Foreign Rights Directors in France: The Advantages of Being Foreign. Barnes & Noble Reports Q2 Net Loss Of $6.6M, Says NOOK Is Now A $220 Million Business. Barnes & Noble this morning reported sales and earnings for its second quarter ended October 29, 2011, and they’re a mixed bag. Total sales decreased slightly, from $1.9 billion to $1.89 billion, compared to the prior year. The company posted a net loss of $6.6 million for the quarter, or $0.17 per share, as compared to a net loss of $12.6 million last year. This is below Wall Street expectations.
Physical book sales declined, Barnes & Noble says, offset by increases in NOOK products and positively affected by the liquidation of the remaining Borders stores. BN.com sales, meanwhile, increased a decent 17 percent over the prior year, from $177 million to $206 million. Zooming in on its NOOK business, Barnes & Noble boasted about the successful kick-off for its NOOK Tablet.
The $249 device was introduced on November 7, 2011. Says William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble: “We expect to sell millions of devices during our third quarter, adding to the millions of current NOOK customers.” ScholarVox Live. One in Four Starbucks Transactions Now Done Via Mobile. Starbucks customers apparently are finding buying via mobile as addictive as the company's coffee.
Less than a year after Starbucks launched an app that allows mobile payments, it has hosted 26 million such transactions on iOS, BlackBerry and Android, according to the chain. One in four Starbucks card transactions is now executed via a Starbucks card and a portion of those are done through mobile. The mobile-payments initiative has built momentum recently: In the nine weeks after it was released, there were 3 million transactions.
But in the past nine weeks, there have been 6 million, says Adam Brotman, SVP and general manager of Starbucks. He adds that New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and San Jose, Calif., are the top cities by volume for mobile purchases. Brotman declined to say exactly how many people had downloaded the app, except that it's in the "millions. " Starbucks presented the stats to emphasize its contention that 2011 was the "year of mobile" for the company. La révolution des réseaux sociaux continue. Une... | Curiosités. Comparatif de 23 tablettes tactiles disponibles en France pour Noël. Intro De quoi y voir vraiment clair et choisir en toute sérénité la tablette (ou les tablettes !)
Que vous allez pouvoir acheter en cette fin d’année 2015. De 5,5 à 12 pouces sous Windows, Android ou iOS … Quelle tablette acheter ? Voici notre comparatif ! Dernière mise à jour : 24/11/2015 Vous connaissez d’ores et déjà notre guide d’achat pour connaître les 6 critères pour bien choisir votre tablette tactile, notre sélection et coups de coeur des meilleurs tablettes tactiles, voici pour continuer à vous aider des tableaux récapitulatifs mettant en comparaison 45 tablettes tactiles disponibles en France pour les fêtes de fin d’année. Sommaire Méthodologie : devant la multiplication du nombre de modèles de tablettes, nous avons choisi de sélectionner 1 tablette par marque (en 7/8 pouces et en 9/10 pouces). Comment utiliser ce comparatif ? Il n’y a pas vraiment de bonnes et de mauvaises méthodes pour utiliser ce comparatif mais vous pouvez l’utiliser en définissant :
Web Publishing's Next Level. We're not out of the woods yet, but Web publishing is starting to hit its stride. Product offerings are getting smarter, prices are getting better and, most importantly, the content is getting more interesting. We might not even be half way to the future of publishing yet, but the industry is picking up steam. There are new ways to read, new ways to write and new ways to advertise. Publishing is a rapidly changing high-tech business now, so the tools change the content and vice versa. New Ways of Reading Reading was the first thing that had to change before the business of Web publishing could change. BBC.com conducted an interesting study of tablet users this year, which showed that the hands-on interface provides users with a sense of control.
Ten-inch tablets are a fine way to view a website, but new kinds of interfaces can better take advantage of the touchscreen (and lack of physical keyboard). Flipboard is a celebrated example, and it also just launched an iPhone version. 4 ways DRM is like airport security - O'Reilly Radar. While flying home from Bologna for our TOC event I couldn't help but think about some of the similarities between digital rights management (DRM) and airport security. Here are a few common points that come to mind: False sense of security -- Seriously, does anyone today still believe any DRM system is hackerproof? Heck, even books that have never been legally distributed in any e-format are out there as illegal downloads. Just Bing the phrase "harry potter ebook downloads" and you'll see what I mean.
Scanners are everywhere, so if physical books can be illegally shared what makes you think a DRM'd title will never appear in the wild? On the airline side, I feel like we're always focusing on the last attack (e.g., underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc.) and not focusing instead on what the next idiot will try.Treats everyone like a criminal -- It's hard not feeling like a convict when you're going through airport security or coming back through immigration/customs. Comment créer un ePub. Writer2ePub, offrez l’export ePub à OpenOffice. Avis à tous les utilisateurs d’OpenOffice, voici un plugin qui pourrait vous intéresser ! En nous lisant régulièrement, vous savez parfaitement que le standard de l’édition numérique est l’ePub. Cependant, pour le grand public, ces caractéristiques restent un peu obscures et les outils pour concevoir facilement des fichiers dans ce format ne courent pas les rues. Certains d’entre eux sont aussi très onéreux, notamment la suite InDesign, employée par un bon nombre d’éditeurs.
Alors comment faire un ePub sans dépenser un centime ? Tout d’abord, téléchargez OpenOffice si vous ne l’avez pas puis il vous faudra récupérer le plugin Writer2ePub. Pour télécharger Writer2ePub, il suffit de télécharger le plugin à cette adresse. At least 70 Tablets to Be Shown at Consumer Electronics Show - Analysts. Personal computers in slate form-factor will clearly become a new product category and will have a huge share of the PC market in 2011, according to various analysts. While the exact share cannot be estimated precisely, the amount of different tablet models to be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show does impress.
At least 69 tablets from various manufacturers will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show next week, Craig Ellis, an analyst with Caris & Company investment firm said in a note to clients, reports Tech Trader Daily. So far the analyst predicts that there will be 18 Intel Atom-based slates, 14 Nvidia Tegra-based tablets, 10 Freescale Semiconductor-powered devices as well as 6 slates with a system-on-chip (SoCs) from Texas Instruments shown at the CES. Other tablets are projected to feature SoCs from Marvell, Qualcomm and others. "Intel still needs to come out with its 32nm Medfield chip to be viewed as a 'winner' rather than just a contender," wrote Mr. Close. What's next for e-readers: a Mirasol in the making? | CES 2011. At last year's CES, the e-reader product a lot of people were talking about didn't exist. It was a concept from Mirasol, a Qualcomm-backed company that was showing off its screen technology in a prototype unit.
Mirasol's screen caught people's attention for a few reasons. For starters, it was color. Secondly, its high-tech reflective display technology was not only energy-efficient but readable in direct sunlight. And finally, it was capable of displaying full-motion video. Marrying the best of what e-ink had to offer with some of the strengths of LCD, it looked a lot like the Holy Grail for e-readers and potentially other portable devices. In August, word went out that Qualcomm was building a new factory to produce Mirasol displays at a cost of $2 billion. Qualcomm may very well be building a Mirasol factory, but a commercially available Mirasol e-reader didn't turn up in 2010, with the company sticking to its plan of licensing its technology rather than manufacturing its own hardware.