The acquisition of e-reader display specialist Liquavista suggests Samsung is planning on an e-reader of its own. – Seeking to gain a leg up in
the growing e-reader market, Samsung Electronics has acquired Liquavista, a
Dutch company that uses electrowetting cell technology to build digital
displays for mobile applications such as e-readers, mobile phones, GPS devices,
portable media players and cameras.
“I…
Pandigital Novel 9-inch Android tablet and color e-reader is the companys first e-reader with WiFi and integrated connectivity through AT&T. – You can count Pandigital among the companies showing off a new tablet at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Pandital introduced the Multimedia Novel 9-inch Android tablet and color e-Reader Jan. 4, the companys first e-reader with integrated wireless connectivity through the AT amp;T …
Strong sales of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader suggest digital books are here to stay. – Book seller Barnes amp; Noble announced that with millions of Nook
e-reading devices sold, the line has become the company’s biggest bestseller
ever in its history. The new Nook color Reader’s Tablet, introduced just eight
weeks before Christmas, is the company’s No. 1 selling gift of the holida…
News Analysis: The Amazon Kindle is selling extremely well. Although some may wonder if Apple will take down the e-reader next year, it seems more likely now than ever that it will fare just fine. –
Amazon.com
announced Dec. 27 that the companys third-generation Kindle is now the top-selling product
it has ever offered. With that news, some in the tech industry were undoubtedly
taken aback, especially considering that Apple, the company that typically wins
out in battles over consum…
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other e-reader manufacturers can bank on rapidly increasing sales over the next year, according to research firm Gartner. – Amazon, Barnes amp; Noble, and other e-reader manufacturers
can look forward to increased interest in their devices over the next year, at
least according to a new research note from Gartner.
In Gartners estimation, worldwide e-reader sales will total
6.6 million units in 2010, a 79.8 percent …
The Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and Sony Reader have led an e-reader market now expected to reach 30 million units in 2013 nearly doubling 2012s total thanks to global growth. – The e-book market is poised to ship 30 million units in 2013,
doubling 2012s totals, ABI Research reported in a Dec. 6 report. U.S.
readers, embracing the Amazon Kindle, Barnes amp; Noble Nook and Sony
Reader, have built up the market, which the firm now expects to begin
expanding globally over…
Having an e-Ink technology leads to a device dedicated to reading and is very portable and convenient to use. Traditional paper based books has now an alternative and that is the digital books or the eBooks which is widely offered in the market.
Hanvon’s color e-reader will debut on the Asian market in 2011. Along with the upcoming Nook Color, does that mean a wider e-reader market shift toward color? – The market for color e-readers could be on the verge of tipping into
something much larger: Hanvon, purportedly Chinas leading seller of e-readers,
is prepping to debut a color e-reader during the FPD International 2010 trade
show in Tokyo.
Word of that unveiling comes from The New York
Times,…
Barnes & Noble’s new full-color Nook could radically alter the e-reader market, pushing the devices to become more like Apple iPad-style tablet PCs. – Seeking to regain some momentum in the e-reader space, Barnes amp; Noble
introduced its full-color Nook at a New York City
event Oct. 26. In addition to the color screen, the new Nook includes
features most notably, Web surfing that bring it more in line with a tablet PC.
This raises the inevit…
Amazon says its newest Kindle e-reader is outselling the older versions, as rumors circulate of a possible Android-powered, color Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader. – Amazon.com may be reluctant to share exactly how many Kindles the companys
sold since it debuted the e-reader, but that hasnt stopped it from
discussing yet again the devices supposedly best-selling status.
“Its still October, and weve already sold more Kindle devices since launch
than we did…
Borders will market the Kobo Wireless eReader, competing with Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook. – Borders will sell the new Kobo Wireless eReader, in a further attempt to
carve market share away from Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes amp; Noble’s Nook.
The e-reader market has expanded rapidly over the last year, resulting in a
combination of falling device prices and new hardware additions and …
Sony is rolling out revamped versions of its three e-readers and selling its Pocket Edition at a higher price in a bid to compete against the cheaper Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. – Amazon.com and Barnes amp; Nobles strategies for
conquering the e-reader market? Cut the prices of their respective Kindle and
Nook devices.
Sonys strategy for boosting its sales numbers in that same
market? Raise the price of its refreshed Reader Pocket Edition and justify it
with additional…
Borders reportedly plans on slashing its e-reader prices, in order to further undercut the price points of the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. – Borders plans on slashing the prices of the Kobo and
Aluratek Libre e-readers by $20, in a bid to better compete against competitors
such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes amp; Noble Nook, according to a new
online report.
Borders
President Mike Edwards told the Wall Street Journal Aug. 31 tha…
Plastic Logic has canceled its Que e-reader, and the company is vowing to refocus its resources on designing a next-generation product. The Que had been positioned as a high-end challenger to Amazons Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook. – Plastic Logic has canceled
of its Que e-reader, a potential high-end challenger to Amazons Kindle and
Barnes amp; Nobles Nook. In its place, the company will apparently focus on
“a second-generation ProReader plastic electronics-based product.” The Que had
already experienced rounds of delays,…
Apple and Amazon have been asked to account for their deals with publishers over e-book pricing, by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The Apple iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are widely regarded as the top e-reader devices on the market. – Apple and Amazon could be engaged in anticompetitive
practices with regard to e-book pricing, says Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal, who has sent letters to the companies lead attorneys.
Blumenthal plans on investigating whether Apples and Amazons deals with
publishers unfairly bl…
Amazon and Barnes & Noble were just two of many companies promoting e-readers at the beginning of 2010. Thanks to rising cost pressures and competition from the likes of Apple, they may soon be the only ones. – At January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
tablets and e-readers seemed all the rage. Samsung, Amazon.com, Barnes amp;
Noble, Plastic Logic, Spring Design, a Heart subsidiary and a host of others
all used the convention to debut their own take on the e-reader. And why not?
Amazon’s Ki…
Sony has slashed the prices of three of its e-reader models, following similar moves by rivals Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, as competition in the e-reader category continues to heat up. Sony and its competitors face a looming threat from the Apple iPad, which includes a color e-reader application. – Another day, another e-reader price cut. On the heels of Amazon.com announcing a
retooled-and-cheaper version of its large-screen Kindle DX, Sony slashed the
prices of its own e-readers in order to better compete in what has become an
ever-hotter market.
The Sony Reader Pocket Edition now reta…
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble may be engaged in an intensifying price war for their respective e-readers, with prices for the Kindle and Nook dropping, respectively, to $189 and $199. While some pundits have predicted that prices could drop even further, pressured by the companies competition with each other and the Apple iPad, one analyst suggests that e-reader prices can only fall so far, and the technologys slow evolution might inhibit increased sales. Stripped-down e-readers currently sell for just under $150. – Amazon.com and Barnes amp; Noble might be heating up the
e-reader wars this week, with tit-for-tat price cuts on their respective Kindle
and Nook devices, but at least one analyst thinks the companies current
strategy can only extend so far.
On June 21, Barnes
amp; Noble announced a price red…
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble engaged in a rapid-fire price war June 21, with both companies announcing substantial reductions for their original e-readers. In addition, Barnes & Noble also announced a WiFi-only version of its Nook for $149. The price cuts suggest that the competition in the e-reader space, already heated thanks to the increasing popularity of the devices and the introduction of the Apple iPad, may be heating up even further. As Amazon and Barnes & Noble cut prices and improve their devices’ features in order to gain more users, smaller e-reader competitors could find themselves squeezed out of the market. – The e-reader wars are heating up.
On June 21, Barnes amp; Noble announced a price reduction
for its Nook e-reader from $259 to $199, along with a WiFi-only version of the
device for $149. While owners of either device can receive a free connection at
all AT amp;T hot spots, those with the origi…
Barnes & Noble cut the price of its original Nook e-reader and announced a new WiFi-only version, as it seeks to compete in an increasingly crowded space against not only Amazon.com’s Kindle but also the Apple iPad. This newest announcement follows April’s Nook software update, which included a Web browser and Android-based games. Not to be outdone, Amazon slashed its Kindle price to below the original Nook’s. Both the Nook and Kindle proved bestsellers during the 2009 holiday shopping season, according to their respective manufacturers, but the iPad’s selling of 2 million units since its April debut suggests that the e-reader space will only get more competitive. – Barnes amp; Nobles Nook e-reader is now available in two versions, with
the bookseller issuing a cheaper WiFi-only device to complement its original
3G-equipped one. The rollout comes as Barnes amp; Noble finds itself competing
not only with Amazon.coms popular Kindle e-reader, but also the App…
