Several new details have come to light since I last wrote about RedGroup Retail bankruptcy. Earlier this week the Australian Federal Court granted the Administrators for RedGroup Retail more time before they have to meet with RedGroup’s creditors. This is good; the pitchforks will be sharper and there will be more torches when the former [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sell'
RedGroup had been trying to sell Whitcoulls for the past year
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news, redgroup
Tags:redgroup·sell·whitcoulls·year
Asus eeeNote to sell for “under $200″ in the US
February 25th, 2011 · 9 Comments · hardware news
One of Asus’ official blogs just posted a promo post for the eeeNote. Asus are promising that the eeeNote, their e-reader with a grayscale LCD screen, will be available “soon” with a retail under $200. If that is for real, then the e-reader market just flipped upside down again. With that retail price it’s a [...]
Borders continue to sell off subs
January 25th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
AnnArbor.com are reporting that Borders have sold Day by Day Calendar Co., , a chain of 400+ kiosks and mall stores that sell calendars. The buyer was Austin, Texas-based Calendar Holdings LLC, and the sale price has not been announced. Curiously enough, there’s a Day by Day store in my local mall. In the past [...]
When publishers won’t sell, piracy emerges
January 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters “I think what leads to rampant piracy is not meeting emergent demands.” – Brian O’Leary That is the most concise statement I’ve read so far about an issue that constantly bothers me, which is that content companies create their own piracy problems. They do it by not moving fast enough, or by [...]
Tags:emerges·piracy·publishers·sell
M-Edge will soon sell custom e-reader covers
January 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · accessories - e-reader
The M-Edge team flagged me down today as I was passing their booth.They wanted to make sure I knew about their newest case offering. In the not too distant future they plan to offer customized cases. There’s only going to be 1 case offered, and only the iPad, Nook, K2, and K3 will have this [...]
B&N now sell more ebooks than paper books
December 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
That’s what they say in the press release. But if you read it a second time you’ll notice that it only refers to their website, not their brick and mortar stores. From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that with millions of NOOK eReading devices sold, [...]
Google Ebookstore to sell ebooks from the US Government Printing Office – Um, what?
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
The GPO announced today that they will be partnering with Google to sell government documents through the Google eBookstore. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, federal government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google [...]
Tags:ebooks·ebookstore·google·government·office·printing·sell·um
Big Lots now selling the “Slick” e-reader
December 10th, 2010 · 43 Comments · hardware news
I just found this advert for a new e-reader through MobileRead. All I know at this point is that this e-reader has a 7″ LCD screen and a SD card slot. There’s no product page yet, but there is a demo video. You can find it through BigLots’ weekly advert. Update: I’ve just gotten an [...]
EbookMall.com to sell the Bebook Neo, Club
November 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · hardware news
eBookMall.com just put out a press release announcing that they were adding 2 e-readers to their ebookstore. For a limited time they’ll have the Neo on sale for $229 USB and the Club for $179. Shipping is currently free. I wouldn’t buy from them just yet; you can get the Bebook Club for less if [...]
Tags:bebook·club·ebookmallcom·neo·sell
Trekstor to sell 7″ e-reader through MediaMarkt
November 12th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The German consumer electronics company Trekstor have just come out with a pair of e-readers. The first is a 5″ model, but I don’t know when it will be released. But I do know that the Trekstor eBook Player 7 is based on a 7″ LCD screen and it has 2GB Flash, SD card slot, [...]
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