by Allen Weiner | September 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
While most observers obsess about the impact of Amazon’s new tablet and its impact on Apple’s iPad and other media tablets, the real story is much less about tablets and more about e-ink e-readers. With three new e-ink readers ($79, $99, $149), Amazon is looking to fire a double tap to the heads of Barnes [...]
Category: Amazon Apple Tags: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Sony
by Allen Weiner | July 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
For a somewhat experienced market research analyst, it’s always a danger to build an opinion based on a small sample size. When that small sample size includes yourself and a few family members, now you are talking risky. That said, when Netflix announced a price change that separates its streaming and DVD-by-mail service, my visceral [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Amazon, Apple, Booth at the End, Netflix, samsung, Sony, Vizio, Vuguru, Walmart
by Allen Weiner | May 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
Just when you thought it was safe to go into your big box retailers and buy an “e-reader” after parsing the maze of options, two new choices loom: a new tablet from Amazon and a new something from Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble’s new device is fact; Amazon’s is speculation built on the usual [...]
Category: Amazon Apple Tags: Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, books, e-books, e-readers, iPad, Microsoft, Mirasol, Qualcomm, Sony
by Allen Weiner | April 25, 2011 | 12 Comments
Barnes and Noble has made good on its promise of upgrading the firmware on its Nook Color, launched in October 2010, by announcing that Froyo, aka Android 2.2, will now be available to Nook Color owners. The upgrade for the $249 device can be done immediately through “sideloading” (download from web and install) or via [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes and Noble, e-books, e-readers, Froyo, iPad, Nook
by Allen Weiner | December 6, 2010 | 3 Comments
Google’s entry into the digital publishing space with the launch of its eBookstore, partner program and device neutral distribution scheme is a big deal. On first look, there is the significant impact on rivals in the distribution space (Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple and Amazon) as they face new competition. However, as the first “media [...]
Category: Amazon Apple Cloud Google Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, ebooks, Google, Google ebooks, iBookstore
by Allen Weiner | October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
This past week, a number of announcements in the digital publishing arena provide both promise and confusion over the immediate trajectory of the space overall, but in particular the magazine and book markets. 1. Adobe unveiled the Digital Publishing Suite at MAX, its annual worldwide developer/industry conference. The product/service, built on Adobe Creative Suite and [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Adobe, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Creative Suite, InDesign, Kindle, Nook
by Allen Weiner | June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
After lighting up the pundits with some impressive demos and strategic vision as CES 2010, Skiff has been reduced to becoming yet another element in Rupert Murdoch’s puzzling alchemy that masquerades as a digital media strategy. The purchase, along with an investment in news paywall provider Journalism Online, underscores the company’s posture that content should [...]
Category: Newspapers Publishing e-books magazines Tags: Amazon, AT&T, Hearst, News Corp, Skiff, Sprint
by Allen Weiner | May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Google has dropped a few hints about the upcoming release of Google Editions, its megasized e-book marketplace that aims to take on other e-book platform providers. What makes that scenario a bit complicated is that some e-book distribution platforms are operated by device companies (i.e. Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Sony, with whom Google wants [...]
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Category: Microsoft Publishing e-books magazines Tags: Amazon, Apple, Chrome, E Ink, e-books, e-readers, Google, Google Editions, iPad, LCD, Sony
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
As YouTube evolves from its roots as the mega community for all video comers to a profitable business, the company is announcing a video rental program which launches in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival (January 21-31, 2010). Against the backdrop of Sundance, YouTube rentals will launch with five Sundance films—two from last year’s competition [...]
Category: Google Tags: Amazon, Apple, Google, Sundance, Video, video rentals, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Amazon has plans to change its royalty schedule for publishers beginning this summer, doing a 180 on its 70-30 split. There are rules a’plenty, but it’s a clear pre-emptive move in the face of Apple’s possible launch of a tablet-based device. Apple is said to be willing to offer publishers a split that more resembles [...]
Category: Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo blogging citizen media Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple tablet, books, Kindle, publishers, tablets
