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B&N Introduces Nook for Android
Barnes & Noble today introduced a Nook app for Android. It is the only Android e-reader app that allows readers to share e-books with friends. The company also announced that it will soon be rolling out updates of Nook for iPhone, Nook for iPad, and other e-reading apps in the coming months.
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Sony Reader Sales Triple; iPad Sales Top 3 Million
Kindle has reached its tipping point, and now the Sony Reader has, too. Earlier this year the 10 millionth book was downloaded from the Sony Reader Store, Phil Lubell, v-p of digital reading at Sony Electronics said today. Separately, Apple announced it has sold 3.27 million iPads.
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Sony Quietly Lowers E-Reader Prices
Despite a Sony spokesperson's claim a week ago that there would be no further price announcements, Sony quietly dropped the prices on all three of its e-reading devices over the July 4 weekend. The wi-fi enabled Daily Edition drops from $349 to $299; the Touch Edition drops from $199 to $169; and the Pocket Edition, formerly $169, is now $149.
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Amazon Unveils New Kindle DX at Lower Price; Web Widgets
Continuing to aggressively update its Kindle e-reading device, Amazon.com unveiled an updated model of its large-format Kindle DX reader with sharper image quality and a graphite covering for $379, a much lower price than the previous version of the Kindle DX. Amazon is also releasing a set of Kindle Web Widgets, a new embeddable web application for previewing Kindle titles in a web browser,
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Amazon Releases Kindle for Android
Continuing to add support for a wide range of devices, Amazon is releasing a free Kindle reading application for the Android operating system. The software can be downloaded from the Android Marketplace and will allow users with multiple devices to access any previously purchased Kindle books and to synch the last page read of any book across all of their devices.
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Amazon Adds Multimedia to Kindle E-Book Software
Amazon.com has updated its Kindle e-book software to support embedded audio and video for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Among the first Kindle titles to offer audio and video clips are Rick Steves’s London and Together We Cannot Fail by Terry Golway.
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Copia Offers New Reading Devices, New Prices
Adding still more volatility to the e-reading device market, Copia, DMC Worldwide's much anticipated reading device, social media and retail venture, announced still lower prices on a reconfigured line of devices beginning with 5" color LCD model for $99 and a 10.1" color LCD touchscreen for $299 that will support video and multimedia.
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Price Cuts Roil the Market For Digital Readers
Anyone attending the Consumer Electronics Show last January saw a small flood of e-readers—from a slew of Kindle-like e-ink devices to futuristic color dual-screen tablet ones—with prices ranging from $200 to about $800. But since then, Apple has released the iPad, and its iBookstore is now supported by the iPhone/iPod Touch; two or three e-ink devices slated for the spring have yet to appear; and most importantly, prices on the best-known e-ink reading devices are plummeting.
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Borders Bundles Kobo with $20 Gift Card
The e-reader pricing wars continue, with Borders today announcing that its $149 Kobo eReader will now be bundled with a $20 Borders gift card, and double Borders Bucks that can be used toward a future Borders purchase.
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B&N, Amazon Drop Prices on E-Reading Devices
In what is likely a preview of what's to come in the e-reading device marketplace, not long after Barnes & Noble introduced a wi-fi only Nook e-reader for $149 and dropped the price of the 3G Nook to $199, Amazon followed suit dropping the price of the Kindle to $189.
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IREX Files for Bankruptcy
In what looks to be an early casualty in the e-reading device wars, IREX, the Dutch firm set to release the DR800SG, a $399 3G wireless stylus-touchscreen e-book reader, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to lackluster sales.
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E-Reader Wars Escalate: Target to Sell Kindle
More from the e-reader wars: Target has confirmed that it will begin selling the Kindle in all its 1,740 stores starting this Sunday, making it the first brick-and-mortar retailer to carry the e-reading device. Target senior v-p Mark Schindele said Target customers' response to Kindle "has been overwhelmingly positive." Not to be outdone, Barnes & Noble today announced a promotion that offers a free $50 B&N gift card with any Nook purchase.
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Borders Adds Libre e-Reader to its List
Borders has begun taking pre-orders for a second e-reader, the Libre eBook Reader Pro developed by Aluratek. The reader is priced at $119.99 and will start shipping in August and be sold through stores in August.
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The iPad Makes Its Presence Felt
The spring release of the iPad had an immediate impact on the ebook device market, according to the third and final report of the Book Industry Study Group–sponsored study Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading.
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Kindle for Android Coming this Summer
This summer Amazon.com will release Kindle for Android, a free e-book application that adds e-book support for Google's popular and fast growing mobile phone operating system. Amazon's proprietary Kindle e-book format can now be read on a wide variety of devices including the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Blackberry as well as on PC and Mac laptops and desktops.
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Canadian Publishers in Talks with Apple as iPad Orders Begin
This week Apple opened the door for consumers in Canada and eight other countries to begin pre-ordering the iPad, which will be available to them on May 28. Apple has yet to negotiate contracts for content with many Canadian publishers, and Diana Barry, director of digital services for the Association of Canadian Publishers, which is representing many independent Canadian publishing houses, said so far ACP has had only "very preliminary conversation" with Apple.
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The iPad: Starting Line or Finish Line for Mobile Computing?
"Tabula Rasa: A Tablet Computing Throwdown," organized by WeMedia, a network/community of digital entrepreneurs and visionaries based in lower Manhattan, is one of the first and provided an impressive lineup of digital professionals offering very early reactions about what the iPad might mean to business, popular culture, and social interaction in general.
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Software Update Adds Functionality, Games to B&N′s Nook
Barnes & Noble has added improved functionality, games, web browsing and other new features to its Nook digital reading device after issuing an over-the-air wi-fi software update.
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No iPad E-reading Deal? No Problem
In the weeks leading up to the release of Apple's iPad, many publishers rushed to complete agreements that would switch their e-book pricing terms to the agency model to make sure their titles are available to read in the iBooks format, a proprietary Apple e-book format optimized for the iPad's size and functionality.
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Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?
The first press accounts of the Apple iPad have been long on emotional raves about its beauty and ease of use, but have glossed over its competitive characteristics—or rather, its lack thereof. Some have characterized the iPad as an evolution from flexible-but-complicated computers to simple, elegant appliances.
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