Thursday, July 28, 2011

eBook Reader Victim

eBook Reader Revolution
Dropped Borders

Borders, the largest bookstore in America has been set aside eBook Reader
eBook Reader Victim had just fallen. eBook Reader has changed its behavior and habit of buying books in America. Now the buyer does not need to go to the bookstore, but simply place an order e-book via the internet with a cheaper price, just do the down load and read the eBook Reader.

As a result, sales at bookstores continue to decline. Including customers and buyers of books in a network of America's largest bookstore, Borders Group, which has 1,000 stores in and outside the U.S..

Borders Group, founded in 1971, unable to bear the debts of over U.S. $ 1 billion and failed to anticipate the rapidly changing tastes of consumers, who now prefer electronic books or e-book

According to the details of The Christian Science Monitor, Borders has a large debt to a number of publishers. They include Penguin Putnam (U.S. $ 41.1 million), Hachette Book Group (U.S. $ 36.9 million), Simon & Schuster (U.S. $ 33.8 million), and Random House (U.S. $ 33.5 million).

Although Borders has assets of U.S. $ 1.275 billion, but has a debt of U.S. $ 1.293 billion.

Based on the decision of the bankruptcy court, since February 2011, Borders, based in the state of Michigan has closed more than 600 shop units. Until July 18, 2011, according to the daily USA Today, Borders still has 399 stores across the world and most are in the U.S.. But because there is no longer interested in acquiring, then all the stores began to close on July 22, 2011

By contrast, rival Borders, two large bookstore Amazon and Barnes & Noble are now increasingly doing book sales electronically. Amazon is known as an online book store had already changed and sell their books in ebook form. Then they produced the Kindle eBook Reader, customers need only have the eBook Reader, they got hundreds of free ebook.

Next to buying books, Amazon Kindle users can make purchases over the internet. Ebook prices far cheaper than conventional books. In addition, the owner of the ebook can save their ebook without requiring a large bookcase.

When compared with the process of buying a book that is performed offline, using eBook Reader is very effective and can save more cost, time and effort a person. Therefore, eBook Reader is currently booming.

Later certainly not the only bookstore that became victims eBook Reader, but also information products that are sold using graphics technologies such as newspapers and magazines. Furthermore, the printing industry also faces threats from the eBook Reader.

eBook Reader Revolution was carried out in accordance with the demands of modern society that prioritizes efficiency and moreover, the eBook Reader to make the book industry is no longer using paper made from plants.

eBook Reader is also very environmentally friendly, although also called cruel by some of his victims.
 
 
 

Kindle and Google versions

The images to the left, above, are of Kindle and Google versions of a book I ran across last week, when I was surprised at the price difference.
Google has this bio by Michael Munn for $14.72, while the Kindle price is $0.99

 
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