PVI: E Ink display demand picks up in June—part of 23 percent sequential revenue...
This is Good News---a pickup at the world's largest E Ink display producer, which supplies Sony and Amazon/Kindle among others.Part of of a greater trend? Is the world economic slowdown...
BookZ Text Reader: iPhone app optimized for PG-style sites, with integrated browsing to simplify...
The quest goes on to make public domain books as easy to downlaod as the Kindle variety. Uncovered by Mike Cane in his Apple-ology studies of the iPhone App Store: ...
Kindle e-book sales: Doubled in the past two months?
The guy in the photo is reading off another gizmo rather than the Kindle---whatever is on the screen, be it a book or a calendar. And in fact I suspect...
Why publishers should favor open standards and format agnosticism—for now
Joseph J. Esposito is former CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica and also has worked as an executive at Simon & Schuster and other giants. The must-read essay below appeared in a slightly...
Senior-oriented site talking up Kindle for people with vision problems
Here. Let's hope that the Kindle gets still easier to operate, and that screen contrasts improves. Related: Previous TeleRead items on e-books as the new large print.
The Power of Amazon: The pros and cons
Moderator's note: For another perspective---on the economics of the iPhone platform, which some see as a Kindle rival for e-publishing---check out Bill Janssen's essay. - D.R. ...
700,000-800,000 Kindles could be sold by the end of '08, says analyst
That's what Steve Weinstein of Pacific Crest is saying. Credible? Long term, I'm optimistic about the Kindle. Short term, who knows? When people fear loss of a job or...
Viral marketing idea for Amazon: Kindle e-forms to sign up K converts on the...
Amazon is building a great model---no advertising other than its own Web site and an army of Kindle enthusiasts out there helping to hype the product. We should be on...
SF fans' fave books, recession-slowed book sales, yet another Amazon-iPod piece, E vs. paperbacks,...
Links of the moment: --Sci-fi fans name best TV shows, movies and books, in a Wired blog. Top ten books are 1984 by George Orwell, The War of the...
A roadmap: How a book becomes a book
Whether the issue is e-book formats or copyright or identifiers of intellectual property, it helps to understand the complexities associated with book creation and distribution. For readers and writers,...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
