New York: Target Corp. is phasing out Amazon.com Inc.'s e-reader Kindle at its more than 1,700 stores and its website. Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said Wednesday that the decision to stop selling Kindles this spring came after an "ongoing review" of Target's merchandise that evaluates quality and prices of the chain's offerings. The move coincides with the discounter's plan to create mini shops of Apple Inc. products in 25 of...
11:08 AM, May 03, 2012
New York: Book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc debuted an e-reader on Thursday with a screen that can glow in the dark, a move aimed at improving its position against Amazon.com. The 6-inch (15-cm) touch-screen device, which will hit stores in early May for $139, lands in a market where Apple Inc and Amazon are battling with Barnes & Noble for customers who want to read books and magazines on...
01:43 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: According to a report from TechCrunch, a technology website, Amazon is working on a new Kindle that features an illuminated screen. The new Kindle is expected to be rolled out sometime this year. Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch thinks that he has seen it. He says that as you tap, a slider pops up on the screen, and when it is dragged to the right, the screen lit up...
12:05 PM, Apr 08, 2012
San Francisco: American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robo-readers - computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade. The theory is that teachers would assign more writing if they didn't have to read it. And the more writing students do, the better at it they'll become - even if the primary audience...
12:11 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia announced a new e-reader app for its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices called Nokia Reading at the ongoing Mobile World Congress at Barcelona. The Nokia Reading app will compete with Amazon's Kindle app for Windows Phone 7. The app which will start rolling out for UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Germany markets from April has been designed to be a reading hub and users will...
03:30 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday discussed the safety of the two Indian traders with the Chinese Ambassador. After the discussion, Krishna said that the safety of every Indian is utmost important to Chinese also. "I am very happy with the outcome. Traders have been released and they are on their way to Shanghai under consular officers security. We have friendly relation with China. Let's not blow this...
06:01 PM, Jan 04, 2012
London: Increasing sales of eReaders is good news for Amazon, which produces the best-selling Kindle and collects 30 per cent of the price of downloaded books. But profits could be hit by the sheer number of pirate eBooks available for free download. Just as pirates and websites, including Napster, undermined the music industry by putting music on the web for free, the same is now happening with eBooks. An agreement...
11:42 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New York: Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it is selling more than one million Kindle devices a week, an unusual disclosure from the largest Internet retailer that comes in the wake of some negative reviews of its new Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon said customers are buying "well over" one million Kindles per week. This level of sales has occurred for three straight weeks, it added in a statement. The sales...
01:46 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Seoul: A new electronic display is poised to challenge power-hungry LCDs after US mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. teamed up with a South Korean bookseller to introduce a new e-reader. The "Kyobo eReader" was unveiled this week in Seoul and will reach South Korean consumers as early as December 1, Kyobo Book Centre officials said Thursday. The e-reader features Qualcomm's 1.0 GHz "Snapdragon" processor, a custom Kyobo application based on...
04:20 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Shanghai: Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Chinese regulators to bring in its popular e-reader Kindle and its recently announced tablet Kindle Fire, local media reported quoting an Amazon executive. Amazon's Senior Vice President Marc Onetto told Sohu IT in an interview on Thursday that the firm's Kindle products are still under discussion with regulators over copyright issues. Onetto said there was no timeline for the introduction of the Kindle...
11:31 AM, Oct 29, 2011
London: Harry Potter fans will have to wait a bit longer to buy the magic tales in electronic form. The creators of the online Potter portal said on Friday that the launch of an e-book store has been pushed back to next year. The seven Harry Potter books had been due to go on sale in October, exclusively through the 'Pottermore' website. The site is a combination of virtual encyclopedia,...
09:50 AM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled a new e-reader on Tuesday that features a touch screen, weighs less than a paperback book and has a battery life of two months - features designed to help it compete with Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc. Barnes & Noble's introduction of a new Nook comes just days after John Malone's Liberty Media Corp offered to buy the bookstore chain for $1 billion....
09:44 AM, May 25, 2011
New York: Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said that, after less than four years of selling electronic books, it's now selling more of them than printed books. The online retailer said that since April 1, it has sold 105 e-books for every 100 printed books, including printed books for which there is no electronic edition. The comparison excludes free e-books, which would tip the scales further if they were included. Printed...
12:43 PM, May 20, 2011
London: Before his wedding ceremony began, Prince William told his bride Kate, "You look absolutely beautiful", according to professional lip readers. The groom mouthed the words while the hymn "Great Redeemer" was being sung, The Sun's lip-reader John Cassidy reported. Another professional forensic lip reader, Tina Lannin, who also reads CCTV footage, said William cracked a joke to his father-in-law at the altar, saying: "We're supposed to have just a...
07:14 PM, Apr 29, 2011
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