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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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 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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After some speculations about B&N’s event, it’s final now. B&N has just announced a new ebook reader called NookColor. It’s a 7″ LCD touchscreen device running Android OS with built-in wifi, and web browser. The price is $249. B&N is taking pre-order now. Supported file type: EPUB (including Non or Adobe DRM) PDF Other documents: [...]
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In what appears to be an effort to strengthen his voting position for a likely proxy fight, B&N founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio has excercised options to buy 990,740 shares of B&N stock for $16.8 Million, or $16.96 a share. Based on the Tuesday closing price of B&N stock, Riggio paid about $1.61 premium per [...]
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B&N investors have decided to sell the company. The financial trouble, bad earings, and ‘unvervalued shates’ are to blame for such decision. When Amazon announced the new Kindle, B&N announced the uncertain future of the company. Recently the company cut the price of Nook from $259 to $199 and released Nook wifi at $149. And [...]
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It’s now final that B&N is going to be sold. The share price is ‘significantly undervalues’, and the company had poor earnings last quarter. The WSJ reports: Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore [...]
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NookStudy is now available for download here. In order to capture the eTextbook market which is the most important one now, several companies are trying to innovate something, like Kno is developing a dual-screen ereader. Ipad is also a possible candidate for eTextbook even though it didn’t take off yet as an eTextbook reader with [...]
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According to Gizmodo B&N ipad reader is “better than Kindle, and better than iBooks”. Gizmodo thumps up the reader for: • It has way more books than iBooks, and is catching up to Kindle. • Barnes & Noble’s killer feature, lending books, is fully intact. It worked perfectly, with a notification that I had a [...]
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