There are many other companies that carry the Barnes and Noble Nook line of
e-readers in a retail setting, such as Target, Walmart and Staples.
Recently they launched ebook stores in Germany and in the last few days France via FNAC and will be selling
their e-readers in a retail setting.
Starting now if you are looking to get your new
e-reader in a retail setting you are in luck!
Amazon in the last calender year has gone to great lengths to get its flagship Kindle
e-Readers in a retail setting.
Not exact matches
Currently Sony enjoys tremendous success
in North America, where its line of
E-Readers are
in many
retail settings, and are the subject of Impulse buys at many Electronic Stores.
While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the
retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost
in order to push sales of their Kindle
e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to
set the price of the ebooks for the
retailers.
It really shows that people are attracted to
e-readers that are available
in a
retail setting and have a low price.
Just
in time for the holidays, Kobo is looking to put its
e-readers and tablets
in as many
retail settings as possible.
In a
retail setting,
e-readers do not really make much money for Target.
This holiday season
set a record for industry wide
e-reader sales and many
retailers like Amazon saw millions of units sold every week
in December.
The Amazon Kindle controls almost 75 % of the entire
e-reader market and should increase their growth by having a firm presence
in a brick and motor
retail setting.
40 % of all Pocketbook
e-readers are sold
in a
retail setting in Europe.
Now that the Kindle is
in a
retail chain (Target), the Barnes and Noble Nook (Bestbuy) and the Kobo
E-Reader (Chapters / Indigo) are firmly
in retail settings, instead of a pure online item, sales should be robust as well.
Barnes and Noble has been busy over the course of the last year putting their
e-readers in as many
retail settings as possible to gain more... [Read more...]
Barnes and Noble has been busy over the course of the last year putting their
e-readers in as many
retail settings as possible to gain more visibility with customers.
It will be interesting to see how Amazon does
in a
retail setting, and how
e-readers do
in the physical marketplace with the dramatic increase of competition.
The Bookbrewer service allows writers to upload their content — which can be any length —
set their own suggested price (within the boundaries
set by the various e-book
retailers like Amazon, Apple (s aapl) and Borders itself), then publish an e-book
in the open ePub format that can be downloaded for the iPad, the Kindle, the Kobo or any other
e-reader.
The original licenses were granted to Borders to promote the Kobo
e-Reader in its USA based
retail setting.
The company has over 2.4 million ebooks
in its vast library and has many popular
e-readers that have a high rate of visibility
in retail settings.
But their popularity is telling as more first time readers who purchase a e-ink based
E-Reader do so
in the confines of a
retail setting in Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
With Kindle sales soaring
in the UK and Barnes & Noble
set to roll out its Nook
e-reader in the coming weeks,
retail giant Tesco announced Tuesday that it has acquired e-book platform Mobcast.
Online
retail giant Amazon looks
set to disrupt the tablet market
in the coming days when it announces the launch of an ad - supported Kindle Fire, taking a strategy that has worked well with its range of
e-readers and adapting it for the personal computing market.
Since the company was playing catch - up to some extent with Amazon's Kindle — at least
in the
e-reader department — it came up with a way of getting the major publishing houses on its side: instead of the wholesale - pricing approach that existed prior to Apple's entry into the market, which gave
retailers (including Amazon) the ability to
set book prices wherever they wanted, the agency model would allow publishers to
set the price.