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 | July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
I hate to spoil the party, but I am not enthralled by Flipboard, the new venture-backed content play that purports to be an application that creates personalized magazines based on what my social circle is reading/recommending. Assuming it was working (the buzz has caused a complete meltdown so neither I nor the socialsphere at large [...]
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Category: Apple magazines Tags: iPad, Kleiner Perkins, magazines
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: e-books magazines Microsoft Publishing Tags: Amazon, Apple, Chrome, E Ink, e-books, e-readers, Google, Google Editions, iPad, LCD, Sony
by Allen Weiner | March 2, 2010 | Comments Off
A trio of news stories adds further credibility to a research thread Gartner has been writing about for more than a year which states that magazines will have a tough ride to become multiplatform digital distributors. (“Magazines Fall Behind in the Quest for Digital Publishing Riches,” Dec. 2009—behind gartner.com pay wall). The Wall Street Journal [...]
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Category: Publishing Tags: Apple, Conde Nast, Hearst, iPad, iPhone, magazines, Time
by Allen Weiner | February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments
Let’s try and untangle the congested freeway of e-book news that had led to the enhanced content myth. No matter what business model evolves as the de fact online retail model (wholesale to retail or agency model), publishers are struck, for the most part, with existing market pricing for best-sellers. With $9.99 being the norm, [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: Adobe, Apple, e-books, e-readers, iPad, Kindle, Nook
by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2010 | 6 Comments
Rumors being what they are, much of what Steve Jobs announced at the Ipad launch event didn’t come as a surprise to the overload crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The iPad is a tweener that fits nicely between an iPhone/iTouch and netbook computer. With a 9.7-inch screen weighing in at 1.5 [...]
Category: Apple magazines Mobile Newspapers Tags: Alex, Apple, AT&T, Dell, e-books, entourage systems, iPad, iPod, Plastic Logic, Publishing, Sony, Spring Design, Sprint, Verizon
