Fans
Science fiction/fantasy is one of the fastest-growing e-book genres, and Amazon’s Kindle Store is wooing fans with a new offer: A free subsc… Read more »
