Amazon, a company that was founded on selling books, is now selling more Kindle Books than paperback books, according to Amazon’s fourth quarter sales announcement, which indicated Amazon’s sales increased 36% to $12.95 billion in Q4. Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three times as […]
Updated NOOK 3G and NOOK Wi-Fi Review with Firmware 1.5
Here’s the link to a new updated Nook review for the original E Ink Nook 3G and Nook Wi-Fi. Thanks to Doug Pardee, a veteran Nook owner, for writing the review. It is very thorough and very accurate and draws fair comparisons between the Nook and the Kindle. Looking back at my original Nook Review […]
Nook Color Firmware Update 1.1 Now Available
Barnes and Noble just released a new firmware update for the Nook Color that adds some new features and fixes some bugs. The update is version 1.1.0 and unfortunately isn’t the BIG update we’ve been waiting for that will upgrade the Nook’s operating system to Android 2.2.
Kindle Singles – Short Kindle eBooks Introduced Today
Amazon is attempting to bring short stories, novellas, and novelettes to the Kindle and Kindle apps by launching a new campaign called Kindle Singles, short books typically ranging between 5,000 and 30,000 words. Amazon first announced this back in October, looking for authors to submit their work for publication.
3G Nook Being Phased Out; Nook 2 Coming Soon?
There’s an article at Engadget that has prompted a lot of “Nook 3G not selling well” and “Barnes and Noble dropping 3G Nook” articles. According to the report, Engadget has “hard evidence” from within B&N that the Nook 3G is being discontinued, with sales to seemingly continue until stock is exhausted, and that B&N is […]
OverDrive Updates Android and iPhone Apps
Yesterday OverDrive updated their Media Console apps for iPhone and Android to add some new features. They added one-click automatic downloads to reduce the number of steps required to download ebooks and audiobooks from libraries. Access to 15,000 DRM-free EPUB Project Gutenberg ebooks was added to each library’s “Virtual Branch” for downloading whenever you want […]
B&N’s ePeriodical Subscriptions Thriving Thanks to Nook Color
Barnes and Noble issued a press release today with some surprising statistics about their NOOKnewsstand, B&N’s online store for digital newspaper and magazine subscriptions. According to the press release, digital periodical sales have exceeded expectations with more than 650,000 total subscriptions and single copy sales driven by Nook Color customers. Another interesting stat, since Christmas […]
Sony Reader Pocket (PRS-350) On Sale – $50 Off
The 5″ Sony PRS-350 is on sale at Sony Style, Amazon, and other Sony retailers for $129, and is even down to $119 at Buy.com. If you have a trade-in voucher now would be a good time to use it. Normally it’s a hard decision between the PRS-350 and the larger memory card-equipped PRS-650, but […]