Category: E-Book Readers
Barnes & Noble Already Prepping Kindle Fire Competition
Beginning just days before the press conference that revealed the Kindle Fire to the world, rumors started popping up that Barnes & Noble was nervously prepping their next tablet for…
$80 Kindle 4 Might Be Problematic For Amazon’s School Penetration
It is no secret that Amazon has its eyes on getting Kindles into schools. That was pretty clear even before the Kindle DX pilot programs and Kindle textbook rentals. The…
Waterstone’s To Be UK’s Next Kindle Competition
Everybody knows that Amazon doesn’t release the sales numbers for their Kindle eReader. That being said, some analysts have estimated that the popular eReader will sell over 17 million units…
Kindle Hardware Update Likely, Color eReader Not So Much
A combination of the high expectations surrounding the upcoming Amazon Kindle Tablet and the lack of substantial information regarding the expected hardware update to the existing Kindle eReader line has…
A Tribute to Michael Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart, the founder of ebooks and Project Gutenberg, died on September 6, 2011 at the age of 64. His death will be a huge loss for the digital book…
Kindle Scribe: Something To Get Excited About?
While there have been some fairly substantial revelations recently regarding the Kindle Tablet, we haven’t been hearing much about the next generation of Kindle eReader. It’s understandable, given the potential…
Sony Reader WiFi Finally Brings Real Kindle Challenge
For some time now the Kindle, while retaining its mostly uncontested status as the superior eReader choice for consumers, has been facing increasingly able competitors. The new Nook Simple Touch…
What To Consider About A Kindle For College
It’s that time of year again and students new and old are heading back to college for the fall. Now, more than ever, having an eReader just makes sense for…
Kobo To Open HTML5 eReading App Similar To Kindle Cloud Reader
Fascinated as we are by the platform here, Kindle users are far from the only group to be inconvenienced by Apple’s in-app purchasing guideline enforcement. Apple built the popularity of…
Sony Dumps Old Readers For Rumored New Generation
Fans of the Sony Reader line, the earliest and at one time best eReaders brought to market in the US, may be somewhat disappointed to head that the current generation…