The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
Reuters4:31 p.m. CDT, April 12, 2012U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc. debuted an e-reader on Thursday with a screen that can glow in the dark, a move aimed at improving its position against Amazon.com.The 6-inch (15-cm) touch-screen devic…
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Amazon.com, still in bitter rivalry with Apple over their competing e-book and application store businesses, has struck back by today announcing an in-app purchasing service, allowing Amazon Appstore developers to offer digital subscriptions and c…
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David Coldewey at TechCrunchcaught a glimpse of the future. The new e-Ink Kindle will apparently let you finally read in the dark without the help of extra lighting:The device I saw was crudely camouflaged in a sort of cardboard enclosure, but the scre…
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Screenshot of Jeff Bezos’ Letter at amazon.deOn Tuesday, Amazon announced wide international availability for its Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G e-readers. Beginning on April 27, with preorders available now, Amazon will ship its top-end E-Ink reade…
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GETTY IMAGESI received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying “light reading,” in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names o…
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When you look at the kindle edition of books on Amazon.com, you can now see what other people have highlighted in their editions of the ebook. This means you can now have a fabulous way to share what you’re learning and a socially-generated way to lear…
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Amazon has released a major update to its Kindle iOS app today that will let it take advantage ofthe new iPad’s Retina Display, fixing an issue some reviewers brought up regarding blurry text on earlier versions of the app.The Kindle version …
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Reader Jason Alcock alerts us to another example of a company taking a backwards approach to value-added services by putting artificial restrictions on their content. Apparently, while ebooks from the popular publisher Penguin are available t…
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If you check out a Kindle book, you may notice that some are limited to transfer via USB only.This is due to restrictions publishers have placed on their titles. At the moment (February 2012), Penguin is the publisher that has chosen this limitation fo…
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I have a confession to make: despite having reviewed a few e-readers, and having written dozens of articles about them, I’ve never really used one. I mean, I’ve used them enough to know a good one from a bad one, to understand the features, and to do a…
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