TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Staples http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Kobo in Canada: A Triumph in Marketing? http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/kobo-in-canada-a-triumph-in-marketing/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/kobo-in-canada-a-triumph-in-marketing/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:14:38 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=75261 There is a great thread going on at Mobile Read on the Kobo series and their success in Canada. The poster, Scrapking, points out that Kobo was not the first reader available in Canada—that honor goes to Sony—but it has now become by far the dominant. The evidence? A glance at the flyers the big electronics [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/kobo-in-canada-a-triumph-in-marketing/feed/ 4 On Black Friday, Kindle Fire comes with a free gift card http://www.teleread.com/kindle/on-black-friday-kindle-fire-comes-with-a-free-gift-card/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/on-black-friday-kindle-fire-comes-with-a-free-gift-card/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:00:57 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=74895 Jon Cog of the Me and My Kindle blog gave us a very convenient heads-up yesterday about Amazon’s Black Friday plans for the Kindle Fire. As he reports on his site: Amazon’s retail-store partners, like Best Buy, OfficeMax, Staples, or Office Depot, [are] reportedly not allowed to lower the actual price of the [Kindle Fire], but they’re doing [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/on-black-friday-kindle-fire-comes-with-a-free-gift-card/feed/ 1 Five or six new Kindle Fires, or only one or two? http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/five-or-six-new-kindle-fires-or-only-one-or-two/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/five-or-six-new-kindle-fires-or-only-one-or-two/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:31:07 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/five-or-six-new-kindle-fires-or-only-one-or-two/ Reuters had an interview today from Demos Paneros, president of U.S. Retail for office chain Staples, Inc., in which he said that Amazon is providing Staples “up to five or six tablet SKUs”. A number of news sources, including our own sister blog Gadgetell, have seized on this to suggest that there are “five or [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/five-or-six-new-kindle-fires-or-only-one-or-two/feed/ 0 Staples to offer Nook Color and email coming to the the unit http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/staples-to-offer-nook-color-and-email-coming-to-the-the-unit/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/staples-to-offer-nook-color-and-email-coming-to-the-the-unit/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:40:44 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=55512 From the press release.  The “full featured e-mail” statement is in the last paragraph: Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) and Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today announced that Staples will be selling the NOOK Color(TM), the first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet by Barnes & Noble, just in time for the Mother’s Day, Graduation and Father’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/staples-to-offer-nook-color-and-email-coming-to-the-the-unit/feed/ 3 Staples to sell Kindles http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/staples-to-sell-kindles/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/staples-to-sell-kindles/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:25:45 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=47172 From the Staples press release: [Staples] announced today plans to offer customers Kindle, Amazon’s #1 best-selling, most-wished-for and most-gifted product for two years running. Staples is the only office superstore to carry the wireless reading device in all of its stores nationwide beginning this fall. … Staples will also carry a full assortment of Kindle [...]

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