They’re reporting that they saw 175% more revenue in November through January than they did in the previous 12 months combined. That’s over 10 times as much revenue when expanded to cover a year. Of course, we don’t know what it was before, so the wow factor is dependent on that older number. This shouldn’t [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sold'
LibreDigital distributed more magazines in the last 3 months than they did the 12 months before
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
NookColor hacks now being sold on Ebay – Avoid?
March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
This past weekend I learned about the latest beginner’s shortcut that’s being sold on Ebay. Starting at around $60, you can buy a microSD card with the latest NookColor hacks installed.You can find everything from a basic root hack to the hacked Froyo update. Will Shanklin over at Android Police think it’s a ripoff. I’m [...]
Nearly 11k NookColors were sold on Ebay this week
March 3rd, 2011 · 5 Comments · hardware news
A couple days ago I (and a bunch of other tech blogs) told about a sale that Barnes & Noble were running on Ebay. You could buy a brand new NookColor for only $199, after a $50 coupon. The sale ended a day early because apparently B&N sold more than they planned. I just checked, [...]
Tags:11k·ebay·nookcolors·sold·week
Macmillan to pay authors for books that weren’t sold
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
E-Reads are hosting a copy of a letter sent out last week by John Sargent, the head of Macmillan. This letter was mailed to Macmillan authors with their royalty statement, and it explained a couple of interesting quirks in the payment schedules. One of the changes is that Macmillan have decided to raise the royalty [...]
Pocketbook Germany sold 10k e-readers during the Christmas season
January 31st, 2011 · 7 Comments · hardware news
Following on the heels of the Fnac report on Saturday, Johannes of lesen.net reported that Pocketbook sold nearly 10, 000 e-readers in Germany during the past 2 months of 2010. Yikes. That’s not much, considering that Pocketbook have said they have a strong position in Europe.
Amazon sold more ebooks last year than paperbacks
January 27th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Amazon released their Q4 statement today, and it was a doozy. Amazon sold 115 ebooks last year for every 100 paperbacks. Ad they sold 3 times as many ebooks as they did hardbacks. What’s even better is that those numbers cover all of 2010, not just this last quarter. Amazon are also reporting that the [...]
Tags:Amazon·ebooks·paperbacks·sold·year
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 [...]
B&N boast 650 thousand digital magazines sold in the past 2 months
January 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · press release
From the press release: Barnes & Noble is experiencing robust NOOKnewsstand (www.NOOKnewsstand.com) sales since it brought touch and full, rich color to a wide array of digital magazines and leading newspapers when it began shipping NOOKcolor, the first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet. The company announced digital periodical sales are exceeding expectations with more than 650,000 [...]
PageOne e-reader to be sold in Russia
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The-Ebook.org are reporting that the Next Papyrus PageOne e-reader will soon be sold in Russia by a company called SemiDevices. This is a basic e-reader with a 6″ E-ink screen (no Wifi or touchscreen) and not all that many reading options. I reviewed it about a month ago, and I wasn’t impressed. I don’t have [...]
B&N Nook to be sold in Walmart on 24 October
October 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · press release
Now this is interesting. The Nook won’t be the first e-reader sold by Walmart, but it will be only the _second_ to be sold in stores (they sell about a dozen models online). I wonder what B&N did to get the shelf space? From the press release: October 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. [...]
RSS
Email
Facebook
Twitter
