Thanks to Jorgen for this link to FutureBook.com and a story that explains the negative impact of the agency model for pricing eBooks, and how it’s set to help publishers and nobody else. Hey, that just leaves readers and writers out in the cold, which is a setup that dragged traditional publishing into the sewer. …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Sep 22
The eBook Market Continues to Prep for Christmas
Back in July we mentioned Borders selling the Aluratek eBook Reader Pro for $120. Well, they’ve now dropped the price of the Aluratek Reader to just $99. Check out the specifics at Borders here. Its exclusive Reflective Light LCD Screen Technology is not the E Ink display used by industry leaders Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Sony, but …
Sep 21
More Expensive Kindle 3’s for Canadian eBook Revolutionaries…
There’s a great Vancouver Sun article about the price of Kindles for our Canadian friends. Looks like they’re not going to enjoy the recent Amazon Kindle 3 price drop to $139 WiFi and $189 3G versions in the same way that their American cousins can. Because they have to order direct from Amazon.com rather than …
Sep 20
Tablets, Printers, eBooks and Bandits!
Hewlett-Packard is taking things to a new level offering a $399 all-in-one Photosmart eStation that includes a web-browsing tablet. The tablet comes with WiFi and 7-inch diagonal screen pre-loaded with Barnes and Noble eBookstore, Facebook and music player among other Apps. Read the Seattle Times post for pictures and video here. And, our friend Jorgen …
Sep 19
Blio – Free eReader launches September 28
We talked about the Blio eReader platform way back in January when it was announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics show. Now Singularity Hub says Blio creator K-NFB announced the September 28 release of the long-awaited Free eReading program that they’re calling a game changer. The full color Windows software allows you to read books …
Sep 17
Full Color eBook Reader: the Sharper Image Literati
PCMag.com introduces us to the Sharper Image Literati, a full color eBook Reader that will be out in December at more than 7,000 locations including Macy’s, Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s and many, many more for a rumored price of $159. PCMag writer David Pierce reports on his time with the 7-inch LCD Literati here. More fantastic …
Sep 16
eBook Market is Hot. eReading is Cool!
Misty Harris of PostMedia News has a story at the Montreal Gazette that makes some suggestions about the future of the eBook Revolution, nails down some interesting motivations for the move to digital publishing and gives solid reasons for the resurgence of reading in a time when 3-D movies and television stand poised to spoon feed us art, entertainment and …
Sep 15
Amazon Kindle Takes Jab at Apple iPad in New Commercial
Nice to see some friendly competition. Check out the video below. The eBook Revolution is coming of age.
Sep 14
Kindle Quality Issues Raised at ZDNet
Jorgen dropped off a link to a ZDNet story about the quality of eBooks available for the Amazon Kindle. While I think the criticisms in the piece apply specifically to technical and graphic-dependent texts, they can be applied to the greater mainstream fiction titles as well. The ‘re-flowable’ text form that makes the Kindle (and other …
Sep 13
A good argument for eBook Readers in schools.
Here’s a link to a NYDailyNews.com story that successfully argues the case (to me anyway) in favor of school boards supplying eBook readers to students. On the practical side, the kids won’t have to lug those big textbooks around, but by employing digital technology, the textbooks could be constantly updated and kept current. (So the …
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