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.
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 explosive eBook market and force pricing parity with their paper and ink counterparts.
Mobiledia has updates on the story that now shows Amazon and Barnes and Noble named in the lawsuit.
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.
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 at a store can browse through available titles, make a selection and then the Espresso Book Machine prints it in minutes, or while they wait.
While this technology had a place in the beginning of digital publishing because it could create a ‘crossover’ product from traditional paperbacks to eBooks, with the mainstream adoption of eReaders like Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader, etc., one wonders if traditional publishing and the bricks and mortar stores have missed this boat too.
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 Kindles. (The cheapest costs $79.)
And now we wait for Barnes and Noble’s volley.
Oct 01
Engadget gets hands on with Kindle Fire.
Engadget offers its first impressions and some cool video of the new Amazon Kindle Fire. Take the leap for pics and more.
Sep 30
Will Amazon Fire burn the Apple iPad?
TimeTechland investigates whether the new $199 Amazon Fire full color tablet is indeed an Apple iPad killer. The industry has been waiting for this to happen since iPad took the top spot in the fledgling market and refused to budge.
By the look of it, with a little tweaking Amazon Fire may force Apple to do a bit of pruning on its end.
Sep 29
Are Free Kindles in our future?
With the release of Amazon’s new Fire tablet and reasonably priced sister Kindles, the Mobile Gadgeteer at ZDNet asks the question: Since these devices are being sold at a loss to lock consumers into the Amazon Cloud of content, when will the online giant give the machines away to seal the deal?
Sep 28
Amazon Launches $199 Color Tablet. Starts price war with $79 Kindle!
Engadget was at the event in New York where Jeff Bezos of Amazon made this announcement. You can find the play-by-play and product descriptions at the link.
Fire (color tablet) for $199, Touch 3G for $149, Touch for $99, and Kindle for $79. Kindles compared here.
Here is an open letter and product description at Amazon.
This is going to shake the eBook Revolution to its core. (Notice the $79 price we’ve been predicting all year? Just saying…)
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