Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
In a statement released on Saturday by the internet retail giant, amazon.com, the company saw the sales of electronic books rising much sharper than the hard-copy books this Christmas.
As published in the statement released, Amazon said, “On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
The statement also revealed that the company’s own e-book reader, the Kindle, “has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history.”
The Amazon e-books can also be read on Apple iPnone and iPod Touch devices. It’s Kindle online store boasts a library of 390,000 digitized books.
According to estimates in October, Kindle has a nearly 60 per cent share of the US market followed by Sony Reader with 35 per cent.
Another close competitor is Nook, a new device by the US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble.
Amazon to release free Kindle software for PC
Amazon.com Inc. is all set to woo more people to buy electronic books compatible with the company’s electronic book reader Kindle by offering free software for the users to read them on the computers!
On Thursday, the Seattle-based online retail giant, Amazon.com Inc., said that the company will release an application called “Kindle for PC” in November later this year. This new application will allow the users to buy, download and read Kindle books on a Windows-based PC, regardless of whether you own a Kindle or not!
Now isn’t that convenient?! Also, if you already own a Kindle, you can see any notes or highlights made on the e-reader.
This new product will also track your reading. It’ll keep a track of where you end in a book so that if you stop reading on your PC, you can pick up your Kindle and start from where you left!
Running this new application on Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 7 operating system would be all the more fun as it would allow you to zoom in on book pages by pinching your fingers. What’s more, in the future, you will also be able to turn pages by swiping a finger across the screen.
The company already offers a similar application for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users read Kindle books whether or not they own the device.
Sony Set to Launch New E-reader
Sony has joined the e-reader war with its swanky new offering titled Daily Edition which hopes to take on similar products from Amazon and Apple with attractive pricing as well features like 3-G connectivity.
Reader Daily Edition is a wireless version of the e-readers Sony announced earlier this month. It is temptingly priced at $399 and is set to hit the market in December to coincide with the holiday season. The newest e-reader also comes with 3-G connectivity which is sure to appeal to the younger buyers.
The main area where the Daily Edition scores over Amazon’s Kindle is in having a touch screen. Besides that the Sony e-reader is well-designed and has a sleek look while Kindle still has the appearance of an oversize calculator, says Sarah Rotman Epps who is an analyst with Forrester. Moreover Sony has ensured that its Daily Edition will be available in more than 8600 retail outlets as compared to the Kindle which is at present only available in online Amazon store and a limited number of Target outlets.
Sony’s announcement of Daily Edition comes on the heels of two previous e-reader launches, one of which is the Reader Pocket Edition while the other is the Reader Touch Edition.
Google to sell new e-books online
Google Inc. is planning to begin selling electronic versions of new books (e-books) online this year. This is being understood as a potential competition to the market leader Amazon.
According to Gabriel Stricker, A spokesperson from Google, “We’ve consistently maintained that we’re committed to helping our partners find more ways to make their books accessible and available for purchase. By end of this year, we hope to give publisher partners an additional way to sell their books by allowing users to purchase access to Partner Program books online.”
“We want to build and support a digital book ecosystem to allow our partner publishers to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device,” he added in a statement on Monday.
This project undertaken by the Search engine giant is expected to be different from the Google’s controversial book-scanning program. The latest project from Google Inc will enable the book publishers to sell digital/electronic versions of their newest books directly to consumers through Google, placing the internet giant in a direct competition with Amazon.com. Amazon has been selling e-books for its electronic book reader, Kindle.
Sony e-book reader to get 500,000 books from Google
Google Inc. will be making around 50,000 unprotected by copyright books, available for free on Sony Corp’s electronic book-reading device. this would be the first time that the search engine giant, Google, has made a gigantic collection of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device.
This will make the Sony Reader as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books, even more than Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle.
All of the scanned books were published before 1923. the books include the impressive works of Charles Dickens’ including, “A Tale of Two Cities”; nonfiction classics like Herodotus’ “The Histories.”
The free downloads of the Portable Document Format (PDF) formats of the books are already available. However these do not work on any e-reading devices. Google will be providing the EPUB (electronic publication) format of the books to the Sony Reader. This format allows the lines to flow differently to fit a smaller screen.
Jennie Johnson, Google’s spokeswoman said, “Really our vision is: any book, anywhere, any time and on any device,” she said. “We want to partner with anybody who shares our vision of making them more accessible.”
Amazon unveils Kindle Application for iPhone
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its plan to develop an application that would allow the iPod and iPhone users to access the same content as on the USD 359 Kindle, electronic book reader from Amazon.com.
This is the first time that Kindle’s content would be available on a cell phone. The leading online retailer, Amazon.com plans to roll out this new application which could be downloaded from Apple’s online application store. It would enable the Apple device users to read the same electronic books, magazines and newspapers that Kindle owners can buy on the website, Amazon.com. Similarly to the Kindle book reader, the application will allow the users to change the text size on the screen, and add bookmarks, notes and highlight.
However, the Apple application does not connect to the Kindle store and hence the users must have an access to the Web browser on their iPhone, iPod or computer to buy the content.
Amazon’s vice president for the Kindle, Ian Freed said that Amazon has been working on the application for several months. Freed said that the company sees the software as a way to introduce non-Kindle owners to the device, potentially turning them into Kindle buyers.
“It also gives Kindle owners an additional way to read their content while on the go,” he added further.
However the application for mobile users will not include the recently included text-to-speech feature Amazon built into the latest Kindle, Kindle 2.
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