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.
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.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 9, 2011 at 7:54 am PT
Sources say it has ordered one million Nook Tablets from its manufacturing partners.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 20, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Publishers’ hopes for the iPad and e-readers have come back to earth. But the people who actually download these things like them quite a bit, according to a new survey.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT
It took some haggling, but Time Warner’s publishing unit joins Hearst, Condé Nast and other big publishers on Amazon’s new tablet.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 9, 2011 at 6:59 am PT
Barnes & Noble plays up the fact that its tablet works with third-party media apps. “Just like ours,” says Amazon. But neither tablet will give users full access to the Google’s Android Market.
