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Instapaper 4.2 is now available in the App Store with all-new pagination, sepia, auto-fullscreen reading, and more, the developer has announced. Calling it “a significant update with many fixes and new features,” Marco Arment, the developer, has included an all-new iBooks-Style Pagination option for... |
10 May 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Right from the start, e-readers did better, marketing-wise, than anyone had expected, showing that yes, there are still many people who would spend time reading a good book.
Amazon was among the first to cash in on the new product type. Its Kindle became the best-selling product too, and stayed that way for months.... |
10 May 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Apple has acknowledged an issue with its e-book reading application, and has therefore launched an update to address this problem, as well as to strengthen the stability and performance of the software. iBooks version 2.1.1 addresses an issue where the user got nagged with a prompt to sign-in with his / her Apple ID... |
17 April 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble may not have managed to get its Nook e-readers the same level of fame as Amazon got its Kindles, but it still has a loyal fanbase.
In other words, the bookstore chain has a pretty stable ecosystem, so it makes sense that it would be devising a new e-reader.
According to The Digital Reader, the next-g... |
12 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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In the light of America’s Department of Justice suing Apple Inc. and others over antitrust violations regarding e-book pricing, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), has issued a public statement expressing his dismay towards the Obama Administration’s decision.The... |
12 April 2012
10:40 GMT |
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A new application from Nokia should become available for download on devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform in the near future, namely Nokia Reading. The software is expected to land in the Windows Phone Marketplace as Nokia’s e-book store, and will be available for free. In addition to ... |
5 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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We already know that e-books are very popular reading material, they have to be if so many e-readers are selling, but it's another thing to see exactly how many people read them. As it happens, the Pew Research Center conducted a study that led to the following conclusion: 21 percent of US adults has read an e-... |
5 April 2012
10:30 GMT |
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One of the main reasons behind the big sales gap between Amazon's Kindle e-readers and B&N's Nook is that Barnes & Noble does not have a worldwide presence like the former.
Things have now changed: B&N has started a new company in Germany, called Barnes & Noble Digital Media GmbH.
The filing procedure was... |
29 March 2012
09:59 GMT |
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It isn't often that sales of a product type plummet like a chopped down tree, but e-reader may just go through something of the sort, according to a new report.
Digitimes predicts a major drop in global e-reader sales for the current quarter (Q1, 2012), and the reason is not what one would first expect.
Rath... |
9 March 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Amazon is preparing to launch a new e-book reader, one that will be small but equipped with a color screen, unlike most such devices.
Digitimes looked into what was happening with Amazon's product suppliers, and what it found was quite intriguing.
Citing the Chinese-language Economic Daily News ePaper, the r... |
20 February 2012
10:26 GMT |
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iTunes Connect users, including e-book publishers, have received a message from the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, informing them that promo codes are now available for iBookstore content. This and other new benefits offered to iBookstore publishers are detailed below.
People making... |
16 February 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Looks like people who want e-books from Penguin will have to buy them online, download them to a computer and then transfer them to their e-reader via USB.
For those that don't remember, Amazon's Kindle Library is just what its name implies: a service for free download of book.
Sure, users have to agree... |
13 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Owners of the Nook Simple Touch e-book reader from Barnes and Noble may have found that not all was well after getting the 1.1 software upgrade.
Barnes & Noble, after looking into the situation, has reportedly admitted that the update really did cause problems.
People who stopped by the e-reader forum may already... |
8 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has released an app for the iPad that facilitates access to the ASHP library of eBooks.
The software was developed by Impelsys, ASHP’s eBooks technology partner. There are almost two dozen eBooks available for immediate download onto the iPad, with more ... |
3 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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E-readers are awesome gadgets, but there is one thing that they can't actually do yet: genuinely simulate real page turning.Granted, you can go from one page to another, or jump ahead by inputting a page number, but you still can't actually dip into the book.Seeking to make up for this oversight, KAIST (Kor... |
24 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Anonymous sources are leaking some interesting information about Apple’s upcoming event in NYC today, including the project’s code name, and some of the stuff that will be announced by the company’s top brass. Apple’s secret textbook project is code-named “Bliss,” according to peo... |
19 January 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Kyobo's e-reader could have probably done with a lot fewer application crashes and problems with loading DRM-protected books, even after authorizing, but the device may still succeed in making a mark.
The Kyobo Reader is the first of its kind to use a Mirasol display, a screen which imitates butterfly iridescen... |
3 January 2012
11:41 GMT |
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iTunes Rewind is done with apps and has moved on to books, awarding titles like Best Novel, Best Nonfiction, Best teen Novel, and Best Enhanced Book.According to the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, “Books got even more beautiful and engaging this year by including stunning illus... |
28 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Formal antitrust proceedings have been kicked off by the European Commission to investigate the matter of e-book price rigging by several renowned publishers “with the help of Apple.” Apple maintains the iBookstore, a section of the iTunes store where iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners can download paid a... |
6 December 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Penguin books were suddenly pulled form the online Amazon Kindle Library lending service, but they seem to have returned, at least in part.
What that means is that existing e-books can be borrowed again, but there is no word on future releases, according to OverDrive anyway.
No details were provided, even now, ab... |
25 November 2011
08:40 GMT |
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A little-known fact about the iBookstore launched in mid-2010 is that Apple will not allow publishers to use promo-codes to get their books into the hands of reviewers, or to offer copies out of courtesy to select people.Why? No one knows. All we know for now is that if you try to run a promo-code contest to get peop... |
23 November 2011
05:44 GMT |
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We wrote yesterday about the new Kyobo e-reader, but people may have missed it or skipped over it because they didn't know just how big a player it could turn into.
This is the world's first Android device to use the Mirasol display, which captures ambient light and uses it to create color the same way bu... |
23 November 2011
03:00 GMT |
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We already said how owners of the Amazon Kindle e-readers or tablets can loan books from an online library, but even though the service hasn't existed for long, one supplier of e-books decided to suddenly cut off access to its titles.
It was a report from The Digital Shift that brought to attention how US cust... |
22 November 2011
07:23 GMT |
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E-books are supposed to be convenient because they can be downloaded online at any time, but Norwegian retailer Norli Libris wants to turn e-books into physical commodities, so to speak.
That is to say, it wants to sell e-books, one at a time, on memory cards.
More precisely, it has small, plastic cards that hold... |
21 November 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Having an e-reader implied that one also purchase one or more books to actually give it something to do, but it appears this is no longer the case, for Amazon's Kindle at least.
Amazon decided that it just wasn't doing enough for its customers, or figured that free books will do wonders in the PR and Kind... |
3 November 2011
10:55 GMT |
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E-readers really seem to be getting their affordability boots on, as the new item from Greenbook has a very low price, even in its touch-enable form, though availability is still a way off.
Greenbook may not yet be ready to start shipping the EZRead e-reader, but that doesn't mean it can't spend some qual... |
20 October 2011
15:11 GMT |
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That e-readers are doing well in terms of sales is no mystery, but for those who want to know just what numbers they enable, E Ink published its financial results for September. Besides tablets, e-readers are among the most successful products of the past couple of years, or longer, since such items have been aroun... |
19 October 2011
07:09 GMT |
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During yesterday’s Q4 - 2011 earnings call Apple confirmed that its iBookstore is now responsible for some 180 million ebook downloads.Accessible through the free iBooks app on iOS and through iTunes on Mac OS X and Windows, the iBookstore houses hundreds of thousands of books from major publishers, and include... |
19 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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WH Smith is one of the latest retail chains that have decided to enter the e-reader business, although it won't make a device of its own, choosing, instead, the Kobo.
The media may have been keeping its eyes on the Kindle lately, what with Amazon's string of announcements, but other e-readers are seeing... |
13 October 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Amazon was already a global presence, but it took things one step further with the launch of a new product and book store in France, though shipments won't start for a while yet.
Amazon just let everyone know that its French customers have every reason to feel more closely looked after than ever.
More spe... |
7 October 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle may have gotten a lot of attention from the media recently, but Barnes & Noble is not about to fall too far behind, having also taken steps towards the further promotion of its existing products. Amazon has fresh e-readers and even a tablet on the market now, such as it is, though the Kindle to... |
4 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Some may have been excited about the 3G support that Amazon's Kindle Touch sported, but it looks like the newest version of the gadget doesn't really support it in full. Amazon really is utilizing strange tactics lately, going for very low prices with the apparent goal of spreading around as many means as p... |
3 October 2011
11:04 GMT |
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People tempted to forget about e-readers should not ignore this market, as reports say that the segment will prove quite lucrative for everyone involved.
E-readers were, at one point, a sort of wonder-child of bookstore chains and anyone who had any collection of digitized book content to speak of.
While prov... |
3 October 2011
09:09 GMT |
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People who thought the Kindle e-reader wasn't already cheap enough will doubtlessly rejoice when they hear about the new one that costs just $79 (57.95 Euro).Amazon put the Kindle e-reader through several price cuts already, as well as version updates, but things are going even further.During the live event bein... |
28 September 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Demibooks Composer, a new iOS application now available from the iTunes App Store, is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive/enhanced books.Founded in 2010, Demibooks, Inc. offers software and service solutions ideal for publishers, authors and illustrators for authoring interactive book app... |
21 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Trying to carve a slice of the e-reader market for itself, Medion decided to attend this year's IFA trade show and officially announce a pair of such gadgets, both featuring e-paper.
Though the tablet segment is the fast-growing segment making the news most often recently, it wasn't too long ago that e-... |
3 September 2011
06:22 GMT |
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The e-reader market is not overly great in terms of model variety, but it is not poor in this regard either, nor do models get updated easily, what with successors being periodically offered, such as the BeBook Club.E-readers have come to be a fairly common commodity around the world, even though they didn't ev... |
29 August 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Sony is one of the main suppliers of e-book readers in the world, much like Amazon and B&N, and it has been developing a new such device, one that has finally been spotted online.E-book readers are something that many a consumer has bought as a present or for one's self.Though there seem to be many people with ... |
29 August 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Seeing as how the so-called back-to-school season is up and running, promotions are, as expected, showing up, with B&N setting up one of its own, meant to encourage sales of its Nook e-reader.Users that have been keeping track of the e-reader market will obviously know of the Nook from Barnes & Noble.Though the past... |
10 August 2011
05:21 GMT |
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It appears that Amazon figured it was time the kindle e-reader began to sell through more channels that its own web store, so it has partnered with OfficeMax, which will begin to sell it through its many stores starting this month.
By now, not many users will be left confused when told to state what the words Ama... |
5 August 2011
08:16 GMT |
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It appears that yet another so-called hybrid has emerged on the IT industry, one that might or might not act as a foil for the B&N Nook when it actually starts roaming the Japanese market. The way things are going on the IT market right now, hybrid devices are cropping up more and more frequently. This goes for pr... |
12 July 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Bold decision or not, it has been found that South Korea decided it was time to move elementary-level education onto digitized platforms, relying on the newly formed tablet segment as the basis.Given the rate at which physical books have been losing ground, marketing-wise, to e-books, one could say it was only a mat... |
4 July 2011
08:21 GMT |
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The Nook e-reader may be making the news, but it might just be that sales aren't as high as the bookstore chain might like, considering the most recent marketing move on its part. While tablets do seem to be grabbing much of the consumer base's attention nowadays, other things aren't exactly going by... |
2 July 2011
04:10 GMT |
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It appears that the time has finally come for Kobo to enter the battle between e-book readers with touch input support, so the aptly named Kobo eReader Touch Edition has now seen its official introduction.Users that like to keep track of things on the gadget market might already know of how the B&N Nook recently got... |
20 June 2011
04:32 GMT |
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It appears that spam really is finding its way onto every possible corner of the IT industry, as even a certain e-reader from Amazon seems to have fallen victim to the phenomenon now that the Kindle Direct Publishing service is up and running.While Amazon selling those portable items known as e-readers is all well a... |
17 June 2011
09:54 GMT |
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It appears that the period of time an e-reader can run for before its battery gets depleted is an issue that companies selling such things are taking quite seriously, as proven by a recent couple of statements.While Amazon has had its current-generation Kindle e-book reader out and about for quite a while, Barnes an... |
26 May 2011
05:07 GMT |
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It seems that there is now an extra player on the e-reader market, one that intends to play both sides of the color display line, the company being known as Aluratek and its products as the Libre line.The e-reader market definitely doesn't rival the tablet segment in terms of variety and sales, but its rate of ... |
25 May 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble have finally gotten around to releasing a new version of their Nook e-reader, and it looks like the newcomer has quite the feature set for something which sells for $139.This once, it is not Amazon that provided a new electronic, but Barnes and Noble, its Nook having gotten an overhaul.This is not a... |
25 May 2011
06:07 GMT |
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It appears that the e-reader market is proving to be a very harsh place now that a certain family of e-book readers has more or less reached the point of no return, as suggested by what happened to the content store.
Considering the special conditions that have to be met by a company in order for an e-reader to h... |
23 May 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Reports haven't really been hinting at Barnes and Noble wanting to get bought off, but it looks like a certain company does want to acquire the book seller, or at least 70% of it.Barnes and Noble is known to be the biggest book seller in the United States, and it looks like this status has drawn the attention o... |
21 May 2011
05:51 GMT |
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