Post Tagged with: "eReader"

22Jun
2010

Amazon Drops Price Of Kindle eReader

Amazon has cut the price of their Kindle eReader from $259 to $189. They made this announcement on the same day the iOS 4 became available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Included in the iOS 4 update is access to Apple’s iBooks. Is Amazon’s timing for this press release a coincidence or instead clever marketing? As more people choose the iPad or perhaps iPhone as their main eReader in lieu of Amazon’s Kindle device it’s likely that Amazon [...]

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4May
2010

iPad Sales Could Pass $1 Billion In First Quarter

It’s official, Apple has announced in less than one month (28 days to be exact) over 1 million iPad’s have been sold. That’s quite an impressive milestone even according to some well informed market analysts who didn’t see this coming. Not even Apple expected the iPad to have such an impact so quickly. At this rate iPad sales are on target to surpass the $1 billion mark in the first quarter alone. So why are more and more people being [...]

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24Apr
2010

A Few Bans Will Not Break iPad Momentum

The iPad may not be accepted with open arms at some college and university campuses but this will not have any long term impact on the tablet’s growing popularity in the educational field. Sure, a few universities have initially banned the device, but despite that the iPad continues to gain momentum and popularity in the educational and ebook market. For instance, George Fox University will be making the switch from offering first-year students free laptops to giving away free iPad’s [...]

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