Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge...
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Today’s launch of an Android e-reader app marks Barnes & Noble’s first foray onto that platform—and a shift in strategy. Instead of “BN eReader for iPad” or “BN eReader for PC,” its e-reader apps and software are moving to the Nook brand. That will put Barnes & Noble (Read more »
This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah. How amazing is it that we’re not really surprised by...
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle...
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The e-reader market is moving faster than Tour de France cyclists on an oil-slicked hill. We’ve already seen a few crashes—iRex filing for bankruptcy, Spring Design suing Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), the Plastic Logic Que stuck in limbo—and we’re sure to see more. The big question as we head into...
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The remaking of the Kindle continues, this time with a new look, price and display for the super-sized Kindle DX. The 9/7” screen size remains the same, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says a new, high contrast e-ink display offers 50 percent more contrast for a lower price. The 22 percent price cut...
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LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperCollins, which it says will allow it to offer a “complete end-to-end solution for publishers looking to accelerate sales of e-books and digital content.” LibreDigital has historically helped publishers deliver their content to e-readers and to...
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You read that right. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) said its online sales rose 24 percent to $573 million for the fiscal year that just ended and, based on trends since it launched its e-bookstore and Nook e-reader, expects sales to hit $1 billion for FY2011. It’s not quite as lucrative as...
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Last week, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) slashed its Kindle 2 price by 27 percent to a startling $189, following a similar price cut for the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook. This week, it’s flexing the Kindle platform’s muscles, adding a small batch of books “enriched” by audio and video available...
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is following Barnes & Noble’s lead and slashing the price of its e-reader. The company just said that effective immediately it will sell its Kindle 2 for $189, down from its previous price of $259. The move comes only hours after Barnes & Noble...
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