A couple of days ago I checked on the availability and price of the Globe and Mail bestsellers at three major ebook retailers in North America. Below is the same kind of data but for The New York Times best sellers (as of June 4, 2010) with US availability in US dollars at Kobo, Kindle, [...]
Indigo and Borders will sell the Kobo dedicated eReader device for $149USD starting in May(ish). The post announcing the device buried the lede. It is like the company knows the device is nothing special — just another step in their multi-vectored strategy. The device doesn’t have wifi (or touch) — presumably to keep costs down [...]
The iPad was announced today and with it came a ton of questions about the iBookStore — terms, pricing, DRM, not to mention the raft of questions about the ereading app. I am sure all will be answered in time but the available information makes it pretty clear what Indigo needs to do — use [...]
Sony rebranded their e-book store on Friday. Indigo did so on Tuesday. They are both jockeying for the number two position behind Amazon. It would be boring to re-iterate the differences between the three brands and the three approaches, but I thought I should capture this moment as baseline for future discussions about if the [...]