Focusing ebooks and ereaders
7+7 Reasons Why eReaders are Lousy+ Great Gifts This Year?
Mike Elgan from ComputerWorld writes 7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year. In counter, Lance Ulanoff from PCmag writes 7 Reasons Why eReaders Make Great Gifts This Year. The following table shows the main points from these two authors:
Why Lousy?
Why Great?
We’re on the brink of radical change in how people read e-books
Form [...]
Finally, B&N Will Allow Gift Cards For eBook Purchases on Nook and Other Devices From mid-December
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, through nook, [...]
You Don’t Need a Kindle 2 / Kindle DX To Read e-books, May Be You Need An Asus EEEPC Tablet
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 [...]
e-books Overtook Games in iPhone App Store: A Blowout Answer to Steve Jobs – “People Don’t Read Anymore”
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 don’t [...]
Gizmodo Australia Reports e-books are Disappearing from Kindle Store
Gizmodo Australiahas published a very disheatening piece for Australian kindle lovers or prospective kindle buyers:
…..there seems to be something happening with publishers pulling out of the kindle Store – or at least the Australian store.
“The first book I purchased for the kindle was Raymond Feist’s Krondor: The Betrayal. It’s the first book in a collection [...]
Where Are One Million Nook e-books? I Kind of Got Them, But………..
As soon as B&N announced nook stating that over one million e-books were available downloadable including Google Books for nook, people got puzzled trying to find out where are those books. I even tried to find the actual number of e-books available on B&N’s e-book site. Unlike amazon, B&N’s cataloging of e-books seems little weird. [...]
Australian Publishers Rejects Kindle, Likely to Accept Apple Slate As Apple & Amazon Follow Opposite Revenue Sharing Models
The Sydney Morning Herald published a report back in August quoting Fairfax’s director of marketing and newspaper sales, Robert Whitehead: “Their business model represents a very unattractive partnership deal for newspaper publishers” since Amazon keeps 70% of the revenue. Today the Daily reports another news titled “Apple shops tablet around Australia” detailing that Apple has [...]
e-Reader + NetBook: Entourage Edge: e-Ink + LCD – Dual Screen
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 [...]
Kindle for PC Coming Soon, Kindle for Mac Later
Amazon was always reluctant releasing any desktop software to read kindle books. Now after B&N’s announcement of nook Amazon has taken some steps to make kindle more competitive and friendly by cutting the price of international kindle and announcing kindle for PC very soon. Here is the list what you can do with kindle for [...]
Gizmodo Loves Nook for 8 Reasons
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 friends. And [...]
NOOK: B&N e-book Reader Confirmed by WSJ
The WSJ has received a full page ad on B&N’s new e-reader nook to be published on October 25. The ad will also be published the NYT Book Review section. The WSJ confirms that it’s a dual screen as we saw in the pictures leaked. It’s touchscreen. You can download e-books wireless. And the price [...]
Google to Launch Online e-booksore
When?
In the first half of 2010.
Will there be a dedicated Google e-book device?
No.
What format?
It’ll be Google edition. Anybody can can read e-books with any device with a Web browser capability including PCs, Netbooks, and smartphones.
What about iphone?
Apple iPhone users could access the e-books through their Gmail accounts.
What kind of e-books?
Google will sell [...]
Why Canada & New Zealand are Missing Kindle? Whispernet is not the Issue
I recently came across this blog entry from New Zeland. People are upsate and angry on amazon’s policy and not even explaining why these countries are missing from the amazon list. And finally found that Fiji got kindle, but there is no contract with any mobile carrier in Fiji. Then I checked the amazon website [...]
What You Need to Know Before You Order an International Kindle
kindle is now internation. It’s available for pre-order now for 100+ countries. While the price price of kindle has been slashed down to US$259, that’s not applicable for international kindle. U.S. kindle wouldn’t be able to connect wispernet while you’re travelling foreign countries. The international kindle is capable of connecting both U.S. and other coutries [...]
Apple Tablet Due in February 2010, Price $800-$1000
This is from Taiwan Economic News reported by 9t05mac: The tablet PC features a 9.6-inch screen, finger-touch function and built-in HSPDA (high speed download packet access) module, and adopts a P.A. SEMI processor chip and long lasting battery pack, selling for between US$799 and US$999. DynaPack International Technology Corp. has been exclusively contracted to supply [...]
Jetbook Lite for $149.95