Apple have been running a counter on their homepage, and early this morning it clocked 10 billion. That’s 10 BILLION with a b iPhone, iPad, and OSX apps downloaded from the various app stores. Impressive, no?As I recall, the last major milestone was 3 billion downloads in January 2010, and before that was 1 billion [...]
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Ebook sales hit 40m USD for July
September 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
The IDPF have release the reported sales figures for July 2010. Sales jumped from $29.8m in June to 40.8m. If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time then you might recall that last month I announced that the reported sales had hit a plateau. I bet most of you will beleive that [...]
2 new e-readers to hit the US market some time this fall
September 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Mike Cane found a couple new e-readers on Youtube today. One was even new to me (I hope you were sitting down). They are being sold by a company called Nextbook, and I don’t know anything about them yet (other than the website is registered out of Hong Kong). I’m waiting for a response to [...]
Txtr e-reader isn’t dead yet, could hit the market in October
September 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
My first reaction: Yes, but October of what year, exactly? One of the stories from IFA that’s not getting the attention it should is about the long delayed Txtr e-reader. Johannes of lesen.net met with the Txtr people the other day and he’s reporting that the Txtr will soon be going through a beta test [...]
If you sell me an ebook with ads, I will hit you
August 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion
Sorry, I just wanted to make my opinion clear from the beginning. There’s an article in yesterday’s WSJ where the author advocates adding advertising to ebooks in order to cover the cost. With e-reader prices dropping like a stone and major tech players jumping into the book retail business, what room is left for publishers’ [...]
Apple iPad to hit 9 more countries on Friday
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Apple
From the press release: CUPERTINO, California-July 19, 2010-Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can [...]
Dell Streak to hit UK in June
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news
O2 just announced that they’re going to be he first to have Dell’s 5″ Android tablet. They didn’t mention the price, but here is what they said: Dell and O2 today announced that the Dell Streak will launch exclusively on O2 early next month, bringing the internet, entertainment, easy turn-by-turn navigation and thousands of Android [...]
US Digital Content to hit $33b in 2020
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
mediaIDEAS (a global research and advisory firm) has just released a report with their predictions for how the US ebook market is going to grow over the next 10 years. Here’s the high point from the press release: According to the report, at the end of 2014, the US user base of e-readers will have [...]
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