When it comes to Amazon book sales, arrows are now mightier than magic wands.
The U.S. State Department has terminated its agreement to purchase 2,500 Kindle e-book readers from Amazon today -- perhaps giving the iPad another chance at winning the lucrative federal contract.
New documents have emerged suggesting Amazon will produce a new Kindle Fire tablet to proceed the current 7-inch version.
Amazon has just dropped the price for a Kindle to $269 in a fire-sale "deal of the day.' Some folks, including us, are taking this as a sign that a new Kindle is on the way.
Popular music streaming service Spotify has landed on the Kindle Fire, giving it yet another platform to attract users.
Online publishing service FastPencil is announcing a new agreement with Barnes & Noble that will allow self-publishing authors access to premium placement in Barnes & Noble retail stores, online store, and Nook store.
Which means that some lucky self-publishers will …
Amazon will soon release “five or six” new tablet variants to build on its initial success with the Kindle Fire, Staples president Demos Parneros has told Reuters.
While the Kindle Fire only had to worry about Barnes & Noble and …
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 …
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 …
Amazon is working on a next-generation Kindle Fire tablet that will have a sharper, brighter, 1,280-by-800 pixel screen.
Once again, there’s word that Amazon is working on a smartphone, this time from Bloomberg. And given the success of the Kindle Fire so far, which has been the only Android tablet worth buying since its debut (the Nexus 7 …
Apple’s iPad may get the headlines and the market share, but Amazon’s Kindle looks like a better choice to at least one federal agency. Today Amazon agreed to a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with the U.S. State Department to provide …
Looks like somebody really “Nookd” this one up. A recent Nook version of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel War and Peace replaces the word “kindled” with the word “Nookd,” an apparent attempt to get rid of references to e-book’s competitor Kindle.…
Overall tablet sales were down 1.2 million units in the first three months of 2012, but strong iPad sales boosted Apple’s market share to 68 percent, according to market researcher International Data Corporation (IDC).
IDC had estimated sales of close …
I was flabbergasted at the news that Microsoft had invested $300 million into Barnes & Noble’s Nook business, making the e-reader subsidiary, at a $1.7 billion valuation, worth more than B&N itself.
Sure, Microsoft has a penchant for investing in …
Consumers looking to buy any of Amazon’s Kindle products from Target in the coming weeks should look elsewhere: Starting later this month, Target will end sales of Amazon’s e-readers and Android tablet.
Target says its decision to ditch the Kindle …
Collusion? What collusion? Apple last night denied the Department of Justice’s antitrust claims that it illegally fixed e-book prices with major publishers, which ultimately made e-books more expensive than they were prior to the launch of Apple’s iBookstore.
Apple is …
Barnes & Noble could be preparing to launch a new version of its Nook Simple Touch e-reader tablet with a fully lit screen, according to signage allegedly produced by the company.
Earlier today, The Digital Reader posted a photo (pictured …
We’ve been hearing that Amazon is working on a powerful 10-inch tablet since before the Kindle Fire’s launch, but now it appears that the company may have many more in the works.
Amazon could launch between two and four new …
Amazon has released a major update to its Kindle iOS app today that will let it take advantage of the new iPad’s Retina Display, fixing an issue some reviewers brought up regarding blurry text on earlier versions of the app.…
