E-Commerce Competition
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 »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 »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 »Two Major Publishers Delay E-Book Release Dates
More pushback from the publishing industry against the Kindle.
Read »More Bad News For Amazon's Kindle: Newspaper/Magazine Publishers See More Potential In Smartphones And Netbooks
Amazon needs newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the Kindle standard to make the device's economics work. This is just not happening.
Read »Google's New Product Ads Are Off To A Good Start
Still a small number using the service, but performance so far has been strong.
Read »WalMart And Amazon Barely Making Money On Top 25 Best-Sellers
A scan of the top 25 best-selling fiction books...
Read »Kindle Fantasies Are Running Wild -- But, For Now, Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt
Analysts are dreaming about vast e-book earnings per share. Keep dreaming...
Read »E-Commerce Shoppers Up 20% In Q309
More consumers shopping online, albeit currently spending less per purchase.
Read »Search Is Becoming Increasingly Important To E-Commerce Sales
Search is driving more sales on pure-play e-commerce sites.
Read »Google Launches Cost-Per-Action And Site-Search Products For E-Commerce
Both will help the company capture more eCommerce spending and diversify its sources of revenue.
Read »Transition To Digital Media Is A Major Risk For Amazon, eBay, et al
Amazon, with more than half its profit from physical media sales is especially at risk.
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