Angry Birds latest mobile game hit 10 million downloads in as many days. Game developer Rovio Mobile said that the latest addition to its exceptionally popular Angry Birds series surpassed 10 million downloads within its first 10 days on the market. Rovio Tweeted “10 in 10 :-) Angry Birds Rio breaking all records” The 10 million...
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Mobile commerce hit it’s stride in 2010 with an increase in the number of visits to Amazon.com towards the end of the year, compared to earlier in 2010. According to the latest Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report which views trends for December 2010, there was an increase in mobile commerce with United...
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eBook readers are set for big sales next year, with 100% growth expected. The market for eBook readers has until now been largely restricted to the United States, and in the US it has been led by Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony’s Reader. But according to ABI Research, starting in 2013...
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Amazon will start paying publishers 70% revenue rates when they sell magazines and newspapers on its Kindle electronic reader. Last month we reported on Amazon announcing they were raising their Kindle loyalty rate to UK authors and publishers for ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. This month Amazon have gone one...
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Amazon have launched a Kindle plugin for developers using Adobe InDesign. Amazon has launched a free to download Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign, The new tool allows content publishers to more easily make titles available for Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign files directly into Kindle books. “Our aim is to make...
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UK authors and publishers can now get the full 70% royalty rate from ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. Amazon has introduced a new ebook royalty rate for the UK of 70%. Up until now publishers in the UK were only elligible to a 35% royalty – YES 35% - for...
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Amazon has upped the ante and has launched a mini Kindle with a pricing structure to hit the mass-market, and free 3G wireless connectivity. Fed up with being the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to mobile headlines, Amazon have launched a reduced-sized Kindle, aimed at attacking the mass market, and the...
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Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that...
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Amazon is to launch a free Kindle app for Android to join the free versions for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry. Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming “this summer” according to the press release although there’s...
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Amazon has launched an iPad shopping application but unfortunately as yet it’s only available in the US and it’s not a world shattering app. Disappointingly the app is a just a redesigned version of its existing iPhone shopping application but adjusted for the larger screen rather than anything big and new. As with the...
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