By Sean P. Aune |
About two weeks ago Amazon announced that it had signed an exclusive deal with a literary agent for 20 classic novels such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (one of my personal all time favorite novels), Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint and Ralph…
By Sean P. Aune |
There is apparently no end to the e-reader price war, and now you have to wonder how far away we are from the devices being given away with a two year contract ala subsidized cell phones. In the wake of the Kindle 3 being announced…
By Sean P. Aune |
As some suspected when the Kindle mysteriously sold out at Amazon the other day for the first time in ages, it was a sign that Amazon was ready to update its basic Kindle model for the first time since Feb 9, 2009. Back in April…
By Sean P. Aune |
While many have speculated and tried looking into crystal balls to see if e-readers would ever find their niche, it seems that the actual sales of the devices and their resulting e-book content have been climbing to a point that seems to imply they already…
By Sean P. Aune |
While the general public still waffles on the future of e-readers, it seems that manufacturers and book sellers are still convinced the market is going to take off in a huge way at some point and keep pumping money into it. New ebook stores, cut…
By Travis Harvey |
Hopefully you’ve heard about yesterday’s acquisition of Woot by Amazon which TechCrunch is now reporting went for a cool $110 million in cash. Woot will continue to operate as a subsidiary of Amazon with the same snark but none of the corporate restructuring. If you’re…
By Sean P. Aune |
Where’s my free Kindle? I know it’s going to happen, I just want to know when so I can plan accordingly. I remember talking with some other technology writers right after the Kindle originally launched, and one of the first things we wondered about was…
By Sean P. Aune |
It was inevitable that the e-reader market would end up in a war. The market is just still too small with far too many players for there not to have been a shake up at some point, and that seems to have happened today. This…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems you can’t get on the Internet any more without seeing an announcement about another e-reader being released. The Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, the iPad and on and on and on. This is of course not to mention all…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that Amazon is finally preparing a new version of its popular Kindle e-reader, but will it be enough to fire back at Apple’s iPad? We asked back in April where the Kindle 3 was as we hadn’t heard anything new on the Amazon…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has been testing out the possibility of its Kindle e-reader being used on college campuses in pilot programs at three universities, and at least one of them overwhelmingly said, “No thanks.” Since last fall, Amazon has been having students at the University of Virginia,…
By Winston Sih |
Barnes and Noble has announced that a new DIY publishing option for independent publishers and self-publishing writers will be available this summer and writers will be able to distribute their works through BN.com and Barnes and Noble’s e-book store. The new service was designed to…
By Sean P. Aune |
One of the things Apple is touting in its commercials is how the iPad can carry more books than you could ever read. While they are obviously referring to their own iBooks application, there are a ton of ways to read books and comics on…
By Sean P. Aune |
While it seems that every company is coming out with an e-reader, Google has decided to take the other route, and is just going to try to make it so you can just go about anywhere on the Web and buy the books you are…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that any company related to books is now required by default to also have a company branded e-reader, no matter what their financial status may be. You can now add the Borders chain of book stores to that list. Borders has had a…
By Sean P. Aune |
A report was released this past week that the Barnes & Noble Nook sold 53 percent of the e-readers for the month of March, bypassing Amazon’s Kindle for the first time. While most articles spawned by the Digitimes report focused on that aspect of the…
By Sean P. Aune |
It has become fairly common for hardware companies to release product refreshes on some sort of schedule. Just look at Apple, you can just about set your watch by its product updates (no matter how much it may like to act like it’s going to…
By Sean P. Aune |
As the Apple iPad launch date of April 3rd draws ever nearer, and some of the applications start to get previewed, one big question is beginning to emerge of why in the world you would want to buy a Kindle or a Nook now. While…
By Travis Harvey |
For the most part, eBooks today consist of text and maybe a few images scattered throughout. Fortunately for their customers, Penguin Books understands there can be more to a book than just text. On Tuesday, Penguin Books CEO John Makinson took some time to show…
By Sean P. Aune |
You can almost hear the rattle of military vehicles moving into their assigned positions on either side of the battlefield: Guns are being loaded, land mines planted, field hospitals erected … yep, it’s the sounds of the coming eBook War. With Apple’s iPad set to…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the e-reader market getting ever more crowded, it’s about time for Amazon to make a move and let us know when the next Kindle is coming. Th first version was released on Nov. 19, 2007, version 2 hit on Feb. 9, 2009 and the…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the Apple iPad to be released in March, there is no doubt that Amazon is beginning to worry about how its line of Kindle e-readers will fare in the marketplace. However, are they worried enough to start giving them away to select customers? A…
By Sean P. Aune |
So you’ve decided to delve into the world of e-books. The idea of being able to carry around a thin device that contains all of the books you could ever want to have access to is quite appealing. You’ve picked the e-reader you want and…
By Sean P. Aune |
In a completely unsurprising move, it appears that HarperCollins will be the next big publishing house to tell Amazon that the age of the $9.99 e-book has come and gone. As we reported the other day, Macmillan got Amazon to agree to a new pricing structure for…
