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What’s happening in eReader market?
Is the demand for the e-ink based e-reader dying out? look at the following figure:
According to iSuppli sales of e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Nook have peaked in 2011 with 23.2 million units. After that sales figure shows downhill. And its expected to continue next years. However, ereader sales show sharp uphill while downhill is much flatter.
We can expect a color screen eReader, an alternative to iPad or LCD type screen, to revamp the market.
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Apple More >Amazon's latest move after Nook Tablet announcement
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 similar kind of device- Kindle Touch wifi – by Amazon. However, Amazon also selling the same device at $99 with special ads offer, which B&N is not doing. In response to B&N announcement Amazon didn’t cut the price of any of the devices. Of course, Kindle Touch wifi is not out yet, and a lot of people have already More >
News about eReaders & eBooks: issue #1
Don't Buy an eReader Unless it Supports Wide Range of Contents or Big eBookStore
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 ereaders those donot have decent market share would disappear soon. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. There is a bunch of ereaders like Pocketebook, Sharper Image Literati, iReiver Cover Story, Cool-er, Pandigital Novel, Pockerbook IQ, BenQ K61, Ectaco Jetbook mini, Aluratek More >
Relative Size eBook Stores
The Digital Inspiration blog has produced a chart showing the comparison of ebook stores among Apple iBook store, B&N Nook Store, Sony Reader Store and Amazon Kindle Store. According to the blog:
Sony says their eBook store has more than 1.2 million titles but if we discount Google Books, the actual store size is around 60,000 titles.
Barnes & Noble’s eBook store too claims to have more than a million books for the Nook but the number of titles available in the store is around 26,000 – the rest are public domain (out of copyright) works that you may download through Google Books.
Apple’s More >
Video: The Wolf Hall Tournament of E-Readers
Source: The Reading Edge Podcast
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Buy or Not to Buy Nook – a Big Push for New Kindle
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 Amazon, in retaliation, reduced the price of Kindle 2 to $189. At that time it was believed that B&N was committed to Nook platform, and ready to head-to-head with Amazon. In a month, the situation has changed, and now the uncertainty about the future of the company is More >
How to Find Out Your Nook’s IP Address?
You can of course check the router to find out nook’s IP address, but you can also do it right on nook:
- Press ‘n’ to go to the top menu on the nook
- Select Settings
- Make sure Airplane mode is off and if not, switch it off
- Select Wi-Fi
- Make sure you’re connected to WiFi and then select the second line (Wi-Fi Hotspot ….)
- Select the WLAN you’re connected to (should be the second line)
Now you will see your connection details (Status, Speed, Signal Strength, Security and the IP address) on the e-ink screen.
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How to Find Out Your Nook's IP Address?
You can of course check the router to find out nook’s IP address, but you can also do it right on nook:
- Press ‘n’ to go to the top menu on the nook
- Select Settings
- Make sure Airplane mode is off and if not, switch it off
- Select Wi-Fi
- Make sure you’re connected to WiFi and then select the second line (Wi-Fi Hotspot ….)
- Select the WLAN you’re connected to (should be the second line)
Now you will see your connection details (Status, Speed, Signal Strength, Security and the IP address) on the e-ink screen.
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What Can You do if Your Nook Freezes?
- Force turn off the Nook.
- Press the Power Button and hold for 20 seconds, then release.
- Power up the Nook by pressing the Power button.
If that doesn’t work, try fully re-charging your Nook. The battery might be completely drained.
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Apple iPad Mini MD538LL/A (32GB, Wi-Fi + AT&T 4G, White)Nook Got Twook – A Twitter Application
Twook is an application for posting and reading messages on Twitter. This was developed bu Nookdevs. According to Noodevs:
FunctionalityThe most recent version is 0.0.6. It has 4 custom search buttons, a button to display the favorite tweets for the authenticated user, and search users button. The tweet button is now large and on the left. It will display the user avatar when the user authenticates.
To bring up the keyboard for searches use a long press on the respective search buttons.
The button functionality is in this order from left to right:
The large button on the left displays More >
Nook Got Trook – A RSS Reader & FeedBook, Stanza eBook Downloader
Trook is an application for the Nook that can download books from Stanza catalogs or OPDS content or your Calibre content server. It can also read RSS or ATOM feeds, show associated web pages or download audio files from such feeds. Finally, it can also install more applications, if they are linked from a feed.
Nook Got Trook – A RSS Reader & FeedBook, Stanza eBook Downloader
Trook is an application for the Nook that can download books from Stanza catalogs or OPDS content or your Calibre content server. It can also read RSS or ATOM feeds, show associated web pages or download audio files from such feeds. Finally, it can also install more applications, if they are linked from a feed.
Nook Software Updates 1.4 Available Now
As soon as B&N lowered the price of Nook to $199, and introduced wifi-only Nook, released a Nook software updates 1.4 with some new features and improvement in Nook’s overall performance:
- Extended AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspot support — FREE and seamless connection to AT&T’s entire nationwide Wi-Fi network including restaurants, hotels and additional locations, and wherever you see an AT&T Wi-Fi sign.
- New extra extra large font size
- Go-To Page feature allows users to go to a specific page in their eBook
Nothing that much to be surprised. Yet it signals the indication of further updates as more More >
War of eReader Titans: Kindle gets Price Cuts to $189
After B&N cut the price of Nook 3G to $199, and release a new wifi Nook Amazon has decided to reduce the price of Kindle 2 to $189, that’s a $10 less than the 3G Nook, but $30 more than Nook wifi. Kindle 2 and Nook wifi are not comparable, but lack of Amazon’s decision to announce a wifi Kindle will still hurt the sales of Kindle, and kindle ebooks. The whole price war thing put Amazon in defensive position. Amazon should be much more aggressive in pricing and availability of new Kindle. It should announce a new wifi kindle soon, and set the price of wifi Kindle no more than $125. Is it More >
