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Sign of the times
The Queen’s Christmas speech is to be released as a free download for Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader following its broadcast.
The retailer secured access to the transcript after approaching the Royal Household with the proposal.
The arrangement is an e-book exclusive although the text will also be made available at Facebook and the Royal Household’s official website.
BBC News – Amazon Kindle to release the Queen’s Christmas speech
Continue reading: BBC News – Amazon Kindle to release the Queen’s Christmas speech
More Kindle projections
Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, said Kindle sales now look as if they will be “slightly better” than he had forecast. He previously estimated fourth-quarter sales of nine million Kindles — four million Fires and five million other devices. Now he is raising his forecast to 10 million to 12 million.
That is close to the number of tablets Apple is expected to sell. Mr. Munster is estimating iPad sales this quarter of 13.5 million.
Amazon declined to say why it was suddenly so forthcoming. Mr. Munster attributed the release to pressure from investors as well as a more fundamental strategy: If your product is… Continue reading: Smelling a Hit, Amazon Opens Up About the Kindle – NYTimes.com
A Kindle momentum snapshot
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it is selling more than one million Kindle devices a week, an unusual disclosure from the largest Internet retailer that comes in the wake of some negative reviews of its new Kindle Fire tablet.
Amazon said customers are buying "well over" one million Kindles per week. This level of sales has occurred for three straight weeks, it added in a statement.
The sales numbers include the Kindle Fire tablet and all the versions of the Kindle e-reader. The company did not break out sales numbers for the Fire tablet alone.
Amazon selling over 1 million Kindles… Continue reading: Amazon selling over 1 million Kindles a week | Reuters
It’s a lot like the Kindle Fire, except for the dead-end nature of the software platform…
Soon you’ll be able to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook for the same price as Amazon’s new Kindle Fire: $199.
With the holidays nearly upon us — and a stockpile of unsold PlayBooks sitting in inventory — Research In Motion is giving its struggling tablet its steepest price cut yet.
BlackBerry Friday: PlayBook at $300 Off – John Paczkowski – Mobile – AllThingsD
Continue reading: BlackBerry Friday: PlayBook at $300 Off – John Paczkowski – Mobile – AllThingsD
Although apparently the new Nook video is not all that B&N claims; see Nook’s Specs Are Exaggerated, Again (NYT)
The big surprise here is the remarkable quality of the Nook Tablet’s video screen. It’s smaller than the iPad’s, of course, but every bit as sharp. And it is far superior to the screen on the Fire. I launched Netflix on both tablets, and streamed an episode of “Mad Men,’’ the prettiest show on TV. It wasn’t even close; the Nook Tablet had sharper resolution and richer colors.
Still, you would probably be happy with either the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet, each an inexpensive, solid device that makes it easy to… Continue reading: Retail link is key for Nook, Kindle Fire – Business – The Boston Globe
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