The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
After Amazon announced its new set of Kindles we didn’t hear anything from its competitors like B&N. However, it was well-known at that time that B&N will announce a new Nook Color in the early November. And now we know the announcement is coming on November 7. In preparation of that B&N is going to [...]
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Amazon has announced Kindle lending library. The purpose of the library to make Kindle owners capable to borrow ebooks from kindle store. According to Amazon: With an Amazon prime membership, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free – including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers – [...]
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Kindle Touch – both wifi and 3G – is expected to be released November 21, and a lot of people are excited to have multi-touch ereader from Amazon. While Amazon has added new features (with touch Kindles)like X-Ray (a new feature that lets customers explore the “bones of the book.” With a single tap, readers [...]
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There are now five different variants of Kindle available on Amazon Kindle Store. While Amazon website has a great details regarding each models, they are not enough to compare the models so easily due to scattered information – little bit here, little bit there. I’ve tried to compile the information pointing to the differences between [...]
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Amazon has just rolled out a new firmware update version 3.3 for all Kindle Keyboards (aka Kindle 3). Here is the detail about the new update. You might know by now that each and every Kindle owner has 5GB personal document storage on your Kindle account. You could email any document to your Kindle account [...]
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Kindle textbooks can be rented for a period typically between 30 and 360 days, providing the flexibility to pay only for the amount of time you need with a book. You don’t have to own Kindle or Kindle Fire to rent eTextbook. You can use free Kindle reading apps for your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, [...]
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Amazon has recently introduced ‘Kindle Daily Deals’. Under the deals, Amazon offers everyday one ebook at a very high discount. However, sometimes these deals are not available for Kindle owners in other countries. This makes international Kindle owners unhappy. Amazon doesn’t mention whether the specific deal is U.S.-only or not. Customers get frustrated when they [...]
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Amazon has released a new software update for new Wifi Kindle. Apparently, new Kindle wifi is being shipped with software version 4.0. The new upgrade version is 4.0.1. Click here for information on the new upgrade, and instructions. According to Amazon: Kindle features fast, smooth page turns that do not refresh the E Ink display [...]
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That’s the talking point in one of the thread on Kindle discussion forum. Apparently the discussion stared after a blog post Tom’s Hardware. According to the blog, low price comes at the cost of lower quality screen. See the quality in picture. Tom mentions: We called up E Ink Corporation to ask if this was [...]
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Amazon has launched French Kindle Store, and the new French Kindle wifi is available for pre-order. No words yet regarding other models of Kindle yet. The price is EUR 99, which is equivalent to US$130. This is not ads supported one. That’s for U.S. only. However, non-ad supported U.S. kindle wifi is only US$109. In [...]
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