With the recent disappearance of the Sony Reader PRS-650 and PRS-950 on Sony’s website and most retailers, it is apparent that Sony is getting set to launch a new line of ebook readers, as they tend to do in the third quarter of recent years. Today Bloomberg posted an article that says the new Sony […]
Archives for 2011
Kindle Price Cut: Kindle 3G with Special Offers Now $139
Today Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle 3G with Special Offers down to $139, the same price as the non ad-supported Kindle Wi-Fi and Barnes and Noble’s new touchscreen Nook. Previously the price on the special offers Kindle with 3G was $164. The price on the regular Kindle 3 without the special offers and […]
The iriver Story HD Coming to Target, Ties in with Google eBooks
A new ebook reader is coming on July 17th, the iriver Story HD. It will be available exclusively through Target stores and on Target.com for a suggested retail price of $139. The iriver Story HD is the first ebook reader to incorporate the Google eBookstore. With it users can browse, purchase, and download ebooks over […]
A Look at Fujitsu’s New Color ePaper (Video)
Earlier this week at the International Digital Publishing Expo, Fujitsu demonstrated their latest cholesteric LCD color epaper. Fujitsu has been one of the pioneers in color epaper technology and has been developing it for several years. Over the past four years they have released two different ereaders that use their color epaper technology, the FLEPia […]
Review: NextBook Next6 eReader Tablet Hybrid
The folks at E Fun were nice enough to send out a sample of the NextBook Next6 for review, an Android powered tablet/ereader hybrid. So here it is, the NextBook Next6 review. Sorry but I don’t have the usual hands-on photos posted. For some reason my camera has problems focusing on the Next6’s screen. All […]
Getting Library eBooks on the Nook Touch the Easy Way
I’ve been experimenting with different ereading apps on the rooted Nook Touch to find out which ones work the best. Yesterday I went ahead and installed the OverDrive Android app in order to try downloading a free ebook from the library. Of course you don’t need to have the Nook rooted to read library ebooks […]
Will Amazon Release a New Kindle in 2011?
I received an email asking if I thought Amazon would be releasing a new Kindle, the “Kindle 4”, later this year, and if so what new features would it likely have. Thinking about it, that’s a really good question. With Barnes and Noble and Kobo both releasing new touchscreen ebook readers in June, and with […]
Finding Free eBooks from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and Sony
This is going to be the last free ebooks post for awhile. To be perfectly honest free ebooks posts are more trouble than they are worth because they are time-consuming to create and then a few weeks later the posts are pretty much worthless since most free ebooks only last for a limited time. So […]