Amazon says sales of e-books outweighs Sales of paper books

Since April 1, every 100 printed books sold, Amazon.com sells 105 titles for the Kindle, its e-book reader, in the United States. The information was released on Thursday by the online retailer. The statistics exclude free downloads.

In addition, Amazon.com - which began as online bookstore in 1995 - says it sold three times as many books for the Kindle in 2011 than the same period in 2010. The Kindle was launched in 2007 and according to Amazon, sales of hardcover books had been superseded in July 2010 by electronic titles, but six months after the paperback books (paperback) became the most popular format for sale.

Now, says Amazon, selling titles for the Kindle surpasses the sales of all printed books (hardcover and paperback) combined, and the bill does not include free books available for Kindle. In the UK store, Amazon says that the purchase of titles for the Kindle is the proportion of "over 2" for a hardback.

Last month, Amazon launched a new Kindle for $ 114, $ 25 cheaper. The new version of the mobile display advertising and is surpassing the other versions.

Kindle competes in sales of digital books with Nook, Barnes & Noble and iPad, Apple. The Kindle was launched in 2007 and so far the unit is made specifically for reading books that had the best sales.

Barnes & Noble will host an event on Tuesday of next week in New York to present their new electronic reader. Last month, Barnes & Noble unveiled improvements to its Nook Color.

Amazon works in Hollywood, tablet with 4 cores

Amazon is preparing two tablets and more sophisticated than the simplistic Kindle to face the omnipresent and oniscente iPad market. Although no date for reaching the shelves, the models should have the (large) differential competitive performance with powerful Nvidia processors properly installed under the hood.

The entry model for now is known as Coyote and should be equipped with a chip based on the current (and decentíssima) Tegra platform 2. Already the sire of the crop goes by the code name of Hollywood and will be based on Nvidia platform T30 "Kal El", with no fewer than four cores that enable performance "500% superior " to current models.

Last week, the executive Jeff Bezos called the press to "stay connected" on the news that his company would present slates for the market, noting that "never stop serving those who want dedicated devices for reading, " but that Amazon is "open to other possibilities. "

Speculations indicate that the devices have screens "at least " 10 inches, will run Android and allow your users to stream music and videos over the network, and allow rental content.

Amazon's servers Used For attack on Sony, says paper

Amazon's servers used to provide outsourced cloud computing  that would have been used in attacks against Sony and its PSN early this month, tells the Bloomberg news network.

Amazon Web Services LogoDe according to an anonymous source, the bandits used false information to rent Amazon EC2 servers and use them to attack the network game of the Japanese company, which mostly fallen and is still no date for return to the air. By the time the investigation into the case is going on  "secret", but Sony says that the attacks it   suffered were "very professional, carefully planned and highly sophisticated. "

The account used to trigger the attacks have already been suspended by eBay, which had no immediate comment. Sony now says it will "continue working with the authorities about the situation" but declined to touch it.

Used by companies like Netflix, Amazon EC2 servers generated U.S. $ 500 million ($ 816) to its parent in 2010, or only 1.5% of the total gains from sales on the web giant, which earned U.S. $ 34 , 2 billion (U.S. $ 54 billion) last year.