SEATTLE----Amazon today announced a FREE Two-Day expedited shipping offer for Kindle, Amazon's hottest gift this season, just in time for delivery by Christmas Eve. Amazon also announced today that December is already the best month ever for Kindle sales.
Anyone gazing at the twinkly Swan Lake-themed Christmas window display at Fortnum & Mason, the quintessentially British food emporium famed for luxury hampers and cream teas, could be forgiven for thinking the recession never happened.
Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009. Tech sector funds are up an average 57 percent this year. That's more than twice the increase for the Standard & Poor's 500 index, and puts tech funds atop Morningstar's rankings for 21 U.S. stock fund categories.
A key technology supplier to the Amazon Kindle electronic reader plans to launch a lightweight plastic screen next year that is expected to make the products less likely to break and pave the way for their large-scale introduction in schools and colleges.
With a week to go before Christmas, division CEO Raul Vazquez says Walmart.com's holiday sales are growing two or three times faster than Web sales overall.
How do you catch up to Amazon in the e-book race it is running away with? Maybe exclusive content will help. That's what Sony says it is trying to do with News Corp. and some of its publications.
While big publishers try to figure out how to get millions of web users to pay for their content, indie bloggers continue to churn out blog posts for free, or barely monetized with search and display ads from Google's AdSense—if they're lucky.
There were a few things that attendees and speakers appeared to have decided on by the end of the two-day MediaBistro eBook Summit: case in point, the $9.99 standard price for a digitized titleâ€"as established by the space's leader, Amazon â€"is not enough to support content creation and distribution.
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