Bajillionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced plans to invest in his own mysterious full-color eReader back in April of this year. Read about that here. Now Slashgear is reporting that Murdoch’s publishing empire will be focusing on subscriptions to existing eReaders. Murdoch said: “We’re very happy to have our products distributed over any device provided …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Jul 10
Profit is Relative
Publishers are worried that Amazon.com will eventually force them to lower their eBook prices and diminish their profits. An excellent article here at Bloomberg.com claims that publishers now make “$2.15 per digital book versus 26 cents for a print copy” and they’re afraid that Amazon.com’s dominance of the eBook sales market will give the online eBook giant profit-slashing bargaining power and …
Jul 08
Freemium? Okay… cute name, why not…
This article at the Los Angeles Times takes a short but effective stab at describing the new eBook business model. Read the full story here. The gist of it is: “give away the basic version to build your initial audience, then sell them premium features, such as the ability to download the book or having a physical …
Jul 07
$249 Ditto eBook Reader has Arrived
Coming out of the blocks looking a lot like front-runner Amazon’s Kindle 2, the ‘wired’ eBook reader DITTO has leapt into the race with a crowd pleasing price of $249. Read the story at Publisher’s Weekly here. (Ditto = Digital Interface Total Text Organizer… glad they went with Ditto…) It’s clear that Kindle 2’s solid …
Jul 03
There is no page…Damn it!
I’m not sure what happened to Daniel Terdiman of cnetnews in his piece called “Trying to turn the page on a Kindle” but I’m glad he got through it. Since it’s a slow eBook news day I’ll share it with you. I don’t know if he experienced a mental vapor lock from too much travel or if …
Jul 02
Another competitor climbs into the ring…
Borders UK launched its own eBook reader exploiting the European loophole in Amazon Kindle’s landlocked business plan. Borders’ Elonex eBook is a direct contender for Amazon Kindle’s and Sony Reader’s success, boasting a similar 6″ screen and competitive £189 price ($308 USD). Read the story and Elonex’s specifications here at bookseller.com. One place Elonex has Kindle beat is the …
Jun 24
As Kindle and Sony focus on North America…
A worthy contender in the Digital Reader market stands poised to capture Europe. I like the article “Beyond the Kindle…” here at ReadWriteWeb.com because it illuminates something that we in North America are often encouraged to forget. There’s a whole big world out there. (And an eBook market to match.) The article highlights a discussion with …
Jun 23
It’s the Pirate’s Life for Me!
DRM is EVIL… Remember when you could buy a book, read it and then loan it to a friend? I started buying books that way. A friend loaned me a novel, the first in a series, and I went on to buy the rest of that series, and more titles by that author. Imagine buying a book on …
Jun 22
Breathing down Kindle DX’s Neck: Plastic Logic’s eReader…
Take a look at this video. Plastic Logic’s eReader is due out on the market in 2010 to give Kindle DX a run for the money. I wish it looked a little less like Kindle, to make the comparison more exciting, but what are you going to do. We talked about this eReader earlier in the …
Jun 20
eBook Sales on the Rise despite Down Economy
Read a Fiction Matters story here about the eBook’s continued success. The numbers suggest a widespread and rapid adoption (despite some faltering moments) regardless of the ridiculously high prices for eBook Reading devices (Kindle & Sony almost $400) and the eBooks themselves ($9.99 and up). Can you imagine what will happen when the $99 eBook Reader hits …
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