US-based bookseller Barnes & Noble has formed a partnership with Microsoft that’ll bring together Barnes & Noble’s digital ‘eBook’ and College education businesses.
The new company will be a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble and will be 17.6% owned by Microsoft, which is investing $300 million in the business.
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Amazon.com has introduced two new ebook readers to the UK: the Kindle Touch and the Kindle Touch 3G.
Both have touch-controlled 6-inch screens and WiFi connectivity, while the 3G model also offers a free mobile connection. They’re available for pre-order and will be released on 27th April.
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Google has transformed its Android Market store into Google Play.
The new service also incorporates Google Music and the Google eBook store, providing a single location to search and download apps, music, movies and books to Android phones and tablets.
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Amazon.com says it’s been selling more than a million Kindle e-book readers per week for the last three weeks.
The new Kindle Fire, which went on sale in the USA last month, is currently the company’s best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product.
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New figures from the International Data Corporation show that media tablet shipments haven’t increased as much as expected.
IDC’s Media Tablet and eReader Tracker notes that shipments into sales channels rose by 23.9% from the previous quarter to 18.1 million units in Q3 2011. That’s an increase of 264.5% from the same quarter in 2010... but is 5.8% below IDC’s original forecast of 19.2 million units.
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