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Derik Dupont

Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire Tablet, Two Other New E-Readers - 1 views

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    Amazon.com today unveiled its long-awaited color tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, at an event in New York that also saw the introduction of two new e-readers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the tablet, which ships Nov. 15, would retail for $199. "We're building premium products at non-premium prices," he said.
CoCo Massengale

Barnes & Noble, others to buy Borders Group's intellectual property - 0 views

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    Barnes & Noble and other bidders purchased parts of Borders Group's intellectual property in an auction that raised $15.7 million. Hilco Streambank, the intellectual property valuation and disposition arm of Hilco Trading, LLC, said the auction included more than 50 rounds before the winning bidders emerged.
Michael Pogachar

Target Now Selling Nooks - 0 views

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    Target is the eighth retailer to sell Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch e-readers.
Michael Pogachar

California enacts digital book privacy law - 0 views

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    Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books. The Reader Privacy Act of 2011 will require government agencies to obtain a court order before they access customer records from book stores or online retailers.
Elizabeth Mack

After Years of Loss, Only the Strong Christian Stores Survive - 0 views

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    Interesting article about the state of Christian Retailers and the effect of e-publishing as well as internet downloading on the sales and popularity of their stores and books. CBA is making a focused effort to curb the loss in sales by programs geared toward their members to help boost sales and get up-to-date with the digital age--- CHECK IT OUT!
Derik Dupont

With Book Price War Comes Rationing - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Walmart, Amazon and Target are limiting online sales of certain steeply discounted books, preventing small bookshops from taking advantage of a price war to stock their own shelves." />
arnie Grossblatt

The best report ever on media piracy | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - 1 views

  • he big forces driving media piracy in developing countries are real and powerful and will not be changed, no matter how many western politicians get on their moral high horses and insist that countries like India and China build a “culture of intellectual property.” But the irony is that if governments and corporations really wanted to build such a culture, then they would encourage companies to set their prices low enough that the populations of those countries could actually afford to buy music, movies, and software at the full legal retail price. It turns out that domestic companies are quite good at distributing media at low prices, and can build profitable businesses by doing that. But foreign companies have different incentives in the short term, and don’t do that.
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    Data-grounded research on the costs of media piracy developing economies.
Allison Begezda

First Google eBooks Device To Go on Sale at Target This Week - 1 views

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    Google will make inroads into the ereader market next week when the first such device using the Google eBooks platform will go on sale at Target. The iriver Story HD will retail for $139.99 - the same price as the Kindle and the Nook Simple Touch Reader - at the chain July 17, according to a blog post from Google.
Ryan Holman

Readers Without Borders: What killed the big-box retailer? Hint: It wasn't the Internet. - 1 views

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    Other things that led to Borders' demise -- not just their "the Internet stole our lunch money" argument.
Michael Pogachar

Lawmakers introduce online sales tax bill - 0 views

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    Federal legislation would give states the authority to make online retailers collect sales tax.
Michael Pogachar

Random House, Politico launch online bookstore - 1 views

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    From Politico: "Curated by POLITICO's editors, the Bookshelf will be operated by Random House, Inc., and will include title selections and recommendations from a wide range of publishers that align with POLITICO's news content in the areas of current events, politics, history, and biography. The Bookshelf allows consumers to browse and search for titles and then purchase both physical and digital copies directly through a range of retailers."
Michael Pogachar

Barnes & Noble expands marketplace beyond books - 1 views

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    The company is offering home products in a move to compete with other online retailers like Amazon.
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