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Microsoft Not Buying Nook After All?

Juli Monroe — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:30:15 +0000

And this is why I try very hard not to report on rumors. Last week I wrote about a rumor that Microsoft was considering buying the Nook Media division. Well, the rumor was good for Barnes & Noble stock, which spiked up to $22 a share the day the rumor was announced, and then continued [...]

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Weekend Roundup: Drug Paraphernalia on Amazon, B&N’s Nook Dilemma

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:39:28 +0000

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Dilemma (Dear Author) What’s left if B&N sells the Nook business to Microsoft? (Forbes) Free Books for Mother’s Day (GalleyCat) Now Amazon is selling bongs, nitrous oxide, and deadly hallucinogenic drugs (Business Insider) Kindle Daily Deals: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (and 3 others)

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Weekend Roundup: Reading on cell phones in Africa

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:10:37 +0000

What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts (Poynter Online) What’s left if B&N sells the Nook division to Microsoft? (The Passive Voice) A ‘novel’ idea for spreading literature in Africa: The cellphone (Christian Science Monitor) The e-book piracy debate, revisited (NYTimes.com) The fascinating stories behind classic book titles (Flavorwire) Kindle Daily Deals: Subterranean by James [...]

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Morning Links: Library E-Books, Nook & Microsoft

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:38:01 +0000

Is it the Best of Times or the Worst of Times for Journalism? Yes (GigaOM) Library eBooks: The Role of Libraries in the Book Discovery Process (Sourcebooks) The Cover That Launced a Thousand iBookstore Sales (GalleyCat) In Nook, Microsoft Sees a Chance to Compete Against Amazon and Apple (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: The House [...]

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Rumor: Microsoft Considering Buying Nook Media

Juli Monroe — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:15:17 +0000

TechCruch had a story on this yesterday. They have obtained some internal documents discussing the proposed deal, with Microsoft reportedly offering $1 billion for Nook Media. I agree with Nate over at The Digital Reader that this sounds plausible. Microsoft has been working with Barnes & Noble since April of last year on Nook devices [...]

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Amazon Reportedly Producing a “Kindle TV” Set-Top Box

Aggregated Content — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:00:25 +0000

By Jeff Kleist Amazon has been making its own devices for quite a while now. From e-readers to tablets to a rumored smartphone, the company has been pretty successful in establishing its own Apple-style ecosystem. So it makes perfect sense that Amazon wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to take charge of the one device [...]

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Morning Links: Microsoft’s new 7-inch design specs

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:04:40 +0000

Kindle Fire to Now Accommodate Video-Enhanced E-Books (Good e-Reader) Why Microsoft’s new 7-inch design specs will help Windows 8 tablets succeed (Computerworld) Why ebooks are a different genre from print (The Guardian) The Role of Reading in Growing Asian Economies (Publishing Perspectives) Kindle Daily Deals: 6 Twilight novels by Stephanie Meyer (+ 3 others)

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Survey finds half of tablet consumers plan to buy an iPad

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:00:46 +0000

When looking for a new tablet, it seems consumers have Apple on the brain. The Yankee Group recently disclosed the results of a December survey in which it asked, “What brand of tablet do you intend to buy [next]?” For Apple, it was good news as nearly half of the 506 questioned picked the iconic brand. Apple [...]

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A national digital library endowment: How America’s billionaires could be modern Carnegies for real

David Rothman — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:00:37 +0000

Warren Buffett was on CBS Sunday Morning. The interviewer, Rebecca Jarvis, asked if he owned an iPhone. No. iPad? No. “He prefers books,” she said in an admiring way, “and reads avidly.” As if electronic books don’t exist! As if millions of Americans are not downloading e-books to iPhones, iPads and other devices! As if a young Buffett [...]

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Digital Publishing in 2013 — Meet the New Seven Sisters

Aggregated Content — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:56:55 +0000

By David Wogahn There seemed to be a sigh of relief the last few months of 2012 as the trade publishing establishment trumpeted the slowing growth of e-book sales. It may indeed be slowing, but the pain of adjusting to new economies of scale, changing consumer habits, technology adoption and lack of business model [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:35:00 +0000

Microsoft Sued Because It Overloaded Tablets With Pre-Installed Apps (Techdirt) What Can Publishers Learn from Indie Rock? (Scholarly Kitchen) Many Core Features Lacking in Nook Windows 8 App (Good E-Reader) Flipboard to Pitch eBooks for the iBookstore (The Digital Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: The Past Came Hunting by Donnell Bell {and} Winnie’s War by Jenny Moss [...]

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John Lagerling on Google’s Nexus strategy

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:53:54 +0000

Last Friday, the New York Times‘ Bits blog ran an interesting Q&A-style interview with John Lagerling, Google’s Android director of business development, “about the company’s strategy with the Nexus brand, one that revolves around lower prices,” as the interview’s intro explains. Lagerling, as it happens, was involved with negotiating the new Nexus line’s decidedly low price [...]

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Divided we stand, Unity-ed we fall? Why Microsoft should pay attention to the history of Linux

Jon Jermey — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:16:46 +0000

Here it is at last, folks—a brand new operating system for the iGeneration! Straight from the market’s leading software manufacturer, specifically designed for tablets and smartphones, it’s free from all that tiresome text and crammed with brightly-colored blobs! Move them around, tap them, press them, fondle them! It’s a whole new way of interacting with [...]

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Microsoft ClearType Inventor, Bill Hill, Dead

Aggregated Content — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:26:33 +0000

One of the true innovators of the reading of text on screen, Bill Hill, died yesterday. Hill will be remembered primarily as one of the inventors of Microsoft‘s ClearType screen typography system, but his impact on our screen experience spanned a quarter century. Robert Scoble, who interviewed Hill many times, says that Hill worked behind-the-scenes, but was “one [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:00:41 +0000

B&N/Microsoft Finalize Partnership, Creating Nook Media (GigaOM) Publishers Adapt to Digital Market (Good E-Reader) Audiobook Self-Publishing: A Brief Primer (Publisher’s Weekly) How to Pick an eReader (Digital Trends) Kindle Daily Deal: Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson (&) Hush Little Baby by Sylvia Long

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