Barnes & Noble intends to separate its college business from its Nook and retail businesses, it announced Thursday, creating two separate publicly traded companies. The move is supposed to be completed… Read more »
Scribd has added about 10,000 digital comic books and graphic novels to its $8.99/month ebook and audiobook subscription service, the company announced Tuesday. Participating comic publishers so far are Marvel, Archie, Boom! Read more »
Raising the price of Amazon Prime to $99 from $79 was the right decision, Jeff Bezos crowed in the company’s Q4 2014 earnings report released Thursday. “The data is in and… Read more »
The seven Harry Potter books, plus three spin-off titles, are now available through the ebook subscription site Oyster. The company says Harry Potter has been in its top-ten searches since launch. The… Read more »
Not having access to award-winning TV is certainly nothing new for cord-cutters, but now the debate’s being flipped: When Amazon’s original series Transparent won the Golden Globe awards for best comedy and… Read more »
We often think of digital textbooks as being read on iPads, and Apple rolled out iBooks Author, which lets users create textbooks and other interactive ebooks, in 2012. But Amazon, not… Read more »
Amazon has yanked the “Amazon Elements” diaper brand it launched for Prime members just six weeks ago, saying that it is working to improve the diapers’ design “based on early customer… Read more »
Coming to a theater near you: Amazon plans to start producing “close to twelve” movies a year. The films will “premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. just 4 to 8… Read more »
On this cold night in January we finally figured out whether Amazon is a good thing or not! I can’t believe you weren’t there, at the Kaufman Center on West 67th… Read more »
Apple’s iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, which launched to the public this fall, come with iBooks pre-installed. That decision has paid off: iBooks has averaged one million new customers every… Read more »