Thursday, November 19, 2009
Can Adobe and Apple Play Nicely When–And If–The Tablet Shows Up?
Adobe is preparing to put magazines on Apple’s purported wondertablet. But what if that device, like Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t want to work with Adobe?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Strength in Numbers? News Corp. May Join Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines.”
While Rupert Murdoch is busy thumbing his nose at Google, he is making more friendly overtures to other media players. Sources tell me his News Corp. may join the digital e-reader storefront that Time Inc. and other magazine publishers are putting together.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook
Puzzled by the weird story of the “Alex,” the would-be e-reader that looks something like the “Nook,” the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won’t clear anything up: Spring Design’s court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an “implicit promise” and stole its idea for a two-screen device.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
What Do You Want to Know About the “Nook,” Barnes & Noble’s New E-Reader?
Not sure what Barnes & Noble has to say about the “Nook” that it didn’t discuss yesterday, when it unveiled its new e-reader. But the bookseller’s press conference this morning, scheduled for 9:30 EDT, gives us an opportunity to try a little crowd-sourcing experiment: Send me any questions you have and I’ll try to ask the company on your behalf.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Yet Another Kindle Competitor: Here’s “Alex,” Powered by Google’s Android
It’s e-reader preview week, apparently. Last night, Plastic Logic formally named its would-be Kindle killer; tomorrow, Barnes & Noble is supposed to show off its own branded device. This morning’s entrant: Spring Design, which says it has produced a reader that boasts two screens and an operating system that runs on Google’s Android. What it doesn’t have: Big-pocketed partners to boast about.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Plastic Logic Offers a (Quick) Look at Its Kindle Killer: Meet the Que
Plastic Logic, which has been talking up its coming e-reader for some time now but hasn’t actually started selling it, has a little more to say: It will have more to say about its coming e-reader in a few months.
Oh, and its coming device has a name–the Que.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Coming Kindle Boom: Sales Could Double in 2010
Amazon won’t even tell us how many Kindles it has actually sold, so projecting how many it’s going to move in the future makes for particularly tough fortune-telling. But that doesn’t stop anyone from trying: Forrester thinks Jeff Bezos and company will move 600,000 newly discounted units this holiday season and sell 1.8 million by the end of 2009.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Publishers Like Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say?
Time Inc. has spent the past few months convincing other publishers to join a new joint venture aimed at a market that doesn’t really exist yet–magazine-like publications to be delivered via e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s rumored tablet. Publishers like the idea. What will Apple and Amazon say?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Amazon: We Won’t Delete Your Kindle Books Unless We Need to Delete Your Books
It took several months–and a lawsuit–but Jeff Bezos and company are finally explaining when, and why, they’ll take away books you bought for your Kindle. Pretty reasonable, really.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time Inc. Pines for a Kindle Killer–If Someone Else Builds It
Is Time Inc. building a Kindle Killer? Nope.
A report suggests that Time Inc. wants to get into the hardware business and produce its own e-reader.
That’s something other publishers, like Hearst and News Corp., are actually doing or have at least mulled. But multiple sources familiar with the Time Warner unit’s thinking say that’s not the case here.
Monday, July 27, 2009
The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch”
Novelist Nicholson Baker loves books, but not Jeff Bezos’s device: “Amazon is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at making things…fortunately, if you want to read electronic books there’s another way to go. Here’s what you do. Buy an iPod Touch.”
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
For Newspapers Publishers, the Kindle-iPhone Race Is Already Over
We all know tomorrow’s newspapers won’t be printed on paper, but delivered via the Internet. The question for today’s publishers is whether consumers are going read them on iPhones or Kindles. But it shouldn’t be a question–smart phones like Apple’s are winning this one hands down.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Does Rupert Murdoch Have Kindle Envy? News Corp. Mulls an E-Book Reader Investment.
Here’s yet another fan of the Kindle, Amazon’s much-hyped e-book reader: News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who likes the device enough that he’s considering investing in a Kindle rival.
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