The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
abcnews TechBytes reports that three million of eReaders have been sold this year alone. There is a video report as well with the news that you can watch on the site. The report mentions about kindle, sony reader, and nook which is yet to reach in the hands of eBook lovers.It reports: Convenience doesn’t come [...]
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Another tablet using Android OS – 8.9″ LCD touch display, file management coverflow, video book capability like Vook, wi-fi, 3G, bluetooth, web browsing, open office installed. It’s called Mirror. Mike Cane has a good review. Here is what the company says about mirror: With 8’9 large touch screen to provide a comfort reading experience. It [...]
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Yes, that true. We’ve found already the demonstration of Spring Design’s Alex as an eBook reader with built-in web-brower has dual screen one is eInk and other one is LCD touch screen. There are two other models we recently discovered – those are not specific to eReading like the iPhone/iPodTouch. Yes, still people are reading [...]
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Here is the worddss from B&N’s Unbound: eReading Blog: More good news on the eBook front: We’ll soon accept Barnes & Noble gift cards as payment in our eBook store. This change — effective in mid-December — will allow customers to use physical gift cards and online gift certificates to purchase eBooks through our site, [...]
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We’ve so many discussion on blogsphere regarding the closed ecosystem of eBook readers available in the market now. kindle, nook, Sony reader – all of them are closed system. Once you buy one of them you’re stuck with specific formats delivered to the device and the notorious DRM make you heavily rely on the specific [...]
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Instapaper, the famous bookmarking tool for kindle has already rolled out, but now still you can read your preferred blogs on kindle through USB transfer. Additionally, it now offers content in ePub format since many readers like Sony Reader supports ePub. TechCrunch reports the problem with Instapaper kindle support: There were a number of problems [...]
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The company, ICD, has announced a big iPodTouch-like device with mutitouch screen based on Android OS. I don’t what will happen to this device if Apple really come out with the mysterious device called Apple Slate. The Vega looks similar to iPodTouch with big screen. It’s a multimedia device, but can be used as an [...]
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Gearlong got a hands on enTourage eDGe ebook Reader recently. We have posted some news on this device few days back under the title: e-Reader + NetBook: Entourage Edge: e-Ink + LCD – Dual Screen. Here is a recap: It supports e-books in PDF and EPUB format and take notes or draw diagrams for easy [...]
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With the release of kindle for PC (kindle for Mac coming soon) you don’t need a kindle or iphone/ipodtouch to buy kindle e-books from amazon. If you travel a lot, and love to read novels for a long time a $259 kindle 2 price is now better; but if you need to read a lot [...]
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Can you remember what Steve Jobs once said about book-reading?: It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people [...]
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