Liberty Media’s long courtship of Barnes & Noble ended Thursday afternoon with the company agreeing to invest $204 million in the retailer through newly issued convertible preferred stock. The agreement fell far short of the much-discussed purchase of B&N by Liberty and it was unclear if all of B&N’s shareholders, most notably Ron Burkle, will [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With Wal-Mart offering free shipping through the holidays, it’s clear that retailers are trying to remove potential impediments to online shopping this holiday season. Both Borders and Barnes & Noble will also provide free two-day shipping, but through ShopRunner. The new membership program charges consumers an annual fee of $79, equal to Amazon Prime, and [...]
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 [...]
Amazon.com apparently loves them some iOS, offering up free universal apps for both Amazon Mobile and Kindle. Now the world’s biggest online store has added a new iPad-specific app that brings a whole new shopping experience. On Tuesday, Amazon.com introduced their new Amazon Windowshop, an iPad-specific app that promises “a top to bottom rewrite of Amazon.com [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Barnes & Noble will sell its Nook e-book reader in 2,500 Walmart stores and at Walmart.com as early as October 24, in advance of the holiday shopping season, B&N said today. Walmart will prominently feature the Nook as a “premier e-book reader” in stores’ consumer electronics areas, and many stores will feature a Nook-branded e-reading [...]
Apple sold 4.19 million iPads in the quarter ended September 30, the company said yesterday, bringing the total sold to just under 7.5 million since the device was released in April. During the conference call discussing results, Apple CEO Steve Jobs criticized what he called the forthcoming avalanche of new tablet devices, saying the 7 [...]
While sales in the print trade segments shrank in August, e-book sales had another strong month, jumping 172.4%, to $39 million, according to the 14 publishers that report sales to the AAP’s monthly sales estimates. For the year-to-date, e-book sales were up 192.9%, to $263 million. AAP said that of the approximately 19 publishers that [...]