It has taken Amazon forever, but it has finally happened. The Kindle Paperwhite and basic Kindle are now being sold directly from Amazon’s Canadian website. Up until now all Kindle ereaders ordered from Canada had to be purchased from Amazon’s U.S. store. Having recently added Kindle ebooks to Amazon.ca, this isn’t much of a surprise, […]
Total Boox Allows Users to Pay for an eBook in Segments – Pay for Only What You Read
Here’s an interesting new concept. An Israel-based company called Total Boox is launching a new platform for ebook reading and distributing in 2013 that allows people to pay only for the parts of an ebook that they actually read. Instead of the “buy now, read later” approach of today’s ebookstores, Total Boox aims to let […]
Are Electrowetting Displays the Future of eReaders and Tablets?
Over the past year tablet displays have greatly improved in terms of screen resolution and pixel density, but two areas that still need improving are outdoor readability and energy efficiency. Today’s tablets with LCD screens are very bright and easy to read indoors, but outside and in areas with bright lighting annoying reflections and glare […]
Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight Headed to the U.S.
One European eReader I have always had an overseas crush on is the Cybook Odyssey HD. Now that French eReader developer Bookeen has released a 2nd-gen edition of this device—with a frontlit display—I want one even more. The Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight features a 6-inch capacitive touch HD E Ink display (1024 x 758), and its […]
Walmart, Costco, Target and Other Retailers to Start Selling eBooks?
Last week Publishers Weekly posted an interesting article about how ebooks could be coming to grocery stores, drug stores, and other mass-market retailers in as little as six to eight months, maybe sooner. At this stage in ebook evolution it still seems a bit odd to buy ebooks from stores like Walmart and Walgreens, but […]
The eBook Reader.com Needs Your Help
So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I’ve spent the past couple of weeks getting everything on this website migrated over to a new host to improve overall performance and reliability. I know some folks have been periodically having issues getting blog pages to load over the […]
How Often Do You Have Your eBook Reader’s Frontlight Turned On?
I’ve noticed something interesting about my ebook reading habits. Ever since the Nook Touch with GlowLight was released, and now that the Kobo Glo and Kindle Paperwhite have come along, I almost always prefer to have the frontlight turned on when reading. The light always seems to make the screen look a little better, even […]
A Closer Look at E Ink Triton 2 Color Displays (Video)
E Ink was at CES last week and as usual they had some demo products to display. E Ink is best known for the screens that they supply for ebook readers. The vast majority of E Ink screens are monochrome, but they also make color screens as well. E Ink calls them Triton displays. Color […]