Nov 16
The New York Times offers an update on the shape of holiday buying to come, and it’s starting to look like an eBook Christmas. With the 2009 holiday shopping season focused on Kindle, Nook and Sony, shoppers this year can look forward to a wide selection of new eBook Readers and accompanying spectrum of prices to choose from. On top of that, consumers will find an exploding market of eBooks to download.
Check the story out. Some records are going to be broken this year, yah?
Nov 15
The Financial Post reports industry insiders projecting $1-billion in eBook sales by year end before growing to $3-billion by 2015 as the eBook Revolution brings in the new standard in reading. As much as we knew it was going to happen, did anybody think it would happen this quickly?
Nov 14
Suite101.com points us toward some Black Friday sales with a Best Buy Door Buster Deal offering the Barnes and Noble wi-fi Nook with $50 off at participating stores.
The post is worth checking out!
Nov 13
The News For You compares the new Barnes & Noble NookColor eBook reader and the Apple iPad. Both machines are positioned for a competitive holiday shopping season.
I think that NookColor’s $249 price tag will make the B&N device the consumer favorite.
Nov 12
If you want to get into line early you can pre-order the E Ink Triton ePaper display, Hanvon 9.7-inch color eBook reader. The WiFi only model will retail for $528 while the 3G version will cost a tidy $574. Electronista says the new device will ship February 2011.
Nov 11
Excuse my cynicism, but what has The New York Times ‘Best-Seller’ list done for the vast majority of writers out there but create a false elitist, New York-centered view of publishing? Anyway, MarketWatch reports The New York Times will publish eBook fiction and nonfiction Best-Seller Lists beginning early 2011.
This after a decade of the ‘trend following’ Times fighting digital publishing and ignoring the evolution of a market full of diversity for readers and success for writers who would have otherwise been consigned by the status quo to obscurity.
So, great…
Nov 10
Hanlon announced the release of its Color E Ink device here. Now E Ink Holdings has just officially launched its ‘Triton,’ the first color electronic paper display. (The very technology used in Hanlon’s eBook reader.) Check out the Engadget story. Watch the video too. Flashy and it tells you how E Ink works.
Nov 09
CNN and just about everyone else is talking about the release of a color E Ink eBook Reader from Chinese eReader manufacturer Hanvon. This device will make quite a splash with publishers of illustrated books and magazines but it remains to be seen whether it’s essential to reading John Grisham–especially with its $440 price tag.
Of course, every eBook Revolution watcher knows it might be worth waiting. Recent price wars among black and white E Ink eReaders suggest high prices have a short shelf life. Read the full story here.
Nov 08
Barnes & Noble has announced their latest scheme to increase sales (and PROFIT) and offset the (sometimes) high price of eBooks. Knowelty.com reports that B&N is set to release a Danielle Steele novel FREE to download but there’s a catch. Advertising will be built into the pages.
They assure the readership that the advertisements will be unobtrusive and tasteful; but honestly, how long is that going to last? The minute publishers understand that they can add to their revenue streams by advertising between the digital covers of say, Stephen King’s latest, then there will be a great temptation to build in more and more ads.
It’s a slippery slope.
Nov 07
Thanks Jorgen for a link to this Guardian.co.uk post that follows the struggle over eBook pricing. This adds to a previous story where Amazon’s UK Kindle store caved to publishers’ demands to take control of their own over-pricing.
Now the readers are fighting back.
