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Borders Slashes E-Reader Prices to $99

Following similar moves by Amazon and Barnes & Noble , Borders has announced that it will also be cutting the prices on some of its e-readers. Beginning Wednesday, September 1, the prices of the Kobo e-reader and the Aluratek Libre eBook Pro will drop from $149.99 to $129.99 and from $119.99 to $99.99, respectively. The Kobo e-reader will now be $10 less than the new Amazon Kindle (but note that while the Kindle has Wi-Fi, the Kobo reader does not), making it one of the most affordable e-ink e-readers on the market. The already budget friendly Libre Pro has now hit that elusive $99.99 price point
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Amazon: Kindle 3 Is the Fastest-Selling Kindle Ever

The new, sleeker Kindle may be a relatively minor upgrade compared to its predecessor , but it’s making an impact where it counts the most: sales. According to Amazon, the new Kindle has been selling faster than any of its previous iterations in its first four weeks of availability. Furthermore, the Kindle has been the bestselling (as well as the most gifted and most wished for) product in the same timeframe on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined.
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Nook Helps Drive 21% Increase in Revenue for Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble has reported a loss of $62.5 million for its first fiscal quarter ending July 31, compared to a profit of $12.3 million the year before, and despite a 21% increase in year-over-year revenue to $1.4 billion. Unsurprisingly, sales at Barnes & Noble retail locations continued to decline (by 0.9%), while online sales jumped 42% to $145 million year-over-year, exceeding the company’s own expectations. The company cited sales of its e-reading device, the Nook , as the driving force behind the increase in online revenue. Sales of the device itself accelerated even further after the company reduced its price from $259 to $199 and added a $149 Wi-Fi-only version to its shelves in June.
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Entelligence: One device to rule them all — or not

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. The introduction of the third generation Kindle has reignites the debate over the role of dedicated vs. converged devices. Five years ago, device segmentation was easy: phones made calls, music players played music and cameras took pictures
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Amazon Launches “Your Kindle Commercial Contest”

The Amazon Kindle has a new look , and the online retailer is launching another edition of its “Your Kindle Commercial Contest” in an effort to find the next fan-made ad for the e-reader. When Amazon hosted this same contest last year, Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths were the victors for their stop-animation spot. “Every day we’re more and more impressed with our customers’ ideas and creativity,” Director of Advertising Rich Williams said in a post about the contest . “Last year’s ‘Your Amazon Ad Contest’ was so successful that we ended up running the winning commercial as a part of our holiday TV campaign and it was seen by over 100 million people across the United States.” Kohler and Griffiths even got to create more ads for Amazon. (See their winning entry below): Now Amazon is offering another crop of filmmakers a shot at fame and fortune — or, rather, $15,000 in Amazon gift cards
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$99 Color E-Reader and Social Platform to Challenge Amazon, B&N This Fall

Following recent price cuts on Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook , a new manufacturer is set to stir up even more competition in the e-reader pricing wars with the debut of a $99 color device this fall. The device, which weighs in at .42 lbs and features a 5-inch, 800
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Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011

Amazon predicts that it will sell more e-books than paperbacks by the end of next year, and that they will eclipse both paperback and hardcover sales combined shortly thereafter. “I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told USA Today .
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“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Author First to Sell 1 Million E-books via Kindle

Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist and detective novelist best known for his Millenium trilogy, has become the first author to sell more than 1 million e-books in the Kindle Store. The three books in the posthumously published trilogy — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , are all among the Kindle Store’s 10 bestselling books of all time. As of March 2010, the trilogy has sold more than 27 million copies (physical and digital) in more than 40 countries. In 2008, Larsson was the bestselling author in the world behind author Khaled Hosseini. E-books are taking up an ever-increasing percentage of book sales; last week, Amazon announced that it is now selling more e-books than hardcovers.
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Nook for Android Is Here

Nook for Android hit the Market for free download today, and it has some nifty features that make e-book reading easy and clean, even for someone who would much rather breathe in the dust of a library book than stare fixedly at her Droid X. A little less than a month ago, the Kindle for Android app came on the scene, much to the delight of the Google device-inclined. Although Amazon’s app is clean, simple and rather stunning (much more attractive than its iPhone counterpart and Borders’s Kobo-powered app, IMHO), Barnes & Nobles’s app has a few more goodies. First of all, the Nook boasts eight font styles and five text sizes — which means I can read Imperial Bedrooms in Times New Roman (no Comic Sans, alas).
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Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers

E-books have hit a significant milestone. In each of the last three months, Amazon reports that sales of books for Kindle have outpaced the sale of hardcover books, and that growth is only accelerating. In a statement, Amazon says that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.” That’s impressive, especially considering it was only back in December that Amazon was celebrating Kindle books outselling the real thing on Christmas Day . Six months later, the shift has apparently become the norm
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