With sales of trade books falling about 6.8% on a same store basis in the second quarter and forecasts calling for more book sales to migrate from print to digital over the next few years. the number one focus at Borders is to redefine its store model, Mike Edwards, CEO and Glen Tomasczewski, interim CFO, [...]
Among other revelations from yesterday’s Apple event was the unveiling of Ping, a new social network that runs through iTunes, which allows users to recommend, comment on, and discover iTunes music and to follow artists, who update their profiles regularly. It’s a bit like Facebook for friends and famous people crossed with a store.
Though Ping [...]
Early in today’s Fall special event, Apple surprised everyone with a sneak peak of the next, next iOS release–4.2. It’s all about the iPad.
iOS 4.1 hasn’t even been released yet (the most current software for iPhones and iPads is version 4.0.2), and iOS 4.2 is still weeks away–but Steve Jobs thought it important enough [...]
The rumors earlier this month were spot on. Sony is indeed releasing a redesigned and upgraded suite of its three digital readers—the 5”screen Pocket Edition; 6” screen Touch Edition and 7”screen Daily Edition—offering full optical touch screen functionality, nonglare black & white e-ink display along with reduced size and weight. The new devices are not [...]
It has been a bumpy year for Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book chain, with 720 stores. Sales and store traffic have suffered as the book business has shifted online; Amazon has held its early lead in the e-reader war; and early this month, Barnes & Noble put itself up for sale and is now [...]
The $99 price point on e-readers has finally, officially been reached! Beware the crowds on the street rushing to Borders to adopt the habit of digital reading.
The Borders group reduced the price of the two e-readers it sells–the Kobo and Aluratek e-readers–to $129 and $99 respectively. No doubt Borders hopes to make up for [...]
Amazon is taking another step offline, making its Kindle e-reader available in Staples stores this Fall, reports Reuters. The device is already available in select Target stores.
Staples will sell all three current models of the e-reader, the $130 WiFi-only model, as well as the more expensive 3G and large-screen DX. So, assuming they can keep [...]
Hands down, I prefer the multipurpose eReader (iPad). I can read, I can watch video when I’m tired of reading. I chat share immediately via email and… well you get the point. I do enjoy my kindle, but overall? Multi-Purpose wins for me.
VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with its unspoken assertion that the reader does not want to be disturbed. So what about a device that occupies the evolving intersection between?
“Strangers constantly ask about it,” Michael Hughes, a communications [...]
Lots of Little Improvements Make the Kindle 3 The Best E-Ink eReader
This is the best E-Ink device you can get right now. The changes and updates, while very cool, might not, however, justify scrapping your Kindle 2 in exchange for a Kindle 3–they’re still pretty similar. But the much-crisper screen, faster processor, newly laid out [...]
With Apple’s iAd venture off to a bumpy start, and iBook sales moving along slower than expected in the face of the Kindle’s enormous popularity, Apple is considering a move that will either be embraced by publishers and consumers, or despised. According to The Wall Street Journal and CNET, Apple is seriously considering the insertion [...]
Canadian book sales fell in the second quarter of 2010 compared to the same quarter last year, both in the number of books sold and the value of the sales, according to new figures from BookNet Canada. Overall, the market was down 4.1% in unit volume and 4.3% in sales in the quarter. The fiction [...]
Electronic books continue to show explosive growth in the Association of American Publishers Monthly Sales report. The AAP reports that June 2010 gross eBooks sales were $29.9 million, an increase of 118.9% over the $13.7 million in sales reported for the same period in 2009. Gross eBook sales for the first six months of [...]
PW: In what appears to be an effort to strengthen his voting position for a likely proxy fight, B&N founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio has excercised options to buy 990,740 shares of B&N stock for $16.8 Million, or $16.96 a share. Based on the Tuesday closing price of B&N stock, Riggio paid about $1.61 premium per [...]