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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The world’s largest book retailer, Barnes & Noble, announced Tuesday that its board of directors is considering selling the company in order to increase shareholder value. As the bookseller explained today, the board has formed a team to evaluate “strategic alternatives” to make sure it’s “taking advantage of [its] compelling digital opportunities.” Putting the [...]
What would you do for $15,000 is Amazon.com gift cards? That’s a lot of MP3s, Kindle books, or vacuum bags, or whatever it is you order a lot of from Amazon–maybe even print books! You can win those gift cards by entering Amazon’s just-announced “Kindle Commercial Contest.” More from Amazon.com…
“Ever had an idea for a TV commercial [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]