Posts tagged ebooks
eBook consumption has grown astonishingly on Tablets compared to other digital contents
BI Intelligence has recently published a report concerning content consumption on mobile devices that include Tablet and Smartphones. The following figure (thanks to Business Insider) shows the patterns of usages by media or content types. The data for the reports are based on fourth quarter of 2011 collected by Nielsen. Since then, tablet market is growing at a very faster rate with the introduction of new and improved devices from Apple, Amazon, B&N, Samsung, Google and others.
However, based on the data, as you can see ebook consumption on tablets is 41% compared to 9% on smartphones. More >
Don't Buy an eReader Unless it Supports Wide Range of Contents or Big eBookStore
The ebook and ereader markets are still going through some turmoil even after substantial price cuts of major eink-based ereaders like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony Readers – all of which are backed by large scale ebook retailers like Amazon, B&N, and Borders. While it seemed just a couple of months back that all other ereaders those donot have decent market share would disappear soon. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. There is a bunch of ereaders like Pocketebook, Sharper Image Literati, iReiver Cover Story, Cool-er, Pandigital Novel, Pockerbook IQ, BenQ K61, Ectaco Jetbook mini, Aluratek More >
Some Science Kobo Fiction eBooks
This new edition of Brian Aldiss’s classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’, first published in 1941, to the 2006 story ‘Friends in Need’ by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A. E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to More >
Relative Size eBook Stores
The Digital Inspiration blog has produced a chart showing the comparison of ebook stores among Apple iBook store, B&N Nook Store, Sony Reader Store and Amazon Kindle Store. According to the blog:
Sony says their eBook store has more than 1.2 million titles but if we discount Google Books, the actual store size is around 60,000 titles.
Barnes & Noble’s eBook store too claims to have more than a million books for the Nook but the number of titles available in the store is around 26,000 – the rest are public domain (out of copyright) works that you may download through Google Books.
Apple’s More >
New eBooks For Your Kindle 8/23/2010
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Should Amazon Buy B&N?
It’s now final that B&N is going to be sold. The share price is ‘significantly undervalues’, and the company had poor earnings last quarter. The WSJ reports:
Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore chain. The New York-based company said a falling stock prompted its board to consider all “strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.”
The daily Finance reports that
there are several compelling reasons why Barnes & Noble would pursue this More >
Should Amazon Buy B&N?
It’s now final that B&N is going to be sold. The share price is ‘significantly undervalues’, and the company had poor earnings last quarter. The WSJ reports:
Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore chain. The New York-based company said a falling stock prompted its board to consider all “strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.”
The daily Finance reports that
there are several compelling reasons why Barnes & Noble would pursue this More >
