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Borders CEO Tells Customers “All Is Well”

Posted: February 17, 2011 at 6:08 am

Mike Edwards, the CEO of Borders Group which has just declared bankruptcy, wrote the retailer's "Rewards Members" to tell them everything at the company is fine. If the Borders' program ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 12/31/2010

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:33 am

Updated throughout the day. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shipped 1.6 million Kindle e-readers this month. (Apple Insider) MySpace will lay off 50% of its staff and be put up for sale ...
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Amazon: Too Little Data For Shareholders

Posted: December 28, 2010 at 5:25 am

The third generation of Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle e-reader was the best selling product in the e-commerce firm's history. The announcement was confused with a number of pieces of data ...
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E-Pad Sales: Are Sales Strong Enough To Overcome Competition?

Posted: December 24, 2010 at 5:28 am

Securities analysts and research firms which cover the sales of e-readers and tablet computers continue to upgrade holiday shipment figures for most of the large brands. That means the purchase ...
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Loss Leaders: How Seven American Companies Lose Money To Make Money

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 5:01 am

'Tis the season for loss leaders. Maybe retailers were scared by the ho-ho horrible recent holiday seasons or maybe they were concerned that consumers remained as worried as ever about ...
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A $20 Billion Cyber Monday? A Mixed Blessing

Posted: November 30, 2010 at 4:50 am

Coremetrics, which covers online sales activity, says that Cyber Monday sales rose 20% this year over last based on data taken through 6 PM. That would make e-commerce  revenue for the ...
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Black Friday Report: For Amazon, The Kindle Is No Longer King

Posted: November 26, 2010 at 2:23 pm

The Kindle was not the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) flagship product much of Black Friday. Perhaps that is because of suspicions that the world's largest e-commerce site makes little or no ...
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Amazon.com Drops Kindle Price, The E-Reader Wars

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 5:33 am

Amazon.com has already dropped the price of its basic Kindle e-reader by $70 to $189. The moved followed a price cut of Barnes & Noble's (NYSE: BKS) Nook from $199 ...
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Media Digest 7/1/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   The House passed the financial reform bill leaving the Senate to act Reuters:   Work on the BP plc (NYSE: B) oil spill will be delayed because of Hurricane Alex. ...
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Barnes & Noble, Hurt By Kindle, Offers Incentive

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 5:53 am

There are many estimates of the size of the e-reader market and which companies have the most market share. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) claims it has sold "millions of Kindles" and ...
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Kindle: Hostage To Its Own Fame

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 5:42 am

Amazon (NASAQ: AMZN) announced that it would begin to sell its Kindle digital  book reader in some Target (NYSE: TGT) stores. The news was viewed as a big "win" for Amazon, ...
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Consumer Purchase Plans: iPad Trumps Kindle

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 4:00 am

Research that tries to forecast consumers' buying plans is notoriously inaccurate. It is hard to determine what someone will buy if they have not seen it. Purchase intent based on brand ...
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HP Slate Looks More And More Like iPad Rival

Posted: March 9, 2010 at 5:56 am

The Apple (AAPL) iPad tablet computer looks like it will launch into a market where it has no rivals. The Amazon (AMZN) Kindle is not a PC at all. It is underpowered ...
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Amazon.com’s Kindle Only Available For Scalpers (AMZM, EBAY, SNE)

Posted: December 4, 2007 at 2:57 pm

We were quite interested in Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) upcoming product release for the new e-book reader, the Kindle.  Interestingly enough it almost immediately sold out of its initial supply and gave ...
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Amazon.com’s Kindle e-Book Reader Sold Out: Hype or Mega-Hit? (AMZN)

Posted: November 23, 2007 at 7:06 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is apparently already sold out of its new Kindle electronic book reader.  That is what the launch and intro page for the Kindle notes. What is not clear ...
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