Amazon is introducing an advertising component to the Kindle platform. I love it. Kudos to Jeff Bezos & Co. for their forward thinking on this initiative. I’m talking about the less expensive ($114) device currently known as “Kindle with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers.” (It’s not the sexiest name but it certainly describes the product! [...]
Entries Tagged as 'deal'
B&N signs exclusive deal with Eric Carle
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Barnes & Noble have just announced that they have signed an exclusive deal to distribute the work of Eric Carle, the famed children’s author. Unfortunately, this deal isn’t for his books to be released for the NookColor. Damn. That would have been so cool. No, this deal is for a bunch of exclusive Eric Carle [...]
That $7.8b Apple-Samsung Deal isn’t as big as you might think
February 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
The hot story today is about the deal that Samsung and Apple are about to sign. Over the next year, Samsung will provide $7.8 billion worth of components for the iPad and iPhone. this deal would make Apple the single largest customer of Samsung. I’m sure you’re thinking “wow, that’s a lot of money. Maybe [...]
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Tired of your Kindle? Have I got a deal for you
January 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
There’s a bookstore in Portland, Oregon that will take your Kindle as a trade in for store credit. Microcosm Publishing are running this offer to the end of the month, and it’s only good at their store (mail-in not accepted). So someone has to be there in person (which they would anyway, in order to [...]
Smashwords just went Agency – signed new deal with Sony, B&N, Kobo
December 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news
Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, just sent me the following email: We’ve renegotiated our ebook distribution agreements with Barnes & Noble, Sony and Kobo. Effective yesterday, our 10,000+ Smashwords authors and publishers now determine their ebook prices at retail. No more discounting. The move also allows us to increase the royalty rates we pay authors [...]
Kobo signed deal with HTC
September 15th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Kobo just inked a deal with the world’s most widely distributed smartphone maker. I don’t have the numbers, but I’d bet that HTC have more devices in use than the 100m iOS devices quoted by Steve Jobs. Heck, they’re so big that even I know who they are (and I don’t cover smartphones). I haven’t [...]
9 Universities sign new deal with CourseSmart
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: CourseSmart, the world’s largest digital course materials provider, today announced the first group of colleges and universities that have been selected to participate in the company’s Faculty Instant Access program. The program provides instructors with convenient, instant access to more than 90% of core higher education textbooks as eTextbooks from within [...]
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The Screw You eBook Deal
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed. This week’s menace to eBookland is literary agent Andrew Wylie and his new publishing venture Odyssey. Wylie could have summed up his actions in simple terms: to disserve both [...]
Baker & Taylor signs deal with Simon & Schuster, De Gruyter
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
From the press release: Baker & Taylor Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today at Book Expo America announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services – via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit – to Simon & Schuster and German academic publisher De Gruyter. …The agreements [...]
Macmillan signs deal with NetRead
May 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · publishing news
From the press release: NetRead Software and Services, LLC announced a metadata partnership today with Macmillan USA. Under terms of the agreement, NetRead will handle their title data conversion and distribution through its product, JacketCaster. JacketCaster is architected around the book industry XML-standard called ONIX, and this foundation will allow for quick and efficient delivery [...]
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