Here’s an interesting deal. The Kobo Forma is available refurbished for cheap from a couple different places. Over on eBay the refurbished Kobo Forma is selling for $173.94 with free shipping. It’s also available “renewed” on Amazon for $229 with free shipping (renewed is Amazon’s new word for refurbished). The 8GB version of the Kobo […]
Color E Ink Screens are Finally Getting Better (Video)
Whether or not we’ll ever see a mainstream ebook reader with a color E Ink screen still remains to be seen, but color E Ink has come a long way in recent years. Soon after E Ink first introduced their color Triton displays in 2010, a product called the Jetbook Color was released and it […]
Nook Glowlight 3 On Sale for $95.99
If you want an ebook reader with page buttons and super clear text, Barnes and Noble currently has the Nook Glowlight 3 on sale, which doesn’t happen all that often. Right now they’ve got the Nook Glowlight 3 marked down to $95.99 with free shipping. That’s 20% off the regular price of $119.99. The Nook […]
Refurbished Kindles and Fire Tablet Deals Return to Woot
This feels a lot like déjà vu but there are bunch of deals on previous generation Kindle ebook readers and Fire tablets at Woot once again. They don’t have a dedicated Kindle/Amazon devices section so everything gets throw together in the tablets section at Woot. They have the 1st generation Kindle Paperwhite for $25, $30 […]
Microsoft Dropping ePub Support on Edge Web Browser
Back in April Microsoft suddenly decided to close their ebook store and take back all the ebooks they had sold while issuing customers refunds for all purchases. Now Microsoft has put up a new support page that says the Microsoft Edge browser will no longer support ebooks with an .epub file extension. Of course older […]
Kindle Trade-ins Big Advantage for Amazon, Why Don’t Other Companies Do it?
Amazon has had a Kindle trade-in program for years now where you can trade-in an older model for a credit and a discount toward the purchase of a new Kindle. For the past couple of years Amazon’s Kindle trade-in deal takes 25% off the price of a new Kindle when trading in an old one, […]
Kindle Voyage Available for $116 New (Open Box)
Last week Woot had some refurbished Kindle Voyages available for $74.99. Those are no longer available but now Woot is selling the Kindle Voyage for $116.99 new with free shipping for Prime members (it’s $6 for non-Prime members). The listing says “brand new” but technically they are open box units that may have been samples, […]
Publishers Suing Audible Over Captions Feature That Allows Reading Audiobooks
Last month Audible revealed an upcoming new Audible Captions feature that gives Audible app users the option to read along with audiobooks as they’re read aloud. Basically the app adds computer-generated captions to audiobooks to allow reading while listening, but before the feature has even been released to the public, book publishers have filed a […]