Stevie boy has passed along a piece of ebook info at the iPad launch today. He’s reported that over 1oo million ebooks have been downloaded from iBooks. Of course, “100 million downloads” refers to the number of downloads, not sales. Based on the several people I’ve talked to, ebook sales in iBooks are not nearly [...]
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1.8 million XO laptops are now in use
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
One of the mailing lists I follow is for the Sugar developemnt community. There’s been a debate going on for the past few days about the correct number of XO laptops that have been made. If you check the various wekis, websites, etc, you’ll get a bunch of different answers. Some count all the ones [...]
3.5 million Brits received an e-reader for Christmas
February 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
A couple days ago the UK Publisher’s Association released some data on ebook and e-reader sales over Christmas. A full 7% of respondents said that they got an e-reader for Christmas 2010. Now, assuming the UK population adult is around 50 million, that means somewhere around 3.5 million e-readers were sold over Christmas. It’s a [...]
Borders secured $550 million in new financing
January 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · press release
Borders just announced that they have a promise of $550m from GE credit. Their plan is to use this money to restructure and basically not have to go bankrupt. We already knew about this financing, but what we didn’t know was the conditions GE Capital attached. There are several conditions such as store closure, etc, [...]
Oceanhouse Media have sold 1 million ebook apps in iTunes
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Michel Kripalani, founder and president of Oceanhouse Media, Inc., today announced the company has crossed the one million mark in paid app downloads on Apple’s App Store. Kripalani will be a panelist at this week’s Digital Book World Conference and Expo in New York on Jan. 26 where he’ll discuss the [...]
Digital publishing platform Onswipe raise $1 million in financing
January 13th, 2011 · No Comments · ebook tools
So do you recall how I’ve said that apps are dead and that the future is in web content (HTML5)? Well, Onswipe feel the same way and that’s why their new platform is targeted at browsers, not apps. t hasn’t been released yet and so far as I can tell no one has even seen [...]
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comiXology celebrate 1 million app downloads, 5k titles in ebookstore
December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: New York, NY, January 3rd, 2011 – comiXology, the leading digital comic book provider, today announced it is kick starting the New Year with more than 5,000 digital comics available on its platform. The expansion of its library follows a banner year in 2010 with comic book fans everywhere making it [...]
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Dictionary.com Marks 20 Million Downloads With Next-Gen Mobile Dictionary
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Today Dictionary.com (www.dictionary.com), the leading online and mobile dictionary, announced that its mobile products have exceeded *20 million downloads, making it the world’s most downloaded dictionary across iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
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Borders post a $74 million loss for Q3
December 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · press release
Does anyone get the feeling that Borders buying B&N is an example of the blind leading the blind? From the press release: Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) today reported results for its third quarter ended October 30, 2010 and the undertaking of important steps in its brand transformation process. Results include: Third quarter sales were [...]
Inventec to ship 1 million NookColor e-readers by year’s end
December 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
That’s what Digitimes are reporting: Inventec is expected to ship over one million Nook Color touch-controlled e-book readers to Barnes & Noble by year-end 2010. The company is also expected to land orders for 6-7 million Palm WebOS-based tablet telecommunication devices from Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011, according to industry sources. I don’t like news reports [...]
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