Amazon announced a Kindle Development Kit that will allow the publishing and selling of third party apps in the Kindle Store. Access to programming tools and documentation will start next month with a limited beta on the Kindle Development Kit for active content website.
App developers will keep 70% of the revenue (...
When I first read the news I was shocked, here in Italy ebooks aren’t very popular yet. Amazon’s press release states that the Kindle is the most gifted item ever on Amazon.com and on Christmas day ebooks outsold real paper books.
If you think about it, Christmas day might be too late to shop for a gift in a crowded...
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is convinced that newspapers will go out of business if they were to rely only on online advertisement. Some newspapers, like the Wall Street Journal, are profiting from paper version sales and the offering of paid content online. Murdoch is planning to extend this strategy to all News ...
Nook is the new ereader by Barnes & Noble and it seems it has what it takes to dominate the ebook market: A beautiful color touch screen interface below the E-Ink display, which is used to tap on the cover of the book you want to read may seem the best feature of the Nook, but personally I think Nook’s killer featur...
After Sony’s deal with Google Books to adopt the open ePub format and offer its customers half a million books free to download on their Sony Readers, the battle for dominance in the ebook business has officially begun.
Amazon, who doesn’t support the ePub format, is currently offering 300.000 titles to the Kindle S...
