Amazon has released three new tablets for 2015. There’s the $49 Fire tablet, and the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10. The latter two share the exact same specs; the only difference is the screen size. For this review I’m going to compare the $49 Fire tablet with the Fire HD 8. The most […]
Has Amazon Already Won the eBook War in the US?
Last week Author Earnings posting an interesting article about the current state of the US ebook market. Amazon has an even higher percentage of the market share than previously thought, with around 74% of all US ebook sales going through the Kindle Store. Earlier reports from 2014 had Amazon at about 65%, but that didn’t […]
New Harry Potter Enhanced Edition eBooks Released, Exclusive to iBooks
Last week a collection of new digitally enhanced Harry Potter ebooks were added to the Apple iBooks store. The enhanced editions are an exclusive release to iBooks and aren’t available anywhere else, even the Pottermore website. All seven books in the Harry Potter series have been digitally enhanced to add things like animated images, custom […]
10 Free Kindle eBooks and eBook Deals – 10/11/15
It’s time for another roundup of 10 free Kindle ebooks. Amazon is also running a big sale on 40 award-winning Kindle books today only as part of their Gold Box Deal of the Day. Please note that the free Kindle ebooks listed below are free as of October 10th, 2015. Most of these titles are […]
B&N Releases New 9.6-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab E Nook Tablet
Last week Barnes and Noble added a new device to their lineup of Nook-branded Samsung tablets. It’s called the Samsung Galaxy Tab E Nook. It’s a 9.6-inch Android tablet with a 1280 x 800 resolution screen (157 ppi). Basically it’s B&N’s answer to the Fire HD 10, and it sells for $249. The interesting thing […]
5 Cheap Alternative Android Tablets to the $49 Fire
One thing that Amazon is really good at is marketing. The new $49 Fire tablet is a great example of this. Just about everyone is impressed with the price of the $49 Fire tablet, so much so that it’s the #1 bestseller in electronics on Amazon’s website. It’s so popular that Amazon can’t even keep […]
Kindle Word Runner Review and Video Demo
With the release of the 5th generation Fire tablets—the $49 Fire, the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10—Amazon has introduced a new speed reading feature called Kindle Word Runner. I don’t think that most people will be interested in using the new feature much, mainly because it’s a completely new way of reading. It […]
What is Wrong with Kobo’s Translation Dictionaries?
Something that has been bugging me for a long time now is the fact that the translation dictionaries on Kobo’s ebook readers don’t work very well. It seems like half the time I select a word to be translated it just says, “No definition found. Try another dictionary.” So basically what Kobo is telling me […]