Kindle Library Lending To Launch In September?
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Nook, Kobo and *Sony* Reader users can borrow e-books from libraries, but Kindle has been a holdout. Now it appears that library lending for… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Michael Connelly And The Art Of E-Book Price Cutting
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How did a book first published in 1992 suddenly land at the top of the Kindle and Nook bestseller lists in 2011? Read more »
Our Guide To E-Singles
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E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
As Amazon & Mondadori Announce Agreement, Kindle’s Next Stop Could Be Italy
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Italy’s largest book publisher, Mondadori, is making thousands of e-books available through Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for the first time. Could an… Read more »
Kindle And Nook Target The Back-To-School Set
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Toys ‘R’ Us is a popular place to buy things like Lego kits, Crayola markers and Barbie tricycles. But the chain’s latest addition skews mor… Read more »
Kindle 3G With Special Offers A Bestseller As Amazon Sales Soar 51% In Q2
Fueled by “accelerating” Kindle sales–especially of the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, which was released just two weeks ago but has alread… Read more »
Updated: Apple Forces Kindle, Nook, Kobo To Yank In-App Bookstores
See ya, Kindle app store: *Apple* has begun enforcing in-app purchasing restrictions for e-reading apps, with the Kindle, Kobo, and Nook and… Read more »
Amazon Says Harry Potter E-Books Will Be Available On Kindle
Following a spate of rumors over the past couple days on various blogs (not this one) that the Kindle will be Harry Potter-less, an Amazon (… Read more »
Updated: Borders’ Downfall And What’s Next
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Why did Borders fail and what does its shuttering mean for Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), book publishers and others? Here is our FAQ. Read more »
Amazon’s ‘Big Deals’ Puts 900 Kindle Books On Sale–Including Big 6 Titles
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Following the success of its “Sunshine Deals” promotion, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running an even bigger sale on Kindle books: The Big Deal, w… Read more »
Promised Kindle App For HP TouchPad Finally Arrives
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You can now add Kindle to the relatively short list of apps available for the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, the company announced on the HP Palm… Read more »
Amazon Announces Kindle Textbook Rental
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is reaching out to students with the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental. Textbooks are available for periods between 30 an… Read more »
Amazon’s Tablet Price Strategy: Go Low(-er Than The iPad)
Here’s one way Amazon’s new tablet can compete against the iPad: Price. Nobody claims the iPad is cheap. And the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet… Read more »
Stanford Math Professor Tests A New Book Publishing Equation
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When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an ar… Read more »
Report: Amazon Tablet And Two Updated Kindles Coming This Fall
The rumors have been flying and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they’re legit: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching a tablet and two upda… Read more »
AT&T Sponsors Cheaper Kindle 3G With Special Offers
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Amazon’s Kindle 3G with Special Offers has something new to offer: AT&T (NYSE: T) sponsorship and a 15 percent price drop, to $139. Read more »
Kobo Launches Germany’s Largest E-Bookstore, Beating Out Amazon
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Kobo may lag behind the Kindle in the U.S., but not in Germany. Tomorrow, in the first in a series of international rollouts for the company… Read more »
Guardian Extends Its Digital Effort To E-Readers With Kindle App
This looks like an example of “Digital First” in action: today, the Guardian announced that it has launched a Kindle app, its first for the… Read more »
IDC: Nook Color Leading E-Reader Sales For First Time Ever, As Tablets Lag
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Kindle’s sales are suffering from Amazon’s lack of a color offering, at least that’s the read from a new e-reader report released this after… Read more »
Hitting Online Bestseller Lists Is Key For E-Books’ Success
How much do e-books benefit when they hit the Nook and Kindle bestseller lists? A lot, new findings suggest. Meanwhile, the New York Times b… Read more »
Updated: Kindle and Nook NYTimes.com Subscribers Finally Get Digital Access
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Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would “soon” also have free access to NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) the… Read more »
A New Batch Of Digital Picture Books Comes To Tablets
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Tablets and color e-readers offer a brighter palette for kids’ e-books–and an opportunity for publishers. HarperCollins is the latest to lo… Read more »
Tablets Are For Men, E-Readers Are For Women? So The Research (And Ads) Say
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A recent Fox News article asking, “So are men iPads and women Nooks?” raised my hackles….especially when the piece went on to say, “Nooks… Read more »
Poll: Plenty Of E-Book Shoppers Buy Directly From Author Or Publisher
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E-retailers like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) are still the primary places that people buy e-books. But publishers and… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Seth Godin’s Imprint Bundles E-Book With 200 Free Songs
Marketing guru Seth Godin created a new imprint, The Domino Project, in partnership with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) as a vehicle to experiment with… Read more »
Pottermore.com’s Biggest Losers (Plus One Surprise Winner)
Pottermore.com is great news for Harry Potter fans, who have not been able to read the series in digital form until now; for J. K. Rowling,… Read more »
Gothamist Begins Experiment In Long-Form — And Well-Paying — Journalism
Who says no one wants to read long-form articles on the web? The flagship of local news and culture blog network Gothamist hopes to torpedo… Read more »
Three Ways Pottermore.com Could Change Book Publishing
After a suspenseful buildup, J. K. Rowling has announced that Pottermore.com will be an e-bookstore, exclusively selling Harry Potter e-book… Read more »
The Latest Amazon Tablet Leak: It’s Coming This Autumn
Lest you thought that those rumors about an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet might be drying up, here is another: it will be launched sometime in… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com
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As Barnes & Noble’s board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a bu… Read more »
The First Self-Published Author To Sell 1 Million Kindle Books
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While self-published authors are widely acknowledged as a growing force in e-book sales, only a few have reached superstar status. One of th… Read more »
Updated: Google Launches Ebook Affiliate Program; Rate Higher Than Amazon’s
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched a program that allows website owners to earn commissions for referring sales to the Google eBookstore, Goog… Read more »
Two Weeks Into Kindle Sunshine Deals Promo, Higher-Priced E-books Rebound
With just one day remaining in the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle “Sunshine Deals” promotion, which deeply discounted 650 e-books to $2.99 or le… Read more »
New Kindle Series Uses Digital Tricks To Entice Tweens To Read The Classics
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A new digital-only series aims to get kids to read the classics by integrating them into modern adventure books. Booksurfers, a new adventur… Read more »
What Amazon Should Do With Its Kindle iPad App
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This week, the iPad app world is frantically sorting through some recent changes in its environment. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has quietly altered… Read more »
Kindle Already Over 15 Percent of Amazon’s Business, Analyst Estimates
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We’ve seen a lot of extremely high estimates for Kindle revenues recently: a Citigroup report earlier this week projected that Kindle would… Read more »
Kindle Christmas: Citi Analyst Predicts Sub-$100 Kindles By The Holidays
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We could see a $99 Kindle by Christmas, says Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. In a research note, Mahaney predicts not only that Kindle and e… Read more »
Amazon’s Bezos: Mobile Shopping Has Great Room For Improvement
Today in Amazon.com’s shareholders meeting, which was available online as a live webcast, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos answered questi… Read more »
A Quarter Of The Kindle Top 100 Owe Their Success To ‘Sunshine Deals’
As we wrote earlier today, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle’s Sunshine Deals promotion is already shaking up the Kindle bestseller list. How much?… Read more »
Amazon’s Sunshine Deals Is Already Shaking Up The Kindle Bestseller List
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Amazon.com’s Kindle Sunshine Deals promotion, which deeply discounted 650 e-books in collaboration with their publishers, is only a week old… Read more »
