Michael Ephraim, the head of Sony for Australia and NZ, was interviewed by The Age yesterday. He is rather pissed with the recent behavior of Apple, and he’d really like to see Sony sever all ties. You know, when Apple decided to enforce that contract clause, perhaps they should have started with a company smaller [...]
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Sony could pull music from iTunes in ongoing war with Apple
February 11th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Amazon, B&N are in the middle of an e-reader price war TODAY
November 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · sales
I wasn’t planning to do another BFS post, but one of my readers pointed out that B&N are selling refurbished Nook Wifi e-readers for $79. You can find them on Ebay, and they come with the standard 1 year warranty. I think I’m seeing a pattern here. The Nook shows up in a Best Buy [...]
Chinese e-reader price war is heating up
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Digitimes are reporting that Hanvon, MReader, and other Chinese e-reader manufacturers have lowered their prices for the domestic Chinese market. Hanvon Technology, currently the largest vendor of e-book readers in the China market, has lowered its retail prices by 200-300 yuan (US$30-45) on average, with the lowest price reaching 950 yuan, according to report by [...]
The War of the Worlds app now available for the iPad (video)
October 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release, video
This one looks kinda neat (you get to blow things up and set people on fire). From the press release: Smashing Ideas today announced The War of the Worlds for iPad is now available in iTunes. The enhanced eBook, based on H.G. Wells classic Man vs. Martian tale, is available for the introductory price of [...]
UK e-reader price war gets off to a lackluster start
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The Bookseller are reporting that WHSmith have followed Waterstone’s in cutting the price of the Sony Pocket Edition to £99. Everyone agrees that both price changes were caused by Amazon’s announcement that they will sell K3 in the UK for £109. I’m a little disappointed, but perhaps I’m expecting too much too soon. In the [...]
iPad, Kindle, Nook war WON’T kill Google Editions
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
There was a rather uninformed article posted yesterday on eWeek.com. The author argues that the iPad is competing with the Kindle, Nook for the reading market: With April’s release of the Apple iPad, and recent software and hardware upgrades for both Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the battle for the e-reader market is [...]
Could Sony drop out of the e-reader price war?
July 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware rumors
ReadWriteWeb got their hands on a statement from Sony, and that’s certainly one way to interpret it: “Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won’t sacrifice the quality and design we’re bringing book lovers to lay claim to the cheapest eReader,” said Phil Lubell, VP of Digital Reading at Sony [...]
Is China facing an e-reader price war?
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The following press release came across my desk this morning: While iPad of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL | PowerRating) is competing with Kindle of Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN | PowerRating) in the oversea market, the tablet computer triggers a markdown of e-book readers in the Chinese market. As a result, the stock price of Hanwang [...]
On the e-reader price war and the shake-out of the market
July 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion
Best Tablet Review has an interesting article on the e-reader price war and the current state of the market.They argue that The first point I want to raise is when the price war started. BTR assumes (like most people) that the Nook Wifi started the price war. I disagree. Kobo started it when they launched [...]
Samsung to surrender e-reader price war
July 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
You might recall that Monday I posted that the Samsung E60 will be sold in France (it’s also currently sold in Italy). I was a little frustrated because I had no info about the US release, which had been repeatedly delayed. I sent an email to Samsung and pestered them again. They got back to [...]
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