Over the past year, ereader prices have dropped considerably. This time last year the Kindle and Nook were both selling for $259. The original Kobo was released in May 2010 for the all-time low price of $149. Now there are several ebook readers priced under $120, even E Ink devices with paper-like screens. If you’ve […]
Kindle 3 WiFi Now $114 with Special Offers, Sponsored Screensavers
Utilizing an interesting new marketing strategy for US customers, Amazon is now selling a new Kindle 3 WiFi with Special Offers for $114, $25 less than the regular WiFi model. The only difference is the new Kindle displays sponsored screensavers and special offers, along with an advertisement at the bottom of the Kindle’s homescreen—not while […]
Kobo Expanding into Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Netherlands
Kobo announced today at the London Book Fair in London that they are continuing their expansion into Europe, with stores launching in Germany and Spain next month. Local stores for France, Italy, and the Netherlands will soon follow. In addition to these new markets, Kobo and its partners offer ebooks to the United States, Canada, […]
Free Kindle eBooks and Free NookBooks for the Weekend
For your weekend, here’s a list of free Kindle ebooks from Amazon and free NookBooks from Barnes and Noble. Like always, most of these are promotional and are only free for a limited time. This first ebook is something different. It is a free guidebook available in EPUB and MOBI formats called 1936–On the Continent […]
Acer Iconia A500: 10″ Android Honeycomb Tablet for $449
Yesterday Acer announced the launch of its first Android tablet, the Acer Iconia A500—and it comes at a competitve price-point, $449, given the specs are pretty much identical to the Motorola Xoom, minus 16GB of internal memory. The Acer Iconia tablet features a 10″ 1280 x 800 resolution touchscreen, WiFi and Bluetooth, HDMI port, 1GHz […]
Entourage Pocket Edge Half-Price, No Longer on Entourage’s Website
I’ve been keeping my eyes on this for the past few weeks and it appears that there’s definitely something fishy going on with Entourage Systems, makers of the the Android-powered Entourage Edge and Pocket Edge. For starters, both devices have been completely removed from the Entourage website. Clicking on the device tab takes you to […]
OverDrive’s BlackBerry App Gets EPUB Library eBooks
OverDrive, a company that works with more than 13,000 libraries worldwide to bring library ebook and audiobooks to portable devices and computers, has updated their BlackBerry app to add support for EPUB library ebooks, just in time for the upcoming release of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Video of Doom 2 Running on PocketBook 360 Plus E Ink eReader
Here’s something interesting. The developers over at PocketBook ported a version of the video game Doom 2 to run on an updated version of the PocketBook 360, called the PocketBook 360 Plus. Information about the PocketBook 360 Plus is scarce at this point, but the video below shows some of its potential. It is presumably […]