Nov 20
Digital Trends has the story about Amazon loosening up its rules on Kindle Book usage and allowing consumers to give them for Christmas and the holidays. And you don’t have to own a Kindle to give or receive.
The service isn’t available yet, but it’s slated to be in place for the holiday buying season.
Nov 19
IndyPosted has a report on the View Quest BookBox making it the market in time for Christmas at the staggeringly low price of $110 for a full color device. Check it out here. Just some more options available this holiday season. Might be a perfect first eBook Reader for the curious who must have color!
Nov 18
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a FutureBook update about the ongoing battle between publishers, retailers and consumers regarding the adoption of the agency pricing model in the UK. The publishers are trying to manipulate the market by over-pricing eBooks (often tagged over the price of hard covers) in an effort to maintain control of the market and cool down the growth of the eBook Revolution. Amazon’s trying to play it somewhere in the middle, but publishers have long distrusted the online eBook retailer.
This manipulation will only ‘justify’ a sharp rise in eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing.
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…
