Aug 24

As if We Didn’t Know the Wii Was Selling Well…

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This article was written on December 27, 2007 by CyberNet.

Wii Money If you tried to hunt down a Wii this holiday season there is a good chance that you walked away empty handed and with a pounding migraine. The Wii is essentially a money printing machine for both retailers and Nintendo, but a nightmare for consumers who were trying to find one for their kids.

Amazon just published a press release outlining some of the stats from the holiday season. The busiest day was on December 10th where 5.4 million items were ordered…that’s 62.5 items per second! And guess what, when they had Wii’s in stock those were flying off the shelves at an amazing 17 units per second. If you tried to call up one of your friends to let them know that Amazon had Wii’s in stock, about 250 of them would have been sold by the time you dialed and your friend answered. Every 5 minutes that they had Wii’s in stock equates to over 5,000 units. And you wonder why they were so darn hard to find!

Amazon posted a lot of other stats as well, but many of them were not all that interesting. One that did catch my attention was that they shipped 160,000 packages to APO/FPO addresses, which are army/military addresses.

Congrats to you if somehow you managed to snag a Wii this holiday season!

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Aug 21

PS3 Slim shipping on August 26th, says Amazon

Posted in: amazon, playstation 3, Playstation3, pre-order, PreOrder, ps3, sony, Today's Chili

It looks like there might be a trend brewing among products with nondescript September release windows coming out in August instead — first with Apple, and now with Sony. Supply shortages or no, Amazon’s telling those who pre-ordered the PlayStation 3 Slim the first day it was announced should expect to have their consoles in-hand on Wednesday, August 26th, almost a whole week before the new month begins. Delivery estimates are subject to change, of course, but Amazon’s not one to typically screw around with shipping confirmations. Any other early adopters received confirmations lately?

[Thanks, Devin!]

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Aug 21

Amazon says PS3 Slim already facing supply shortages, Sony disagrees

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Been holding off on that PS3 Slim pre-order, waiting for Sony to tell you that this whole PS2 backwards compatibility issue was just a big misunderstanding, and of course Sony will keep trying its best to reintroduce PS2 compatibility into the PS3? Well, you might want to rethink that strategy, cowboy, because Amazon is warning of “shortages of this product across the US.” It’s already limiting Slim sales to one per person, and has a more lax five-Slims-per-person strategy in the UK. Meanwhile, Sony in Europe is saying not to worry, since it has “trucks and trailers” of the new console already on the road . We just don’t know who to believe these days, but if you’re not prepared to wait past September 1st for a crack at the Slim, you’ve got some deciding to do.

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Aug 21

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo unite against Google Books

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Microsoft, its new pet dog Yahoo, and Amazon have decided to join together in the soon to be formed Open Book Alliance. You might expect this to be a revolutionary new collaborative effort at delivering the written word in a way that makes Google Books pale into insignificance, but you would, of course, be wrong. Far from trying to compete with Google, The OBA is set to act as the collective mouthpiece for all those opposed to Google’s recent $125 million settlement deal with book publishers and authors. With the US Department of Justice already investigating antitrust concerns relating to the case, the other big dogs just couldn’t restrain themselves from pitching in together for a united whinge. Should the settlement be cleared, it will permit Google non-exclusive rights to orphan works (those without an established writer) and will give it a 30 per cent cut of books sold via Google Books, both things that authors have agreed to. So what’s there to moan about, fellas — we all trust Google to do the right thing, right?

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Aug 19

Apple sells 25% of music in the US, none of which is AC/DC

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According to the number crunchers at NPD Group, the trend that came to a head last year when Apple beat out Wal-Mart for the title of largest Stateside music retailer is continuing apace. That’s right — one in four songs sold in America is sold on iTunes, while Wal-Mart (including CD sales through retail stores, sales through their website, and Wal-Mart Music Downloads) holds the number two position at 14 percent. And number three, if you’re morbidly curious, is Best Buy. In addition, 69% of all digital music sold in the US comes from the iTunes store, with Amazon ranking second at 8 percent. When talking formats, the CD remains the most popular at 65 percent, but as some dude named Russ Crupnick (NPD’s vice president of entertainment industry analysis) notes, “with digital music sales growing at 15 to 20 percent, and CDs falling by an equal proportion, digital music sales will nearly equal CD sales by the end of 2010.” Which can only be a good thing, if it means that we’ll never have to step into a Wal-Mart again. Sales of ringtones and sales to consumers under 13 were not tabulated, which means the data may incorrectly skew away from purchases of The Wiggles’ Go Bananas! and that Crazy Frog song.

[Via TUAW]

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Aug 13

Sony Agrees to eBook Standard

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Amazon is quickly becoming the Apple of the e-book world, and Sony seems to be quietly hatching plans from second place, in order to unseat the king. One option is freeing up e-book from the DRM they come saddled with. The company announced yesterday that it would be adopted ePub, a book publishing open-standard pushed by companies like Random House and HarperCollins.

“There is going to be a proliferation of different reading devices, with different features and capabilities and prices for a different set of consumer requirements,” Sony’s president of digital reading Steve Haber told The New York Times. “If people are going to this e-book shopping mall, they are going to want to shop at all the stores, and not just be required to shop at one store.”

Sony will adopt the standard by the end of the year. Amazon, for its part, is looking to take on the industry by itself, without any such standards. It’s good to be king.

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Aug 11

Amazon Makes Zune HD Pricing Almost Official

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Zune HD prices at Amazon.JPGAmazon has placed the Zune HD upon its Web pages, giving the MP3 player’s prices and capacity points the stamp of authenticity.

The Web page currently lists the Zune HD at $219.99 for a 16-Gbyte option and $289.99 for the 32-Gbyte “platinum” option. Clicking on the individual product pages, unfortunately, returns a “page not found” error message. However, most of the player’s details have already been disclosed.

An official launch date has not been set, although reports have speculated that the date will be somewhere between Sept. 5 and Sept. 8.

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Aug 10

Best Buy lists Zune HD at $220 for 16GB, $290 for 32GB, coming September 8th

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It hasn’t been long at all since we saw Zune HD make its FCC debut, and now Gizmodo’s gotten ahold of what looks to be screenshots from Best Buy’s inventory system listing 16GB and 32GB Zune HD models going on sale September 8th for $220 and $290, respectively. Retailers don’t necessarily have the best track record for release dates or pricing, and while Best Buy’s inventory pricing is in fact notoriously wrong prior to release, it’s usually way high. As for the date, it certainly falls within the Fall 2009 window we’ve heard before, but if it’s really less than a month away, rest assured Microsoft will be flexing some advertising muscle in the not-too-distant future.

Update: Looks like Amazon now has its listing up as well, albeit a non-functional one. [Via ZuneSpring]

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Aug 08

How would you change Amazon’s Kindle DX?

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You didn’t have to read much of our recent Kindle DX review to get a handle on our opinions of the super-sized e-reader, but as you’ve likely gleaned from the headline, this one’s not about us. Instead, we’re asking you to chime in with your take on this here device during this week’s How Would You Change. Did you really gain anything from the larger screen? Have you found it useful in your line of work / education? Are you down on the keyboard? Given Amazon’s history, we can’t imagine that the DX will stay in this form forever, and listen, wouldn’t you want to have a say in what gets changed on Revision B? Drop your most intimate thoughts on the matter below — who knows, maybe Sir Bezos is tuning in just to cash in on your two pennies.

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Aug 05

Move Over Kindle: Sony Launching Cheap New eBook Readers

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Sony is hitting back against the Kindle this week with the launch of two new eBook readers shipping at the end of the month. The most enticing part about the devices? The cheap price tag. The Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition are priced at $199 and $299, respectively.

Both devices have 512MB of built-in memory, get roughly two weeks of battery life (roughly 7,500 page turns), and ship with a protective sleeve and USB. Neither are wireless, but both support the eBook Store from Sony, which has access to more than one million free public domain books courtesy of Google.

The Reader Pocket Edition has a 5-inch screen and comes in blue, rose, and silver. The Reader Touch Edition features a 6-inch touch screen and ports for Memory Stick PRO Duo and SD card media. It will come in red, black and silver.

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