Here is a link to Engadget.com (again, great job covering the launch!) where they get their hands on the Apple iPad and give it their ‘first look.’ Sounds like they are both impressed and disappointed. They’ve got a full video walkthrough too… The eBooks with the ‘flipping’ pages looks very cool, but it’s got to …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Jan 27
Apple Tablet (Pad or Slate?) Launches in minutes…
Here’s a link to live updates from CNNMoney. Apple is launching a ‘secret’ device that everyone believes is the rumored ‘tablet.’ This is touted as an eBook Revolution game changer. Here’s another link to the launch at Engadget. Check it out!
Jan 24
As we approach Apple Nirvana
Thanks again to Jorgen who dropped off this link to an excellent article at the Telegraph shaped around the notion that the rumored release of Apple’s Tablet on January 27 may be a way to end the onslaught of new hand-held devices and replace “our heaps of disorderly electronic debris with a single, all-purpose device, …
Jan 20
Newsstand in your Hand
Many thanks to Jorgen for a link this story at the TimesOnline about the future of digital publishing as it relates to the next generation of eReaders revealed by tech companies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Even though the first generation of early adopters are patiently waiting for their grayscale Kindles, Nooks, COOL-ERs …
Jan 19
Apple’s Being Coy, but this must be the Tablet!
CNN has a story here about Apple inviting the press to see ‘our latest creation’ at an event planned for January 27 in San Francisco, California. After a year of online rumors and claims about Apple’s legendary beast, the cocky devils neglected to use the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as their launch site, …
Jan 17
eBook buyer statistics…
Thanks Jorgen for a link to an article at Resourceshelf.com that features highlights from a survey conducted by the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) addressing how “print book buyers access, purchase and use e-books and e-readers.” Two things stood out. Apparently 30% of print book buyers will wait up to three months to purchase …
Jan 15
Will Amazon’s Kindle win or lose? Too many variables to call.
Thanks Jorgen for an article at ITWorld that suggests eBook Reader Kindle will die a slow death in a competition with the various tablets coming on the market, while parent company Amazon will gradually win the monopoly on actual eBook sales (the books/content). This, the article predicts, will be the result of a new world …
Jan 14
eBook Readers do well at the Consumer Electronics Show
As the dust settles on the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010, we’re starting to see these ‘best gadgets’ or ‘best product’ lists come out. eBook Readers and eReading Devices did exceptionally well over at The Huffington Post in Stephanie Vaughn Hapke’s “Top Eleven Products from the Show.” Check it out here. Exciting times ahead for …
Jan 12
The nook by Barnes & Noble grabs “Best Gadget” honor at the 3rd annual Crunchies Awards.
NewsBlaze says Barnes & Noble’s eBook Reading device the nook picked up the “Best Gadget” honor at the Crunchies Awards, a win previously captured by Apple iPhone in 2007. It’s just the shot in the arm the gadget needs after a shaky start over the holiday with last minute receipt as Christmas gift, slightly wonky software …
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