Amazon Makes It Easier to Give E-Books as Gifts

While it probably should have done this long ago, Amazon will now let you send an e-book to anyone, Kindle owner or not. The online retail giant’s move is aimed at undermining a similar one by rival Kobo — and shows how hard i…

Is Apple Using Gift Cards to Prop Up a Sagging iBookstore?

Sales of e-books on Apple’s iBookstore have made “barely a blip” in the digital book market. Will its new iBooks gift cards help to change this — or will customers continue to use apps to allow them to read Amazon and Barnes …

Research In Motion Tablet Computer to Sell for Less Than $500

Research In Motion (RIMM) will sell its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer in North America with a price tag of less than $500.

“The product will be very competitively priced,” Co-CEO Jim Balsillie told Bloomberg News. Balsillie declined to be more specific on the price.

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RIM hopes that the price tag will help give the BlackBerry Playbook an edge over Apple’s (AAPL) iPad, an early…

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