As ebooks continue to evolve, publishers and authors are coming up with new ways to add enhanced content to them, such as audio and video and other potentially distracting goodies. A Game of Thrones, the first book in George Martin’s epic A Song of Fire and Ice series, is now available as an enhanced ebook, […]
Sales and Deals: Tablets and eReaders (1/31/12)
It’s been a while since I’ve done a sales and deals post. Aside from a few deals here and there, since Christmas there really hasn’t been very many sales on ereaders and tablets. Today there seems to be enough going on to scrape out a daily deals post. If you happen to find a good […]
Some New Games and Active Content for Kindle eBook Readers
Perusing the Kindle store this morning, I noticed several new Kindle games and active content available for Kindle E Ink ereaders. I also noticed some of the older games have been updated to support the Kindle 4 and Kindle Touch. So if you have either of the new Kindles, now would be a good time […]
GelaSkins Now Sells Matte-Finish Skins for eReaders
I received an email from GelaSkins the other day about how they now sell all their ereader skins with a velvety matte finish instead of the usual gloss finish. The matte finish helps to eliminate glare, of course, an always important factor with ebook readers. The change only affects ereader skins; all the other skins […]
Another New Firmware Update for Sony Reader PRS-T1
Sony has issued another firmware update for the Sony PRS-T1 that enhances performance and addresses an issue that some folks have when turning pages using the touchscreen and having it mysteriously activate the dictionary instead. This update is the second in the past two months. In the past Sony was notorious for seldom releasing firmware […]
Firmware Update for PocketBook Pro eReaders Adds Multitasking and Other New Features
Earlier in the week, PocketBook’s RSS feed pinged about new firmware for the PocketBook Pro line of ebook readers. The actual news article is dated December 16th and the firmware is dated December 15th, so who knows why they waited so long to announce it officially. The new firmware, version 2.1.2, is for the PocketBook […]
Three Ways to Expand the Kindle Fire’s Limited Storage Space
The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s first tablet and while it has a lot of good things going for it, one of the three biggest disappointments with the Kindle Fire is the fact that it comes with just 5.37 GB of available storage space (plus an additional 1.17 GB for apps) and doesn’t have any memory […]
PocketBook Announces New PocketBook A 7″ Tablet
PocketBook International recently introduced a new tablet called the PocketBook A 7″, which is essentially a smaller version of the PocketBook A10 that was shown at IFA back in early September. As the name implies, the new PocketBook tablet has a 7″ screen. In fact, it has the same screen size and resolution as the […]