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Mitch Ratcliffe is an American technology journalist, media consultant and blogger based in suburban Tacoma, Washington.

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Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here’s what I wrote about Steve Jobs’ ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Jobs,  Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  Sony,  IBM,  iRiver

Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million

Working from my previous estimate, 783,000 as of July 1, and building in unit volume growth of 60 percent—sales revenue gains in electronics in the U.S., $217 million higher in the first three quarters of 2009 than in 2008, seems to be driven heavily ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  23 Oct 2009

Mitch Ratcliffe: The Obama Time Capsule: A Participatory Book Breaks New Ground

Photographer Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt have broken new ground in publishing with what can best be described as "event books" as far back the early 1990s with their 24-hours books. Their latest, The Obama Time Capsule, sets the stage for a new ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, Huffington Post,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  John Edwards,  Hewlett-Packard,  John F. Kennedy

Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch

Platform expansion is the logical counter to new competition at the device level. Amazon, facing the introduction of BN.com’s Nook and other e-readers this week, has announced it will support reading of Kindle books on Windows 7, Vista and XP Service ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  22 Oct 2009

Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

Matt asked the question of William Lynch, president of Barnes & Noble on a press call this morning and got the clear answer: Nook Wi-Fi will work in stores and on Wi-Fi networks operated by third-parties and on home computer networks to allow shopping ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  Amazon.com,  New York Times Company,  Wall Street Journal

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook’s features, and the comparison offered by B&N to the $259 Amazon Kindle 2, ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  AT&T Inc.,  Google Inc.

AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame

Now the wireless providers hawking those Internet-enabled mobile devices are experiencing the digital equivalent of being proprietors of an all-you-can-eat buffet: It seems like the perfect business until the sumo wrestlers show up. Well, forgive us, ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission,  Randall Stephenson

Don't take my Moleskine notebook and Rotring pen

What’s the technology I’d least like to lose, the thing you’d have to pry from my cold dead fingers? Well, you will have to pry a Moleskine notebook and pen from my hands when I am dead. The Moleskine, a venerable notebook made by Moda & Moda of ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  24 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Moleskine

Why is Facebook whoring me out?

I’ve been pondering this note, sent to me by a friend on Facebook last week: Facebook needs to recode their ads… It’s one thing when the ad for singles waiting for me is accompanied by a picture of my lovely wife… Its another when the pic is Mitch ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  14 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Amazon on the record: Device limits set by publishers

I queried Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Books, at Amazon about the lack of clarity about how many devices can access a Kindle book or how many times a buyer can expect to download a title from the Kindle Store. He referred me to Drew Herdener, ...

From MITCH RATCLIFFE, ZDNet,  24 Jun 2009

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