Study Shows Close to 30% of US Adult Population Owns Either An eReader Or Tablet

by Digital Comic News on January 23, 2012

in Tech News,eBook / Tablet News

nook ereader(Source: Mashable)

Pew Internet recently released a new study showing over a quarter of the US adult population owning either an eReader or tablet computer.

These figures show the growth in both markets has doubled for both eReaders and tablets since the previous year with the largest number of sales occurring around the holiday season. With no new iPad last year, this growth can be largely attributed to sales for both Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook devices.

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The Daily Roundup for February 23rd: Apogee Digital Graphic Novel Offers Interactivity and Gameplay, Graphicly Releases App For The Android, and Amazon’s Digital Delivery Fee Hits Digital Comic Publishers Hardest

by Digital Comic News on February 23, 2011

in The Daily Roundup

apogee digital graphic novel

Indy publisher, DigitalDuane, debuts new graphic novel, Apogee, which features animation, 3D, and gameplay for the iPad (Source: http://www.prweb.com)

Graphicly Releases New Digital Comics App For the Android (Source: http://www.businesswire.com/)

Columnist Todd Allen has a very interesting piece on Amazon’s “digital” delivery fee pricing policy which affects publishers selling their titles via the Kindle (Source:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/)

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