InformationWeek builds on yesterday’s announcement of the new Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet with a post comparing it with front runners Amazon’s Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad.
Nov 07
Barnes and Noble launches $249 Nook Tablet
Barnes and Noble launched its low-priced ($249)Â Nook Tablet at a press conference in New York this morning. CNNMoney says the new device is an upgrade to the popular B&N NookColor, a full color Android eBook Reader.
This move is clearly directed at the growing tablet market leader iPad and Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire.
This year’s holiday shopping season is going to be interesting.
Nov 05
Best eBook Readers Reviewed
BesteBookReaderReviews continues to narrow down the competition.
They’ve got some detailed analysis including pros and cons of the most popular eBook Readers on the market.
Take the jump to see who is topping the list, and why.
Nov 04
eBook Revolution News Headlines
Canadian Business ponders Kobo’s recent move into the hyper-competitive tablet market.
Marketwatch reports that One in Five Adults is now using eBooks.
CnetNews says that Amazon has now launched a free eBook browsing feature that allows Amazon Prime Members to ‘check out’ a Kindle book to read without any due date.
PluggedIn offers a list of the 10 best eBook Readers for the UK.
Nov 03
Barnes and Noble to launch new tablet.
Barnes and Noble is set to launch a new Tablet according to TabTimes (and others) after B&N called a news conference for November 7 in New York. This move was predicted the second Amazon’s cheaper ($199) Fire Tablet hit the market where B&N’s $249 NookColor had enjoyed debated top dog status for months.
Nov 02
eReader Gift Guide from Gottabemobile
With the holiday gift buying season fast approaching, GottaBemobile offers an eReader Gift Guide with some industry leaders you might want to put on your shopping list.
Nov 01
Google eBookstore for Canadians
Good news for Canadian eBook lovers. Google has opened the Google eBookstore for Canada. It has been a long time coming, but a quick look around shows the online search giant is hitting the ground running.
Oct 31
Toxic Reality Now Available!
Just in time for Halloween, author Katherine Tomlinson’s new fiction collection, Toxic Reality is now available in all formats on Smashwords as well as in Amazon.com’s kindle store.
“From cyanide and cannibalism to thought-provoking and heartrending stories to Craig List-esque killers and their curious mates and just downright creepiness, if you weren’t a fan of Katherine Tomlinson’s writing before this collection, you will be very soon.†–Christopher Grant, Editor/Publisher of A Twist Of Noir
“In Toxic Reality, Katherine Tomlinson proves that she’s an imaginative, masterful storyteller. She constructs realistic, likeable characters, drops them in desperate situations and watches them squirm. Her sharp sense of humor and gift for satisfying twist endings tie together this diverse and brilliant collection of crime tales.†– Chris Rhatigan, co-editor of the anthology Pulp Ink
Toxic Reality is the third collection of short fiction from Tomlinson, whose previous works include Just Another Day in Paradise, and L.A. Nocturne. Her work has been anthologized in Alt-Dead, Zombiefied, A Quiet Shelter There, and the upcoming Absolute Write speculative fiction collection.
A collection of 20 dark tales, Toxic Reality includes the Pushcart Prize nominee, “Water Sports†as well as stories that originally appeared in A Twist of Noir, Eaten Alive, Dark Valentine, and Clarity of Night.
Toxic Reality available for Amazon Kindle and Smashwords. Read some reviews of Toxic Reality.
Oct 30
Gunslingers versus the Living Dead in The Fifth Horseman
Looks like another Halloween treat from indie author G. Wells Taylor.
The Apocalypse Trilogy Goes Out with a Bang, Scream and Massacre.
The Apocalypse Trilogy by G. Wells Taylor gallops to its horrifying conclusion in The Fifth Horseman now available for download at online booksellers. This explosive mix of classic western storytelling and gothic horror delivers a terrifying and bloodstained final act to Taylor’s doomsday epic.
“Pandora City sits on the cattle trail north to Babylon. One day a wounded rider arrives with death stalking hard on his heels. The legends say that four horsemen will come to burn the earth and one will come to save it. So who is this rider? Over two centuries have passed since events chronicled in The Forsaken. Survivors have climbed out of the ruins and struggle to build a new life on the frontier of a dying world.”
Download the Apocalypse Trilogy Book Three: The Fifth Horseman for $3.99 at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony eBookstore, and  iBookstore where you can get Book One: When Graveyards Yawn for FREE and Book Two: The Forsaken for $3.99. Visit GWellsTaylor.com for links.
The Apocalypse Trilogy is a tale spanning centuries that weaves hard-boiled detectives, immortal children, zombie gangsters, angels, demons, and western gunslingers into a terrifying narrative of divine and human weakness set against a backdrop of decaying cities and radioactive wastelands.
(p.s. Notice he’s still got a free eBook there…jc!)
Oct 28
Kobo is getting into publishing.
Galleycat has a story about online bookseller Kobo getting into the book publishing business, all as it preps for the launch of its $199 Vox color tablet.
The international book seller will act like a traditional publishing house and do book editing, design, marketing, and sell the books.
It’s the Amazon model. Now let’s see if they’ll offer the Amazon 70% eBook royalty to entice authors aboard.
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