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Kindle Books Now Outselling Paperbacks at Amazon
Image via Wikipedia It’s official: electronic Kindle books are now outselling paperbacks on Amazon, marking a historically significant milestone in the publishing industry. Read the full story on Mashable.
The Readers Are Revolting
The new e-book pricing level of $12.99-$14.99 agreed to by Amazon recently in a major concession to the power of the big publishing houses is under a grass roots attack by the e-reading public, per “E-Book’s Cost Is Going Up” (NYT 11 Feb 2010). Many committed e-book buyers are balking at this raise from the [...]
LEAK: The New Nook 1.2 Firmware You’ll See Later Today
Boomnews reports that the new Nook firmware 1.2 update should hit later today. Tweaks include: • Enhanced in-store seamless connectivity to enjoy free Wi-Fi, with More In Store content promotions exclusively for Nook owners • Improved opening of eBooks and ePeriodicals • Improved response to Reading Now and Settings buttons • Current reading page and bookmarks on all [...]
Amazon Signs Exclusive Deal with Top Author for Kindle
The traditional publishing industry was dealt another blow by the digital winds of change this week when top business author Stephen R. Covey signed an exclusive deal with e-book retailer Amazon. The fear among traditional book publishers is that they will grow irrelevant as top authors ink deals with e-book retailers, bypassing them altogether. The [...]
Bezos: Nook E-Book Lending Feature Is ‘Sophie’s Choice’
E-book sharing offers one of the more intriguing differences between the Amazon Kindle and the Nook from Barnes & Noble — and, it turns out, a chance for Jeff Bezos to critique the upstart. After telling an interviewer for the NYT magazine that he would stick to his company policy of “not talking about other [...]
