PocketGamer.biz reports on a recent survey that September sales of eBooks and reading applications at the Apple App Store beat game sales for the first time. Read the story here. You know as the eBook Revolution goes into high gear, I’m hearing from more and more eBook readers who have been reading the classics on their …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Nov 02
COOL GADGET! But will it help with gas mileage?
I won’t go on too much about this, check it out on Crave at Cnetnews. I just love the scifi lines on this ride. Bridgestone, the tire maker (surprised?), is developing a flexible eReading device. We talked about a reader from Bridgestone before, but this one looks quite different from the eReader in that article. I …
Oct 31
HORROR AUTHOR TERRIFIES PUBLISHERS THIS HALLOWEEN WITH FAIR eBOOK PRICES!
This one’s fun for the end of October… I just put up the whole press release because I like his thinking, yah? There’s a contest for a FREE SONY eBOOK READER too! Here’s the link. TORONTO, ONTARIO – (Oct. 31/09) Horror author G. Wells Taylor hopes to shake things up in the exploding eBook marketplace …
Oct 29
$149 eBook Reader from ECTACO
Bookseller.com has a story about a new eBook Reader that’s hitting the eBook Revolution at $149 (US). It’s maker, ECTACO, is declaring it the cheapest eReading machine on the market. The jetBook-Lite uses four AA batteries and promises 23 hours of continuous reading. On top of that it works with Barnes and Noble eBook store, and …
Oct 27
Are eBooks cooler to read that books?
I’m sure it’s more than that, I really am; but the Telegraph.co.uk reports a spike in library membership since those staid old institutions started offering eBook downloads. Thanks to Jorgen for this link to a story about libraries that had been bemoaning a decline in membership suddenly marking increased interest in digital books and media. Only …
Oct 26
enTourage eDGe DualBook Reader/Netbook
Okay, in the “keep a cool gadget a secret” department I give you the enTourage eDGe DualBook Reader / Netbook. Check it out at its homepage. So, am I the last to hear about this thing? A very cool machine with an E Ink display on one side and a 1024 X 600 pixel color touchscreen on …
Oct 24
E Ink teams with Freescale for Integrated Processor Development
Thanks to Jorgen for stopping in with this link. The writing’s a trifle technical, but it promises enormous potential for designers in the way of innovation for product development. As the release explains: “Collaboration between [these] market leaders [will] speed eBook evolution and enable new product categories.” Read the full release here. It’s that product …
Oct 22
The NOOK continued…
It’s only fair to keep talking about Barnes and Noble‘s new eBook Reader, the Nook. We burned up a lot of net time on the Kindle, after all. This link from Jorgen (thanks) that takes us to an excellent display set at engaget.com. Lots of pictures, even video. Well worth a look. All this excitement, and …
Oct 21
Introducing Barnes and Noble’s “Nook”
The Barnes and Noble eBook Reader the “Nook” was launched yesterday at a 4 p.m news conference in Manhattan. Read the play by play on The New York Times Technology page here. At $259 it’s priced to compete with Kindle, also priced at $259. (That’s a missed opportunity… $239 would have sold a million of them and made …
Oct 20
Global Kindle Finally Out of the Gates!
Amazon is shaking off those dreams of market monopoly, smelling the coffee and realizing there are some real world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand ambitions. Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read here at Channel Web for a story about the global Kindle’s migration to one hundred countries with …
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