Tag: Kindle

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…

Now we can all be Kindle publishers

Amazon have opened up their Kindle books to any platform that supports a web browser from eBooks to iPads, to the latest Google Chrome devices, so now anyone with a website can become a Kindle book publisher. Amazon announced that their “Kindle for the Web” service will expand to enable anyone with access to a…

eBook sales to double to 30 million in 2011

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 eBook…

The iPad haves and the iPad have nots?

According to Pew Research figures, the iPad could potentially produce a wealth divide, where iPad-owning wealthy individuals gained access to data and information, that was out of the range of poor. However we think they’re missing  something out in their figures. The Pew Research figures “Use of the internet in higher-income households” found that 95%…

Amazon announces 70% royalty rates to publishers

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 step…

Times iPad app has “changed the way we do journalism”

News International revealed on Radio 4 this morning that it had just over 50,000 monthly subscribers paying to access its digital versions of The Times and Sunday Times since it introduced its’ paywall earlier in year. Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, James Harding, Times Editor confirmed it had achieved more than 105,000 paid-for sales…

One in ten iPad users still not downloaded an app

Nielsen at the end of last week produced a survey of more than 5,000 consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media/games player, or smartphone, and there’s some interesting reading. It seems that although the iPad is incredibly succesful there are still a few owners – nearly 1 in 10 – who just…

Adobe Indesign gets a Kindle plugin

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 it…

Amazon raises the Kindle royalty rate in the UK

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 sales…

Kindle owners are considerably richer than you

A survey of portable device ownership from Nielsen shows some extremes in the professions, pockets and ad proclivity of their owners. Nielsen has released a few of the findings from their new Connected Devices Playbook, a survey of more than 5,000 US consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media player or smartphone.…

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…

Amazon mini Kindle goes on sale

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 iPhone…

Amazon release Kindle for Android in summer

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 no…