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Feedbook Store now sells ebooks from Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster & Penguin

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Hadrien just announced the expansion of the Feedbooks Store on his blog. The 2 month old ebookstore sells ebooks from self-published authors along with eBooks from “non-agency” publishers (such as Random House for example). Today, Hadrien added three new “agency” publishers to the mix: Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster & Penguin, with more to com [...]

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Walmart now sell Hanvon e-readers

July 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

I was looking for Augen The Book and I discovered that Walmart is now selling Hanvon e-readers. Walmart continue to astound me.  I think they could have the broadest supply of e-readers anywhere on the web. Walmart are selling the N516 and N518 in both black and white. Both e-readers use a 5″ E-ink screen [...]

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Patterson breaks ebook record – sells 1.1m copies

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Hachette Book Group announced today that #1 bestselling author James Patterson has broken yet another record—this time with tremendous ebook sales. To date, Patterson has sold 1,141,273 ebook units, making him the first novelist ever to surpass the 1,000,000 mark. Patterson is once again at the helm of an important game-changing [...]

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First Japanese language ebook sells 10k titles in 5 days

June 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news

You might recall that a couple weeks ago I reported on the first literary ebook in Japanese. I came across slaes data. Nikkei.com is reporting: The electronic version of the latest mystery novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku has sold 10,000 copies in five days since its release on May 28, publisher Kodansha Ltd. said Thursday. That [...]

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Apple sells 2m iPads

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, hardware news

From the press release: Apple® today announced that iPad(TM) sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and [...]

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Dymocks secretly sells seven e-readers

May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news

You might recall that last week Dymocks announced they were adding support for Epub and DNL formats.  One comment I made was that I was surprised (at this late date) Dymocks was still selling the Iliad as their only e-reader. It turns out I was wrong. Dymocks sent a PDF to Gizmodo AU that shows [...]

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Tesco now sells Ebooks

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

I’ve just learned that UK retailer Tesco has surreptitiously opened an ebookstore at www.tescoebooks.com. I don’t know how long it has operated, but I ran a whois search and the domain was registered back in October 2009. The site has probably been up for a while. The ebooks are available in PDF and Epub, and [...]

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Apple sells 1m iPads

May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Apple

28 Days. Wow. It took Apple just 4 weeks to  sell 1 million iPads. Users have also downloaded over 12 million apps and over 1.5 million from iBookstore. “One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Damn. [...]

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