02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
The topic is "The Business of E-readers" and features Lisa Faith Phillips, director of digital strategy and development at Hachette Book Group.
01/30/2012 @ 12:00AM
With Amazon set to release its fourth quarter—and year end—results Tuesday afternoon Stifel Nicolas analyst Jordan Rohan estimates that the company sold 6 million Kindle Fire tablets in the fourth quarter.
01/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
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.
12/21/2011 @ 12:00AM
Amazon pushed out an over-the-air software update for its Kindle Fire tablet on Tuesday night to address early complaints from reviewers and buyers.
12/13/2011 @ 12:00AM
Barnes & Noble is rolling out a software update for its NookColor tablet device that will enhance its functionality and give the device access to a wider variety of content from streaming video, music and apps to graphic novels and interactive books.
12/07/2011 @ 12:00AM
E-book retailer Kobo announced the launch of its new Kobo Vox tablet ereader in New Zealand at 60 Whitcoulls store locations and online.
12/01/2011 @ 12:00AM
Amazon has launched Kindle stores in Italy and Spain, and has also released Italian-language and Spanish-language Kindles.
11/28/2011 @ 12:00AM
Customers purchased four times as many Kindle devices on Black Friday this year versus last year, making it the most successful Black Friday for the devices.
11/23/2011 @ 12:00AM
The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are comparable in terms of horsepower and size but the real difference is content--there's more of it available on the Kindle, and it's easier to buy and use, except...
11/16/2011 @ 12:00AM
The Kindle Fire is fine, just fine.
The Kindle Fire is really a distant relation of the handheld portable TV that was popular about 20 years ago--you can consume lots of things fairly effortlessly on the Fire--movies, music, magazines, some kinds of apps, and, more importantly for us, books; but the Fire's real innovation is how easy, and tempting, the device makes buying content--from Amazon.
The Roundup for Devices
Publishing news from across the Web
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.
The Wall Street Journal says Amazon will introduce a 9" Android-powered tablet by October to compete with the iPad.
Barbara Vey
I was the oldest of nine children, so we didn't buy books except school books. ...
Josie Leavitt
I have been sick this week. It's the first time a long time I can remember being home for days on end with little energy to do anything productive. My reading tends towards dystopia and outdoor surviv...
Rose Fox
Queer speculative poems, summer camp for teen SF/F writers......
Adam Boretz
This week our reviews spotlight shines on the nonfiction side:the audio edition of From Pearl Harbor to Calvary: The Story of the Lead Pilot of the Pearl Harbor Attack and His Conversion to Christiani...
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