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Ereader and iPad News – 5/27/2010 no comments
Kindle coming in black? CrunchGear has a rather poor quality photo that alleges to be a black Kindle spotted at a photo shoot. It makes sense that Amazon would offer color choices at some point.
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Borders announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2010 today. While the second largest bookstore chain saw its loss narrow in the first quarter, traffic and sales in its stores fell. Revenue in the US fell 16 percent. Border’s share price fell 7 percent today in an up market.
Borders is placing a lot of hope in its digital initiatives. Borders.com was in fact a bright spot in the first quarter with sales increasing by 34.7 percent. The Kobo-powered Borders ebook store will be launching next month, and pre-orders are already being taken for the Kobo eReader. Next week pre-orders for a second ereader will begin and more devices will be added in the near future. An Apple reading app will also be introduced by the end of June.
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Penguin and Amazon have finally reached some sort of agreement and Penguin’s new ebooks will once again be available in the Kindle Store. Since the Agency Model went into effect on April 1, 2010 none of the 150 or so new Penguin ebooks published since then have been available for the Kindle.
Ipad News
Kobo announced today that its iPad reading app is now available in all iPad markets with regionalized versions available for Canada, UK, Australia and a version for New Zealand coming soon. From the press release:
Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced availability of its popular iPad application in all markets where iPad is available. Additionally, Kobo today released regional versions for Canada, UK and Australia and announced a New Zealand application is coming soon. The regionalized applications, built specifically for the iPad, feature local content, merchandising, and currency. All Kobo iPad applications come pre-loaded with five eBooks and connect to the Kobo eBook store, which features more than two million titles including current best sellers, classics, and thousands of free titles.
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Wired Magazine finally released its app for the iPad, and reportedly sold 24,000 copies in the first 24 hours. The Wired app looks pretty amazing, but it is a big file (about half a gig) and costs $5 per issue – a print subscription in the US is $10 per year. The reviews at the iTunes store do contain some grousing about the price, but obviously a lot of work went into this. This is the way magazines should be done. So far I like it.
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MacLife is reporting that Apple is making it possible for authors to self-publish in the iBooks app for the iPad. There are some requirements: books have to have a 13 digit ISBN, must be in ePub format, must validate against epubcheck 1.0.5 and cannot contain any unmanifested files. Authors can choose which countries qualifying books are sold in and set the prices.
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