Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading.
The Kindle. The iPad. The Nook. Not to mention at least thirty other reading devices or Google [...]
NYT — Amazon.com introduces two new versions of the Kindle eReader today, one for $139, the lowest price yet for the device.
Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an eReader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the eCommerce [...]
Borders has reached an agreement with JiWire, a location-based mobile media company with an advertising platform, to enable companies to run ads across Borders’ Wi Fi network. According to JiWire, any time a user connects to Wi Fi in any Borders’ locations “they will see location-targeted messages and offers from leading national brands.” Under terms [...]
Amazon’s Kindle is sold out “temporarily,” according to the eReader’s web page, causing a bit of a fuss on the Intertubes. Is it a sign a new version is en route, or merely reflecting a manufacturing or supply chain glitch? We’ve had a think.
Amazon’s Kindle eReader has been sold out before: Back in December 2009 it [...]
Japan’s Sharp plans to enter the increasingly competitive eBook reader market later this year with a device that can read a new e-publishing file format of its own, it said Tuesday.
The company will launch an eBook reader in Japan before the end of the year and is also working towards a launch outside of Japan. [...]
The paperwork for a new B&N Nook showed up on the FCC website on Friday. The hard data (pictures, specs, etc) were withheld, so I’ve spent the last couple days pondering what few hints that B&N gave us. Note: this isn’t the Nook Wifi; that went through the FCC last month. No, this one is [...]