E-Commerce
Google Experimenting With Different Monetization Methods For Mobile Product Search
This could be big, but not material in the near-term.
Read »Mobile Commerce Growing Rapidly This Year, But Still Years From Being Mass-Market
Like mobile advertising: sexy and growing, but still a tiny market.
Read »eTextbooks Could Finally End The Great College Bookstore Extortion Scheme
Sorry, Barnes & Noble and other college-bookstore operators. Your fat profits are coming to an end.
Read »Apple Seduced Book Publishers With Its White Knight Act, Now It Begins To Screw Them
We told them just what they wanted to hear. And they believed us!
Read »E-Commerce Sales Growth Slows To 12% In January, Worse Than Q4
But Amazon is still crushing eBay, says ChannelAdvisor.
Read »Amazon's In Luck: Some Major Publishers Not Sold On Kindle "Agency" Model, So Amazon Can Still Undercut Apple On Price
Good news for ebooks and good news for consumers. Also good news for Amazon.
Read »Kindle's Market Share Losses Shouldn't Ding Amazon's Revenue Much, But Analysts Are Still Way Too Optimistic
The market thinks that Amazon's caving to Macmillan on price is a blow to the company. The market's right.
Read »US E-Books Sales Reached $100 Million in 2008.
E-book sales have grown at an annual rate of 58%...
Read »Facebook's New Payment System Off To Great Start, Could Boost Revenue By $250 Million In 2010
And, long-term, they want to kill PayPal.
Read »Amazon's Big Kindle Cave Could Threaten Its eBook Monopoly
If other publishers follow suit, the value of Amazon's Kindle franchise--and ebooks in general--will drop.
Read »E-Commerce Strength Has Continued Into Q1, Says ChannelAdvisor
Sports, electronics, apparel showing particular strength. Jewelry sales blow. Amazon still crushing eBay.
Read »Here's Why Amazon Will Win The eBook War: Kindle Already Has 90% eBook Market Share
Network effects could quickly make this "game over" for other e-readers.
Read »The Death Of Traditional TV Inches Ever Closer, But It's Not Here Yet
Cable and satellite providers are almost certainly screwed, but not for a while.
Read »Google's New "Product" Ads Are Working, Boosting ROI For Retailers
They also may lead to higher pricing for traditional Google ads.
Read »Bad News For Book Publishers: More Authors Selling E-Books Direct
And selling more books at lower prices.
Read »Apple Tablet Better Positioned Than Kindle To Go After Newspaper/Magazine Market
Better economics and "print-like" features could lead to a more robust content offering.
Read »JP Morgan Sees Upside In Display Ads; UBS Sees Big Quarter For Amazon; Google Phone Getting Decent Reviews
Our take on today's news and analysis.
Read »Citi's Mahaney Defends Kindle EPS Estimate, Tries To Address Our Concerns
We still see no signs that publishers will cave on pricing.
Read »Amazon's Latest eBook Deal Is A Watershed, Will Increase Pressure On Publishers
Amazon's deal with author Stephen Covey will likely encourage other authors to "go direct."
Read »How is Amazon able to expand same-day delivery and not say they have a local presence--and thus avoid collecting States' sales tax?
This starts to get into local sales tax law, whi...
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