Last week Amazon started rolling out a software update for Fire tablets that adds a new Blue Shade feature that filters blue light, and now Google is jumping on the anti blue light bandwagon too. Yesterday Google announced the addition of a new feature for the Google Play Books app called Night Light, which gradually […]
How to Get a $50 Fire Tablet Before Christmas
Amazon’s new $49 Fire tablet has proven to be a very popular item this year. It has been out of stock at Amazon all December. They sold out of them on Black Friday weekend when they had them on sale for $35. Amazon doesn’t reveal sales figures; they just say they’ve sold “millions” of Fire […]
LG Optimus Exceed 2, a Bargain eReader and Media Player for $12
Over at Amazon the LG Optimus Exceed 2 smartphone is on sale for $11.99. It usually sells for cheap but this is taking it to a new level of affordability. It’s a Verizon prepaid phone but you can bypass activation with Verizon and just use the phone over WiFi as a portable media device for […]
10 Free Kindle eBooks and $20 Off Kindle Sales
Here’s another roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks for Sunday, December 13th. Amazon has also just kicked off another round of sales on the Kindle Paperwhite 3, the Kids Kindle, and the entry-level Kindle—all are $20 off the regular price. With Christmas less than two weeks away, this is probably the last time they […]
List of Amazon’s Best Selling Books of 2015
Amazon issued a press release a couple of days ago announcing the best-selling books of 2015, complete with a list of the top 20 titles for a few different categories. According to the fine print, the best-seller lists take into account first editions published in 2015 and reflect paid print and Kindle editions. Last month […]
Scribd Adds Sheet Music to Unlimited Subscription Plan
Scribd has been gaining ground with their subscription service that serves up all the ebooks, audiobooks, and comic books that you can consume for $8.99 per month. Now Scribd has announced that they’ve added sheet music to their $9 a month plan as well. Scribd’s catalog now contains several thousand songbooks from publisher Hal Leonard. […]
Wizard of Oz is Free Kindle eBook and Audiobook Combo
Amazon doesn’t update their free ebook and audiobook pair every month like they used to, but they’ve finally got a new title listed this month for their free promo. It’s the first book in the Oz series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You can get both the Kindle ebook and Audible audiobook for free this […]
Aldiko eBook App Finally Released for iOS
Aldiko has been one of the most popular ePub reading apps for Android, with over 27 million downloads, and now it’s finally available on the iOS platform too for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 7.1 or later. Aldiko has been available on Android for several years now. It was one of the […]