Harry Potter E-Books Will Be In Libraries
J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore still has not officially launched, but the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks sold exclusively through t… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Sued Over Kindle Screensavers
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), already facing a number of patent lawsuits over its Kindle e-readers, was hit with a new one this week. Read more at paidContent »
Little, Brown Gets Print And Digital Rights For J.K. Rowling’s New Novel
J. K. Rowling is writing a new book, for adults, but she’s not keeping the digital rights for herself as she did with the Harry Potter books… Read more at paidContent »
Why Amazon’s Kindle Battle With IPG Matters
Amazon’s decision to yank almost 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishing Group after IPG refused to give the retailer be… Read more at paidContent »
Apps Are ‘Huge’ For Barnes & Noble
Seeking to advance the narrative that the Nook Tablet is a true multimedia tablet and not just a big expensive e-reader, Barnes & Noble (NYS… Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble Misses Estimates, Though In-Store Sales Rise Slightly
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earni… Read more at paidContent »
B&N Comes Down To Kindle Fire’s Level With 8 GB, $199 Nook Tablet
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Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more at paidContent »
Book Discovery: How Many ‘Touchpoints’ To Purchase?
Social reading site Goodreads says the primary way its users discover new books to read is through search. Read more at paidContent »
Indie Bookseller On E-Books: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Make Money On Them’
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Independent bookstore are unlikely to ever make money from e-books, in the opinion of Praveen Madar of San Francisco independent bookstore K… Read more at paidContent »
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform — From Inkling, Not Apple
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Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more at paidContent »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more at paidContent »
Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly
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It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more at paidContent »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more at paidContent »
An Amazon Store In Seattle?
A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more at paidContent »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more at paidContent »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more at paidContent »
New Stats: E-Book Growth Slows As Children’s Hardcover Jumps
The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still hig… Read more at paidContent »
Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more at paidContent »
Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying a… Read more at paidContent »
Reports: Barnes & Noble Partnership With Waterstones; New Nook
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Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Increases Sales
Amazon’s early data from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to bo… Read more at paidContent »
E-Book Bummer: Growth Slower Than Thought — ‘Incremental, Not Exponential’
Last year was widely perceived to be a year of outrageous e-book growth, but some new research suggests otherwise. According to new data fro… Read more at paidContent »
Two years, 55M iPads later, Apple still rules tablets
Just under two years since Apple introduced the original iPad, the company said Tuesday that it’s now sold a total of 55 million units. And in the last three months of 2010 alone, Apple sold 15.4 million, a company record. Read more »
Barnes & Noble: We Want A Nook For Every Member Of The Family
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to get a Nook device in the hands of every person in your family, except maybe your baby. Babies, it turns… Read more at paidContent »
New Stats: Kids Find E-Books ‘Fun And Cool,’ But Teens Are Still Reluctant
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The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows. And teens are slow… Read more at paidContent »
There’s room for both tablets and e-readers (for now)
Although there’s some overlapping functionality between tablets and e-readers, it doesn’t seem to set up either device to cannibalize the other; at least not yet. The number of adults who owned either a tablet or an e-reader doubled this holiday season. Here’s why neither is “winning.” Read more »
Chegg to bridge gap between digital and physical textbooks
Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif.–based startup that made its name in textbook rentals, has made its first piece of software that it says will aid the transition to digital learning for students by offering e-textbooks that act an awful lot like physical textbooks. Read more »
Did Self-Publishing Hype Hit Its Peak In 2011?
The average price of a self-published Kindle top-100 bestseller continues to drop, but a new look at these titles’ performance in 2011 sugge… Read more at paidContent »
Kindle Startup Focuses On Interactive Fiction For Adults
Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. Th… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Apple's Education News Could Be A Textbook Example Of Its Growth
As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to b… Read more at paidContent »
Study: Book Publishers' 'Optimism Waning' As Digital Transition Continues
Depressing new research by Forrester indicates that book publishers are becoming increasingly disheartened about the state of the industry:… Read more at paidContent »
China Round-Up: E-book Wars, Digital Music Opportunity And Games Go Large
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It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are… Read more at paidContent »
Are New Tablets Slowing The Growth Of E-Readers?
Some reports today suggest that Kindle Fire sales will cut into sales of Amazon’s other Kindles. For a variety of reasons, though, it’s too… Read more at paidContent »
Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free
In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subs… Read more at paidContent »
B&N CEO: 'The Nook Will Continue To Be Barnes & Noble's E-Reader'
In a *CNBC* interview today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch told David Faber, “Whatever we do, we will continue to have a tigh… Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Its Nook Business
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Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to sepa… Read more at paidContent »
Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new o… Read more at paidContent »
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This 'Kindle Christmas'
In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab. Read more at paidContent »
