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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In your car, you'll be able to surf the Net, get e-mail, buy and sell shares and carry on conference calls.
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.
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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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.
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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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.
People who call or e-mail but don't buy get letters in the mail, then phone calls.
Still, these companies cannot ignore e-commerce, because people increasingly buy items of nearly any kind online.
That territory belongs to Amazon and retailers known for their robust e-stores, such as Best Buy.
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Frustrated customers zapped thousands of e-mails asking where they could buy and why they couldn't do it on-line.
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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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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But don't expect to be able to buy the latest in e-broidery any time soon.
E-analyst Holden Forever told us to buy Dollar General because its price was above its nine-week average but had not yet broken through the upper end of its established range.
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.
And if you want to send pictures of the new baby to grandma via the Internet, save the shot in a graphics file and attach it to e-mail -- no need to buy a scanner to input regular 35mm prints.
At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
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And Helsinki Telephone will exploit e-speak to enable people to locate and buy multimedia content for training services.
Consumers can find the new all-LED E-Series line both in-store and online through key retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Sam's Club, Target, VIZIO.com and Walmart.
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My wife keeps getting e-mails forwarded by her friends urging everybody to buy American to keep our jobs at home.
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.
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