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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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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 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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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 November 18th, 2010

My First 36 Hours with the Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Via aptara: In April I wrote about my first 36 hours with the iPad.  At that time tablet computing, although not new, was getting a major boost as a widely accepted computing platform.  Since then, many tablet and eReader devices have come and gone, some never having seen the light of day (remember the Skiff, Que [...]

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NOOKcolor – The Ultimate Reading Experience – Barnes & Noble
By on November 16th, 2010

NOOKcolor – The Ultimate Reading Experience – Barnes & Noble

Customers Begin To Touch the Future of Reading(TM) As Barnes & Noble Starts to Ship NOOKcolor(TM), The Ultimate Reading Experience Initial Devices Shipped and Arriving to Pre-Order Customers Ahead of Schedule Experience NOOKcolor with Demo Units in Most Barnes & Noble Stores Beginning Today NOOKsmart, Book Ready Program In-Stores Offers Free Customized NOOKcolor Set-Up Service [...]

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Apple Now Selling iBooks Gift Cards
By on November 11th, 2010

Apple Now Selling iBooks Gift Cards

Apple has begun selling spiffy iBookstore gift cards at its retail stores and at retail partners like Target, where iTunes gift cards have long been available,reports MacRumors. The cards are available in $25 and $50 denominations.  Clearly Apple is hoping to cash in on the holiday gift-giving season with its newest e-commerce venture. Apple Now [...]

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B&N Intros Nookcolor Tablet
By on October 28th, 2010

B&N Intros Nookcolor Tablet

Approximately one year after introducing its first e-reading device, Barnes & Noble took a major step forward Tuesday with the introduction of the Nookcolor, a $249 tablet with a seven inch VividView Color Touchscreen. The addition of color to the e-reading device allowed B&N to officially announce Nook Kids, which in addition to 12,000 chapter [...]

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What’s So Great About E-book Lending?
By on October 26th, 2010

What’s So Great About E-book Lending?

On Friday, Amazon made two big announcements about the Kindle. The first is the coming availability of Kindle newspapers and magazines on Kindle apps and not just on the Kindle device itself.  This is long overdue–many readers no longer use their Kindles much, but still read most of their e-books through Kindle apps on their [...]

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Walmart to Sell Kobo Reader; Is a Color Nook Coming from B&N?
By on October 22nd, 2010

Walmart to Sell Kobo Reader; Is a Color Nook Coming from B&N?

After announcing plans to start carrying Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader, Walmart is now adding another digital reader and will begin selling the Kobo wireless e-reader next week at 2,500 U.S. Walmart stores. Kobo CEO Mike Serbinis said the Kobo reader has already been selling through Walmart Canada and the device (which sells for $140 [...]

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Latest Kindles Fastest Selling Ever Amazon Says in Record Quarter
By on October 21st, 2010

Latest Kindles Fastest Selling Ever Amazon Says in Record Quarter

Amazon posted its usual big jump in top line sales, with the third quarter revenue increasing 38.7%, to $7.56 billion, while net income rose 16%, to $231 million. The largest gains came in its electronics and other general merchandise segment where sales rose 68% overall and 80% in North America. The segment, which benefited from [...]

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Study Finds that Users Love Their iPad for Books and Video
By on October 21st, 2010

Study Finds that Users Love Their iPad for Books and Video

With the announcement of a sleeker, sexier new aluminum bodied MacBook Air, you might have forgotten about Apple’s other slim tablet device, the iPad. Apparently, the device has made quite the stride in the e-books and video sphere, as the iPad is widely used to consume both those forms of media. A Nielsen study on the devices [...]

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