Interesting eBook Revolution development. Research In Motion (RIM) continues the BlackBerry PlayBook Tour, taking the device out into the market to pitch to users and allow for some face-time. The tour is a good idea since like most new technology, the hands-on experience seems to clinch the deal for early adopters and mainstream consumers alike. …
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May 02
Staples brings on the Tablets!
GottaBeMobile reports on Staple’s full adoption of the eBook Revolution and outlines the office supply giant’s embrace of the newest multifunction color tablets and eBook readers on the market. This kind of hands-on experience is the deal closer for consumers still reluctant about the relatively new technology and digital publishing trend.
Apr 26
Battle Heats up on the eBook Technology Front
The eBook Revolution promises an exciting year on the multimedia, full-color tablet front as Sony announces its plans to bring not one but two new tablet-devices to compete in the market that is currently being dominated by Apple iPad. Read the full story at BBC. Added to the arrival of Rearch In Motion’s PlayBook and …
Apr 25
Paper Purists versus the Digital Vanguard
A post at Bradenton.com in California reports on another front in the eBook Revolution where Book Club members start to show where their true loyalties lie. Passions build on both sides of the digital divide.
Apr 19
More rumors of an Amazon Kindle Tablet
The rumors continue about a possible Amazon Tablet device designed to take on the Apple iPad head-to-head. Here is a GottaBeMobile.com post that suggests that if Amazon is working toward such a eBook Revolution confrontation, then they’re the only ones capable of taking on the formidable teaming of iPad and iTunes.
Apr 16
Weekend eBook Revolution Headlines
LASER launches the EB700 multimedia eBook reader. Read the full PRWire post here. Ghacks.net says Martview is the best PDF eBook Reader. TopComputerTablets.com highlights the Amazon Kindle DX.
Apr 06
Amazon and Google Building a Super-Tablet?
Okay, all eBook Revolution news links aside, this is the first really exciting RUMOR we’ve had here in a long time! VideoGamingPros ramps up the discussion around the rumored Android-Kindle Tablet, by suggesting its development could be a joint-venture between Amazon and Google. All this from Amazon’s mysterious Lab 126 posting a notice “looking to …
Apr 05
J.K. Rowling considering a move to digital.
The Hollywood Reporter says Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling is getting ready to sign onto the eBook Revolution. She has giving lots of reasons in the past for dragging her feet, and now eBooks have given her about 100,000,000 reasons to get aboard. Now that post suggests Rowling’s involvement will change the eBook Revolution as …
Mar 29
As the Tablets arrive, the eBook Revolution prepares…
We’ve talked before about this year being HUGE for eBook reading tablets like iPad, ColorNOOK, PlayBook etc. as an army of competing devices begin landing in a heated eBook marketplace. Kevin Tofel at Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting take on the approaching full-color, multifunction mayhem.
Mar 27
Enhanced eBooks not selling…
Thanks Jorgen for this FutureBook story about the much-touted enhanced or interactive eBooks and their inability to gain ground against more traditional text on ePaper competitors. I think it’s too early to judge the long-term viability of these hybrids since the eBook Market is really only in its infancy, and the machinery is just coming …
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