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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FoxNews.com – Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook E-Reader.
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 [...]
Lots of excitement surrounded the launch of Apple’s iBook this past April–it was Apple, after all, so how could the iBookstore be anything but awesome? Well, over at TUAW, blogger David Winograd says that after six months, he’s convinced iBooks is “a dismal failure.” He cites a bunch of reasons, including iBooks’ extremely poor selection when compared [...]