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Amazon Will Sell 6 Million Kindle Fires in 2011, Say Analysts

The Kindle Fire has proven to be a smashing hit for Amazon which is now expected to sell more than 6 million of these 7-inch tablets by the end of the year, making it one of the most successful products in the company’s history.According to the Goldman Sachs report, the 6 million Kindle Fire tablets will also b...

14 December 2011
06:04 GMT

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color Gets Some New Accessories from M-Edge

M-Edge has come up, over time, with a very large number of accessories designed specifically for eBook readers, and now, the company's back with a couple of new models meant to accessorize the Nook Color e-reader from Barnes & Noble.Over time, M-Edge's accessories have covered most of the portable eBook re...

10 March 2011
15:51 GMT

Hanvon Prepping Advanced eBook Readers for CeBIT 2011

Although it came prepared with a few interesting surprises back at MWC 2011, Hanvon's decided to keep a few aces up its sleeve for CeBIT as well, the company revealing that they'll be introducing a couple of advanced eBook readers on this occasion.We've had the chance of checking-out some of Hanvon...

28 February 2011
08:48 GMT

Live Experience with the Onda MyTile 10C Ebook Reader at MWC 2011

Beside the MyTile 10B Pro eBook reader we've talked about earlier this week, Italian company Onda also brought to MWC 2011 a couple of more such interesting products, including here the MyTile 10C model, that we'll present as follows.While the 10C is quite close to the 10B Pro model in terms of design, ther...

18 February 2011
05:35 GMT

OtterBox Intros Commuter Series of Protective Covers for eBook Readers

Most people out there who've purchased an eBook reader typically use these things while being on the go, and for this reason, they also require some protective solutions specifically designed to keep them safe at all times, such as the ones included in the new Commuter Series by OtterBox.Over time, OtterBox has ...

28 January 2011
06:45 GMT

1-Color Display NoteSlate Bridges the Gap Between Tablets, eReaders

Without a doubt, we're seeing plenty of Internet tablets and eReader-like devices making their way to the market these days, and while some of them do offer some pretty interesting features at more or less affordable price points, other are simply strange, their particular target segment not being very clear, an...

19 January 2011
01:39 GMT

iRiver Story HD eBook Reader Touted as Having Record-Breaking Resolution

A few years ago, iRiver had managed to become one of the world's best-known PMP manufacturers, but the advent of smartphones and Internet tablets has sort of pushed it out of the spotlight, a place the company strives to get back to with its various latest-gen offerings, such as the Story HD eBook Reader, that t...

14 January 2011
05:52 GMT

Sony Showcases 13.3-inch Flexible ePaper in eBook Reader Prototype

It really seems that the most important eBook reader manufacturers out there are keen on taking this brand of products to a whole new level, with Sony being quite in front of the pack, since they've recently showcased at the Eco-Products 2010 trade show in Japan a prototype reader featuring a 13.3-inch flexible ...

10 December 2010
13:41 GMT

Asus Eee Reader DR900 to Start Selling in Europe

Although Asus really took its sweet time before making their Eee Reader DR900 available for the general public, it would seem that the Taiwanese company has finally decided to start selling their long-awaited product in Europe, where it will arrive at some point over the course of December 2010.As some of you might r...

30 November 2010
08:36 GMT

Evolio EVOBOOK, First Romanian eBook Reader, is Pretty Spiffy

Typically, we don't tend to cover too much products and devices designed specifically for a single market, but we'll make an exception for the EVOBOOK from Evolio, the first eBook reader that targets specifically the local Romanian market, but that could very well prove to be a fairly OK contender on other ...

16 November 2010
06:55 GMT

Color ePaper is Here, Courtesy of E Ink Triton

Electronic paper (or ePaper) represents a category of display solutions that have become quite popular over the past year or so, mostly due to the rapid “rise to stardom” of the various eBook readers that have made their way onto the market within this time frame and that make very good use of this techno...

9 November 2010
02:55 GMT

Motorola Android eBook Reader Spotted in China

Although the battle royale the Internet and multimedia tablets' segment is currently engulfed it has sort of moved the spotlight away from the eBook readers' market, that's not stopping it from growing, with more and more major manufacturers starting to at least consider rolling out such products, the ...

8 November 2010
05:20 GMT

Ectaco jetBook mini eBook Reader Goes Under $100 Threshold

While overall pricing for portable eBook readers has dropped significantly over the past year or so, due mostly to the increased competition in this market segment, these devices are still way too expensive for many consumers out there, and for this reason, Ectaco has decided that a low-price eBook reader might get t...

20 October 2010
00:45 GMT

New Pandigital Novel Personal eReader Features ePaper Display, Touchscreen

While catching up with Amazon's Kindle eBook reader is quite a tough task for any company involved in the portable eBook reader's market that's not stopping various other manufacturers from trying, the latest to unveil such a product being Pandigital, who's upgraded its Novel series of eReaders fe...

18 October 2010
00:33 GMT

Wireless Carriers to Offer More Devices Besides Phones

Mobile phone carriers all around the world are reportedly seeking new ways through which they could expand the use of their wireless networks, and Strategy Analitics says that their focus is expected to shift towards devices like eBook readers, portable navigation devices and game consoles or Mobile Internet Devices,...

29 October 2009
07:27 GMT

Hanvon N510, a Chinese 5-inch Electrophoretic E-Book Reader

Since fewer and fewer people actually do have the time to read a paperback book, there's an increased level of interest in eBook readers, those ultra-portable devices that allow you to read not one, but thousands of books, wherever you might happen to be at the moment. For this reason, everyone's trying to ...

5 November 2008
02:09 GMT

Amazon Kindle 2 eBook Reader Apparently Leaked

As you might know from one of our previous articles on the subject of Amazon's Kindle portable eBook reader, rumor has it that the company is preparing the launch of a successor to this device, designed to mend everything that was wrong about the first one and add a few extras on the side. And while Amazon itsel...

6 October 2008
02:26 GMT

Sony's Third Generation Portable eBook Reader, the First to Feature a Touchscreen

As you might recall from one of our articles published yesterday, Sony has initiated a campaign dubbed “Reader Revolution,” meant to convince more people to take up reading. However, as we were all expecting, there's also a marketing gimmick behind this whole “social” initiative, since th...

3 October 2008
02:32 GMT

Man to Read for 30 days Non-Stop Using Sony's Reader Digital Book

It's become quite a habit for various consumer electronics' powerhouses around the world to launch what could be described as “social campaigns”, in which they heavily promote some social issue alongside one of their products, which could potentially solve it. And that's also the case with ...

2 October 2008
02:35 GMT

iRex Unveils iRex 1000 Series of Digital eBook Readers

For the past couple of days, iRex, the manufacturer of the iLiad and iLiad Book Edition portable eBook readers, has been touting a product that, according to the company, was supposed to forever change the way in which we perceive e-reading (reading books or text materials in electronic format, while on the go).It di...

23 September 2008
02:31 GMT

Smelling the Knock-Off From a Mile Away - The Hanlin eReader V9

China is probably the world's biggest manufacturer of various electronic devices, but, as we all know only too well, quite a large percentage of the products created here are either cheap knock-offs or, in the best-case scenario, "imitations" of similar items created by various important brands. And this is also...

17 January 2008
11:16 GMT


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