Kindle Encore, Newspapers, Kindle, and more
This week has been slow and there are just a few updates -
Amazon and the Kindle
- The Independent updates us about Amazon Encore’s 3 new books that will release February 2010 -
Perfect on Paper: the (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson by Maria Murnane.
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott.
They Never Die Quietly by Daniel Annechino. - A post at BoingBoing about the grand advances for reader rights Sony and B&N are making is met by a comment (the first) that points out it’s a 14 day, one-time only ’lending’ – made my day
. - Nook is supposedly beginning to sell out.
- Spring Design have filed a court case against B&N and are asking for an injunction. [Not confirmed with court records] We find out November 26th whether all the eager Nook Owners get their nooks or not.
eReaders
- A very nice write-up of the World Digital Publishing Conference in Barcelona. Very, very strongly recommended.
- Wistron has bought out Polymer Vision and will be introducing a foldable eReader very similar to the deceased Readius in 2010.
- DigiTimes Research (subscription) says Color eReaders will account for 4-5% of the market in the second half of 2010 and become mainstream in 2011.
- Display Maker AOU claims that it will help bring down eReader prices to $150 by next year and $100 by 2011.
Newspapers, Google, and More
- Joe Hewitt thinks middle-men have really suffered due to the Internet. My personal opinion is one set of gatekeepers are being replaced by another.
- R. Sukumar at LiveMint asks – Are You the Google of Your Game? and he brings up perhaps the best way to describe Google – “frenemy”.
- Microsoft is making a big push to get Newspapers to ditch Google. This comes on the heels of getting Facebook results and Wolfram Alpha into their search results. At least Microsoft are trying – it’s probably not going to work though. Microsoft also launched their search engine in UK today.
- Mike Arrington at TechCrunch thinks newspapers could really hurt Google if they go with Microsoft and have to agree. Here are a few key snippets -
If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t.
This would shift the balance of power away from search engines and to the content sites – if they could pull it off.
If Murdoch is going to go through with this de-indexing Mexican standoff thing, he might as well do it the right way and drive the fear of God into Google.
- It doesn’t help that Google are paying Twitter for access to Twitter’s feed. Newspaper articles for free and money for 140 word random tweets – the irony.
How Many Top Publishers Would You Need to Scare Google?
Perhaps the top 20.











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