Looking around the internet, there are a few different ebook readers currently on sale. First, the Sony PRS-900 is selling for $249 from Amazon, Best Buy, and a few other electronics stores. That’s $50 less than it usually sells for and $150 less than its original price back in December. The Cybook Opus is down […]
B&N Releases Nook for Android App
We all knew the Barnes and Noble ebook application for Android was coming sooner or later, and now it’s officially available for download from the Android Marketplace. Instead of calling it the “eReader” app for Android, as B&N refers to all their other apps, they’ve decided to call it Nook for Android. In fact, the […]
New eBook Reader Comparison Tables
It has taken a long week of experimenting with and chopping up HTML and CSS code, of researching and checking facts, of not getting anything else done, only a few scanty blog posts, but I’ve finally finished updating The eBook Reader Comparison Page. The new comparison tables include a lot more ereaders both from the […]
Lots of Entourage Edge News
Entourage Systems, the company that makes the Entourage Edge, released three press releases today and yesterday, announcing some new content partners. First, the Entourage Systems’ ebook store will soon have an additional 1,000 EPUB ebooks from O’Reilly Media. According to the press release, the Entourage ebook store already has over 200,000 trade titles, e-textbooks, magazines, […]
The Kogan eBook Reader Up for Pre-Order in Australia
Suddenly, the competition for ebook readers in Australia is starting to heat up. Kogan, an Australian consumer electronics company, has announced the new Kogan ebook reader to take on the Kobo Reader and Amazon Kindle. At $189 AUD, the Kogan reader costs $10 less than the Kobo and roughly $50 less than the Kindle 2 […]
Kindle Sales Triple; Amazon Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcovers
Amazon issued a press release today saying that Kindle sales have increased each month in the 2nd quarter and that sales have tripled since the $70 price-cut down to $189. Even bigger news, Amazon is now selling 43% more Kindle Books than hardcover books over the past 3 months. As always, they haven’t revealed any […]
New Page: Ectaco jetBook, plus jetBook News
The Ectaco jetBook ereaders are very popular in some circles and I’ve been meaning to add them to the site for a long time. So here it is, the new Ectaco jetBook page, complete with specs, photos, and a video review of the jetBook Lite from YouTube. Check it out for a quick look at […]
The iPad Comes to Nine More Countries on Friday
Apple issued a press release this morning announcing that nine more countries have been added to the iPad’s accepted list. The press release states that people in the countries listed below can buy all models of the Apple iPad starting this Friday, July 23rd from Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Oddly, it does […]