Kobo Books has added 175,000 PDFs to their ebook library from more than 2,000 publishers, including Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell, Palgrave, The World Bank, Springer, Financial Times Press, Routledge, and others. The PDFs include medical texts, academic and scientific texts, dictionaries, economics and business manuals, technical manuals, and other education oriented materials.
Nook Color Wins Last Gadget Standing “People’s Choice Award” at CES
Yesterday the Nook Color managed to win the People’s Choice Award at the Last Gadget Standing competition at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was up against some strong competition. The top ten finalists included a dual-screen laptop from Acer, a new chip from Intel, a video camera that shots 3D, the popular […]
When are Mirasol Displays Coming to eReaders?
Mirasol is an alternative display technology that Qualcomm has been working to perfect for mass-production over the past few years to use for color ereader displays. Mirasol displays are a lot like existing monochrome E Ink screens in that they use little to no energy when an image is on-screen and don’t use back-lighting so […]
New Freescale Processor Pushes E Ink Pearl Screens to 8fps (Video)
Freescale is showing off the power of their new processors at CES. One to look forward to is the new i.MX508 processor for E Ink ebook readers. This next generation processor is capable of getting the most out of E Ink’s new Pearl display technology. It allows for faster performance, lower production cost, and increases […]
Quick Updates: Misc Sales, 130 Free Kindle eBooks
In regards to an earlier post this week about 130 Free eBooks from Kaplan, Amazon is now offering those same 130+ free ebooks for the Kindle and Kindle apps. And the promotion has been extended to January 17th. Expanding on another post from earlier in the week about post holiday ereader sales, more sales have […]
iRiver Story HD eReader (Video)
The iRiver Story HD brings much needed innovation to the dedicated ebook reader industry with its 6″ XGA 1024 x 768 resolution display. Not only is it the first ereader with a high resolution display (most 6″ ereaders are 800 x 600), it uses new screen technology developed by LG that actually has a good […]
15 Free Kindle eBooks, Best Kindle Books of 2010
First off if you haven’t been to the Kindle store lately, Amazon posted lists of the best Kindle Books of 2010. They have a list of the top 100 editors’ picks and a list of the top 100 customer favorites. Now for the free Kindle eBooks. As usual, most of these are free for a […]
New Aluratek Libre Air eReader and Cinepad Android Tablet
Today at CES Aluratek, makers of the popular grayscale LCD Aluratek Libre Pro, announced a new Libre Air ebook reader with WiFi and a 10″ Android tablet named Cinepad. There’s actually a third new device as well, the Libre Color. It was released just a few weeks ago and is selling for $199 from Aluratek’s […]