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 [...]
If you are like me, you have had enough of all the hype related to making money online.
It’s not that some people aren’t making a lot of money on the Internet.
It’s just that most people would be thrilled to have a website that brings in an extra $500-$1000/month.
That’s a car payment… a mortgage payment… more [...]
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 Los Angeles Review of Books, an online periodical that will include multiplatform book reviews, author profiles, Skype interviews, and readings as well as critical essays on classic authors will launch in the fall under the direction of Tom Lutz, professor and chair of the creative writing department at the University of California at Riverside.Lutz, [...]
PW: After sales growth slowed slightly in April, to 127%, e-book sales rose 162.8% in May, to $29.3 million, at the 13 publishers that report results to AAP’s monthly sales report. Sales for the first five months of the year increased 207.4%, to $148.3 million. In some other trade segments, adult hardcover sales jumped 43.2%, [...]