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Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales

A new study from two academics at BYU tracking the sales of printed books following free ebook releases found that generally, a free ebook release is correlated with increased sales. Interestingly, the exception is for a group of ebooks that were rele [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Time Inc. Shows Us Their Idea of the Future of Magazines [Video]

It seems that every major magazine publisher has their own idea of how their magazines should look on the upcoming Tablet of Newspaper Salvation, due to be created by Apple (who, by the way, didn’t officially confirm they’re working on any such de [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Barnes And Noble's E-Reader Is Called "Nook"

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Barnes & Noble's e-book reader will be called the "Nook" and it will cost $259 reports the Wall Street Journal. The Journal saw an ad for the Nook taken out by B&N for the Sunday Book Review. According to the ad, you'll be able to lend books to fri [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Who will win the e-book war?

(From The Wall Street Journal ) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a brash price war against Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday, saying it would sell 10 hotly anticipated new books for just $10 apiece through its online site, Walmart.com. That was just the beginn [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WANT

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Kindle 2 goes to $259 - want one now?

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This just in: the Kindle 2 is falling from $299 to $259 and they will be selling an international version with built-in AT&T SIM card for $279 on October 19. Quoth the suits: “Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by m [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books

Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nourry says that he worries  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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2010 – Year of the E-book Reader?

After a long wait in the shadows, E-books look set to become big business next year. Being able to read a vast library of books, magazines and newspapers on a small handheld device is becoming increasingly attractive to consumers and manufacturers  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader

A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago. In a 7-page complaint filed with a Virginia district court Monday, Berne [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Nintendo Goes After Kindle Crowd With GameBoy DS E-Reader

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How will this work out? click [more] for pic. "Count one more e-reader on the market: Nintendo inked a deal with publisher HarperCollins to turn its DS portable game console in a electronic book reading device in the UK. A new cartridge coming on the  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Oprah gushes about Amazon Kindle, traffic jumps 479 percent

The Amazon Kindle is an ebook reader, and Oprah mentioned it on her show and how much she loves it. "On October 24, Oprah Winfrey told her audience she loves Amazon.com's (AMZN) electronic book reader, the Kindle. 'I'm telling you,' she said, 'It's a [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon will be selling over 4 million Kindles per year by 2010

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Amazon has had a surprisingly good run with their ebook reader, the Kindle. A Citi analyst revised his outlook on Amazon, partially based on these surprising results. The article shows a Citi project (click [more] to see the image link) that extrapo [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles, surprised?

Several companies have taken a stab at e-book readers. Amazon seems to have some footing finally. From the article: "Doing a little back of the envelope math, that brings total sales of the device so far to between $86 million and $96 million (the p [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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