Sony issued a press release on Tuesday, June 29th—Library Advocacy Day—announcing the Reader Library program, a new initiative to help promote and expand ebooks in public libraries. The Reader Library program provides public libraries with educational material about ebooks and digital reading devices. The program educates librarians about ebooks and ebook readers, and gives library […]
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Kindle News From This Past Week
Amazon issued a number of press releases this week regarding the Kindle and Kindle ebooks. Instead of doing separate posts for each of them, this post will review all the recent Kindle news, with the exception of the new graphite Kindle DX, which is posted here. Kindle Books with Audio and Video On Sunday the […]
New Kindle DX with Better Contrast and Lower Price
Amazon has really started taking it up a notch ever since Barnes and Noble released their new Wi-Fi only Nook last week. Just about everyday since then Amazon has issued a press release with another announcement regarding Kindle or Kindle ebooks in some regard. This time Amazon has announced a new Kindle DX that sells […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Plastic Logic Delays Que proReader Again
Back on January 7th at the Consumer Electronics Show, Plastic Logic revealed the Que proReader, a large, business-oriented E Ink device. The Que was initially slated to release in mid April, and they were even taking pre-order on the QUE proReader website. Then on March 11th people who pre-ordered a QUE received an email from […]
Video Interview with E Ink Vice President of Marketing
ARMdevices.net has posted a 17 minute video interview with the vice president of marketing at E Ink, Sriram Peruvemba. E Ink displays are used in virtually all the current dedicated ebook readers on the market, with the exception of a few that have LCD screens and new SiPix screens. The Kindle, Nook, Sony Readers, Kobo […]