Found 200 item(s). Displaying 1-15
Bookstore Arrives, and Sides Are Taken
August 17, 2010
From The New York Times
Ever since Books & Books opened its doors on Main Street here last month, it has missed out on some of the adulation usually reserved for new independent bookstores in the age of Amazon....
Amazon, Apple probed for e-book price fixing
August 3, 2010
From CNNMoney.com
NEW YORK, CNNMoney.com—In the e-book price wars, Apple and Amazon might be enjoying an unfair advantage, Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday as he announced an investigation of their contracts with book publishers....
IDPF's Digital Book 2010 -
More Standards Than Woodstock
August 2010
From Book Business
It's difficult to imagine that the International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) Digital Book 2010 could ever be compared to Woodstock; but, in fact, this year's sold-out event had a few sessions that were so crowded that dozens of people sat on the floor in the back of the room so as not to be in the way of the standing-room only crowd lining the room's back wall. Michael Smith, IDPF's executive director, joked that it looked like Woodstock.
E-Readers - A Tale of Two Forecasts
August 2010
From Book Business
Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS forecasted in a recent study that the U.S. market in 2010 for paid e-reader content will be approximately $460.6 million—consisting primarily of e-books sold to a user base of more than 8 million.
Digital Printing: What’s New and on
the Horizon
August 2010
From Book Business
Digital book printing overall is experiencing double-digital growth. The recession, although unwelcome in all quarters, has provided a boost to digital book manufacturing as publishers take a harder look at their processes and cut back on inventory and waste. Since digital printing market- and technology-research firm INTERQUEST's last major survey of the market, conducted in late 2007, the industry has seen widening adoption of digital book printing for short-run inventory management, and a growing interest in distribute-and-print to defray shipping costs and cut time to market—as shown in INTERQUEST's recent report, "Digital Book Printing: Market Analysis & Forecast (2010-2015)." A new generation of high-speed inkjet presses is also coming onto the market, promising lower cost, faster production speeds and higher print quality—all of which open the door a bit wider to digital book printing.
Rethinking a World With No Returns
August 2010
From Book Business
Returns remain a problem for the book publishing industry, although changes to the book-selling landscape brought about by Internet retail, e-books and new distribution models seem destined to make the issue loom less large than it did when mega-bookstores ruled the retail roost.
The Amazonian Gorilla
July 28, 2010
From Inside Higher Ed
My ambivalence about Amazon seems a lot easier to manage now that the Golden Age of Impulse Buying is over. In 2007, at least half of my book-buying was a matter of snap decisions abetted by Visa. But the economic upheaval since then has broken me of this habit, and...
Will the e-reader wars take prices even lower, and will it matter?
July 28, 2010
From Gadgetell
E-readers are becoming more and more popular and that’s sparked some price wars. Barnes and Noble dropped the price of their Nook to $149, and Amazon responding by promptly dropping the price of the red hot Kindle to $149 and introducing a sleeker, less expensive DX with a better screen....
Stieg Larsson First Author to Pass 1 Million Kindle Books Sold
July 27, 2010
From News
SEATTLE—July 27, 2010—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Stieg Larsson, author of the internationally bestselling Millennium Trilogy, has become the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle books and is the first member of the new “Kindle Million Club.”
Publishers Back Amazon on E-book-Hardcover Figures
July 23, 2010
From Publishers Weekly
Ever since Amazon released the news Monday that it was now selling more e-books than hardcovers, the industry has been examining the veracity of the claim. Amazon, after all, has a tradition of releasing selected figures while withholding total sales numbers, just as it did in this case by not...
Kindle Sales Have Tripled With Lower Price, Says Bezos
July 20, 2010
From News
(Press Release) Seattle, Jul 19, 2010 (Business Wire)—Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It's also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com. Today, Amazon.com announced that Kindle device unit sales accelerated each month in the second quarter—both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis.
New E-reading Device, the Kno, Targets Textbook Market
July 16, 2010
From BB Extra
Around the very same time that BusinessWeek reported that "E-Book Readers Bomb on College Campuses"—referring to negative feedback from students on Amazon's test program where it distributed the Kindle DX to select classes at seven universities—Osman Rashid and Babur Habib, co-founders of the new Kno e-reading device, were premiering the e-reader, which the co-founders say is perfect for the textbook market, at the 2010 D Conference, D8 (by All Things Digtal).