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November 24th, 2009
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader
Amazon on Tuesday said it has improved the battery life of the Kindle and added a native PDF reader.
The statement appears to be timed to get holiday shoppers off the fence about the Kindle as rivals like Barnes & Noble and Sony struggle to meet demand in time for Christmas.
Specifically, Amazon said it improved the Kindle battery life by 85 percent. In real world terms, that battery life equates to up to seven days with wireless turned on. Kindle said the improvement was delivered during a six month firmware improvement program.
The PDF reader means that Kindle users don’t have to convert documents in the PDF format. Kindle users can transfer the PDF documents via email or USB.
And naturally, Amazon noted that the Kindle is in stock.
November 18th, 2009
Sony in danger of fumbling its big e-reader shot
Sony says it can’t guarantee shipments for its latest e-readers for the holidays and that could be a big issue as it tries to compete with Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s nook.
Here’s all you need to see from the SonyStyle store:
When Sony launched its latest e-readers in August the company said it would be set to meet holiday demand. Now that the demand is here Sony isn’t so sure about the supply.
Also: Sony Reader Daily Edition available for pre-order now; unclear when you’ll get it
Barnes & Noble is also cutting it close for Christmas deliveries, but says it can hit the Dec. 18 shipment date.
If Sony and Barnes & Noble struggle it will be a big win for Amazon’s Kindle.
Related: Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook
November 14th, 2009
Google Book Settlement revised; Open Book Alliance pans it as mere 'nip and tuck'
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have modified their digital book agreement in an effort to placate the Justice Department and critics of the deal.
Among the key items in the revised settlement, detailed on Google’s public policy blog (PDF summary):
- The deal only covers books registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Among the key items:
- The new agreement addresses orphan works, which have unknown rights holders and limits what can be done with revenue garnered from these books.
- An independent fiduciary will look out for the rights holders of these orphan works.
- Google’s algorithm for creating competitive pricing in the book market was clarified.
It’s unclear whether the deal will mollify critics and regulators. Google’s book settlement gave the search giant permission to scan books and sell access to them for revenue sharing and a $125 million fee.
Critics, including regulators, Amazon.com and other groups, say the Google deal is anticompetitive and cover authors and publishers not covered by the Author’s Guild and Association of American Publishers.
The Open Book Alliance, which opposes the Google Books Settlement, already panned the deal. In a blog post, Open Book Alliance co-chair Peter Brantley noted:
“Our initial review of the new proposal tells us that Google and its partners are performing a sleight of hand; fundamentally, this settlement remains a set-piece designed to serve the private commercial interests of Google and its partners. None of the proposed changes appear to address the fundamental flaws illuminated by the Department of Justice and other critics that impact public interest.
The Open Book Alliance called the latest Google book settlement merely a “nip and tuck.”
Related: Google’s book settlement: Here comes the DOJ and likely deal tweaks
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November 12th, 2009
Amazon Web Services plots Asia rollout
Amazon Web Services plans to expand its services into Asia-Pacific in 2010.
The company said in a statement that it will offer “multiple availability zones” in Singapore in the first half of 2010. Other services will roll out across the region in the second half of 2010.
Amazon’s lineup of services such as EC2, S3, SimpleDB, Relational Database Service and others will all be available.
According to Amazon, the expansion is being pushed so services can be closer to customers. Pricing will be announced when services launch next year.
November 10th, 2009
Amazon's Kindle for PC app available; It's a handy download
Amazon on Tuesday said that the Kindle for PC app is now available. The app allows you to read your Kindle books on your PC.
The move (statement, download) illustrates the gradual move to put Kindle content on more devices. In 2010, the availability of e-books on multiple devices is likely to be a key battleground. And the Kindle, which is less open than rivals from Sony and Barnes & Noble’s nook, could be vulnerable since much of the industry is gravitating toward open standards such as ePub.
Amazon’s bet: You’re not going to sweat being tethered to its Kindle format if you can read your books on multiple devices. Kindle content is now available on your PC and iPhone. Like the iPhone app, Amazon’s Kindle for PC synchs with your Kindle via its Whispersync technology. Look for Amazon to put Kindle content on more devices as it throws jabs at rivals.
Also see: Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook
As for the app, the downloading was easy and it picked up my Kindle archive with no problem. However, Kindle for PC did choke downloading one of my archived books a simple retry worked out.
Here’s a look at the Kindle archive on the PC:
November 2nd, 2009
Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype
Be on the lookout for yet another e-book reader, this time from Creative, a company probably best known for its Soundblaster audio products and Zen mp3 players.
According to a post on Creative fan site, epiZenter (named for those Zen players), the company revealed a working protoype of the touch-screen reader, dubbed “Mediabook” for now. (Techmeme) The device will reportedly include text-to-speech functionality, an SD memory card slot and have Internet capabilities. There was no word on how that device would access the Web - either via WiFi or a wireless. Details on pricing and availability were also unavailable.
Still. it’s good to see Creative step into this arena. Creative, after all, was the brand behind one of the original portable mp3 players - the Nomad Jukebox. It’s long been understood that you don’t have to be the first one our of the gate to win the race - and Apple proved that to be true with its iPod.
E-Book readers are suddenly the rage. And while Amazon talks a good talk about the Kindle’s success, the company has yet to cough up actual data on how many Kindles have actually been sold. Sony recently upped its marketing campaign on its own e-book reader, including a TV commercial featuring celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. Barnes and Noble entered the game with the Nook just a couple of weeks ago. And now, here comes Creative.
The market is still very ripe here. Amazon and its Kindle may have been first but that doesn’t mean it gets the market leader position. As we (and Creative) have seen before, you don’t have to be first to be the best.
October 29th, 2009
Amazon's PayPhrase: Can it juice Amazon Checkout, Payments?
Amazon launched an effort called PayPhrase in what the company calls an e-commerce shortcut that allows shoppers to buy around the Web with a phrase and a PIN.
When first reading Amazon’s release (Techmeme), my initial thought could be summed up with “huh?” But after further review, PayPhrase may be an easy way to make your Amazon data your de facto e-commerce record and shopping cart of choice.
And while it’s way premature to call PayPhrase any sort of PayPal killer, you can definitely envision it as part of a broader move to make Amazon Payments and Amazon Checkout bigger players.
Here’s how it works:
October 27th, 2009
Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services.
Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS), said the goal was to make it easy to scale MySQL clusters. He noted that “MySQL code and developer tools today will work with RDS.”
The RDS will round out Amazon’s SimpleDB service and other plans where you bring your own database to the company’s cloud (AWS blog, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels). What remains to be seen is the level of data that gets pumped into Amazon’s RDS. Selipsky said the service is “suited for anything you’d put into a MySQL database” and that Amazon has “taken great pains to make sure it is highly secure.”
Selipsky said that RDS came about because Amazon’s SimpleDB is optimized for index and query functions not relational functions. Most enterprises mix and match these database types. Adobe is one of the customers taking RDS for a spin. Nevertheless, enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon’s RDS effort. “We’re highly confident that RDS can hold a wide range of data sensitive or otherwise,” said Selipsky.
To ride shotgun with the RDS rollout, Amazon also unveiled a new family of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services. The latest family is for high CPU and memory usage. Things like running demanding databases, rendering and caching will operate better with a high-memory EC2 service. Selipsky noted that EC2 has three EC2 families in multiple sizes.
And finally, Amazon is dropping prices across all of its EC2 instances. For instance, the smallest Linux-based EC2 instance runs 10 cents an hour, but will now go for 8.5 cents. In general, the price cut is 15 percent across Linux instances. Microsoft is also dropping the price of Windows EC2 instances.
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October 22nd, 2009
Amazon delivers strong Q3; shares skyrocket after hours
Amazon easily beat Wall Street’s estimates for its third quarter, reporting a net income of $199 million, or 45 cents per share, on sales of $5.45 billion, a 28 percent jump from the year-ago quarter. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 33 cents on sales of $5.03 billion. (Statement)
Shares of Amazon immediately jumped, up more than 10 percent in after-hours trading. The company, in its release, was bullish on Kindle, the company’s e-reader device. In a statement, CEO Jeff Bezos said:
Kindle has become the #1 bestselling item by both unit sales and dollars – not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com. It’s also the most wished for and the most gifted. We are grateful for and energized by this customer response. Earlier this week we began shipping the latest generation Kindle. Its 3G wireless works in the U.S. and 100 countries, and we’ve just lowered its price to $259.
Still, Amazon - increasingly referred to as the “Wal-Mart of the Web” - is a company in transition. Some of its core physical products - such as books and music - are increasingly moving into a digital world and Amazon continues to adjust. Its Kindle book reader, which has seen price drops, has become synonymous with e-readers, even as competitors surface.
In a call with analysts today, executives used a few key talking points to answer questions about its success, its outlook for Q4 and its competitive landscape - beefed-up inventory, lower prices and great customer service, but not much specific detail beyond that.
In addition, the company was asked what threshold it might have to cross before it starts sharing specific sales numbers on Kindle. The answer, which really wasn’t much of an answer, said that when something gets to a certain size, it makes sense to break out the numbers by countries. And then it was time for the next question. That’s really not much of an answer to the question that analysts - and tech bloggers - have long been asking: How are sales of Kindle doing?
For the current quarter, which includes the holiday season, the company issued guidance of sales between $8.125 billion and $9.125 billion, a growth of 21 percent to 36 percent, compared to the year-ago quarter.
Shares of Amazon were flat for the day, closing at $93.45 in regular trading. In after-hours trading, shares jumped more than 10 percent and were on the rise.
October 21st, 2009
Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook
Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook e-reader, the latest in a line of alleged Kindle killers, and much of the chatter revolves around open standards, touch features, a little color and competition. The reality: Retail distribution may be much more important to winning the e-reader race.
Barnes & Noble’s Nook will run $259, have 3G and Wi-Fi access and be open. The Nook also runs on Android and has a color screen (Techmeme). But here are some overlooked elements in the Barnes & Noble statement:
October 16th, 2009
Amazon same day delivery squarely aimed at brick-and-mortar rivals
Amazon is using its distribution, information technology and shipping prowess to try and gain sales from brick-and-mortar retailers all the way up to Christmas.
As Amazon continues to grow its rivals won’t be Google and eBay as much as your local Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl’s. Enter Amazon’s expediting shipping efforts.
The company on Thursday said it will provide same-day delivery in seven cities—New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C.—with plans to add Chicago, Indianapolis and Phoenix in the months ahead.
Amazon Prime customers will pay $5.99 per item for same-day delivery while others will pay a wide range of higher fees (rate card). This move could really help for those last minute items—Amazon says it will offer same-day shipping Christmas Eve for orders as late at 1 p.m. PST.
The rub is that Amazon’s shipping charges are steep, but it’s likely the company will lower fees over time. Goldman Sachs analyst James Mitchell noted:
We expect same-day deliveries to only moderately boost sales volumes given onerous shipping charges, but the ability to make same-day deliveries (even on December 24) should further differentiate Amazon in the eyes of consumers. Amazon may reduce same-day charges over time as its fulfillment network becomes accustomed to faster deliveries.
Indeed, if Amazon can lower fees it will be able to use shipping as a weapon to cut e-commerce “friction.” J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan notes:
We see the service as another step Amazon is taking to shorten customers’ waiting time between order and delivery, and to lower the frictions involved in eCommerce. When Amazon introduced Prime, it raised the order frequency for Prime shoppers—and we think the new delivery option could be one more lever for increasing order frequency.
October 13th, 2009
E-reader coming soon from Barnes and Noble?
Barnes and Noble is set to make history at a “major event” in New York City next week. And even though the invitation doesn’t offer any hints of what’s coming, many expect that it will be a book reader of its own, according to a post on CNET.
It would only make sense that B&N, which launched its own book-reading software back in July, would be eyeing an electronic book reader to rivals Amazon and Sony.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the company was working on its own reader. It has already struck deals to serve as the digital bookstore for e-readers made by other companies, such as Plastic Logic, CNET reported.
The announcement will be made Oct. 20, two days before Microsoft arrives in New York to formally announce Windows 7.
October 8th, 2009
Barnes & Noble's e-reader triplets and the e-commerce distribution game
Barnes & Noble reportedly is planning to sell its own branded e-reader in a move that would give it three devices hooking up to its book store.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Barnes & Noble is planning a device with a six-inch screen and a touch screen (Techmeme). The device will plug into Barnesandnoble.com. The Journal didn’t have a lot of details, but said Barnes & Noble could announce the device next month.
Let’s take a little inventory:
- Barnes & Noble will have its own branded device;
- The retailer will sell the iRex e-reader;
- Barnes & Noble has partnered with Plastic Logic to launch an e-reader in early 2010;
- And Barnes & Noble is supporting open e-book standards.
Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble sells e-books that can be read on Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices. The common thread to these devices will be using Barnesandnoble.com as the primary book store.
Now if Barnes & Noble can cut a deal with Sony—there’s no reason why it wouldn’t—it will have the Amazon Kindle surrounded. Is it any wonder why Amazon is cutting Kindle prices? The game plan appears to be this: Barnes & Noble will have a beefy section for e-readers, use its retail clout to outflank Amazon and get distribution for its e-commerce site.
October 7th, 2009
Amazon cuts Kindle price, goes global as competition ramps
Amazon cut the price of its Kindle from $299 to $259 and launched and international version.
First, the price cut (Techmeme). The move comes as e-reader competition ramps up. Sony has e-readers with broad retail distribution. In addition, Barnes & Noble plans to sell a handful of e-readers. And Best Buy is planning an e-reader section. Simply put, Amazon will have its hands full when it comes to staying the top dog. Pricing will matter.
But there is a bit of a hedge with the international Kindle. Consumers can buy a Kindle with U.S. and international wireless access for $279. For an extra $20 why wouldn’t you get the international version—even if you’re abroad just once a year?
The international Kindle is available in 100 countries via AT&T’s global network. In the U.S., Kindle uses Sprint.
Amazon’s international Kindle adds newspapers like The Times in the UK, Le Monde and Shanghai Daily, but otherwise the specifications are the same as the current Kindle.
September 28th, 2009
WSJ on the Kindle, meet price elasticity
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has a bevy of pay-for-content experiments planned, but he should be ready to meet some pushback. One grand experiment, the Wall Street Journal’s price increase on the Kindle, has turned this customer off.
The Wall Street Journal subscription on the Kindle jumped from $9.99 a month to $14.99 in August. I noticed the increase with the September billing cycle (the WSJ slipped one by me).
The Kindle subscription was really an additional $9.99 for the convenience—I already have a WSJ.com subscription. But a 50% jump in the price for no value at all—the Kindle WSJ doesn’t update regularly.
If the Journal via the Kindle were my only subscription perhaps I could justify the increase. However, the price increase for a supplement pushed me over the edge and I unsubscribed. Frankly, you could argue that my WSJ subscription should follow me around to whatever platform I use.
Also see: Rupert Murdoch’s grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
The WSJ is free to charge whatever it wants and I’m free to cancel. And I’m not alone. From Amazon’s reviews:
I didn’t mind paying $9.99 for the WSJ on my Kindle. It was a fair price for the convenience and automatic daily delivery. I could read it in the car during traffic stops etc on the morning commute. But suddenly and unexpectedly the price surged a whopping 50% from $9.99 to $14.99. This is just too much to pay for this subscription and I have since cancelled it. To make it worse, it was really the WSJ “Lite”. There is a great deal of content missing from the daily Kindle version.
And.
At $10/month the Kindle edition was convenient, portable, and pretty readable.
At $15/month - you’ve lost me as a subscriber!
And.
I enjoyed my subscription to the Kindle version of the WSJ when it was $9.99. Having the WSJ auto-downloaded to my Kindle every day was very nice. However, on 8/5/2009 Amazon hiked my rate by 50% to $14.99 without informing me. I canceled on principle. Too bad for me and too bad for Amazon.
Mr. Murdoch, meet price elasticity.
September 23rd, 2009
iRex launches e-reader in U.S.; Jabs at Amazon, netbooks
(Ed note: Reporting by Andrew Nusca on scene, written by Larry Dignan.)
IRex Technologies, a big e-reader player in Europe, took the stage with Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and Verizon in New York Wednesday to launch the iRex DR800SG and took more than a few jabs at Amazon. The game plan for IRex: Tout its e-reader as the more open device with more options.
September 21st, 2009
Google's book settlement: Here comes the DOJ and likely deal tweaks
The Department of Justice became the latest party to file its concerns about Google’s book settlement and it appears the search giant will have to either make tweaks or allow the feds—and maybe even Congress—to poke around. Bet on the tweaks.
When we last checked in on the Google Book Settlement it was all about the sniping between the various parties. The headliners are Amazon vs. Google. Google was sued in 2005 by authors and publishers for infringing on copyrights as the search giant moved to digitize books. Google settled in October 2008 with authors and publishers for $125 million and agreed to set up a registry to ensure copyright owners would be compensated. Now many parties are freaked out that Google could garner such control.
September 15th, 2009
Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
Updated: The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies.
U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra said in a briefing Tuesday that Apps.gov is designed to lower costs and push innovation into government agencies. The cloud-based software on Apps.gov are housed centrally and available via various devices. Kundra billed the effort as “a one-stop source for cloud services.” The site features business applications, cloud services, productivity apps and social media software.
September 4th, 2009
Amazon offers redelivery, $30 to users who owned '1984'
Amazon came under fire this past July when it wirelessly deleted copies of two George Orwell titles — 1984 and Animal Farm, ironically — from the Kindle e-readers of some of its customers.
Needless to say, users were not pleased. (A sampling of the furor: Perlow; Kingsley-Hughes; Dawson; Blankenhorn; Diaz; Koman)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos eventually apologized for the incident, calling it “stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles.”
On Thursday, Amazon made its actions louder than its words by e-mailing affected customers an offer to either return the deleted books or to give them a $30 Amazon gift certificate.
The full e-mail (via WSJ), after the jump:
September 4th, 2009
Sniping over Google Books Settlement intensifies
Google details its privacy safeguards behind its book settlement. The Open Book Alliances says “trust us” isn’t a good privacy policy. Meanwhile, supporters of the Google Book Settlement have knocked Amazon’s complaints about the deal.
Simply put, the fur is flying.
As noted Wednesday, supporters for the Google Book Settlement and opposition are lining up in a big scrum that could get nasty. Google was sued in 2005 by authors and publishers for infringing on copyrights as the search giant moved to digitize books. Google settled in October 2008 with authors and publishers for $125 million and agreed to set up a registry to ensure copyright owners would be compensated.
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