Kindle users may soon enjoy lower prices on eBooks thanks to a new antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department. The government challenges the legality of the Agency model. Introduced in 2011, this is the reason that some books on Amazon say, “This price was set by the publisher”. Typically books priced by the [...]
If all the buzz around The Hunger Games has you interested, you can download all three books in The Hunger Games Trilogy for just $3 to read on your smartphone or tablet. The Hunger Games movies took in 70 million on opening weekend and is sweeping the nation, but as always I recommend checking out [...]
For those who correctly think that Amazon’s Kindle Fire is just part of a bigger strategy instead of those who narrowly think it’s all about hardware in the trumped up for the headlines Kindle Fire/iPad 2 fight, this might be some confirming news. Amazon has released an iPad optimized website for Kindle Content. No, it’s [...]
Finally! Only two weeks before Christmas Barnes and Noble finally gives gift givers what they need: the ability to gift Nook books and apps. You can’t delay delivery of said content until a later date, so you still have the slight inconvenience of buying right on the day of to maintain the surprise. Still, they’re [...]
Amazon’s new $79 Kindle 4 brings reading eBooks to a lot more people thanks to a nice smaller design and a great price. The upgrade cuts a few features like audio and a physical keyboard in order to hit that price and slim it down. Most people won’t miss them. The smaller, lightweight design makes [...]
At their long-awaited tablet announcement, Amazon unveiled their new Amazon Kindle Touch. The Touch is a touch e-ink book reader for $99 with no keyboard, but rather an infrared touch screen which allows you to quickly turn pages and interact with your eBooks or periodicals on-screen instead of the old buttons the current generation device includes. [...]
So far, digital books, or e-books, are only available to users on an a la carte basis, meaning that they pay per book title. However, that may change if Amazon can sway publishers into allowing users to rent books utilizing a premium subscription model similar to what Netflix employs for movies and TV shows. There [...]
Your MacBook Air can already read eBooks, but with a handy screen orientation app you can flip your MacBook Air on its side for a more booklike reading experience. The MacBook Air or MacBook Pro 13 may look awkward while held in portrait mode, but if you are sitting in a big comfy chair the portrait orientation [...]
With Father’s Day right around the corner we wanted to give you a look at the hottest Father’s Day gifts for dad’s that love technology, gadgets, cameras and more. Dad doesn’t need to be a geek to appreciate these incredibly cool Father’s Day gifts, but it will help. You can head over to Notebooks.com for the full [...]
There’s been chatter that Barnes & Noble is getting ready to introduce a second-generation e-ink-based Nook electronic reader to replace the original Nook. The new e-ink reader would be released help Barnes & Noble better compete against Amazon’s Kindle 3, which offers a newer, better electronic ink display that’s even easier on the eyes with [...]
Everybody wants a piece of the eBook action. Yesterday we saw the great price drop for the Amazon Kindle and the Nook. Today we’re seeing Borders announce the availability of its eBook reading app for the iPad and the iPhone. From what I’m reading the Borders app doesn’t come with the syncing function that we [...]
Asus took the wraps off of its eBook Reader called the Asus DR-900 at CeBit. Joining an increasingly crowded field, (with technology that might actually be yesterday’s news within a year or so) the DR-900 has a 9 inch display. The e-Ink device supports PDF, ePub and HTML formats on the 1024 x 768 res [...]
Thinking about using that new iPad at the beach this summer? The folks at TrendyDigital have a few iPad and eBook accessories they’re hoping you’ll find useful. Among them is their new waterproof case that has been specifically designed for the iPad, Kindle, or Nook. A reasonable $19.99 can get your very own water-resistant pouch [...]
Yikes! Plastic Logic is unveiling its QUE eBook Reader at CES2010, trying to position it as business class device calling it a “paperless briefcase.” Well the initial pricing certainly is aiming at a class of individuals used to writing off expenses. Try a whopping $800 for a 8GB version. A 4GB version is $649. Now [...]
Barnes & Noble continues with a both feet in to the deep end approach to the eBook market saying that it will not only have the Nook available in stores, but the Plastic Logic QUE on shelves as well. There’s a catch though. B&N will not be stocking the digital eBook Readers in every store. [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Barnes & Noble will be releasing its own e-Reader in time for the holidays. The Barnes & Noble device is rumored to have a 6″ multi-touch display that’s manufactured by E-Ink Corp. A Gizmodo blogger’s talked to a source that claims to be developing software for the Barnes [...]
The NY Times published an article that asks if books will be “Napsterized.” RapidShare is a major distributor of pirated eBooks and the company doesn’t seem to mind all that much. In 1997 I was in college and remember the birth of illegal music sharing. A few students used applications like Hotline to download music [...]
Sony dropped a new ebook reader today, rounding out their line by hitting three sweet spots – affordability and portability, touchscreen navigation, and now mobile connectivity with extra-wide viewability – with the Pocket, Touch, and now Daily Editions of the Sony Reader, respectively. Sadly, you can’t get the best features of all three in one, [...]
We’ve got a lot of wars going on. Browser wars. OS Wars. Various Hardware Wars. Mobile Wars. You name it, everyone is competing with everyone else to try and grab your dollars. The eBook Wars are really beginning to heat up and everyone has their sights on Amazon and its Kindle. Barnes & Noble ratcheted [...]
We caught up with the Samsung Papyrus ebook reader at CES2009, (although no one in the Samsung booth seemed to know anything about it at the time) and thought it looked like an interesting entry into that category. Check out Rob’s video here. It looks like Samsung is getting ready to roll the Papyrus out [...]
Color e-books are indeed coming. Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories Limtiedhas announced the first color e-paper mobile terminal called the FLEPia. It is available for purchase now in Japan. It has an 8 inch high definition display capable of showing up to 260,000 colors. It comes with Bluetooth and WiFi radios and supposedly will run [...]
There is nothing like getting a sweet gadget snatched from your hands – one minute I had a Kindle 2, the next minute it was gone, gone, gone. Fortunately, Amazon quickly stepped in to save my broken heart and shipped me a replacement Kindle 2, which arrived just minutes ago. Checkout this GBM Shortcut where [...]
The big Amazon Kindle 2 press conference is going on right now – but you can go ahead and order yours now for $359. They start shipping on February 24. Original Kindle owners get first priority, too, if they order by midnight PST February 10th! New features: 3G – no monthly fees, no contracts, no [...]
Wanna get an Amazon Kindle, but having trouble ponying up the $359 or waiting the estimated 13 weeks for a new one? Well, you can now get a refurbished Kindle for the low, low price of $329! That’s right, a whopping $30 savings. The refurbished section is not showing any available right now, but keep [...]
Whether you’re a fan of Oprah or not, you might want to check out Friday’s episode. Tomorrow Oprah will reveal to the masses her favorite gadget. She describes this gadget in this promo video as “life changing,” “the most amazing thing,” and “the wave of the future.” Here are a few guesses what her favorite [...]
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