The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
Amazon is head-to-head with B&N again in regards to pricing of ereaders. B&N has just announced Nook Tablet at $249 – a $50 higher price tag but with double the size of the RAM and internal storage. Similarly, B&N cuts the price of Nook Touch to $99 – a $40 less price tag for a [...]
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According to a recent survey by GfK MRI women are 52% more likely than men to own an eReader and men are 24% more likely than women to own a Tablet. Drilling down to the brand level, women are 63% more likely than men to own an Amazon Kindle and twice as likely to own [...]
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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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Yes, you’ve to remember that when you order a new e-ink Kindle believing that your old one would fit in the new Kindle. The Kindle 3 lighted cover has a hinge system on the side. that’s not the case with new lighted cover. Look at the back of the new Kindle in the picture. The [...]
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The rule is simple: you can have a touch screen 3G Kindle for the price of 3rd generation 3G Kindle now with only $10 difference. There is definitely no reason to buy a touch screen 3G Kindle unless some strong fascination for physical keyboard. If don’t need 3G service, then you can save $50 [...]
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In a few hours Amazon is going to unveil Kindle Fire – the new customized android tablet. There are lots of speculations on the tablet. However, reports suggest that it wouldn’t be a fancy one, not even an iPad competitor. Bloggers and reporters discuss about Kindle Fire’s entertainment aspects so much that the readability issue [...]
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Amazon is going to announce a new tablet on this Wednesday – Kindle Fire. It’s not clear, even though there are some speculations, that a new touch screen e-ink Kindle will also be announced. However, it seems a tablet is creating more buzz than a eReader like Kindle. The crave for low-cost tablets has reached [...]
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WSJ reports that Amazon will release a tablet in October. The detail as follows: Better yet, the WSJ’s insider offers some spec details. Previously we heard that two different devices were on the way, codenamed Hollywood and Coyote. Coyote, the less expensive of the two, was rumored to be based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 [...]
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The ebook and ereader markets are still going through some turmoil even after substantial price cuts of major eink-based ereaders like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony Readers – all of which are backed by large scale ebook retailers like Amazon, B&N, and Borders. While it seemed just a couple of months back that all other [...]
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The ruling from the Library of Congress provides DRM circumvention exemptions for the ebooks this way: Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen [...]
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