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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Unlike Amazon, Kobo has partnered with other companies to feed contents except ebooks for Vox. The company has partnered with Zinio for magazines, PressDirect for newspaper, RDIO for music, and GetJar for apps. In a recent post we elaborate what apps come in-built with Vox.Kobo Vox doesn’t allow access to Google Android Market for apps. [...]
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Many people are thinking of whether to buy Nook Color or Kindle Fire in the wake of Amazon’s release of a series of Kindles including Kindle Fire. It’s true that you can’t decide unless a clear picture what are the similarities and differences in physical and technical specifications and contents available between two devices. Here [...]
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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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Kindle Vice President Dave Limp answered some questions regarding Kindle Fire while talking to The Seattle Times. Here is what he said: Q: With the comparatively low price, will you lose money on the device and make it up on services? A: That’s not how we look at our business. … We need to try [...]
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Amazon has enabled an option to remove the in-built advertisements from Kindles those are being sold “with special offers”. For example, you have purchased a new Kindle wifi at $79 with special offer. The ads are shown on the Home screen of the Kindle. They are not shown while you’re reading. However, you have decided [...]
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GigaOM have just published first hands-on on new $79 Kindle, which is the only one now available in store among 4 new Kindles Amazon has announced on Wednesday. You probably already now all the differences. I would better post some selective pictures from GigaOM website for you: Picture courtesy: GigaOM [asa]B0051VVOB2[/asa] [asa]B005890G8Y[/asa] [asa]B005890G8O[/asa] [...]
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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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