Both ideas could increase the e-reader audience by expanding the ways and places to buy e-books and providing real-world incentives for reading.
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Furthermore over half of e-book users who also hold library cards told Pew that they prefer to buy -- not borrow -- their e-books.
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Why would consumers buy e-books if they can get them for free at the library?
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And Random House recently tripled the prices it charges for libraries to buy e-books.
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Its effect is to lock consumers into one company's digital ecosystem, making it impossible for Kindle users to buy e-books from the existing Waterstones platform, for example.
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Compared to last week's report, this probably shows that consumers who actually buy e-readers don't really care about the touch feature, whereas those on the outer circle are mainly waiting for more -- and no doubt cheaper -- touchscreen e-readers.
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Thus Amazon was losing money on the Kindle likely with the idea that this low price would help encourage people to buy its e-reader yielding higher market share for a platform on which Amazon might be able to deliver content and commerce to consumers.
Shares in the bookstore chain Barnes and Noble have shot up after reports Microsoft was planning to buy its Nook e-reader division.
Meanwhile, schools and colleges have used money originally set aside for paper textbooks to buy tablets, e-books and apps.
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Richard Moroney, editor of Upside newsletter, which focuses on small- and mid-cap stocks, says that Aeropostale is cheap, and he calls it a "best buy" in an e-mail hotline from Friday, Dec. 4.
Now that they have Prime, they get free two-day shipping from Amazon and are more likely to buy physical goods from the e-tailer goods they may have at one time stopped by their local Wal-Mart for.
Teleplex president Dennis Novick says the company has installed 27 of them in Manhattan--with plans for 100--so New Yorkers and tourists alike can check e-mail, buy theater tickets, even pay bills.
But don't expect to be able to buy the latest in e-broidery any time soon.
How is it that ad networks have grown so sophisticated they can make offers across various sites indeed, they can even predict future romantic interests based on historical browsing patterns but we still have to re-enter our financial and identity information at every e-commerce site we buy from?
In your car, you'll be able to surf the Net, get e-mail, buy and sell shares and carry on conference calls.
Best Buy has also hired a new e-commerce chief, former Expedia Inc.
It will also update the law to introduce new protection for consumer who buy digital content, such as e-books, digital music, games and software.
People are not going to buy from you because they received an e-mail from you.
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The site also lets you send a Loch Ness Monster e-mail postcard, buy a book on the legend and study the X-files-like Ness Files.
The insight that these tools provide can help a CMO accurately predict which product an e-com shopper will buy based on their past page views, quantify the financial value of an online tool, or quantify the value of increasing customer satisfaction by a point.
This whole "connected Internet e-commerce crazy-fast buy-coffee-from-the-car" paradigm is starting to have some pretty interesting ramifications in our culture.
If you don't see any coupons for the products you buy, try calling the toll-free numbers or e-mailing the companies that make them, suggests CouponMom's Nelson.
Even if a Kindle Fire owner never uses the device to buy something from Amazon.com, the e-commerce giant could still take a bite out of Wal-Mart with its new device.
Executives said Best Buy is well positioned to benefit from the changes in electronics, noting that the company offers the largest e-reader assortment in the industry and is heavily focused on its Best Buy Mobile business, which offers smartphones from multiple carriers under one roof, similar to the way such phones are marketed in Europe.
Using the NYT rent-vs-buy calculator, Salmon figures out that the acquisition only makes economic sense (i.e. it is actually cheaper to buy rather than rent) if one is bullish in the long-run, or 5 to 10 years, which means assuming annual home prices and rental prices gain 1% per year.
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People who call or e-mail but don't buy get letters in the mail, then phone calls.
Rackspace has agreed to buy Mailgun, a San Francisco-based startup that provides e-mail server tools.
Still, these companies cannot ignore e-commerce, because people increasingly buy items of nearly any kind online.
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