Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 9 at 4:37 pm PT
J.K. Rowling has been one of the big holdouts, refusing to sell Harry Potter in electronic form through booksellers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble. That is apparently about to change.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 9 at 10:14 am PT
Speaking with
AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg, executives from Barnes & Noble and Samsung make the case that there is room for more than just the Kindle Fire and iPad.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 7 at 3:30 pm PT
No surprise here: MasterCard also has a digital wallet strategy. Details are being spilled tonight at a special event at the wireless industry’s CTIA event.
Peter Kafka in Mobile on April 30 at 3:59 am PT
Microsoft gets into the e-reader game with a $300 million investment. And Barnes & Noble creates a digital business that’s worth more than its brick-and-mortar ancestor.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on April 4 at 7:00 pm PT
One in five Americans say they’ve read an e-book in the last year, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Those numbers come from a late-January survey, they’re up sharply from a December 2011 survey. Pew says the jump coincides with a jump in e-reading devices: Ownership of dedicated e-reader devices like the Kindle and the Nook went from 10 percent in December to 19 percent in January, and ownership of tablets like iPads and Kindle Fires made the same leap.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 19 at 11:30 pm PT
Amazon’s online catalog offers millions of everyday items for sale, but how many consumers think of visiting Amazon to buy a meal in a restaurant or a haircut at the local salon?
Thomas Catan and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in News on March 7 at 9:07 pm PT
The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27 at 11:40 am PT
Who is Amazon’s biggest competitor? It may be a Japanese-based company you’ve never heard of.
