In a sure attempt to steal some of the limelight away from the new Nook Touch and Kobo Touch ebook readers that were just unveiled over the past two days, Amazon has introduced a Kindle 3G with special offers for $164. It took only 5 weeks for the $114 Kindle 3 Wifi with special offers […]
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Woot Daily Deal: Kindle 2 with Free 3G for $89.99
Today Woot is offering a refurbished 2nd generation Kindle for $89.99 plus $5 for shipping. It comes with free 3G global wireless and a 1 year warranty from Amazon. The Kindle 2 features a 6″ E Ink Vizplex display. It comes with 2GB of internal memory—enough for about 1500 ebooks—and the battery will last about […]
Amazon Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Paper Books
For anyone who doubted the proliferation of ebooks, Amazon issued a press release yesterday announcing that they now sell 105 Kindle ebooks for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. This took just 3.5 years for Amazon to achieve, even with most publishers fighting the transition to ebooks every step of the way. What’s more impressive […]
Kindle ePub Hack: Installing FBReader on Kindle for ePub Support – FBKindle
For those of you that desperately want to read ePub ebooks on your Kindle, there is a way to install a version of FBReader—dubbed FBKindle—on the Kindle if you are willing to do some technical work. FBReader is a popular e-reading program with plenty of options for customizing the layout for ebooks. It only works […]
Free NASA eBooks; Over 100 Free Kindle eBooks
First things first, the top six ebooks listed below were found via MobileRead and are freebies from NASA that will work with virtually any ebook reader. They are offered in mobi, prc, pdf, and epub formats. Amazon opened the free ebook flood gates this week, releasing dozens and dozens of free ebooks, far too many […]
New $114 Kindle #1 Best Seller on Amazon
According to Amazon’s electronics bestseller list, the new ad-supported $114 Kindle is a big hit, ranking #1 overall, placing it above the Kindle WiFi at #2 and the Kindle 3G at #3. The Kindle DX is #11 on the list. It is surprising that Amazon’s new ad-supported Kindle ranks at the top of the list […]
Free Kindle Books and Free ePub eBooks From Kobo
Here’s a list of free ebooks to start the weekend. The first list is for free Kindle Books and the second list of ebooks are from Kobo in ePub format, which will work with any ereader that supports Adobe DRM as well as Kobo’s free ereading apps. As usual, most these free ebooks won’t stay […]
Dozens of Free TextVooks for Kindle, Nook, iBooks
This week there are dozens of TextVook’s available for free in the Kindle store, Nook store, and in iBooks. Most are regular TextVooks, but there are also a handful of animated TextVooks. These usually cost $1.99 each for the regular, and $6.99 for the animated versions. They have been free all week and could expire […]