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karl dit :

1 novembre 2009 à 12:50

Il faudrait avoir une statistique sur le même échantillon de population pour que ce soit plus significatif.

En effet, une hypothèse à envisager est que ceux qui ont acheté un Kindle sont des lecteurs actifs et des gros consommateurs de livres.

Achètent-ils plus de livres papier que le lecteur moyen ? Et dans ce cas combien ?

This application, US Patent Application 20090265214, is titled Advertisement in Operating System, and covers exactly what the title implies; namely an operating system that is capable of displaying a variety of advertisements to users.

For the reference list entry, you’ll need to include the type of e-book version you read (two examples are the Kindle DX version and the Adobe Digital Editions version). In lieu of publisher information, include the book’s DOI or where you downloaded the e-book from (if there is no DOI). For example:

One massive wave crashing down is confusing enough. But when three crash at the same time, even seeing what's going on (let alone predicting how things will play out) becomes really difficult. These three big new waves are:

1. The digitization of print books by Google Book Search.

2. Increasing consumer acceptance of e-books, mostly because of the Kindle.

3. Print on demand.

According to the Times's Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter on raw materials and $148 million on wages and benefits. We've heard the wages and benefits for just the newsroom are about $200 million per year.

After multiplying the quarterly costs by four and subtracting that $200 million out, a rough estimate for the Times's delivery costs would be $644 million per year.

The Kindle retails for $359. In a recent open letter, Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis wrote: "We have 830,000 loyal readers who have subscribed to The New York Times for more than two years." Multiply those numbers together and you get $297 million -- a little less than half as much as $644 million.

it's my iPhone (once again) that's bringing me closer to the end of my Kindle infatuation.

downloads of Stanza [App Store link], an ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod touch (395,000 and counting), versus the number of projected US Kindle sales (380,000). For those unfamiliar with Stanza, it's a free application that lets users download books over the air, as does the Kindle. All of Stanza's offerings are free works in the public domain, and flipping pages is a breeze with the touch screen.

240 000 ! C’est le nombre de « kindle » (le reader proposé par Amazon) vendus depuis novembre aux Etats-Unis. Voici une nouvelle qui devrait commencer de faire douter les farouches détracteurs du papier électronique.

Kindle (le verbe “to kindle” se traduit par allumer un feu, faire éclore un sentiment ou attiser un amour) pèse un peu moins de 300 grammes et pourra contenir jusqu’à 200 ouvrages. Les batteries assurent 30 heures de lecture continue. Un clavier permet d’annoter les textes, d’échanger des courriels et de consulter Google et le web.