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Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays
By on January 23rd, 2012

Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays

The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a ”mini-report” on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that found the number of Americans owning tablets and e-readers nearly doubled over the holidays. The bottom line numbers represent phenomenal growth in consumer device adoption: from mid-December 2011 to early January 2012, the number of Americans owning a tablet computer rose to 19% from [...]

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Powell’s To Get Espresso Book Machine
By on January 18th, 2012

Powell’s To Get Espresso Book Machine

  Powell’s Books, one of the country’s largest and most successful bookstores, will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore. “We are excited to offer this service to our customers, expanding our vast inventory at the City of Books location from one million volumes [...]

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Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season
By on January 06th, 2012

Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season

Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season. Kobo has released its sales numbers for the holiday season, posting record highs. There was ten-fold increase in new customers from the company’s pre-holiday period, and the total number of registered users nearly doubled from six weeks prior. There was a 500% increase in e-gifting from November to December, and [...]

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Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business
By on January 05th, 2012

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business. Barnes & Noble could be a very different company one year from now. Following a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that B&N is looking to sell Sterling Publishing (a process that a source told PW “is moving along”), the company disclosed Thursday morning that it is considering spinning off its [...]

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Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks
By on January 03rd, 2012

Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks

Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks. As Apple celebrates its part of 1.2 billion app downloads last week, those centuries-past, paper-based tomes are the focus of the company’s first big news in 2012. While we’re sure it is hard at work on a budget iPad and a new [...]

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By on December 13th, 2011

eBooks, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores – NYTimes.com

Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures – NYTimes.com.   Facing economic gloom and competition from cheap e-readers, brick-and-mortar booksellers entered this holiday season with the humblest of expectations. But the initial weeks of Christmas shopping, a boom time for the book business, have yielded surprisingly strong sales for many bookstores, which report [...]

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Nook Tablet Reviewed: Like the Kindle Fire, But…
By on November 23rd, 2011

Nook Tablet Reviewed: Like the Kindle Fire, But…

      Nook Tablet Reviewed: Like the Kindle Fire, But…. The Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet are the two big players in a new category of device that has emerged in the wake of the iPad: the handheld multimedia viewer. Unlike the iPad, these devices really don’t mimic and transform the functions [...]

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Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson
By on October 24th, 2011

Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson

Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson. Jay Conrad Levinson is the father of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing”. Guerrilla Marketing has swiftly blossomed into a series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for individuals to spend less, get more, and [...]

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By on October 24th, 2011

Amazon Announces New Kindle Format 8 for Graphics Rich eBooks

Amazon Announces New Kindle Format 8 for Graphics Rich eBooks | ITProPortal.com. Online retail giant Amazon has introduced a new web based format for eBooks on its Kindle e-reader device, which brings enhanced resolution for comics and children books on the device. With the new Kindle Fire tablet device, Amazon is rolling out the Kindle [...]

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Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader
By on October 20th, 2011

Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader

Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader. Responding quickly to Amazon’s Kindle Fire e-reading tablet, e-book retailer Kobo is releasing Kobo Vox, a seven inch, full-color, multimedia digital reading device for $200. Reminiscent of both the Kindle Fire and B&N’s NookColor, the new device runs the Android 2.3 OS and offers access to 15,000 [...]

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E-Reader Ownership Doubles in Six Months – Digits – WSJ
By on June 28th, 2011

E-Reader Ownership Doubles in Six Months – Digits – WSJ

Are books the new killer app? A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that e-reader ownership among U.S. adults doubled from 6% to 12% between November 2010 and May 2011. This marks the first time ownership of devices such as the Kindle and Nook has reached double digits. The increase [...]

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Using E-Books to Sell More Print Versions – NYTimes.com
By on June 28th, 2011

Using E-Books to Sell More Print Versions – NYTimes.com

How do you help brick-and-mortar stores sell books? Throw in an e-book. That is the idea of one publisher, Algonquin, which began a promotion in 300Barnes & Noble stores this month that gives a discounted e-book to customers who buy an Algonquin trade paperback. The publisher has planned a similar effort for October, giving customers who [...]

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Google eBooks Launches a Retail Affiliates Program
By on June 17th, 2011

Google eBooks Launches a Retail Affiliates Program

Google eBooks has launched an affiliates program that will enable publishers, bloggers, retailers and websites to link to Google eBooks and receive a commission for referring visitors to their sites to Google eBooks to buy books. The Google Afiliates Network was launched as a beta program at the end of 2010, teaming with social reading [...]

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By on June 07th, 2011

Apple Adds Ability to Directly Download E-books from iTunes Store on Your Mac

Looking for some new reading material  for your summer trips? Books are now available for purchase directly from the iTunes store. Previously, you could only purchase e-books through the iBookstore on your iPhone or iPad. But, since Apple yesterday announced the Newsstand feature in the next iteration of iOS, the store seems to have adapted [...]

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Sales, Led by Digital, Jump at Amazon But Earnings Fall
By on April 27th, 2011

Sales, Led by Digital, Jump at Amazon But Earnings Fall

    Sales in Amazon’s North America media segment rose 18% in the first quarter, to $1.89 billion, while sales in the North America electronics and general merchandise group jumped 63%, to $3.3 billion. Overall, revenue rose 38%, to $9.86 billion, but net income fell 33%, to $201 million. The company invested $298 million in [...]

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