Jointech’s JE100 eBook Reader is a $270 mystery that I just found out is delivering to first adopters. Two words for Jointech to remember:Â press release. Click here to visit Jointech for the full specifications. (Mystery or not, it is a sweet looking ride.) This is the first I’ve heard about the JE100 eBook Reader with …
July 2009 archive
Jul 16
On its way to Ubiquity! (Damn things will be everywhere!)
A florida hotel’s EPIC Page Turner program loans free eBooks and a Sony Reader to their Club level guests. This perk includes an EPIC Virtual Nightstand for reading exerpts from eBooks. Read the full article here at Gadling.com. I’ll give top marks to this hotel for embracing the eBook Revolution. The full scale adoption is …
Jul 15
Apple’s Noticeable Absence
All the developments in eBooks and eBook Reading Devices and things are quiet in the Apple orchard. Not even a whisper. We’ve heard rumors about an Apple eBook Reading Tablet before. Now we’ve got links to articles here at PCWorld and here at Macsimum MacOSG Forum where the ‘rumored’ tablet is mentioned again. It’s driving everyone …
Jul 14
Does this surprise anyone?
Techshout.com has a story about a Chinese-made eBook reader that bears a striking resemblance to Amazon’s Kindle. Read the story here. What’s surprising, when we look at the rumored $210 price tag and year-end release, is that the North American companies insist on leaving this price gap in their defenses. After its release in China, …
Jul 13
Is Commonsense Catching on?
Sourcebooks is releasing 14 mass market romance novels under its Casablanca imprint as DRM-free eBooks. They’ll be priced at $6.99 and available in nine formats at Smashwords. While Sourcebooks stops short of a wholesale endorsement of DRM-free eBooks, their actions do suggest they’re responding to the marketplace instead of trying to control it like so many …
Jul 12
More on the “Freemium” Business Model
We talked before about the concept of ‘Freemium’ here. The New York Times Sunday Book Review offers a more in-depth analysis of ‘giving it all away’ in Virginia Postrel’s article:Â “What you pay for $0.00.” An excellent piece, that breaks it all down quite nicely, though absent again, I have to say is any mention …
Jul 11
Rupert Murdoch’s About-face
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 …
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 09
Amazon BLINKS! Lowers Kindle 2 price to $299…
We’ve been predicting this for a long time. Amazon has been forced to lower the price of its Kindle 2 from $359 to $299 in order to stay relevant in the exploding eBook Revolution. Get the full story about the $60 price cut from the Associated Press here. I can’t believe it took so long, but …
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 …
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