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What’s cooler than a million dollars? A billion dollars. That’s what ebook sales in the United States are projected to hit in 2010, according to a new report. That number is expect to triple by 2015. Forrester Research says that there will be 10.3 million ereaders in the US by the end of the year (up from 3.7 million last year) and that 7% of [...]
Callaway Digital Arts, a publisher of iPad apps, is partnering with Martha Stewart to create apps based on her products. Instead of text-only ebooks, CDA creates interactive, multimedia digital applications specifically designed for Apple’s iPad. The first iPad app to come out of the new partnership, Martha Stewart Makes Cookies, is available in the Apple App Store now. It includes 50 recipes, instructional videos, baking [...]
Amazon customers are outraged that the ebook version of Ken Follet’s Fall of Giants costs more than the hardcover. The nearly 1,000 page book, which is published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin, costs $19.99 in the Kindle store, while the hardcover is $19.39. Similarly, James Patterson’s latest, Don’t Blink, is $14.99 in the Kindle store, while the hardcover is $14. Don’t Blink is published [...]
Could airlines start offering ebooks along with current in-flight offerings like movies and TV shows? I just read an interesting post on the EBookNewser blog that speculated about that possibility. The author recently flew on Virgin America and noted that the in-flight entertainment system on the back of the seat listed a “Read” option as “Coming soon.” She wondered if they plan to start selling [...]
One argument I’ve heard against e-readers like Kindles and nooks is that they are environmentally unfriendly when compared with the printed book. This argument always seemed counterintuitive to me because of all the paper, and therefore trees, required to make books. On the other hand, e-readers require electricity to run and will likely end up in landfills when they are obsolete. So which is more [...]
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, stirred up some controversy at a tech conference in California last week when he said that the physical book will be dead in five years. He doesn’t mean they will go away completely, just that ebooks will become the dominant form. He used the recent news that Amazon is selling more Kindle books than hardcovers [...]
With the recent news that Amazon is selling more e-books than hardcovers, it looks like e-books are more popular than ever. There’s a general expectation that e-books should be cheaper than traditional books, and The New York Times published a great article last March about the details of pricing e-books in comparison to regular books. Everyone agrees that it is cheaper to sell an e-book [...]
Amazon announced a major milestone on Monday: over the past three months Kindle books have been outselling hardcover books on their website. For every 100 hardcover books sold on Amazon.com, they’ve sold 143 Kindle books, including hardcovers not available on the Kindle. This figure does NOT include free ebook downloads. Another interesting part of Amazon’s announcement is that five authors have each sold more than [...]
On July 6, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Patent 7,748,634 for a “Handheld Electronic Book Reader Device Having Dual Displays.” That a patent was issued doesn’t seem like big news, until you realize that the patent went to Amazon and that the patent appears to cover other e-readers with dual displays, such as Barnes and Noble’s nook reader. From the artwork [...]
Publisher’s Weekly reports that while the US was celebrating its independence over the July 4th weekend, Sony was silently reducing prices on it’s line of e-readers. The high end Daily Edition was dropped by $50 to $299, the mid-range Touch Edition $30 to $169, and the least expensive model, the Pocket Edition, by $20 to $149. This lines up the pricing on the Pocket Edition [...]
