Another AT&T Cash Injection Deployment with Sony’s 3G Wireless EBook Reader!
Now we have AT&T making their second move to provide wireless access for Sony’s upcoming 3G Wireless E-Book Reader. Their 1st move were made earlier this summer that they will do the same for Plastic Logic. Now we know what they, be it Google, Sony, IRex, Plastic Logic, Barnes and Noble, AT&T and perhaps many more in the future are going after, they are all going after the same market that Amazon Kindle had been taking the lead(so far)—The Emerging E-book Industry.
Another Barnes and Noble eBook Reader?
Barnes & Noble will also be partnering with iRex, a Netherlands-based company in particular on iRex 8.1-inch touch screen e-reader that also comes with a stylus-based navigation and 3G wireless connectivity.
Amazon lets publishers sell blog subscriptions for Kindle
Amazon has introduced Kindle Publishing for Blogs, a more simple way for bloggers to be included in the Kindle’s content distribution system. For bloggers, it is another distribution channel and (smaller) source of revenue. For blog readers, it means a greater selection of blogs to choose from. For Amazon? CHA-CHING.
Amazon is currently taking a 70 [...]
Amazon’s Kindle DX: Priced to (barely) sell
PC World’s Paul Boutin has written a great article talking about Amazon’s Kindle DX. He hits the nail on the head several times, pointing out how the DX is nothing revolutionary – it’s just a Kindle 2 with a bigger screen. What it does have exclusively – a PDF reader, for example – is nothing [...]
Amazon demands 70% of revenue from newspapers, tries to kill DX quickly
I’m flabbergasted.
According to Dallas Morning News President and CEO James Moroney, Amazon wants to take quite a large chunk of dough from newspaper revenues on the Kindle. How much? Here’s a quote from Moroney’s Senate testimony:
The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News-and we’ve [...]
Amazon Kindle DX: The facts
While a lot of other people are sitting through a Jeff Bezos presentation at Pace University in NYC, we’ve decided to just go ahead and tell you what there is to know about the new device. This isn’t top secret information: the Kindle DX’s product page went live during the press conference, all but killing [...]
Amazon’s Kindle DX: Press conference coming this morning
Today at 10:30 am EST (in just about nine and a half hours), Amazon is expected to unveil their newest ebook reader, rumored to be called the Kindle DX.
This could be an historic day. The new Kindle has apparently been built with traditional print media – newspapers and magazines – in mind. However, saving print [...]
Overnight Hotlinks, Cinco de Mayo edition
Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display? Update: Pictures!
by Engadget
Apple netbook spied and photographed? (No.)
by CrunchGear
Why BlackBerry’s lead over the iPhone won’t last
by iPhone Central
Amazon teaming with six universities to supply new Kindles to students
I have to ask – where was this brilliant idea when I was in college?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon has partnered with six universities and a number of textbook publishers to equip students with Kindles this fall. Along with earlier news that Amazon has scheduled a press event for this Wednesday, it’s [...]
New Kindle could be introduced as early as Wednesday
If you’re the proud new owner of a Kindle 2, we have some bad news for you – your device may become “last generation” very soon.
According to the New York Times, Amazon is set to unveil a new Kindle device as early as this Wednesday. The new Kindle would feature a larger screen, which would [...]
