This Week’s Top Posts New Kindle DX with Better Contrast and Lower Price – Amazon continued to dominate the news this week by introducing the new graphite Kindle DX for $379 that will be released on Wednesday. What’s more, the new Kindle DX is the first ebook reader to use new higher-contrast screens just announced […]
Books-A-Million Giving Away Sony Readers Every Day in July
Books-A-Million, one of the nation’s leading book retailers with 227 stores in 23 states, is giving away a shiny new Sony PRS-505 each day this month to promote their new ebook store. In order to win the Sony Reader, you have to purchase an ebook from the Books-A-Million website to be entered into the daily […]
Augen “The Book” eBook Reader
(Update: The full written review for this device is now finished and is located on this new Augen The Book Review page.) “The Book” has a lot of interesting and advanced features; if everything works as listed on the spec sheet, at $129, this could be a great deal. The only drawback is that the […]
The Apple iBookstore Comes to Canada
Up until July 1st, Canada Day ironically (aka Dominion Day for all you anti-conformists out there), the Apple iBookstore was available for download in Canada, but the selection of books was limited to free classic ebooks in the public domain. Now, several major publishers are selling titles in Canada on the iBookstore, including Hachette, HarperCollins […]
The Kobo Reader Gets a Firmware Update
The Kobo Reader, the once most cost-effective option for a 6-inch ebook reader (the Nook Wi-Fi now holds that title), just got its first firmware update to improve some of the initial problems with EPUB font sizing and power management. Kobo will be releasing the update over the next 2 weeks to different countries where […]
PocketBook Lowers Prices of eReaders
Following the current trend of ebook reader price-slashing, PocketBook has cut the prices of all three of their ebook readers in the US. All three support a variety of ebook formats including FBReader, EPUB, PDF, RTF, HTML, PRC, CHM, DJVU, DOC, and TCR. The new touchscreen, Wi-Fi enabled PocketBook 302 went from $339 to $279 […]
OverDrive to Add Disney Digital Books to Library Catalog
On June 29th, OverDrive issued a press release announcing the preliminary agreement with Disney Digital Books that will enable libraries to offer access to Disney’s comprehensive library of books online. The Disney Digital Books collection contains over 600 new and classic Disney books from popular franchises such as Mickey Mouse, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Finding […]
The New Toshiba eBook Store Powered by Blio
Last week we reported on Toshiba’s new Libretto W100 dual-screen laptop as a possible ebook reader, and now Toshiba is launching their own ebook store—the Toshiba Book Place—powered by Blio software. Blio is a new ebook software platform created by Ray Kurzweil—a well-known inventor, author, and futurist—that preserves a book’s original layout, including fonts, images, […]