The latest sham doesn’t exactly pay customers to write up positive online reviews of products. But it’s more than a little sketchy when a company offers to reimburse people for their purchases if they post a review on Amazon.
Bookstores seem to be doing surprisingly well this year, but those sales might not be sustainable.
Membership in Amazon Prime—the online retail giant’s packaged service that includes free two-day shipping on all orders, free streaming of online movies and TV shows, and one free Kindle book to borrow monthly—costs $79 a year. It’s estimated, however, that Amazon spends an average of more than $90 annually per customer to supply all of [...]
If there’s one thing that the mad rush on $99 HP TouchPad tablets proved in late summer, it’s that there are plenty of price-sensitive consumers in the marketplace. They’ll bite on tablets and e-readers, but only if the price is right—i.e., less than half the price of an iPad.
We live in a time when the costs of things like gas and gold have soared, just as a laundry list of everyday expenses such as coffee, rent, health care, used cars, and bacon are approaching or have already reached all-time high prices. But not everything’s getting more expensive. Here are 10 things that are [...]
Thankfully for broke college students everywhere, Amazon is changing up the college textbook model by offering e-textbook rentals.
Forty years ago, when Borders opened its first store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the book industry was a different place. But for years, Borders acted like it wasn’t, culminating in the announcement this week that it would liquidate its remaining 399 stores.
At least once a week, someone tries to explain all the reasons that I need an eBook reader. It’s become so annoying that I recently resorted to online threats: I recently Tweeted that the next person who sees me reading a book and asks me why I don’t have a Kindle will walk with a [...]
If your vacation plans include a little light summer reading, you couldn’t ask for lighter fare this year. While the downloads might be wispier than air itself, most books, digital downloads or not, still come with a hefty price tag.
Angry readers are showing that a price will be paid by publishers that try to charge more than $9.99 per e-book. Online guerrilla saboteurs are leaving one-star ratings and awful reviews, apparently as acts of vengeance.
You just bought an HDTV, an iPhone, and a Kindle, but now there’s 3-D TV, Google’s Nexus One, and the Kindle 2 (or the Nook) that all want you to take them home too. Can’t the marketers and innovators at least wait until we’ve gotten used to all the gizmos and features of our current [...]
