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There are reportedly many rumors claiming that Amazon will change focus from Samsung’s Galaxy tablets and will instead attack Apple’s iPad with a 10.1” Kindle Fire. As the summer holiday season is approaching, Amazon seems interested in capturing the traveling reader's market and it will likel... |
18 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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You'd think that a company fresh out of revealing a new, color, flexible display technology for e-readers would scramble to get such an item out as soon as possible.
Plastic Logic has just finished smashing and grinding into dust that particular assumption, having announced that it will not, in fact, use that ... |
17 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Between Amazon and Barnes & Noble, there isn't much attention left in people to divert towards e-reader makers that don't have a presence worldwide, but that doesn't mean there aren't other successful products than the Kindle and the Nook. As it happens, while Amazon's Kindle and B&N's... |
15 May 2012
07:35 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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On Monday, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced the signing of a new agreement, aimed at accelerating the advancement in the e-reading area. In the press release announcing the new deal, the two companies also mentioned the creation of a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, as well as plans for coming up with a Windows... |
3 May 2012
08:09 GMT |
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When Barnes & Noble launched its first e-reader, it got so many orders that it was unable to deliver most of them on time.
Now, something similar is set to happen with the Nook GlowLight, a version of the Nook Simple Touch that has front lighting as well.
Essentially, it retains the clarity and aspect of the E Ink ... |
26 April 2012
10:19 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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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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We've barely heard anything about Pixel Qi lately, but that has changed and, hopefully, we'll see the displays more often down the line. Pixel Qi panels are different from common displays through their ability to operate in transflective mode. Essentially, they can absorb ambient light and, thus, don'... |
2 April 2012
08:45 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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LG has made the announcement of a product that may very well change the face of the e-book and e-reader industry into one that customers have been wanting to see for a long time. What the company did was formally introduce the first plastic electronic paper display, or EPD for short, that can bend at an angle of up... |
29 March 2012
08:23 GMT |
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Amazon may have launched the Kindle Touch E-reader some time ago, but it has yet to ship it to all parts of the world. We now learn that a step in the right direction has been taken. More specifically, even though international shipments are still not quite there yet, pre-orders can be placed in Germany, France, ... |
28 March 2012
10:26 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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Since the Nook e-reader and Nook Tablet have been doing so well, Barnes & Noble has been lobbying for a way to expand its reach.The company wants to have its Nook products sent to countries besides the United States.The upcoming event in London, scheduled for March 19 this year (2012), may just be the first step in t... |
6 March 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Readability, the application that turns any web page into a clean view for online or offline reading, has been released in the iOS App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Readability is a nifty service that allows pretty much anyone to catch up on their reading by saving content with the free Readability add-on ... |
1 March 2012
10:56 GMT |
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We may have already mentioned a certain deal that Barnes & Noble has decided to offer, but the company has now made the official announcement, one that reveals a second product change as well.
It is easy enough to summarize B&N's latest marketing maneuver as an attempt to face Amazon a bit more directly on the... |
21 February 2012
16:31 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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You can't fight the truth, and that is precisely the sort of saying that Amazon's latest commercial runs on, much to Apple's chagrin.
Apple did Samsung a favor by so ferociously going after the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, since the whole thing got turned into positive marketing for the device.
Now,... |
9 February 2012
11:18 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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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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If anyone was still wondering whether or not tablets have secured a spot in the hearts of people from the United States, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Pew Internet and American Life Project conducted a survey, of sorts, in regards to the state of the tablet market before and after the recent winter ... |
23 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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It appears that at least one competitor on the e-reader and tablet market has seen enough success to seriously consider big plans for the future.
Barnes and Noble have recently published their financial results, but what may stand out most is the part about future plans.
Granted, all the praise that the Nook Color... |
6 January 2012
09:30 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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Looks like Barnes and Noble is getting some docks of its own, or one of them, ready to act as the seat of power for the Nook e-reader and tablet.It wasn't B&N itself that designed the Docking Station for the 7-inch devices.Instead, ReaderDock made it and expects to start shipping it before the month is out (Janu... |
3 January 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Looks like it took a 12 year-old to come out and invent something that should have been created a long time ago.Dino Zaharakis, who already has a Global Student Entrepreneur Award for High School and a “Most Innovative Product” award, designed the Dzdock.Dino looked at phones, tablets, e-readers and other... |
28 December 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble is serious about its position on the tablet and e-reader markets and isn't about to let any legal struggle stop it from ordering millions of them to be made.
According to Digitimes, the producer of two of the most disruptive products on the tablet and e-reader market placed a total of 1.5 mill... |
16 December 2011
13:11 GMT |
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For those who remember when we said that the first Mirasol-equipped e-reader had finally been completed, it turns out that Kyobo and Qualcomm decided it was time for a real video walkthrough.
When we talked about how the 5.7-inch device had finally become reality, we also pointed people towards a small intro video ... |
14 December 2011
19:31 GMT |
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E-readers could always do with some better screen lights, especially if said lights don't kill the battery power too fast, and Flex Lighting might have just what e-paper needs.
The secret in the company's method of casting light upon e-paper screens is that it is not a backlighting technology, but a front... |
14 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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There is a lot decidedly un-e-reader-like about the Nook Color from Barnes and Noble and now there is even more to make it qualify almost perfectly as a tablet.
Barnes and Noble just officially announced an update to the software of their Nook Color e-reader.
The item already had a hard enough time of continuing t... |
12 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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We're reminding you about the new firmware for iRiver's StoryHD e-reader, now reaching version 1.28. This new firmware addresses certain issues related to DRM (digital rights management) which seem to plague the devices running older software.By correcting the system bugs responsible for the abnormal behavi... |
29 November 2011
10:39 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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Some may have thought it would never happen, or at least that it wouldn't happen any time this year, but it did, Qualcomm made an e-reader using a Mirasol display.
The device that Qualcomm created measures 5.7 inches in diagonal and stands apart from all other e-book readers through the special properties of i... |
22 November 2011
02:50 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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With e-readers selling about as well as ever, it was inevitable that E Ink, being the prime supplier of displays for such items, would profit from it. E Ink just published its financial results, at least those that it can safely speak about since the year is not done yet. Then again, any company would feel the ur... |
9 November 2011
07:39 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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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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After several announcements about e-book reading devices, market watchers have outlined their latest expectations in regards to the e-reader market.
E-readers are those compact, portable gadgets that people use to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc. in electronic format, and not only.
Since people like to... |
10 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Amazon got attention recently with a new batch of e-readers, but the party will grow soon, as Bookeen also has a device in the pipeline, one that has the latest type of e-paper from E Ink.
By now, many users will have come to know of the fact that E Ink is the company that makes the displays used by e-reade... |
8 October 2011
06:57 GMT |
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Pandigital finally made the official introduction of the SuperNova, a mobile electronic that, depending on who you ask, is either an e-reader or a tablet.
The one thing that works as a turnoff for many on the tablet front is that this sector is one of many models but few successes.
Basically, many tablets wer... |
7 October 2011
10:14 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 may be selling the Kindle Reader at a discount for people willing to put up with constant ads, but it predicted well that buyers, or at least some of them, would eventually tire of it and want the feature gone, so it is offering to turn it off, for a fee.
Amazon made itself even better known recently, by r... |
6 October 2011
08:18 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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Barnes and Noble could be said to be already selling a tablet, even if it is advertised as an e-reader, but new reports say that a trio of new such things might be on the way.
Either the tablet market is too appealing or the prospect of multi-feature e-readers is too good to pass up because, according to a new ru... |
26 September 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Even though e-readers have started using other sorts of display technologies, E Ink's e-paper is still clearly dominant, and the positive evolution of sales and revenues in the first half of 2011 makes this very clear.
Anyone who pays any level of attention to the e-book reader market will have at least once... |
19 September 2011
08:53 GMT |
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