Today Amazon introduced a new HTML5 Kindle app designed for use with web browsers, which is optimized for the Apple iPad, and provides a workaround for Amazon to continue to offer Kindle shopping from within the app on the iPad. A couple of weeks ago, Apple started enforcing a rule that requires anyone who offers […]
Archives for 2011
New York Post for Android is Amazon’s Free App of the Day
If you like reading news from the New York Post, then today is your lucky day because Amazon is giving away the New York Post Android app for free, which normally costs $1.99. The reviews for it are absolutely horrible. It has two stars over 110 reviews. The app works fine, the reason it’s getting […]
Do Barnes and Noble’s Digital Magazines and Newspapers Have DRM?
I noticed something odd today while working on the review for the Pandigital Nova. I was able to open newspapers and magazines from Barnes and Noble with the Aldiko Android app. After further testing with other Android apps and on a computer with EPUB readers, all my newspapers and magazines from Barnes and Noble are […]
Discount Codes for eBooks and Textbooks
Below is a list of discount codes from Kobo, eBooks.com, eHarlequin, CengageBrain.com, and CourseSmart for savings on various ebooks and textbooks. As usual, some publishers don’t allow discounting on their ebooks so the codes won’t work for all titles. These include Random House: Imprints Ballantine, Bantam, Broadway Books, Crown, Dell, Doubleday, Knopf; Penguin: Imprints Dorling […]
Buy a Nook and Get $107 Worth of Classic eBooks and Study Guides
Barnes and Noble just announced a new back-to-school promotion where they are giving away twelve ebooks from their classics series, twelve SparkNotes, three Nook Study guides, and four Nook Color apps with the purchase of a Nook Touch, Nook Color, or 1st Gen Nook. The offer is good both online at B&N.com and in Barnes […]
The iriver Story HD Gets a Firmware Update
Today I turned on my iriver Story HD and it detected a firmware update. The update is version number 1.19. The previous firmware version was 1.17 (so what happened to 1.18?). I’ve gone through all the features of the Story HD and haven’t noticed any changes with this new firmware, and there’s no changelog to […]
The ASUS Transformer Strikes Again
If you’ve seen my ASUS Transformer review, you know that I’ve had trouble getting a Transformer without defects. The first one I bought had excessive screen bleeding and other hardware problems, and the one I received as a replacement was even worse. Long story short, I decided to try my luck again (after all, the […]
Amazon’s Tablet Will Cost $229 and Won’t Officially Support Android Market
That’s my prediction. What’s yours? Every single week there are more unsubstantiated Amazon tablet rumors, so why not add some good old-fashioned speculation to the mix? If Amazon is indeed going to release an Android tablet in the next month or so, I believe that it will most certainly undercut the price of the Nook […]