From the press release: HIT Entertainment, RosettaBooks, and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the entire bestselling “Rainbow Magic”™ collection (nine 7-title series, plus one 10-title special edition series), and future series and special editions, are available exclusively in the Kindle Store. RosettaBooks, a pioneer in e-book publishing will launch these books; this marks RosettaBooks’ [...]
Entries from November 24th, 2010
Rainbow Magic children’s books now exclusively available in the Kindle Store
November 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
Jane Litte reviews the NookColor
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews
Jan, editor of Dear Author romance blog,posted her review of the NooColor yesterday. I think Angela James tweeted something to the effect that if the nookColor was your entrance into ereading, you wouldn’t be disappointed. The other reviewers of the nookColor are also right. If you view this as a ebook reader plus, you’ll be [...]
Texas A&M, XanEdu to run pilot program with NookColor
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: XanEdu, the leading faculty-preferred provider of custom course materials and textbooks, has partnered with Barnes & Noble and Texas A&M to conduct research on the efficacy of accessing and studying custom course materials within NookStudy. Students at Texas A&M will access their XanEdu course materials in NookStudy and provide valuable feedback [...]
Brian O’Leary: mobile reading comes of age [presentation]
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
by Piotr Kowalczyk of Password Incorrect Please read carefully this fantastic presentation on mobile reading prepared by Brian O’Leary. It all began with first popular e-reading devices in 2006/07. E-books started to move from a desktop phase to a mobile phase. Mobile means convenience. Convenience of a printed book – and much beyond. It’s a [...]
3 Interesting articles about Android
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Android
This is looking to be a slow news day for ebooks, so I thought I’d take a step outside my usual coverage. Three posts on Android showed up in my feeds this morning. While I would normally only report on one, the coincidence that I happened across all 3 made me decide to discuss them [...]
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Hands on with Marvell’s new tablet prototype
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Slashgear got some face time recently with Marvell’s newest prototype. You’re looking at 10″ Android tablet running on a multi-core 1.5GHz Armada 628 CPU. Like their previous prototypes, this one is a reference design that Marvell will customize to suit an OEM partner. Video is after the break.
Baker & Taylor release Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader iPhone app
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Baker & Taylor Publishing Group, a division of Baker & Taylor Inc., is thrilled to announce that its Portable Press imprint has produced an iPhone application for its popular and long-running trivia series, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. The app – both fun and information-laden – is available for purchase for $1.99 [...]
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K2 refurbs to be on sale Black Friday – $89
November 23rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · sales
Do you remember how I said Amazon weren’t planning to put the Kindle on sale? It looks like I was wrong. I got this from the official Kindle twitter account: Black Friday Deal: Limited number of previous gen Kindle (same E Ink as current Nook) for just $89! Deal starts 11/26 at 9 am PST. [...]
Use virtual bookplates to help recover a lost Kindle
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · tips and tricks
by Chris Walters It’s not a bad idea to put your contact info on your Kindle, in the event that you misplace it and a Good Samaritan happens along. There’s a built-in spot for this information under Settings, but a stranger might not know to look there, and if your Kindle is password-protected then the [...]
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Next Puzzle Game now available on the Kindle
November 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · kindle app
The next great addition to the Kindle Store is a new matching game from Mobigoo. It’s selling for $2.99. The objective of the game is to clear all the pieces off the game board. Game pieces disappear when they are matched with, and touch, other game pieces with the same symbol. Your job is to [...]
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