Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

BestBuy To Sell B&N’s Nook +++

Barnes & Noble is on the move with the Nook, it’s eReader.  B&N has announced they will start to sell the Nook in Best Buy stores and BestBuy.com starting on April 18.
The +++ of the story is that Best Buy will feature the BN eReader software/app on PCs, netbooks, tablets and smartphones through its stores [...]

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Amazon Kindle To Offer Apps

Amazon has announced that later this year the Kindle Store will start featuring active content produced by developers who can suggest their own prices.
The Kindle Development Kit  is already in use by a small group of developers including Electronic Arts and Handmark, which is building a Zagat app.  Amazon is looking to expand this base [...]

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Innovative Models Gaining For Books

The book market is pretty traditional and staid, though there are many innovations that are occurring on the ways authors publish, books are distributed and the trading models for books.
The Kindle is one of the most revolutionary devices that is on the market and has great promise.  The promise of eBooks had been on the horizon [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

New Kindle Launches Tomorrow

I am a Kindle Fan.  I have posted about the Kindle often here.  Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe even picked up on my enthusiasm for the Kindle in his weekly column a few months back.
I used to love my Kindle too…until my wife adopted it.  Glad it is getting some good use.
One of my only [...]

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

iPhone + Kindle: Uniting Two Stars Today

Amazon has launched the Kindle application on the iPhone (and iTouch) today.  I know this for sure as I already downloaded it first thing this morning.  What a great way to start the day!
All 240,000-plus titles are available on the smaller devices which is nice.  What I think is really great though is that Amazon [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The Internet’s 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains

The Internet’s been around in some form for decades. It wasn’t until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together — and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up.
I bet you are thinking Google, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo…throw in some oldies like Lycos, Excite, GeoCities, Tripod…forget about it.  We are [...]

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Jeff Bennett Blog November ‘08 Posts

Here is quick review of November posts on Jeff Bennett Blog:
1. Gas @ $1.73/Gallon
2. KindleBoards.Com Emerges As Social Community
3. The Hess Toy Truck Is Back
4. Turkey Day Football Fitchburg Beats Leominster In Overtime
5. Jeff Bennett Blog Adds Groundswell To Recommended Reading
6. Targeted Social Media The Big Opportunity
7. Happy [...]

Friday, November 28th, 2008

KindleBoards.Com Emerges As Social Community

The Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary product for the next generation of book publishing and reading. As an early adopter I can attest that the products functionality is great and the library of titles is expanding rapidly. Some say this is next iPod and I think they are right.
The web has now [...]