Barnes And Noble Reveals Nook Tablet

November 10, 2011

Not to be upstaged by the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire, brick and mortar retailer Barnes and Noble has unveiled its Nook Tablet PC. Unveiled on Monday, the appropriately named Nook Tablet should be giving Amazon a run for its money, as it competes closely with the behemoth on every front, save for price (at $249, [...]

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Will eReaders Kill Bookstores?

November 7, 2011

The question is more one of tradition and culture than it is of technology. Certainly, eBooks are superior to paper books in terms of reproduction cost, convenience, and ease of access, but the concept of a bookstore goes far beyond that. It serves as a bastion of literacy and a community hub, much as a [...]

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Amazon Has Its Own eBook Library

November 3, 2011

In an effort to differentiate itself from the competition, Amazon has unveiled its own eBook library that will allow Kindle users that are also Amazon Prime members to “borrow” a book a month from the retailers library of 5,000 titles. However, this system will only work with Kindles and the Fire tablet PC, and not [...]

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Ereaders Actually Get (Slightly) Heavier WIth Each Book You Upload. Seriously.

October 25, 2011

Ok, so you won’t be able to feel the difference, but there is a VERY small one. Despite the fact that ebooks are just digital collections of one and zeros, scientists at Cal Berkeley have determined that your ereader will get slightly heavier every time you upload a book, due to the arrangement of electrons [...]

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Ebook Sales Lag The US In European And Other Markets

October 19, 2011

Why is that? Isn’t an eBook just as convenient if it’s written in French than if it’s written in English?
The fact is that electronics in general are more expensive in many markets than they are in the US. As such, they haven’t fallen in price the way they have here. Higher price means less sales, [...]

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How To Download Free eBooks

October 16, 2011

Legally. “How to Download Free eBooks…LEGALLY.”
Take note, eBook readers, there is something in the works called Project Gutenberg that aims to digitize all works in the public domain, for the taking. All of Shakespeare’s plays, Jane Austen’s works, and anything else that’s over 100 years old is free for the taking. The only problem is [...]

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Kindle WhisperSync Goes After Apple’s iCloud

October 14, 2011

While Apple’s iCloud was much ballyhooed a few months ago, many people overlook that Amazon had a similar service offering since the release of its first Kindle. WhisperSync allows users to pick up and run with whatever ebook they happen to be reading on any device. In fact, they not only get access to it, [...]

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Amazon Reveals Some Black Friday Clues

October 10, 2011

Amazon revealed a few changes this week to its Personal Documents feature which allows you to store and view (but not really edit) non-book documents on your ereader. It used to be that if you needed work done on your Kindle for any reason, under warranty, then you had to send in your old one, [...]

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As Expected, eReaders Getting Cheaper And Cheaper

October 6, 2011

The prices of eReaders keep falling and falling, as now Amazon has offered two Kindles that allow entry-level customers to by in at less than $100. I would think that it’s only a matter of time before companies start giving these things away just like cell phones so that users will be beholden to their [...]

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Barnes & Noble Dropping Its Blackberry App

October 1, 2011

Well, bad news if you were reading Barnes & Noble eBooks on your Blackberry. Bad news for a number of reasons, actually. First of all, your eyes probably look like raisins after having to read a whole book on that tiny screen. Secondly, you don’t even get to do that anymore, as the book retailer [...]

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What Is Kobo’s ‘Vox’ Ereader?

September 27, 2011

Kobo has had to work harder than a lot of its competition (Kindle, iPad, Nook, etc) in recent months, due to the fact that its retail partner/parent Borders has shut down widely across the country, resulting in lower visibility for the product.
So how do you fix that? Unveil a new product that is shrouded in [...]

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Kobo Pulse Brings Social Media To Ereaders

September 23, 2011

Today Kobo unveiled a social media component to its platform that I just don’t understand. Kobo Pulse was announced to give every page of every book you’re reading a “pulse” which lets you know how many people are reading that same page you are and how many people enjoy it. Should you want to, you [...]

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What’s The Kobo Vox?

September 20, 2011

Well, it’s getting harder and harder to surprise the tech world with eReader developments. People seem to have a pretty good sense of what new iterations from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Borders are going to look like and what features they’re going to have.
Vox is latin for “voice,” so is there a chance that [...]

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Shatterproof eReader To Replace Textbooks?

September 13, 2011

In many public and even private schools around the country, textbooks are bassed down from class to class in the name of budgetary constraints, which may preclude the integration of eReaders into grade and high school classrooms.
However, a shatterproof eReader could be durable enough to pass down from class to class, making eReaders a viable [...]

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Sony Drops The World’s Lightest eReader, The Reader Wi-Fi

September 8, 2011

Well, in case those leaden Kindles, Kobos, and Nooks were causing you arm fatigue, take heed: Sony’s Reader Wi-Fi is now the lightest reader on the market, coming in at only 168 grams for a 6-inch model.
Other than that, don’t expect a whole lot of revolutionary features and add-ons to the Reader Wi-Fi.
Unless you’re a [...]

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