Pandigital officially announced today a new black Pandigital Novel that has some upgrades in features over the white model that I reviewed a couple of months ago. The new Pandigital Novel is expected to hit stores next month for the suggested retail price of $199. Like the white version, this one ties in with Barnes […]
Entourage Edge Now Selling From Best Buy and Other Resellers
Just happened to notice that the Entourage Edge, the first foldable device to have both E Ink and LCD touchscreens, is now selling online from Best Buy along with some other retailers. In fact, the Entourage Edge website now refers all orders to their resellers, even though they still sell accessories. Interestingly, the price is […]
New Barnes and Noble Nook Reading Apps
Barnes and Noble released a new Nook app for iPhone today and upgraded the iPad app. They also updated the PC app to carry the new Nook brand instead of the older eReader brand. I tested the new Nook for PC app and compared it to the old eReader app and the results were not […]
NOOKstudy Review – A Look at B&N’s Textbook Reading Software
Back on August 3rd, just in time for back to school, Barnes and Noble released their new free textbook software called NOOKstudy. NOOKstudy is designed for college students so that they can manage all their digital content on a PC or Mac computer in one place—eTextbooks, notes, syllabi, books, presentations, classwork, etc. Some features of […]
Refurbished Sony Pocket $99, Sony Touch $119
The prices of ereaders are dropping all the time. Sony Style now has the refurbished PRS-300 marked down to $99 and the refurbished PRS-600 marked down to $119. Refurbished products are often items that have been returned or ones that have had minor fixes, so they’re generally a good deal and this time, for an […]
The Copia Tablet and 4 New eReaders from Copia: Specs, Pricing, and Pics
There’s going to be a lot of news about the new Copia eReaders, the Copia Tablet, and the Copia Marketplace in the coming weeks and months, so let’s get things started with a first look at the preliminary specs and prices on the 5 new devices set to launch this fall. The folks at Copia […]
WHSmith Cuts eBook Prices in Response to Amazon UK
Last week when Amazon officially unveiled the new Kindle UK ebook store, I compared some of Amazon’s ebook prices with WHSmith and found that Amazon had much lower prices in most cases. Here’s the post with the information about Kindle UK and the price comparisons. So now WHSmith is countering by cutting their prices by […]
GooReader Review – An App for Google Books
The GooReader application for Windows was announced today. It allows you to search, download, and read books and magazines available on Google Books in yet another app that tries to look like a virtual bookshelf. There are two versions of the app, a free version and a paid version if you are insane enough to […]