Ina Fried in Mobile on May 4 at 11:54 am PT
For every 100 iPad impressions it serves, Chitika is serving barely more than a single ad to the leading rival. In total, 19 out of 20 ads are going to Apple’s tablet.
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.
Lauren Goode in Media on April 12 at 1:45 pm PT
Following disappointing sales of the first Nook Touch, Barnes & Noble is launching a new Nook Touch that combines E-Ink with a glowing screen.
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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.
John Paczkowski in News on March 1 at 9:24 am PT
An 8 gigabyte iPad 2, and a 7.85-inch iPad mini.
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.
