October 2011 – Page 3

Oct 07

Amazon opens Kindle store in France.

Amazon Kindle books are now available through a new online presence in France. Added to the already wildly successful U.S., UK and German sites, GoodeReader says this development is a win-win situation for readers and writers that speaks directly to a global marketplace hungry for content.

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Oct 06

Amazon joins Apple and others named in price-fixing lawsuit.

We’ve mentioned this story a couple of times, where Apple is accused of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of eBooks by way of adopting the agency pricing model. A lawsuit charges the publishers and booksellers with manipulating the market in an effort to keep eBook prices high enough to cool off the otherwise …

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Oct 05

Amazon sells 250,000 Kindle Fire tablets in 5 days!

Slashgear reports that Amazon sold 250,000 Kindle Fire tablets in five days. At 50,000 units a day, Amazon is showing that with a few adjustments (camera addition, etc.) the Fire could turn into the Apple iPad killer everyone anticipates. Good to remember also that 50,000 units a day is a very respectable performance.

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Oct 04

Print while you wait, too little, too late?

FierceContentManagement offers a post on recent developments in digital publishing as it applies to the bricks and mortar world. It seems that some of the old standards like Harper Collins are inking deals to make their backlists available using the Espresso Book Machine’s print-while-you-wait technology. We’ve mentioned this before, but the idea is a customer …

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Oct 03

Tablet War Brewing…

Gadget.ca hints at the predicted tablet and eReader war that looms on the horizon in a post that details Kobo ‘accidentally’ revealing its Kobo Vox Android Tablet (with details including the MSRP of $250). This development comes hot on the heels of Amazon’s release of its ‘Fire‘ full color tablet and trio of aggressively priced …