Bookseller Barnes & Noble has debuted Nook for Web, a way to read Nook titles through a browser without having to download software, the company announced today.
Barnes & Noble is in the middle of an e-reading war with Amazon …
Six-year-old, storytelling and reading community Wattpad has raised the eyebrows of investors anxious to see how the startup’s plot unfolds. The cost for penning Wattpad’s next chapter? Just $17.3 million in cash.
Khosla Ventures led the $17.3 million Series B …
How much is Microsoft afraid of Amazon and its surging Kindle business? Enough to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s new Nook subsidiary.
The deal, announced today, will give Microsoft a significant stake in an established e-reading company, a …
It looks like investors think there’s real money in e-reading — at least, judging from the $50 million round just raised by e-reading startup Kobo.
The company offers its own e-reading devices (the Kobo eReader and the Kobo Wireless eReader), …
Signaling renewed competition in the e-reading space, Amazon today debuted a web-based extension to their existing Kindle platform with a new product called Kindle for the Web, which is nearly identical to a product Google announced yesterday dubbed Google eBooks, …
