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- Amazon releases Kindle iPhone application and ebook readers rejoice!
- Amazon releases Kindle iPhone application and ebook readers rejoice!This makes more senseAmazon should be concerned more about selling books than selling niche hardware. I have always thought smartphones and PDAs (they aren't all dead yet) made more sense for portable book reading than did a large box like the Kindle....
- Tags: E-books, PDAs, Handhelds, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-iPhone, Kindle-iPhone application, ebook reader, e-book
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone app
- Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone appWaiting for GodotNo thanks, I'll just wait for the movey...RE: Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone appJust bought Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, took less than two minutes on my iPhone before I started reading it,...
- Tags: E-books, NOW IT, MobiPocket, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Kindle App, eReader, Kindle-iPhone app, Kindle-iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
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- Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure
- The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...
- Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Social book reading in the digital age
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Blog, Andy Santamaria, E-books, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- E-book reader news and releases round-up
- The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry and probably pretty frightening for Amazon. Here's a quick round-up of what's been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season: 1. Barnes & Noble Nook:...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., E-books, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Scary Tech: Attack of the Killer Kindles
- I don't know what's scarier: my recent obsession with e-readers or the crazy Kindle nonsense flying about. What I do know is that when my editor asked me to name this year's scary tech, the first thing that popped into my head was "Attack of the Killer Kindles!" by...
- Tags: Tech, Attack, Security, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Congratulations B&N, you've built my Kindroid. So now what?
- I like it butstill a bit pricey for being a one trick pony. Once we get below $200 then I'd be interested. The Nookie Book......sorry, that's Nook eBook... actually looks pretty good. It's a much better value than the Kindle, IMHO. Still not at my price point, but it's pretty...
- Tags: PDAs, Nook, card
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million
- Based on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' comments on the third quarter results for the company, Kindle sales are accelerating. Bezos is quoted: “Kindle has become the #1 bestselling item by both unit sales and dollars â€" not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com. It’s...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Electronics, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- MobileTechRoundup show #187, Windows 7, B&N Nook, Nokia N900
- Windows 7 was the big news of the week and James, Kevin, and I started off MobileTechRoundup show #186 talking about this latest Microsoft operating system. Hopefully James doesn't really go try to eat a Burger King Whopper 7 today. I talked a bit more about the Nokia N900 now...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Nokia Corp., News, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Amazon delivers strong Q3; shares skyrocket after hours
- Steve Jobs said "If Kindle sold well, Amazon would have told everybody.Since they didn't, I think we can assume that the sale is not that good.
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch
- Short-term "score" until Nook has it too. ntntRE: Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunchNook arrives with it--B&N has PC and Mac clients. It's not at all about score-keeping, but how the strategies are playing out. It's not a horse race, nor a football game. This article...
- Tags: Desktops, Nook, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Amazon delivers strong Q3; shares skyrocket after hours
- Amazon easily beat Wall Street's estimates for its third quarter, reporting a net income of $199 million, or 45 cents per share, on sales of $5.45 billion, a 28 percent jump from the year-ago quarter. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 33 cents on sales of $5.03 billion. Statement ...
- Tags: E-reader, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch
- Platform expansion is the logical counter to new competition at the device level. Amazon, facing the introduction of BN.com's Nook and other e-readers this week, has announced it will support reading of Kindle books on Windows 7, Vista and XP Service Pack 2 PCs in November. The...
- Tags: PC, Amazon.com Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Platform Expansion, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Amazon introduces Kindle for Windows 7, Vista, XP PCs
- And the physical Kindle?Hmm ... considering that netbooks are available around $200, doesn't this sound like Amazon is "shooting itself in the foot" when it comes to their high-priced hardware Kindle?Could it be that they have found there just isn't enough of a market for the hardware and that the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Gallery: Kindle comes to the PC
- In a surprise announcement at the public launch of Windows 7, Amazon is working on a Kindle reader application that will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines. by Andy Smith
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Amazon, Kindle, Microsoft, Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2009-10-22
- Amazon to release Kindle reader for Windows PCs in November
- Microsoft managed to keep a couple of news nuggets under wraps until the actual launch of the product on October 22. The most interesting to me was that Amazon is working on a Kindle reader application that will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines. by Mary Jo...
- Tags: PC, Amazon.com Inc., Windows PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Amazon introduces Kindle for Windows 7, Vista, XP PCs
- Amazon announced on Thursday its "Kindle for PC," a free application that lets users read e-books and use the Kindle store on their PCs. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, E-books, Hardware, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers
- Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes & Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work...
- Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
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