Amazon reports that Kindle ebooks are outselling paperbacks sold via its online storefront, but sales figures for the Kindle e-reader remain elusive. – In a twist that will likely have paper-loving bibliophiles screaming in
agony, Amazon.com’s Kindle ebooks have apparently started outselling
paperbacks, having already surpassed hardcovers.
Amazon sold 115 Kindle books for every 100 paperbacks moved through its
online storefront, the
company re…
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 owners, like those with an Apple iPad or iPhone or Android and BlackBerry devices, now have their own Kindle app for reading e-books. – Amazon just made e-book reading a little more egalitarian, with the
introduction of Kindle for Windows Phone 7. The first major e-book app
for Microsofts new mobile OS, it enables owners of Windows Phone 7
smartphones to take advantage of Amazons Buy Once, Read Everywhere
Kindle applications.
…
Amazon plans to issue Kindle apps for Android and Windows-based tablets, even as its Kindle device continues to battle the Apple iPad in the marketplace. – Amazon plans to issue Kindle
applications for Android and Windows LCD tablets in a bid to spread its e-reader
software onto as many devices as possible. A free Kindle application already exists for
the Apple iPad, currently the best-selling tablet on the market.
Amazons Kindle application, whic…
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.com is trumpeting sales of its Kindle e-reader, but its public statements could reflect anxiety over the effect of Apples bestselling iPad on the e-reader market. – Is Amazon.coms Kindle holding off a sales threat from
Apples iPad?
That became the question after the online retailer issued a
Dec. 27 press release, boasting that the Kindle had become “the bestselling
product in Amazons history.” In order to reach that milestone, the e-reader
device apparentl…
The Kindle beat out the seventh Harry Potter book, to become Amazons best-selling product ever. – Harry Potter was no match for the Kindle this Christmas. The third-generation
of Amazons Kindle e-reader knocked the top-selling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) from the top spot,
making it the bestselling product in Amazons history, the online retailer
announced Dec. 27.
Over the …
Amazon.com will sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers in 2010, according to unnamed sources talking to Bloomberg. That would greatly outpace 2009s predicted figures. – Amazon.com could sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers
in 2010, according to a new report from Bloomberg. That would outpace earlier
estimates that placed device sales in the 5-million range.
Amazon has traditionally been reluctant to share sales
figures for the device, which it touts as one…
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 …
Amazon.com is reportedly preparing a Kindle-centric response to Googles new eBooks platform. – Amazon.com is planning a Kindle for Web app,
which would allow users to purchase e-books via a Website and then read those
titles in their browser.
A Dec. 7 release on Amazon’s corporate Website described Kindle for the Web as enabling anyone with access to a Web browser quot;to buy and read ful…
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…
Google finally launched Google eBooks as an alternative to existing services from Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble. Google eBooks will include works for fees and for free. – Google Dec. 6 launched Google eBooks, the company’s effort
to offer books online for purchase and free as an alternative to existing services
from Amazon, Apple and Barnes amp; Noble.
Consumers will be able to search among 3 million titles
from the EBookstore,
which will complement the existin…
News Analysis: Apple’s iPad is starting to gain serious ground on Amazon’s Kindle in the e-reader market, a new survey has found, and it looks like Amazon will have a difficult time keeping the Apple device from wresting the market share lead from Kindle at some point. – A
new survey from ChangeWave Research has found that Apple’s iPad is well on
its way to taking down the Amazon Kindle in the e-reader market. In fact, the
researchers found that Amazon currently has 47 percent market share in that
space, compared with Apple’s 32 percent. In August 2010, Amazon h…
Apple’s iPad is gaining market share on the Amazon Kindle in the e-reader category, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research. – Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader faces a growing threat from the Apple iPad,
according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. After polling 2,800
consumers, the analysis firm concluded that the iPad’s share of the e-reader
market had expanded from 16 percent to 32 percent between August and November…
Amazon is offering its customers the ability to "gift" Kindle ebooks, in another feature build-out to better compete with Barnes & Noble’s Nook and the Apple iPad. – Amazon.com is offering its customers the ability to quot;gift quot; Kindle
ebooks, yet another escalation in the online retailer’s efforts to stay atop
the e-reader market. Despite its sales position, Kindle faces increased
competition from not only Barnes amp; Nobles’ new Nook Color, but also …
Barnes & Noble announced its Nook Color e-reader has begun shipment, as the bookseller looks for a repeat of 2009s holiday battle against Amazon.com’s Kindle. – Barnes amp; Noble reported Nov. 16 that shipments of its Nook Color
e-reader have begun ahead of schedule, with the first units arriving to
customers this week. The bookseller claims only a limited number of the
full-color devices will be available in stores and that customers ordering this
wee…
The introduction of Apples iPad, Kindle e-readers, Droid smartphones and other devices are pushing mobile chips sales. By 2014, In-Stat expects sales to top 4 billion units. – The mobile processor market is set to reach 4 billion units by 2014,
market research firm In-Stat reported Oct. 26. Mobile device growth,
said the firm, is reshaping the high-tech industry, and with rising
sales of smartphones and converged devices is coming an increased need
for everything from…
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…
Amazon.com has enabled a 14-day lending feature for Kindle e-books, matching a similar Barnes & Noble feature and escalating the e-reader wars. – Amazon.com plans on introducing two new features to its
Kindle e-reader franchise: the ability to receive newspapers and other
periodicals via the free Kindle app, and lending for Kindle, which will allow
e-books to be shared between users.
“Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14 day…
Verizon Wireless is now featuring Kindle for Android directly on the application screens of the Samsung Fascinate and Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 smartphones. – Verizon Wireless Oct. 13 teamed with Amazon.com to preload the
Kindle for Android application on the application screens of the
Samsung Fascinate and Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 smartphones.
Kindle for Android lets readers search, download and read from more
than 700,000 books in the Kindle S…
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 …
