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Kindle Encore, Newspapers, Kindle, and more

Posted by switch11 On November - 14 - 2009

This week has been slow and there are just a few updates -

Amazon and the Kindle 

  1. 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.

  2. 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 ;)
  3. Nook is supposedly beginning to sell out.  
  4. 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

  1. A very nice write-up of the World Digital Publishing Conference in Barcelona. Very, very strongly recommended.
  2. Wistron has bought out Polymer Vision and will be introducing a foldable eReader very similar to the deceased Readius in 2010.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 

  1. 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. 
  2. R. Sukumar at LiveMint asks – Are You the Google of Your Game? and he brings up perhaps the best way to describe Google – “frenemy”. 
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

  5. 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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