Jul 15
The International Business Times says Sony plans to launch a new line of updated eBook Readers to replace their aging line of dependable but expensive machines.
These new devices (at least two on the way) will come to the U.S. market in August priced between $180 and $300.
Jul 14
The Wall Street Journal says people ‘familiar with the matter’ have confirmed that Amazon is indeed launching a tablet to compete head to head with the Apple iPad over digital content (eBooks, music, movies, games, etc.). Competition is nothing new to the tech giants but open warfare over the tablet computer market promises to be bloody.
Of course, with industries that seem to be forever growing and evolving, there will be lots of room for winners.
Jul 13
ABC has a post and video on Google’s new $139 eBook Reader that comes fully integrated with Google eBooks’ massive online library. The device goes on sale this Sunday.
ITProPortal also offers a post on the Google Story eBook Reader.
GMANewsOnline has more on the new Google device.
Jul 12
Google will launch its own E Ink eBook Reader called the Story HD that will be the first device fully-integrated with the online giant’s vast Google eBookstore.
More on the Story at MailOnline.com.
Jul 12
Jul 11
The Guardian.co.uk’s Robert McCrum takes a sane and sober look at the state of the eBook Revolution and suggests that the sky is not falling after all. There will always be books.
Jul 10
Check out the Gadgeteer’s detailed review of the Nextbook Next6 Tablet.
This Android-powered device wants to be a competitor to industry leaders iPad and NookColor but the reviewer thinks the device promises more than it delivers.
Jul 09
Click over to TechNewsDaily where they offer a how-to list on choosing the best eBook Reader for you.
Jul 08
Straight.com posted on the interesting trend among converts to the eBook Revolution toward purchasing genre fiction. Long relegated to the back of the book store, it now looks like fantasy, science fiction, horror and romance are fueling the explosion in eBook sales.
Despite the fact that genre fiction is responsible for blockbuster movies, television and game spin offs, the traditional publishing industry had a habit of sneering at anything with swords, fangs or rockets, while pushing the literary titles that garnered press in the larger newspapers and were deemed rank-worth by bestseller lists.
Unbelievably, this trend led to genre authors becoming the literary equivalent of buried treasure, forcing fans to dig around for their favorite tales and titles.
Jul 07
Many thanks to Jorgen for this link to a story at phillyBlurbs about the ongoing discontent surrounding HarperCollins’ arbitrary decision to limit eBook checkouts to 26 before the library has to repurchase it. Here a Philadelphia library activist protests this blatant cash grab with a petition bearing over 69,115 signatures.
