Focusing ebooks and ereaders
Is iPad Really Going To Kill Kindle? No, It’s Not
The iPad has been announced. But does it mean Kindle will be dead? No, not at all. Remeber, iPad is still a multimedia device. You can do a lot of things including reading ebooks; but it’s not focused on reading ebooks. Those who prefer to read a lot of fiction, and text-only non-fiction still need [...]
iSlate: Another Dedicated eReader? Another DRMed Closed Door to Reading?
Recently I got so much tired of reading so many stories of Apple’s iSlate anticipation I even didn’t write anything on this lately. According to mainstream media and blogs, the coming year will be a hot market for ebooks and ereaders. However, all the stories are centered around on Apple. Even there are speculation now [...]
Jeff Bezos on P-Book & Kindle & How I differ with Him on Issues
NewsWeek has recently published an interview with Jeff Bezos. Among many other issues, when he was asked whether P-Book will eventually go away, he said that he believed so:
I don’t know how long it will take. You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world. That’s [...]
Rivalry Between Amazon and Publishers Moving Fierce: An eBook Perspective
LATimes reports that five publishers – Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. are going to form a joint online storefront to fight Amazon’s power in the market in digital content. We have already listened unpleasant comments so many times from New Corp’s Rupert Murdoch regarding Amazon’s ebook business model. [...]
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 [...]
Kindle Specticism: Is It Real? Or Should It Be?
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 [...]
What Guardian Poll Suggests About Kindle?
In a recent Guardian poll, 646 people participated regarding their preference for kindle.
How many want to buy a kindle?
22%
What are the reasons in favor of buying kindle?
kindle is cool, sleek looking compared to Sony reader, can carry large number of book, cost is less than first iPod, want to experience the kindle functionality like downloading [...]
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 [...]
e-book Graphic: What A Big Mess!
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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 [...]
e-book Reader from ASUS by the End of the Year?
This is from TimesOnline. ASUS, the leader in netbook market, is planning to enter the market with two e-readers to compete with Sony and Amazon. The one you see in the picture is a premium version with “a foldable spine, it will open like a traditional book and close so it can be read in [...]
e-book Price War or e-book Reader War? Can Kindle or e-ink Survive When Apple Releases iTablet?
It is now well-known that Apple is going to release tablet – a big-screen version of iphone/ipodTouch with more functional capabilities. If it comes out what would happen to kindle or similar e-ink based e-book readers? All those weired analysts’ estimates of kindle sales projection based on secondary data or guess are misleading. Amazon has [...]
What people think about kindle DX?
When Gizmodo was blogging live from Pace University during kindle dx launch, Matt and other people in the team asked several questions for the readers who were following the live blogging on the net. Here the screenshoots of all the questions, and results that I got from Gizmodo’s liveblog:
It sems the kindle dx will have [...]
To buy or not to buy: “boycott anything over $9.99″ in kindle e-book store
On amazon kindle forum, a thread titled “boycott anything over $9.99” has gained a lot of popularity in recent times. As of today the number of posts on the issue is about 2000, the second largest thread on the forum. The kindlers have even started tagging e-books those are over $9.99. In other words, they [...]
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