Category: E-Books
Kindle Paperwhite Update Improves Overall User Experience and Comic Reading Specifically
We already know that Amazon intends for the Kindle Paperwhite to set the new standard for eReader hardware in every way they could manage. Some people might still wish for…
DC Comes to Kindle Store & More, Ending Comixology Exclusivity
While DC Entertainment is insisting that the move is not necessarily a switch away from Comixology, the publisher has now made the transition to offering its weekly content directly through…
Nook Services Follow Kindle to Browser-Based eReading App
As was bound to happen eventually, Barnes & Noble has joined Amazon in offering a browser-based reading solution for their Nook customers. Since last August, the Kindle Cloud Reader has…
Dozens of Slovoed Dictionaries Come to the Kindle Store
Paragon Software Group, possibly best known for their work in mobile dictionary and reference software, has brought a new set of translation dictionaries to the Kindle Store in an effort…
Did the Kindle Start a Trend Toward Paperless Living?
A recent survey put out by Gartner looked at portable device usage among five hundred or so participants to see how things like tablet computing were changing the way we…
Penguin Tentatively Returns eBooks to Libraries, but Not Kindles
By launching a pilot program to bring their publications back to libraries through OverDrive competitor 3M, Penguin has taken a step back toward serving its customers. At least so long…
Kindle vs Nook Competition Gets Absurd With Tolstoy “Nookd” Gaffe
Obviously the last thing that a company like Barnes & Noble wants to do is inadvertently promote their competition by including the name Kindle in eBooks that are converted from…
How the Kindle is Contributing to a New Way of Looking at the World
It is occasionally amazing exactly how far we’ve come over the years. It’s an inane observation but not, I think, an inaccurate one. This came to me recently while reading…
Kindle Prices Still Too High!
The Kindle line basically started the digital reading revolution. They were neither the first nor the best when they appeared, but Kindles were the driving force behind it. Amazon got…
How to Make Your Kindle Book Successful
I am not a bestselling author, nor do I play one on television. I do, however, take a great deal of interest in how those who have managed to make…