Barnes & Noble has rolled out a new black-and-white e-book reader to its “Nook” line. The $139 device touts the longest battery life of any e-book reader on the market—up to two months—and measures five inches wide by 6.5 inches long, with a weight of just five ounces.
The new Nook features a six-inch electronic-ink screen similar …
It was bound to happen, but no one really thought it’d happen this fast.
In a press release sent out this morning, online mega-seller Amazon announced that Kindle books are now outselling both paperback and hardcover books combined. It took a little over two years since the Kindle launched in 2007 to have its e-books outpace hardcovers,
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Amazon doesn’t want to kill local libraries, or at least that’s what its newest venture would seem to indicate. A new partnership with OverDrive, slated to launch later this year, will allow patrons to borrow e-books from local libraries to read on their Kindles.
According to a press release, the Kindle Library Lending program …
The battle between the Kindle and Nook just took another competitive twist.
Refusing to be outdone by Amazon, Barnes & Noble has announced that readers who subscribe to the New York Times via the Nook will receive free, unlimited access to the paper’s site.
Of course, the announcement comes just one week after Kindle subscribers …
No need to pay double! Kindle readers who were already shelling out $20 per month will receive free access to the New York Times website. Users will get more instructions in the “coming weeks.” Yeah, well, I guess you were already paying for it.
Still, it’s not as cheap as home delivery, which grants you free-for-all access. And …
No longer will you have to dig out those USB cables to ensure your audio books are available on your Kindle. Audible has announced that more than 50,000 of its audiobooks are now available for Kindle owners to download via WiFi. For those who need a little convincing that audiobooks are worth spending time and money on, Audible is ready …
Throw away your iPad. Trash your Kindle. The future of reading is made of something far more innovative, and it’s called “paper.”
The flipback is, according to Patrick Kingsley at the UK Guardian, an ingenious new kind of printed book designed for the iGeneration. “Could this kill the Kindle?” the headlines asks. Err, no.
The pages …
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Amazon Could Become A Huge Tablet Player
At Business Insider, Dan Frommer wrote an excellent and insightful piece exploring the possibilities that lie ahead for Amazon. It already has an online store; it already makes good tablet hardware (albeit with limited functionality);
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Nobody likes layovers, especially long and boring ones. But if you happen to have a stopover at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, you at least can rent an e-book to keep you company.
The library, which opened last week, features about 30 iPads and other devices that each offer 400 titles, as well as 2,000 physical Chinese and …
Starting next Sunday, March 6th, Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader will be available for purchase at AT&T’s retail locations.
It’ll cost $189 just like it does directly from Amazon, but the $139 Wi-Fi-only version won’t be available from AT&T. The $189 version uses AT&T’s 3G network to deliver books wirelessly and also contains a Wi-Fi …
Amazon is giving their Kindle a makeover with a little something old and lot of somethings new.
First, the throwback. The most buzz-worthy change coming in the latest update is the addition of “real” page numbers, a quiet homage to the e-reader’s predecessor. By popular demand, the 3.1 version software will display the page …
Internet retail giant Amazon.com released its Q4 2010 earnings yesterday, highlighted by “two big milestones” according to company founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon reported Q4 as the first quarter that it cleared $10 billion in sales—it almost hit $13 billion, actually, with the final tally settling in at $12.95 billion. The company also …