{"id":5002,"date":"2010-04-02T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:45:59","slug":"amazon-e-book-sales-boost-by-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/02\/amazon-e-book-sales-boost-by-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon e-book sales boost by iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5026\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/iPad-and-Steve-Jobs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"iPad and Steve Jobs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Apple is looking for a chunk of the growing e-books market as it rolls out the iPod, and some publishers like Penguin are\u00a0<a title=\"cutting deals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/article\/20100401\/FREE\/100409996\" target=\"_blank\">cutting deals <\/a>to dump sales via\u00a0Amazon.\u00a0 But the iPad doesn&#8217;t have Apple&#8217;s iBook software preinstalled, so readers can just as easily choose Amazon&#8217;s Kindle app.\u00a0 School of Management Prof. <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chair of the Information Systems Department, says Amazon can benefit from iPad sales.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;[Amazon] has always maintained that e-books and devices are separate businesses with no cross-subsidization. If that is truly the case, Amazon\u2019s e-book business should see iPad as a boon to enlarge their set of potential consumers. The real area of friction will be when the same books are sold at differential prices on the two stores.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is looking for a chunk of the growing e-books market as it rolls out the iPod, and some publishers like Penguin are\u00a0cutting deals to dump sales via\u00a0Amazon.\u00a0 But the iPad doesn&#8217;t have Apple&#8217;s iBook software preinstalled, so readers can just as easily choose Amazon&#8217;s Kindle app.\u00a0 School of Management Prof. N. Venkat Venkatraman, chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1559,1119,2387,2595,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}