News Byte
Lauren Goode in Mobile on April 11 at 8:37 am PT
More evidence pointing toward tablets disrupting the PC industry: According to a new Forrester Research survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults, 35 percent of tablet owners say they use their laptops less frequently since getting a tablet, while 45 percent have no plans to buy an e-reader now that they own a tablet. The television set is faring better, however, with just 12 percent of those surveyed saying they use their TV less frequently since getting a tablet; likely because 85 percent of tablet owners cop to using their tablets while watching TV.
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?
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 7 at 5:40 pm PT
Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.
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.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 23 at 7:45 am PT
Back-to-school season may not have spurred a ton of tablet and e-reader purchases, but the holidays were a different story, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 8:50 am PT
Amazon
said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, has become the best-selling and most-gifted product across all of Amazon.com since its introduction to the market 13 weeks ago. Amazon rarely releases unit sales numbers of its e-readers, but
said earlier this month that it had sold more than one million Kindles a week for three consecutive weeks.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 15, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
Cheap new e-readers are expected to be one of the hottest gifts this holiday season. But new owners of Kindles and Nooks may be in for sticker shock on Christmas morning: The price gap between the print and e-versions of some top sellers has now narrowed to within a few dollars — and in some cases, e-books are more expensive than their printed equivalents.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 28, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
A year ago today was the biggest online shopping day of 2010, and now retailers are expecting another big blowout as consumers turn out to shop while they work.
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Miguel Bustillo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on October 26, 2011 at 4:50 am PT
Chain stores will likely miss out on their usual share of “hot gadget” sales this holiday season as most consumers opt to buy top-selling tablets directly from Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. instead of from big retailers.
