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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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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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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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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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Amazon Adds Windowshop iPad App to iOS Portfolio
By on October 26th, 2010

Amazon Adds Windowshop iPad App to iOS Portfolio

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 [...]

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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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By on October 21st, 2010

Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook eReader

FoxNews.com – Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook E-Reader.

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iPad Total Nears 7.5 Million
By on October 19th, 2010

iPad Total Nears 7.5 Million

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 [...]

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Bulletprooft Career Chicago Style | ChicagoNow
By on October 15th, 2010

Bulletprooft Career Chicago Style | ChicagoNow

It is a great pleasure to publish the first entry of Bulletproof Career, Chicago Style. As the About Page of this blog notes, my goal is simple: The help readers NEVER AGAIN worry about getting the best opportunities, enjoying financial peace of mind, and succeeding in gut-wrenching and crazy times. What I’d like to do [...]

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iPad Declared Fastest Selling Gizmo of All Time
By on October 13th, 2010

iPad Declared Fastest Selling Gizmo of All Time

Oh you just know this one’s going to turn up in Steve Jobs‘ next Keynote. According to a financial analyst working for Bernstein Research, the iPad, having sold over 8.5 million units and counting, is the fastest selling device of all time. Now, get ready for the shocker: The numbers in the Bernstein study were crunched before [...]

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Blogging Innovation » Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010
By on October 12th, 2010

Blogging Innovation » Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010: Mitch DitkoffMitch Ditkoff is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the author of Awake at the Wheel (Morgan James 2008), as well as the [...]

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Will technology kill book publishing? Not even close – USATODAY.com
By on October 06th, 2010

Will technology kill book publishing? Not even close – USATODAY.com

By Harold McGraw III and Philip Ruppel Today, it is not uncommon to hear predictions that the names of the great publishing houses will soon fall from the covers of books to the footnotes of self-published history tomes. Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking this way based on headlines on the e-reading revolution. First, Amazon [...]

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By on October 04th, 2010

Booksellers Hear Details of the Much-Delayed Google Editions

When Google Editions goes live, which still could be six months from now, the Web sites of booksellers who participate in ABA’s IndieCommerce will go live with it. But independents won’t be Google’s only partners, ABA could be selling e-books alongside Wal-Mart and Barnes & Noble. Those were among the revelations at the New England [...]

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