Sep 05
PC&TechAuthority reports that eReader display king E Ink is in partnership with an unnamed company that plans to bring a full color E Ink device to the market by Christmas.
The potential for such a machine to open up the eReader market to magazines and comics is obvious, and does an end-run around open competition with tablets.
Now the question is: Who’s the unnamed partner?
A full-color E Ink Kindle eBook Reader might be the perfect addition to Amazon’s planned launch of a Kindle tablet.
Sep 04
TechRadar has a hands-on review of Sony’s new WiFi PRS-T1 Reader. You’ll find specifications and pictures after the leap.
It looks like Sony’s finally going to mark some territory in the wireless eReader market.
Sep 02
Techland posted a rumor that the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 tablet is going to drop below the $200 price point. This 7-inch Android 2.3 machine may fall short of the iPad’s multifunction, but at under half the price it might be the perfect tablet for early adopters or the tablet-curious.
At $199 the IdeaPad is bound to deliver. This is just the sort of thing the tablet market needs as the front runners begin to position themselves for an eBook and tablet-crazy holiday buying season.
This kind of thinking is bound to impact the much anticipated Amazon Tablet’s pricing, too.
Sep 01
eBookNewser reports that Sony has confirmed the upcoming release of their new PRS-T1 eReader. The new device slated to hit the market in October comes equipped with Pearl E-ink screen, WiFi and 2GB Flash storage with a free pre-installed Harry Potter eBook among others.
Priced to start at $149 in the U.S. this affordable device stands to make Sony’s venture in the eBook Revolution a more sustainable enterprise.
Aug 31
Sony has launched its new tablets making good on its claim to challenge the Apple iPad for market supremacy. Check out the guardian story here.
Aug 31
Friends at Broadband Service Providers stopped by with a list of 10 different ways to read an eBook without an eReader.
There are more options than might expect.
Aug 30
eBookNewser posted on a prediction by Forrester Research that Amazon could sell as many as 3 to 5-million tablets in 2011. The device is rumored to hit the market for the holiday buying season with a price in the $250-$300 range.
Aug 29
Many thanks to our friend Jorgen for a link to a Telegraph post on the new enhanced eBooks that are starting to appear on the market.
Can you imagine reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” with “rain, thunderclaps and blood-curdling screams” supplied.
It will be interesting to see if this is a white elephant in the making.
Aug 28
GoodeReader offers a comparison of Tablet and eBook Reader demographics.
Aug 27
Stephen King will soon release his novella Mile 81 in eBook form only.
As this GoodeReader story points out, he’s already done this with his Kindle short story UR, but the fact that he’s testing the waters once again is bound to be giving his publisher Simon & Schuster some sleepless nights.
They’re involved with the promotion and delivery of Mile 81, but King is testing the waters with some social media experiments of his own. It’s not a big step from there to publishing them himself.
