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A Kindle Store Visit

I popped into Amazon.com knowing that industry leaders would be sharing the wealth right? We’ve been over the Kindle Wireless Reading Device here. So here’s a brief overview of  Kindle Books: I found some fairly sensible prices: New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer (Kindle Edition – Aug 8, 2007) – Kindle …

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Amazon.com’s Kindle Store

A pricing expedition to Amazon.com’s Kindle Store yielded interesting results. More soon…

eBookwise – 1150 eBook Reading device

The eBookwise-1150 eBook Reading Device from eBookwise, (a fictionwise company) is certainly priced to sell. At $115.95 with free U.S. shipping, it looks like a nice starter unit at first pass. It has a backlit screen, and from the image provided is reminiscent of those old handheld video games. So, it’s anybody’s guess how that …

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Happy New Year!

Here’s a great way to start 2009. An eReader that lists for under $150.00! I stumbled on it while researching eBook prices at Fictionwise. More on the story shortly.

Barnes and Noble’s eBook Store is Closed

I took it for granted that every modern bookseller would be moving into the eBook market by now. I visited Barnes and Noble to dig around their digital book bag and see how they’re pricing eBooks. (I know Amazon.com’s over there breathing heavily, but they’re so integrated with KINDLE it’s hard to mention one without …

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First Stop: ebooks.com

I was hoping to start some serious conversations about eBook pricing, so I began my research digging around a bit over at ebooks.com and focused a search on fantasy and scifi, thinking those readers would be most likely to dig reading eBooks in the first place.

Merry Christmas from eBookrumors.com!

In keeping with the season, I’m doing a virtual shop over the holidays. I’ll be checking out eBook specs at online eBook stores and posting my findings over the next few days. Feel free to add your own experiences. If you know any good places to check out, let me know. Remember, I’m looking for reasonably priced eBooks! …

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The Kindle Post

Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device    A quick check at Amazon shows it’s sold out, as usual; but that doesn’t really mean much when you figure that Amazon.com says the same thing about Print-on-demand books that they never stock. I think what they mean is they’re saying “Sold Out” until they get enough orders to …

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Sony eBook Reader

I’m a reader, and like everybody else I can see that times are changing for one of the oldest, user friendly technologies  we’ve got.  BOOKS! And that being the case, encouraged by dwindling paperback selection in stores and rising prices, it’s clear to me that Ebooks or eBooks or e-books or Digital Books or whatever …

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