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Barnes & Noble unveils largest ebookstore
Book retailer partners with Plastic Logic and Google to take on rival Amazon.
The world's largest bookseller has taken the wraps off the world's largest e-bookstore. Barnes & Noble (BN) announced yesterday the availability of more than 700,000 digital e-books, along with free e-reader software for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Mac and PC platforms. "It's a unique every-device strategy," said William Lynch, president of BN.com in a conference call.
The strategy is MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Jul 21, 2009 8:00 AM ET -
Sega head: Industry stunned by Activision/Vivendi merger
By Jeffrey M. O'Brien
On one level, the proposed $18.8 billion merger of Activision (ATVI) and Vivendi's Blizzard Entertainment (EPA:VIV) seems to make a lot of sense. Good mergers maximize revenue by combining non-overlapping products (like the Guitar Hero Franchise, Tony Hawk, and the World of Warcraft phenomenon), and maximize profits by consolidating administrative costs. But in an industry like gaming, there's an X factor, creativity. Sure, these companies fit MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Dec 3, 2007 11:12 PM ET -
Nintendo hires Yahoo marketing chief, gears up for Q4
By Jeffrey M. O'Brien
Gaming powerhouse Nintendo (NTDOY) announced late last week a revamping of its Nintendo of America marketing department. Out go SVP of marketing George Harrison and VP of marketing Perrin Kaplan. In come the former head of marketing at Yahoo (YHOO), Cammie Dunaway, and Shigeyuki Takahashi, the former head of Nintendo Research. Dunaway will serve as EVP of sales & marketing, reporting to NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime, aka MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Oct 30, 2007 3:15 PM ET
Jeffrey O'Brien joined the San Francisco bureau of FORTUNE in June 2006 as a senior editor covering the intersection of science, technology, culture, and business. From 1999-2006, he was a senior editor at Wired magazine. As a writer, his work has been anthologized in The Best of Technology Writing 2007 and in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2005. As an editor, his features have been featured in The Best American Science Writing 2006, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, and The Best Technology Writing 2006. He is also the recipient of a Jesse H. Neal Award for editing best single issue, which he earned in 1998 as the editor of Marketing Computers (Adweek). O'Brien is a graduate of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and was a 2006 Templeton fellow in science & religion at the University of Cambridge (UK).
