“The eReader era just arrived, but now it may be ending” declares technology reporter Greg Bensinger in a recent Wall Street Journal article. To support this claim, Bensinger cites two market research studies which show that the eReader boom might have plateaued. Market ‘intelligence’ firm IDC estimates that the sale of dedicated reading devices has dropped from 27.7 […]
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Nexus 10 Will Be Back In Stock Soon
If you have been waiting to burn your holiday bonus on a new Google Nexus 10 tablet, with no indication as to when the device would be back in stock, fear no more. I just checked the 10-inch tablet’s product listing on Google Play, and, according to it, resupply units will be shipping out “in […]
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Discounted Again
Today, an email was sent out to all Amazon Student members offering them a $50 discount code for the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has discounted their premium tablet a couple of different times since the beginning of December, leading some to speculate that the company has a few more units on-hand than they would […]
Pulse RSS News Reader Comes to Web Browsers
Pulse has made a name for itself over the past couple of years as being one of the best RSS news reader apps for the iPad and iPhone as well as Android tablets and phones. Thanks to some help from Microsoft, an HTML5 version of Pulse is now available on all modern web browsers, including […]
Launching The eBook Reader 3.0 – Site Updates in Progress
The eBook Reader.com turns three years old this month and it’s finally going to get the design update that it deserves. The layout is getting completely overhauled; about the only thing that is staying the same is the logo. The new design is a lot clearer and more streamlined. The old three column design was […]
Dropbox Suspends My Public Links for Generating Excessive Traffic
Well, it looks like I won’t be recommending Dropbox on this website anymore, at least not for public file sharing. Less than 2 full days after starting to use Public Links for two measly files, Dropbox has temporarily suspended my use of public links for three days for “generating excessive traffic”. For those of you […]
A Roundup of eReader and eBook News Stories for This Week
Once again I find myself way behind in posting about ereader and ebook-related news so I’ve decided to do a roundup post with a bunch of different news stories from this past week instead of writing a separate post for each one. So here it goes….
T-Mobile Sure Makes Buying a Mobile Hotspot an Unpleasant Experience
Earlier in the week I posted about how T-Mobile has new no-contract data plans for their 4G mobile hotspots. As mentioned in that first post, I planned on getting one of their mobile hotspots this week and then writing a review of it after some extensive use. The problem is that T-Mobile makes trying to […]