The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
By Matt Hamblen | ComputerWorld As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device. LibreDigital Inc. is previewing its AllAccess content delivery platform to allow publishers, [...]
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By Kirk Biglione | MediaLoper Last week bookseller Barnes and Noble unveiled the nook, its long-awaited eReading device. Although ill-named, the nook is a worthy competitor to the kindle, offering a number of features not found on the Amazon device, including LendMe, a feature that allows for controlled sharing of ebooks. While the sharing feature [...]
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By Jason Perlow| zdnet The Barnes and Noble “nook”, which was launched earlier this month, is the real-life version of the “Kindroid” I envisioned one year ago. So now that it has been built for real, what do we do with it? A year ago, I posited that Amazon might do better with the kindle [...]
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Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble have announced on Tuesday that Plastic Logic’s Que e-Reader will be sold through Barnes & Noble’s retail stores and on B&N’s Web site in 2010. I hope you remember a short post two weeks back on this site titled, Que Reader From Plastic Logic: 8.5″X11″,Touch Screen, AT&T 3G, Wi-Fi, [...]
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A virginia-based company Entourage has announced a dual-screen e-reader+netbook. It acts as an e-reader, but also allows users to write notes or highlight text, send emails and instant messages, browse the Web, take pictures, record and play audio as well as video content. All this can be done simultaneously from a single platform that fosters [...]
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by Eric Nicolas | The Recent Future Remember back in the 1980s companies were making dedicated word processors that were a hybrid typewriter/computer approach? They were actually fairly popular until PC prices came down and made them redundant. Now, technology is approaching The Written Word from the opposite angle: reading. Before long companies will realize [...]
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Nobody has any hand-on experience of nook yet. No videos or review of nook is available except what B&N had already provided us. The website is not yet detail enough to get a complete idea about nook. B&N is far behind the marketing strategies when compared to amazon’s launch of kindle. Even though lot of [...]
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By Joe Wilcox | Betanews Yesterday, I excitedly preordered Barnes & Noble’s “nook” ebook reader. Today, I cancelled the order — and I’m none to happy about it. Why can’t Barnes & Noble learn from its past mistakes? The bookseller’s digital titles are way overpriced — at least compared to Amazon (Sony charges even more [...]
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There are so many, sometimes conflicting reports on nook. Since customers will get the device 4/5 weeks later from now, it’s urget to know what you’re exited about nook, and what not. For sure, nook opens up a new venue for e-books as a whole in such a hot and competitive market since it’s Andriod [...]
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Here are the reason from Gizmodo. I really like the points made here, and can’t wait to share those with you: cost-effective: $259 – same price as the kindle 2, but more features like Wi-Fi, native PDF support, an SD slot and the second screen. Lending and Sharing: nook integrates a 2-week lending period with [...]
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