Category: eReaders

Machines that read eBooks, Business eDocuments, ePapers, etc.

Slow news day at eBook Rumors…

Honestly, other than a few stories about people debating copyright (yawn) and digital rights management (when will they learn?) it seems to be a slow news day for the eBook Revolution. After a week of exciting KINDLE DX mania…what can we expect? Announcements are definitely in the pipe. And rumors suggest something is coming from …

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Sony Building a Bigger eBook Reader?

Of course, we knew this would happen… all that giant Kindle talk, and now Sony’s rumored to have a bigger (and color version) of its eBook Reader in development. Read the full story here at techradar.com. On a more original note, Sony is releasing a Danielle Steele Special Edition Reader. The story’s here at slashgear.com. …

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More on Paying for Web Content

It seems every time Amazon does something with Kindle, we get a bunch of new eReaders jumping onto the market, and the debate over copyright and paying for content flares up again. I can understand why they’re talking about it all over the news and here at CNN.  KINDLE DX is ‘perfect’ for displaying large format content …

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And the Competitors Storm into the Breach

Amazon’s Kindle DX is sweet, but overpriced. (How many times will we have to pay for the same R&D.) Predictably, the other kids on the block step in to steal a bit of thunder. Sony is making its eReaders available to purchase online through BestBuy.ca and Futureshop.ca. Check out the press release here. This is a …

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KINDLE DX is COMING…

So Amazon is releasing a very expensive and somewhat larger version of their Kindle tricked out to read magazines and newspapers as well as eBooks. Okay. It looks beautiful. Nice piece of technology. Read the story about the announcement at CNNMoney here. The Kindle DX features: 9″ screen, a built-in PDF reader, enhanced Internet navigation, storage for up to …

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More Heat in the Kitchen!

There’s a rumor that Amazon is getting ready to release a large format Kindle (roughly letter-sized), maybe this week, designed to handle newspaper and magazine-sized displays. Read the full story here at the New York Times. Kindle 2 already offers some specially formatted news feeds, but lacks the display ad capability that is integral to …

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Rumbling from the Apple Orchard has the Amazon trembling.

Click here to read this story at Powerpage.org about Apple’s rumored iPhone Lite release this summer. We’ve all heard the whispers about Apple gearing up to enter the eBook market. There has been talk of an Apple Tablet or “Mediapad” as described in the article, and now this, a thinner, stripped down iPhone with a …

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Automotive tires and eReaders…makes sense… Now give it a name!

This is an amazing piece of machinery from Bridgestone (the tire makers, yah…). Read about the 13-inch color e-paper display that handles pen input at Engadget.com here. There’s a quick YouTube video link that’s worth seeing where the guy writes right on the screen. Very cool. Maybe it takes a tire company to come up …

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More Consumer Control from Amazon

Someone please tell me how the behavior of this ‘legitimate’ corporate entity is more benevolent, more creator and consumer sensitive than the torrent services offered at Pirate Bay? Interesting story follows  exposing Amazon’s ulterior motives for Digital Rights Management and their Whispernet. I think we’ve all dated a control-freak like this. The story follows an individual …

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Amazon owns Mobipocket.

Now keep that in mind as you read this story at The Daily News Online here. Amazon owns Mobipocket. In this story the tech writer fails to mention that Amazon owns Mobipocket, another huge online eBook sales company. But the reporter asks whether Kindle Reader software for iPhone will be good for Amazon? Missing from …

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