Image via Wikipedia Due to incredible demand, Amazon is forced to limit Kindle sales to 5 units per household. The Kindle has been Amazon.com’s best selling item for two years in a row. The Kindle e-reader had topped all of Amazon’s lists: most-wished-for, most-gifted and has garnered the more 5-star reviews than any product on [...]
The Barnes and Noble Nook Color just came out to mixed reactions. It looks like a battle of book store against book store, but not e-reader against e-reader. Read on to discover the features of the new Nook Color. The Nook Color has something that the Amazon Kindle does not have; color! The Kindle is [...]
Any booklover would recognise this dilemma. I spent the rest of the holiday (and huge amounts of Euros) seeking out shops selling English language books. The choice was limited, so I was forced to try out writers which I wouldn’t normally (the John Grishams were fab, thanks for asking, but the Victoria Hislop less so). [...]
Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth today estimated that Amazon would sell about five million Kindle readers this year. The company should thrive on the combination of the redesign and the lower $139 price. The numbers would more than double over the course of the next two years to reach 11.5 million in 2012. Anmuth expected the price [...]
Best Buy announced last week it would begin selling Amazon Kindles at Best Buy stores this Fall. This is a big step for Amazon.com, which up until now had sold the Kindle exclusively on the Amazon website. With the new, lower-priced Kindles selling like hot cakes, this could help stimulate holiday sales even more. But [...]
Just weeks after lowering the price of the Kindle e-book reader from $259 to $189, Amazon unveiled a fully revamped Kindle on Wednesday. It’s sleeker, better looking, easier on the eyes — and starts at $139. This new Kindle, Amazon’s third generation, is smaller by 21 percent, and 15 percent lighter too. It has much [...]
The NYT announced on July 20th that Amazon.com revealed that they now sell more e-books than hardcovers, at a ratio of about 3:2 (& rising). This has happened in the under three years that Amazon has been in the e-book business. Amazon is aided in this by the ability of owners of other ‘readability’ devices,ie [...]
If you’re in the market for an e-book reader, the past couple of weeks have considerably changed your options, and for the better. Barnes & Noble’s and Amazon’s new products and price drops have made their e-book reader hardware considerably more affordable, and you now have excellent options available in the $149 to $199 price [...]
Today Amazon.com announced their new Kindle DX e-book reader. On the front page of their website, Amazon has begun to take pre-orders for their update to the current Kindle DX. The Kindle DX was a larger version of the Kindle II reader which has been very successful. The new Kindle DX will have a 9.7 [...]
