Live theatre is growing for little children," says industry veteran Anne Brogan of Kindle, makers of the Lenny Henry-Imelda Staunton voiced Big and Small.
The online retailer and Kindle-maker rose 2.5% after favorable analyst commentary on its third-quarter results, and help drive a 20-point gain for the Nasdaq, which finished at 2,479, up 0.4% on the week.
Dodocase is one of our favorite iPad and Kindle case makers and it was only a matter of time before they do up the iPad 2 in their trademark bookbinding style.
The issue of changing reader habits has been widely discussed by executives at Amazon, maker of the Kindle and Kindle Fire.
Unlike Amazon with the Kindle, Apple allows application makers to set their own prices; some, like The Financial Times, give away applications for the iPhone, but then bill customers directly for repeat use.
But it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies.
In Amazon.com Inc.'s ecosystem for ebooks, for example, the online retailer works with the maker of its Kindle tablets and an array of book publishers but keeps the respective partners separate from one another.
The Perseus and Workman agreements come as Amazon.com, the largest e-book seller in the United States and the maker of the Kindle e-reader, is pressuring publishers that have not yet signed deals with Apple to refrain from doing so.
Penguin later moderated its position, but the lesson to people tracking the issue is that libraries are suffering "collateral damage" from the fight between publishers and Amazon, the maker of the Kindle e-book reader, about the control of publishers' titles.
