Annual World eBook Fair: 3.5 Million Free eBooks
The 5th Annual World eBook Fair is coming July 4th through August 4th 2010, where about 3.5 million ebooks will be made available for free from over 100 contributing ebook libraries all over the world. Some top contributing sources include The Internet Archive, World Public Library, Wattpad, Project Gutenberg, and International Music Score Library Project, […]
Free Nook eBooks + New Nook Covers and Totes
First off, Barnes and Noble has added some new totes and covers from Lilly Pulitzer to their line of Nook accessories for the Nook 3G and Nook WiFi. Details about the new totes and covers from the press release: Totes for NOOK – The Lilly Pulitzer printed totes have ample room for all of the […]
The eBook Reader Blog Week in Review – June 20th to June 27th
This past week we saw some of the biggest changes ever in e-book reading history, with record low prices set by Amazon and Barnes and Noble for the two most popular ereaders on the market. It’ll be interesting to see how all the smaller players will respond to stay competitive in the coming days and […]
iBooks PDF Support Needs Work; Apple Quick To Update Misinformation
There’s an interesting article over at TUAW about how Apple lists features for the PDF support of iBooks that it doesn’t have, like highlighting and being able to flip pages like with ebooks. There are some other features lacking in iBooks PDF support as well: you can’t add notes or use the built-in dictionary to […]
Intel Reader: A Reader for the Blind and Dyslexic
The Intel Reader isn’t like any other e-reader on the planet; it is built specifically for the blind and visually impaired, as well as for people with reading disabilities like dyslexia. Using a built-in high-definition camera, the Intel Reader can take photographs of printed text from books, magazines, newspapers, etc., and can convert the text […]
Is Sharp Working on a Solar Powered eReader?
Sharp corporation, in conjunction with their distributor Arrow Electronics, has put together this proof of concept for a solar powered ereader using off-the-shelf components. They believe it’s possible to create portable devices such as ebook readers that don’t require any kind of external power supply or replaceable batteries by using photovoltaic components that can produce […]
Libretto W100: Toshiba’s Dual Screen eReader?
As part of Toshiba’s 25th Anniversary of “Laptop Innovation”, they recently announced the Libretto W100, a dual screen mobile PC with an ebook reading twist. So is this Toshiba’s jump into the ereader market? Hardly. But they do list ebook reading as one of the Libretto’s features and even demo it as an ebook reader […]