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, […]
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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 […]
Firmware Updates for Cybook Opus and Cybook Gen3
Yesterday Bookeen released new firmware updates for the Cybook Opus, which comes in several different colors now, and the Cybook Gen3. As usual with Bookeen’s ereaders, there two versions of firmware available, one for Adobe DRM ebooks and one for Mobipocket DRM ebooks (Mobipocket doesn’t allow Adobe support in conjunction with Mobi on a single […]
iBooks App Update: iPhone, iPod, and PDF Support
Version 1.1 of iBooks is now available for download from the iTunes store, and now works for any iPhone or iPod running the new iOS 4. The iBooks app has been out since April when the iPad first launched. And until now it was exclusive to the Apple iPad; you couldn’t even see what ebooks […]
Kindle 2 Now $189: Amazon’s Retaliation
This is absolutely classic. Barnes and Noble officially announced the release of their new WiFi-only Nook today for $149, and at the same time dropped the price of the 3G Nook down to $199. If you do a news search for the term ebook reader or ereader, you get pages and pages all about the […]