Amazon Kindles a New Fire
As anticipated, Amazon heated up the tablet world, as well as the e-book world on Wednesday. Jeff Bezos, its CEO and founder, introduced several new products .Pride of place goes to the Kindle Fire, a...
View Article“Kindle Fire is no iPad Killer-but it is a Killer Device”
A Ihnatho wrote a magisterial review and comparison of the iPad & the Kindle Fire in today’s Sun Times (Chicago/suburban). Too detailed to summarize here, it can be found at...
View ArticleFire Away, Amazon: Your Other Kindles Glow Too
D Pogue in today’s NYT waxes enthusiastically on the new members of the Kindle family. Perforce, the Fire gets pride of place, overshadowing its siblings (and Amazon’s competitors). It won’t replace...
View Article¿Anti-Apple Anti-Trust?
J Kanter reports in today’s NYT that the European Commision is “investigating possible collusion between Apple and five large publishing houses…” re the pricing of e-books. This follows an American...
View ArticleThe Kindle Fire…Smoulders
D Streitfeld reports in today’s NYT that 1st responders to the Kindle Fire are not uniformly raving about it. Among other issues, they complain that the touch screen is difficult to manuever, and that...
View ArticleMissing Manual Maven Alights on Fire
D Streitfeld, in a f/u to his previous article on the faults of the Kindle Fire, ran the cricisms by computer how-to author Peter Meyers. His comments: The Fire suits its target audience of non iPad...
View ArticleE-Lending from Libraries Remains an Open Issue
Author and business professor R Stross writes in today’s NYT (“Publishers ve Libraries: an E-Book Tug of War” p B3) that publishers have not yet settled into an industry-wide model re e-book sales to...
View ArticleInvestigative Journalists Reach to E-Readers
The NYT reports today that ProPublica is partnering with Open Road Integrated Media to publish in e-book format extended versions of reportage they have commissioned. These offerings, priced at under...
View ArticleE-Reader After-Market Explodes!
M Meece writes in today’s NYT Personal Tech column of the burgeoning number of e-reader accessories now available. (“Dressing Up an E-Reader for Style and Comfort” pB9). Amazon.com itself lists more...
View ArticleAmazon vs Book Distributors: A New Round in EBook Business Battles
D Streitfeld reported in yesterday’s NYT that Amazon, in an effort to lower the retail price of e-books, removed over 4,000 e-titles distributed by the Independent Publishing Group. The conflict point...
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