Could a $50 'Paperback' Kindle Beat the iPad?

Release Date 9 Jun, 2010 in Wired News

 
   

Could a $50 'Paperback' Kindle Beat the iPad?

Wired News - Charlie Sorrel - 9 Jun, 2010
E-books are, in both price and size, still in their hardback stage. Author, blogger and all-round clever thinker Seth Godin thinks it's ...

Con Games: Death of the Kindle

Huffington Post (blog) - 9 Jun, 2010
This was not the first fatality in my Kindle family. My original Kindle suffered an even more tragic fate when it hit the bathroom tile and splintered into ...

Seth Godin's ideas for the Kindle

National Post - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
By Ron Nurwisah June 8, 2010 â€" 2:44 pm It's no secret that Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, has been largely overshadowed by its fancier (it's in colour! ...

The Digital Age: A Seasonal Snapshot

The Atlantic - Manoj Jacob - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
What follows are edited remarks made last week to the Salisbury Forum at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, on the subject of "Good Books. ...

Amazon Shares Slip On Worries About IPad, Technical Factors

Wall Street Journal - Shara Tibken - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) slid Tuesday on fresh competitive concerns about Apple Inc.'s ...

AmazonEncore Announces Fall 2010 Publishing List

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
SEATTLE, Jun 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that AmazonEncore, one of Amazon's publishing imprints, ...

Let's all start to read from the same page

The Australian - David Frith - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
MICHAEL Serbinis is the chief executive of Kobo, the US outfit whose natty little $199 electronic book reader has been launched in Australia by the Borders ...

Bestselling Author and Congressman Ron Paul's Books Now Available Exclusively ...

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
SEATTLE, Jun 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that RosettaBooks has released four books by bestselling author and ...

Kindle vs. iPad

PC World - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
Our colleagues at Network World examine the past, present, and futures of 20 of the most prominent battles in the tech world. The Amazon Kindle and Apple's ...

2008: Bezos on the Future of E-Books

Wall Street Journal - ‎Jun 6, 2010‎
Jeffrey P. Bezos , chairman, president and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc., discussed e-books with Walt Mossberg. MR. MOSSBERG: What about the whole idea ...

The Revolution in Reading: One eReader to Rule Them

eTaiwan News - Teng Sue-feng, Scott Williams - ‎Jun 6, 2010‎
When Internet retailer Amazon.com released its Kindle e-book reader during the 2007 Christmas ...

Strategy performance review on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)

ONN.tv - 9 Jun, 2010
Did you trade Amazon after Apple's iPad plan release? Find out the winners of bull and bear plays. by ONN Crew in Mad About Options Want to manage your risk ...

Q&A with Eve Gray: The Kindle, iPad, WWII and the future of publishing

Memeburn (blog) - Andrew Rens - 9 Jun, 2010
Welcome to Memeburn! For regular updates, you can subscribe via email or RSS. You can also find out more about Memeburn here. ...

Texas Attorney General Examines Apple E-Book Pricing

Authorlink - 9 Jun, 2010
AUTHORLINK NEWS/June 8, 2010â€"Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is looking into the electronic book market's selling and pricing policies, with Apple Inc. ...

The Green Book: World's Lightest E-Reader Unveiled

Inhabitat (blog) - Ariel Schwartz - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Want an e-reader that's lighter, smaller, and more streamlined than either the iPad or the Kindle? ...

Who Took Your E-book?

Citizen Media Law Project (blog) - Marina Petrova - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
E-readers are spreading both in the US and abroad. Last week the New York Times reported that the Kindle, previously available only on Amazon.com, ...

What the iPad Can't Do

The New York Review of Books (blog) - Sue Halpern - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Not long after the iPad went on sale in early April, the Ilinois Institute of Technology announced that it would be providing each member of next fall's ...

Apple Bites Off a Juicy Chunk of E-Book Market

MacNewsWorld - Sidney Hill - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Whether encouraging early sales figures are a sign that Apple is on its way to dominating the e-book market is unclear. ...

Biz Brief: Sell Amazon, Buy Apple Stock Call

DailyFinance - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Sell Amazon.com (AMZN) stock and buy Apple (AAPL), an analyst at BGC Partners advised clients Tuesday, reiterating his views on both companies' shares after ...

AmazonEncore Announces Fall List

Publishers Weekly - Lynn Andriani - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Following an ambitious summer list, Amazon's publishing imprint, AmazonEncore, has announced an equally enterprising fall list, ...

Apple Will Eat Amazon Alive

Motley Fool - Rick Aristotle Munarriz - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
David Gardner called Netflix in 2004 at $15.42. He's up 546% as of April 23rd. See what David's recommending that you buy NEXT. ...

Is the Kindle 2 about to make its debut?

Which? - ‎Jun 8, 2010‎
Amazon will neither confirm nor deny that it is to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book readers later this summer. The world's largest online retailer ...

Analyst: Apple's 22% e-book share misleading, but a sign

Electronista (blog) - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
Apple's claim that it garnered 22 percent of e-book sales in the US isn't truly accurate, analysts warned this afternoon. The figure is only among the five ...

Amazon Splits It Up

The Big Money (blog) - Marion Maneker - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
Seems like just yesterday, but the big battle of 2009 in the e-books world was over the $9.99 price point. Now that the iPad has been ...

Consumer Reports gives Kindle top grade

Newspapers and Technology - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
The July 2010 issue of Consumer Reports gave Amazon's Kindle e-readers top grades, but said Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader is also worth considering. ...

Kindle rates best among dedicated e-book readers

KOMO News - Herb Weisbaum - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
For its July issue, Consumer Reports testers put nine e-book readers through comprehensive lab tests. Amazon's Kindle came out on top. ...

Red Wing author's book named a top June title by Amazon

Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) - Laurie Hertzel - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
"The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows" hasn't technically been released yet, but it has already garnered some good buzz. The illustration from the ...

Research Shows E-Book Market Brawl Just Starting

Internet Evolution - Robert McGarvey - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
Who's on top in the fight for e-book eyeballs? Don't be sure you know the leader. When it comes to e-readers, some hard data exists. ...

Don't be 'handcuffed' over e-books, Bowker warns BEA

The Bookseller - Gayle Feldman - ‎Jun 7, 2010‎
The Kindle has become the dominant electronic reading device in the US ahead of computers for the first time, delegates at Book Expo America 2010 heard. ...

Amazon's kindle to be available across Target stores

ABH News - Parul Sharma - ‎Jun 6, 2010‎
Beginning on Sunday Target store will become the first brick and mortar store to sell kindle. Kindle will be available at the price of $259 at the store ...

 

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