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Microsoft invests $300M in Barnes & Noble's Nook business

Microsoft invests $300M in Barnes & Noble
  • Posted April 30, 2012, 4:43 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Microsoft
  • Microsoft has announced it is making a $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook digital-book business and college-texts unit. The move will give the software giant a 17.6% stake in a new subsidiary temporarily known as Newco, with B&N…

Nook Simple Touch gets integrated LEDs for night time reading

Nook Simple Touch gets integrated LEDs for night time reading
  • Posted April 13, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Although the E Ink Pearl display used by Kindle and Nook devices provides an excellent contrast ratio and power consumption, it doesn't have any integrated backlighting, making it difficult or impossible to view content in dark environments. Reading the Kindle…

Apple, book publishers probed over e-book price fixing

Apple, book publishers probed over e-book price fixing
  • Posted March 8, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Apple
  • The U.S. Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the country's largest book publishers that it plans to file a lawsuit for their alleged price-fixing of electronic books unless the companies agree to change their business practices, the Wall…

E-book sales tripled in 2010

E-book sales tripled in 2010
  • Posted April 15, 2011, 9:30 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
  • The trade association of the US book publishing industry tracks monthly and year-to-date publishers' net sales revenue in all categories of commercial, education, professional, and scholarly books and journals. E-book sales have tripled over the past year, according to the…

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