Bed Bath & Beyond have marked the white Sharper Image Literati down to $39.99. It’s not a very good e-reader, and I wouldn’t give one to my worst enemy. But that’s a frigging cheap price for an e-reader! If you decide to get one, you might want to register on the BB&B website. They’ll email [...]
Entries from January 31st, 2011
Feedbooks have retired the Kindle download guide
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Have you ever downloaded a Kindle ebook from Feedbooks or MobileRead? If not, then you might not have heard of the Kindle Download Guide. Feedbooks used to provide a free Kindle Download Guide (MobileRead still do). This guide was an ebook made from collected descriptions and links to where you could download free ebooks. Sadly, [...]
Asus eeeNote EA800 coming to Europe in February
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
The other Asus e-reader just got price and release date. Asus plan to have this available in Europe next month with a retail of 259 € (about $355USD). The eeeNote is based on a low powered 8″ grayscale LCD screen (1024×768), and it has a Wacom touchscreen with a pressure sensitive pen, Wifi, 4GB Flash, [...]
How to use IM on your Kindle
January 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments · tips and tricks
Afew days ago an user over at MobileRead discovered how to use IM on the Kindle. I put this in the “why bother” category (IM works better on a smartphone), but the idea is kinda interesting. It turns out that the IM web app Meebo has a mobile site, and the mobile site works on [...]
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Why doesn’t the Kindle email conversion support Epub?
January 31st, 2011 · 7 Comments · opinion
When the Kindle launched back in 2007, one of its support features was an email conversion service. You could send an email with certain files attached to your Kindle and Amazon would convert the files and forward them to your Kindle. At the time of launch, the email conversion service didn’t support Epub. It didn’t [...]
Tags:conversion·email·epub·kindle·support
Kindle Singles Could Be So Much More
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
Amazon launched their new Kindle Singles line with the usual series of email blasts and banners on amazon.com recently. There appear to be 20 or so Singles products so far but I’m sure many more are in the works. Amazon says Singles are “compelling ideas expressed at their natural length.” My interpretation of that is, [...]
Pocketbook Germany sold 10k e-readers during the Christmas season
January 31st, 2011 · 7 Comments · hardware news
Following on the heels of the Fnac report on Saturday, Johannes of lesen.net reported that Pocketbook sold nearly 10, 000 e-readers in Germany during the past 2 months of 2010. Yikes. That’s not much, considering that Pocketbook have said they have a strong position in Europe.
Carlsen Comics to use Aquafadas’ digital comics platform
January 31st, 2011 · 2 Comments · press release
Carlsen are one of the 3 biggest comics publishers in Germany, and they also publish in Denmark and Sweden. This story is really just a footnote, but I find it interesting. Digital comics are about to go into the format wars that ebooks went through in the past decade. I’m still researching it, so I [...]
Will The Daily follow in the footsteps of Murdoch’s last digital newspaper?
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t know about Rupert Murdoch’s previous web based newspaper; this is the first I’d ever heard of it. Back in 1995 New Corp launched iGuide, a pioneering effort to bring daily news coverage to the web. It failed, and Evan Rudowski watched it happen. He wrote an article today [...]
Enspert Android tablet soon up for pre-order – $349
January 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Starting 1 February Dynamism will be taking orders for the Enspert E201U. It’s supposed to start shipping on 15 February. This is a middle of the ranks tablet with a 7″ (800×480) capacitive touchscreen, 2 cameras, Wifi, Bluetooth, but no 3G option. It’s running Android v2.2 on a Samsung Hummingbird 1GHz CPU. It ships with [...]
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