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iTunes has 66.2 percent of digital, while Amazon MP3 is at loss

Published on: 30th December, 2010

The NPD Group said that iTunes had continued to increase its share in the US digital music market, while Amazon MP3 could not keep the pace. Amazon grew 2.3 percent on a year-to-year base, to 13.2 percent of the download market in the United States last summer, while Apple grew even more, 3.0 percent, to [...]

Kindle is bestseller at Amazon and is bought with iPads

Published on: 30th December, 2010

Amazon claims that the third-generation of the Kindle is the all-time bestselling item in its stores. It also says that the Kindle is not suffering due to Apple. During the holiday it was pushed past Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Kindle’s both versions, the 3G and Wi-Fi, were at top during the holiday, while [...]

About $1 billion estimated in the e-book business this year

Published on: 14th November, 2010

The e-book business is worth about $1 billion and is expected to triple in size, as a new forecast of Forrester says. The business is supposed to reach a $966 million value of e-books sold this year and should triple to about $3 billion in 2015. Analyst James McQuivey says that book reading would be [...]

Amazon will start lending of Kindle books and porting magazines to iPad

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Amazon announced its intention of adding a Nook-like lending system to its Kindle readers and applications. The licensing is meant to give an option to lend a book once for a period of up to fourteen days to an account of someone else. A copy protection will not allow the original reader to view the [...]

Mobile efforts bring $1 billion yearly to Google’s revenue

Published on: 21st October, 2010

During a call dedicated to discussing the latest results, Google revealed the weight of mobile in its achievements and addressed the customers of an Amazon application store. Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, said that mobile efforts of the company, whether on iPhone, Android or other platforms, were adding $1 billion each year [...]

Due to App Store terms, Amazon would force DRM

Published on: 5th October, 2010

The upcoming Android App Store of Amazon is expected to have terms that would allow the company to add copy protection to the applications, against developers’ will. The developer agreement for the store is supposed to give Amazon the right to change an application in order to use technologies that enable digital rights management. Developers [...]

Analyst says Amazon would sell five million Kindles and would fend off iPad

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Douglas Anmuth, analyst at Barclays Capital, estimates that Amazon will sell about five million Kindle readers during this year. The combination of the redesigned device and its lower price, at $139, should be an advantage for the company. Over the next two years, sales are expected to reach 11.5 million devices in 2012. Anmuth expects [...]

Scrabble to be Amazon Kindle’s first paid application

Published on: 29th September, 2010

Amazon has recently put up its first paid, third-party application for the Kindle. Electronic Arts’s Scrabble has been launched for both the third-generation and second-generation six-inch Kindles, but also for all variants of the Kindle DX. The application only supports single-device multiplayer and not online games, despite the 3G and Wi-Fi links. The bookseller rolled [...]

Amazon with 99-cent TV rentals, following Apple

Published on: 6th September, 2010

Amazon has revealed that it would offer 99-cent VOD rentals and that Apple’s 99-cent iTunes TV rentals were not an exclusive. Amazon has Fox and ABC to provide shows, but its ability of rivaling iTunes is mixed. Amazon’s video on demand can play on the web and also on set-top boxes such as the TiVo. [...]

Amazon to prepare the overhaul of its MP3 Store

Published on: 18th July, 2010

It seems Amazon is preparing an important overhaul of the MP3 store. According to unnamed sources, the online retailer is set to relaunch the APIs as well as web services in its store. The sources indicate that Amazon’s partners have to delay its MP3 integrations until the launch of the revamped portal. Aside data from [...]

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