Apple Sold 15.4 Million iPads in Quarter
Jan 25, 2012
Jan 25, 2012
In a record-shattering quarter ended December 31, Apple said that it sold 15.4 million iPads, double that of the previous quarter. The Apple announcement supports the recent survey conducted by Pew that showed a big leap in the number of Americans that bought on iPad over the holidays.
The Roundup for Devices
Publishing news from across the Web
Looking to find other ways to monetize its Kindle Fire, Forbes reports that Amazon is looking to sell ads on the device's welcome screen...and that initial packages may start as high as $600,000.
Amazon has pushed out an over-the-air update to the Kindle Fire that enables, along with tweaks and fixes, full-screen browsing in the Web browser.
A Sacramento library will house an Espresso Book Machine. From the Sacramento Bee.
From the Atlantic: the Selectric typewriter came out 50 years ago this week.
Barbara Vey
As readers we really don't know or necessarily care what goes into the making of a book. Our main concern is reading that amazing story that will transport us to other times and places and take us aw...
Josie Leavitt
I have talked a lot about community in ShelfTalker, and usually I mean the community of the bookstore. But as an owner of a business in a village, I have a whole other community available to me, the o...
Rose Fox
Mythopoeic and Sturgeon Awards finalists; Spectrum winners....
Adam Boretz
The penultimate installment in our Informal Audie Awards Poll looks at a category that seems to get more and more popular every year: audiobooks read by the author....
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