GalleyCat has a story about Sony upping the ante in the eReader price war by breaking the $100 barrier on its PRS-505/LC. The members-only offer at Books-A-Million sold out within hours. Read the story here. True enough, we missed the special, but can another be far behind? Keep your eyes peeled and your credit cards …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Jul 12
Digital Textbooks: The Affordable Future
The Daytona Beach News-Journal has an excellent story about the eBook Revolution’s impact on post-secondary education, suggesting students in the near future will be paying one-fifth the current text book costs. This welcome digital development comes at a time when traditional ‘paper’ textbook costs are soaring to as much as $1,000 per student per year.
Jul 10
FoxNews Reviews the Kindle DX
Amazon’s rebooted Kindle DX doesn’t just come with a $100 drop in price to $379. (That was the price for the original Kindle…) They’ve also added some improvements. This FoxNews review takes a look at Amazon’s biggest eBook Reader. There’s video too!
Jul 08
Borders Goes for Device Neutral eBook Dominance
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a story at The Tech Herald that also has the whole Internet buzzing. American Book retailing giant Borders is banking on a multi-platform approach with their new Borders eBook store that will be supported by its Kobo eReader, PC and Mac computers, Apple’s iPad (iEtc.), BlackBerry, Android smartphones and …
Jul 06
Maturity (or Wisdom?) Driving the eBook Revolution
Here’s a Philadelphia Inquirer story where digital publishing industry analysts suggest the majority of eBook Reader owners (up to 66 percent) are older than 40 with a ‘sweet spot’ group of consumers aged 35-54 developing into a powerful market force. A full set of statistics has yet to be produced, but these early predictions make a lot …
Jul 04
eBook Reader Review
Top Ten Reviews has a list of the eBook Readers leading the pack halfway through 2010. They’ve got it pretty well laid out for quick comparison, and while I notice Kobo eReader is conspicuously absent, it’s still worth a glance if you’re planning to enter the eBook Revolution.
Jul 03
Kindle DX Drops to $379!
I know that $379 is still a big bite for a lot of us, but seeing Amazon drop the price of its larger format Kindle DX from $489 to $379 is an encouraging note following some dramatic price wrangling between the leading eBook Readers: Kobo eReader, nook and Kindle 2… This story at The Tech …
Jun 28
iPad offers more than the iBookstore.
ZDNet’s Jason Perlow gives us a complete rundown of eBook Reading APPs available for Apple’s iPad in a post entitled “Apple iPad Showdown: Battle of the eReader Apps.” A very thorough article and a must-read for iPad or iPhone users. The iBookstore is not the only game in town.
Jun 27
Book Bloggers’ Stock on the Rise?
The Los Angeles Times’ Carolyn Kellogg reports on those venerable Internet pioneers, book bloggers, finally getting their day in the sun as their ‘vibrant’ online communities start to catch the eye of traditional publishers eager to use the platform for promoting new releases. Read the article here.
Jun 26
Que ProReader Missing in Action?
eWeek has a post that suggests the long-awaited Plastic Logic Que ProReader may be held back from release once again. (Actually, it’s taking so long to launch that pre-orders are starting to cancel out.) I agree with the article and think that this is a response to a brand new marketplace, the arrival of the …
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