Amazon's Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but it's original and still strong-selling Kindle and its cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in 1950's-style black and white. That may soon change.
The crowded 7-inch tablet market is doing some real damage to Barnes & Noble's Nook unit.
BookStats, the “center for publishing market data” just released its 2012 report. The big news? Ebook sales doubled last year, especially in the adult fiction category. Even bigger, overall industry revenue showed a small increase.
I’m just wondering why it …
Kobo’s Vox isn’t the most popular eReader in the pack, but it may have just one-upped the cool kids.
Kobo is finally opening up the device to the full Google Play Store, a move that the company hopes will broaden …
After some back-and-forth between Amazon and Wattpad, a third party e-reader app, Kindle Fire owners can now use a different apps to read e-books on their device.
Before now, Amazon had been hiding competitor’s e-reader apps in the Kindle Fire’s …
Amazon’s Kindle lineup is en fuego and selling at a rate of more than one million units per week.
For three weeks in a row, the Kindle maker has seen this astounding statistic repeat itself.
The Kindle Fire is also …
MeMeTales wants to make reading “the funnest thing ever.” Yep, the funnest. The mobile application launched its publishing product today, with the intent of roping kids into a love of reading.
There are many different devices and mobile apps for …
Amazon is planning to release its long-rumored tablet before October, in addition to two new Kindle models (one touchscreen, one cheaper than the current Kindle), the Wall Street Journal reports.
That’s bad news for those expecting an Amazon tablet or …
Liberty Media proposed a deal late Thursday to buy the largest U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble for $1.02 billion through the purchase of the company’s stock at $17 per share, according to Reuters.
The offer may seem high for …
Book and media retailer Borders announced today that it will hold off on paying some publishers in order to buy time and reorganize its debt amid a year of weak sales in its brick and mortar stores in the era …
Google’s long talked-about ebook store, Google Editions, is set to debut by the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The store was initially supposed to launch this past summer, but sources close to the company say that …
Amazon announced today that qualifying newspaper and magazine publishers will soon be able to earn 70-percent from sales on the Kindle store.
The new revenue sharing plan, which will take effect on December 1, is clearly a bid to get …
If you were hoping for a Kindle hardware refresh, today’s your lucky day. Earlier this evening, Amazon unveiled the latest generation Kindle e-book reader, which offers better contrast, improved speeds, lighter weight, and double the storage and battery life compared …
iBooks, the Apple application for users to download and read books, today released several new features with version 1.1.1. These additions include the ability to tap images to view them in greater detail, embedded audio and video within books and …
Things may be looking up for Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook reader, at least according to analysis by Digitimes Research. Its numbers from hardware suppliers show that the Nook outsold Amazon.com’s competing Kindle for the month of March, and accounted …
