The country largest book store is now also offering books online. The bookseller has now opened an online store or in other words an e-book store. The users will be offered a very vast collection of books. The store with 1.5 million titles in it will be in league with the versions that the Borders [...]
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Wal-Mart to buy fun provider
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is to buy broadband entertainment provider Vudu Inc., sources revealed. The deal, for an undisclosed sum and expected to be concluded in the coming weeks, will enable the mall giant to sell movies directly through TVs and Blu-ray players.
Vudu sells and rents downloadable movies and TV shows that can be [...]
Feb
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Amazon.com resumes selling Macmillan’s books
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) once again started selling new books from Macmillan Publishers on Friday.
Macmillan titles such as “Sarah’s Key,” by Tatiana de Rosnay, and “Plum Spooky,” by Janet Evanovich, were available in print version yesterday on Amazon.com’s Web site, though their digital editions weren’t.
Over the weekend, Amazon stopped selling books from publishing giant [...]
Feb
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Amazon buys screen-maker Touchco
The world’s largest online retailer of books Amazon.com has reportedly bought Touchco, a company which makes flexible touch screens. The move is seen as an effort to strengthen technology aboard its Kindle e-readers to make itself more competitive against Apple’s iPad.
The New York Times reported that Amazon.com would merge Touchco, a small startup company, [...]
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Kindle DX now available outside the US
Amazon.com finally has now opened its Kindle DX with 9.7 inch display to be sold in over 100 countries outside the US, the company said on Wednesday. The product is now up for ordering, the company will start shipments from January 19. This version of Kindle is priced at $489.
Kindle DX with Global Wireless is [...]
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Will Kindle Pay For Not Disclosing Its Sales?
Kindle electronic reader, an Amazon.com product gave it an all-time high stock price in the month of December 2009. Then why the question is arising about its sales figures now?
The company reported near Christmas that Kindle electronic reader has given the best sales figures across all its product categories in the particular month. But none [...]