Category: Kindle Competition
Fujistu FLEPia features color eInk
Fujitsu has launched FLEPia – “color e-paper mobile terminal”. It features: 8″ 1024×768 e-Ink resistive touchscreen that can display either 260,000, 4,096 or 64 colors. Depending on the number of…
Amazon uses DMCA against MobileRead.com for hosting DRM Python Script Instructions
Engadget reports that undisclosed law firm on behalf of Amazon.com sent cease and desist letter to MobileRead.com admins demanding pages that host instructions on how to use Python script that…
Free Kindle 2 Contest Coming Up!
I’m going to hold a free Kindle 2 giveaway contest here on www.blogkindle.com. Rules are going to be very simple. The winner will receive one brand new Amazon Kindle 2…
Onyx Boox revealed at CeBIT 2009
Onyx International presented Onyx Boox e-reader at CeBIT 2009. Endgadget has video and some photos of the device. Current plans are for it to start shipping to US customers around…
New Kindle rival by Deutsche Telekom, maybe…
The word from Der Spiegel is that German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is developing a Kindle rival, of sorts, the as yet unnamed portable e-reader project carries the codenamed “News4me”…
Create a personal newspaper for your Kindle with Feedbooks
Feedbooks.com — a site we have previously mentioned on this site — has a new feature which allows Kindle users to download RSS feed directly onto the Kindle in a…
Here come the iPhone/iPod Touch e-book readers
You may of heard that over the weekend Apple unveiled it’s new iPhone 3G device, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the device, mostly because of the software,…
First year Kindle sales vs. popular gadgets first year sales: How does the Kindle compare?
We have all heard this past week that Amazon is expected to shift around 189,000 – 600,000 units by the end of the year – then 2.2 million units by…
Livre – eBook Concept
Last month Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos said “the Kindle, in terms of demand, is outpacing our expectations.” Now with that kind of success it is probably reasonable to assume that…
Open Letter to Steve Jobs: In Support of an iPod Reader
Yesterday on this website we posted the New York Times article which speculated on how Apple is developing a Kindle-like device, well today I came across a wonderful open letter…