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Guest Post: B&N Needs to Get Over Its Fear

21 August, 2017 // 3 Comments

by Randy Lea I live in Vancouver, WA, with Powell's Bookstore in Portland about 40 miles away. I was thrilled when the B&N stores opened in the area, they were a lot smaller than Powell's, but [Read More ...]

How To Easily Proofread And Edit Your Own eBook

7 July, 2017 // 7 Comments

You've finally written the last word of your manuscript, and it's all done and dusted. You're now a fully fledged writer! However, after the writing comes the editing, and that's where some writers [Read More ...]

Amazon Offers Prime Discount for Some US Customers Receiving Government Aid

6 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

Amazon is now discounting Prime for customers receiving certain types of government aid. (Corporations, farm subsidy recipients, and mortgage holders will not benefit.) On Tuesday Amazon said it [Read More ...]

Apple Launches HomePod Speaker to Bring Siri Into the Living Room

5 June, 2017 // 6 Comments

Apple is finally taking Alexa, which is available on a wide variety of hardware, seriously. On Monday Apple introduced the HomePod speaker to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Alexa assistant and Echo [Read More ...]

Apple Set to Expand Siri, Taking Different Route from Amazon’s Alexa

5 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

With its broad device support and constantly expanding skill set, Alexa its beating is competitors Cortana, Siri, and Google Home in the virtual assistant market. But it is still early days yet, and [Read More ...]

Amazon B&M in New York City

28 May, 2017 // 6 Comments

by Rickard Hollick Amazon’s new bricks and mortar store in Manhattan is on the third floor of the Time Warner Center. A few years ago we had a large Borders bookshop in this building, but of course [Read More ...]

Amazon Trounces Rivals in Battle of the Shopping Bots

12 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

Knowledge is power. This truism is why everyone in publishing reads the Author Earnings Report, and it is also why online retailers use bots to track their competitors' prices. Or rather, why they [Read More ...]

Amazon Cuts Free Shipping Minimum to $25

9 May, 2017 // 5 Comments

Amazon.com said on Tuesday it cut the threshold for free shipping to $25 from $35, upping the ante against Wal-Mart in a hotly contested battle for e-commerce supremacy. Amazon already offers free [Read More ...]

Amazon Sweeps US Market for Voice-Controlled Speakers: Study

8 May, 2017 // 0 Comments

The tablet market may be following the ereader market into a semi-permanent decline, but the smart home appliances market is still growing. And Amazon is in the perfect position to take advantage. [Read More ...]

EU Accepts Amazon eBook Commitments to Settle Antitrust Case

4 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

The most-favored-nation clause is a tool invented by Apple and used by Amazon to prevent being undercut by price competition. It is on house arrest in the European ebook market for the next five [Read More ...]

Amazon’s First-Quarter Revenue, Profit Beat Estimates

27 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Amazon on Thursday reported first-quarter revenue and profit above expectations as sales at its retail and cloud-computing businesses increased, sending shares up more than 4 percent in extended [Read More ...]

Not Sure What to Wear? Amazon’s Algorithms May Help

27 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Amazon wants to help you choose what to wear. The technology and retailing behemoth on Wednesday unveiled a voice-controlled camera, the Echo Look, and an app that recommends which of two outfits is [Read More ...]

EU Lawmakers Add Spotify and iTunes to Ban on Geo-Blocking

26 April, 2017 // 1 Comment

Do you know how Amazon tacks on surcharges in the Kindle Store for certain countries but not others? That practice is going to end soon - in the European Union, at least. European Union lawmakers [Read More ...]

Amazon Releases Chatbot Tools in Race to Dominate Voice-Powered Tech

20 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Last week Amazon announced that they were making the Echo's unique compound microphone tech available to developers. Now it's doing the same with the entire platform. Amazon's CTO is working toward [Read More ...]

Thirteen Great Tools That Will Make Your Writing Shine

15 April, 2017 // 5 Comments

Writing is hard, even at the best of times. Putting down your thoughts in an orderly and compelling manner can be excruciating, so much so that trying to keep track of grammar, spelling, and other [Read More ...]

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user on You Can Install Google Play on the Latest Fire Tablets in Less Than 5 MinutesHow safe are APKs?
Randy Lea on What the “Book People” Won’t Tell You: Print is DeadWhen you say "revenue is down....", are you speaking about Amazon, both ebooks and hardware? The market data I see
Nate Hoffelder on You Can Install Google Play on the Latest Fire Tablets in Less Than 5 Minutesyou credited yourself over in the other thread, so I didn't think it necessary to repeat it :).
Chris Meadows on It’s Official – B&N Has Thrown in the Towel on the NookThey have a new one. It's a $50 plain vanilla Android tablet. Seems pretty nice, too.
Andrea Clark on You Can Install Google Play on the Latest Fire Tablets in Less Than 5 MinutesWow, so much easier with the new update. Now I can finally get the apps I want on my Fire.
Suz on It’s Official – B&N Has Thrown in the Towel on the NookThey should just sell out their Nook business to Kobo and let us read our Nook books on Kobo’s excellent
Cathryn Cade on It’s Official – B&N Has Thrown in the Towel on the NookBarnes & Noble top management in the last 10 years seems to present a textbook example of ostriches doing everything