The rumored market share for books retail is
Amazon 8% of the market,
BN.com 2%,
Barnes & Noble and Dalton combo – some portion of 25%,
Borders/Walden -remaining portion of 25%,
Independents 5%,
Libraries 10%, etc.
The rumored market share for books retail is
Amazon 8% of the market,
BN.com 2%,
Barnes & Noble and Dalton combo – some portion of 25%,
Borders/Walden -remaining portion of 25%,
Independents 5%,
Libraries 10%, etc.
One of the greatest feature in Nook seems to be a beta feature LendMe which allows users to lend the book for 14 days. The other limitation: You can lend a particular book to a particular user just once. (These seems like the restriction put by the publishers). Only 50% of the book on Nook seem to be lendable
Full review ZDNet
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Better Late than never: Border decided to jump into the e-book industry in an inorganic way. Border is investing and partnering with kobobooks.com to handle its e-book business. Kobo will integrate with Border soon sometime in Q1. Kobo seems to have access to 1.8 million free e-books through internet archive and other books primarily priced at $9.9.
Lets see Border with this partnership and after launching its own reader will be able to compete with likes of Amazon,Barnes n Noble, Sony etc.
Complete Story on NY Times
Scribd all of a sudden seems to be getting some traction from publishers:
“Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the University of Chicago Press announced they will join a total of 150 publishers to offer ebooks in the Scribd Store.”
“Other publishers already on board include Simon & Schuster and O’Reilly Media. The ebooks are downloadable as a PDF, and excerpts can be shared through the Scribd reader.”
Full report on Techcrunch
Barnes and Nobles Starts selling Nook. We will continue to track the sales of this e book reader in coming times:
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