Yesterday Kobo announced that they too will have their wireless eReaders on sale in 2,500 US Wal-Mart stores starting next week. The Bookseller what many people already knew: Kindle’s territorial controls on downloads are very easily subverted. In the magazine’s case, they repeatedly purchased cheap US versions of ebooks by supplying a US mailing address–even though the address associated with their credit card was in the UK. This issue will only get bigger (though the problem is primarily for non-US publishers trying to compete with the availability and pricing on US editions).Bookseller Nielsen released highlights of the first in a […]
Tablets
Apple Sells Another 4.2 Million iPads, But Analysts Are Confused
Apple reported fourth quarter sales, through September 25, recording record revenue (over $20 billion) and profit (over $4 billion). They sold 4.19 million iPads in the quarter–ahead of the 3.27 million units sold in the previous quarter (when it was on sale for 84 days, or about a week less than the full reporting period). That’s nearly 7.5 million iPads so far with the big holiday quarter still ahead, putting them on track for over 12.5 million units in 2010. Also significant is that iPad sales were greater than sales for the entire line of Macintosh computers, which also hit […]