Tag: e-reader

Amazon Kindle gets bundled for free with mobiles

Carphone Warehouse are to bundle the Amazon Kindle with certain mobile phones. Amazon have now added Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, to it’s long list of retailers already selling the Kindle. Carphone and Best Buy deals are an extension of a deals the two companies started in the US last September and they now…

Global e-reader sales set to rise to $8.2 Billion by 2014

Analysts Yankee Group are predicting that global e-reader sales revenue will grow from just $1.9 billion in 2010 to $8.2 billion in 2014, while unit sales will rise from just under 11 million in 2010 to nearly 72 million in 2014. The forecast also predicts: Worldwide installed base of e-readers will double each year. The…

Nearly one in 10 Americans own an e-reader

Eight percent of Americans use an e-reader, according to new data from Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-eReaders-2010-09-22.pdf). On top of that, the research firm’s survey found that 12% of respondents who do not currently own an e-reader are likely to purchase one within the next six months. The survey also found that 53% of people with e-readers…