A few weeks back I told you that Velocity Micro had started clearing out existing stock of their Android tablets. Today I can tell you why. VM sent a new 10″ Android tablet through the FCC earlier this week. I don’t have the full specs, but I’ve figured out a thing or 2 from the [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2011
Ebook Sales have More than Doubled at Random House
August 31st, 2011 · No Comments · statistics
Bertelsmann, the corporate parent of Random House, released a new set of financial docs today and the numbers for Random House ebooks were a little surprising. Revenues for the first half of 2011 were €787 million, which is down slightly from 2010 (€791 million). The various Random House imprint are now up to just over [...]
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Sony to Expand Ebookstore into UK, Germany
August 31st, 2011 · 10 Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news
Sony announced their new ebook reader today and there were a couple bits of news that didn’t make the press release. Sony will soon be expanding their ebookstore into more countries. The new Sony reader is indeed the one I found on Saturday, and it does have a 6″ Pearl screen, Wifi, 2GB Flash, touchscreen, [...]
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Pandigital SuperNova now Listed on BestBuy website
August 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
It’s not available just yet, but Pandigital’s flagship tablet SuperNova now has a product page on bb.com. There isn’t much new detail, though; the listed specs are rather vague. I mean, I already knew that it was basically a slightly larger version of the Nova, Pandigital’s recent 7″ gingerbread table. The SuperNova has an 8″ screen, [...]
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Updated: Pocketbook to Unveil Gingerbread Tablet This Week – But no Mirasol
August 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware rumors
I’ve just gotten a tip from one of my contacts that Pocketbook are going to have a new tablet at IFA Berlin, a trade show that opens this weekend. Update: I have new info from another source. The image at right is supposed to be the Pocketbook A10, and it’s running on a 1GHz CPU. [...]
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E-Reads to Spend Money Fighting Piracy
August 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
The digital backlist publisher e-reads announced a new program last night. All of their author clients will now have the option of using a new anti-piracy program that they’ll be subsidizing with ebook sales. The system searches for files on the various upload sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc. It tracks the location and gives each [...]
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Bookstores Now Acting as Ebook Showrooms
August 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments · statistics
Simba Information has released the results of a rather obvious little survey. Have you ever looked at a product in store and then bought it online? Guess what – readers are now doing that with ebooks. Simba surveyed 110 bookstores across the country, and they found that 38% of the booksellers reported seeing (former) regular [...]
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Hp TouchPad Hacking Continues – CPU overclocked to 1.9GHz
August 31st, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
HP might have killed (and revived) the TouchPad, but hackers never gave up hope. There are reports over at XDA-Forums that someone has successfully overclocked his TouchPad to a speed over 50% faster than stock. When it shipped, the TouchPad’s dual core CPU was set at 1.2GHz. Hackers discovered fairly quickly that they could change [...]
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Amazon Tablet Delayed until Next Year
August 31st, 2011 · 5 Comments · hardware rumors
Digitimes is back again with another rumor, and this time the AmTab has been delayed. Specifically, the 10″ AmTab is delayed until next year. But Digitimes also reported that the 7″ AmTab is going to be released in October. Mass production of Amazon’s 10.1-inch tablet PC reportedly will be conducted in the first quarter of [...]
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New @author Kindle Feature Lets you Pester the Author from Inside the Ebook
August 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social reading
This evening Amazon launched a fun new feature that’s going to thrill the rabid fan. How would you like to ask the author a question about the book while you’re reading it? You’re going to need a Twitter account (and a participating author), but now you can. Simply open the Kindle ebook (it has to be [...]
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