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J&R Now Selling New Graphite Kindle DX

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Just checked JR.com this morning to see if they are running any sales (the Ectaco jetBook Lite is down to $99 again) and they now have the Kindle DX listed with all the other ebook readers. It is not sold online, just at J&R retail locations which are located in New York. This a somewhat […]

Nook Boutiques Coming To B&N Stores; This Week’s Free B&N Classics

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Getting back into the news, Barnes and Noble issued a press release today announcing that they will be creating 1,000 square-foot Nook boutiques in retail stores to “accommodate this rapidly growing segment of Barnes & Noble’s business”. Details from the press release: The 1,000 square-foot boutiques will feature demonstration tables and multiple operating NOOK devices […]

New Kindle UK Store

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Last fall when Amazon first announced the Kindle International, it was mentioned that they’d soon bring the Kindle to the Amazon UK store, and now they intend to do just that with the release of the new Kindle WiFi and Graphite Kindle 3G. Until now, all Kindle purchases had to be made from the Amazon […]

New Kindle Wi-Fi and Kindle 3G Pre-Orders

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Amazon has just announced two new 6-inch Kindles, the Kindle WiFi and a new Kindle 3G. The WiFi only model costs $139 and the 3G plus WiFi version costs $189. Both models are now available for pre-order and will ship to 140 countries beginning August 27th. The WiFi model comes in black (graphite) and the […]

B&N Releases Nook for Android App

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We all knew the Barnes and Noble ebook application for Android was coming sooner or later, and now it’s officially available for download from the Android Marketplace. Instead of calling it the “eReader” app for Android, as B&N refers to all their other apps, they’ve decided to call it Nook for Android. In fact, the […]

New eBook Reader Comparison Tables

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It has taken a long week of experimenting with and chopping up HTML and CSS code, of researching and checking facts, of not getting anything else done, only a few scanty blog posts, but I’ve finally finished updating The eBook Reader Comparison Page. The new comparison tables include a lot more ereaders both from the […]

Lots of Entourage Edge News

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Entourage Systems, the company that makes the Entourage Edge, released three press releases today and yesterday, announcing some new content partners. First, the Entourage Systems’ ebook store will soon have an additional 1,000 EPUB ebooks from O’Reilly Media. According to the press release, the Entourage ebook store already has over 200,000 trade titles, e-textbooks, magazines, […]