It’s been just over 2 weeks since Amazon started offering free ebooks to Amazon Prime members, and it looks like the fight is just beginning. Yesterday the Author’s Guild posted a moderately worded warning against the Prime Ebooks (in what was a much milder critique than I had expected). They raised a number of valid [...]
Entries from November 15th, 2011
Inside the Kindle Touch
November 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Amazon’s new 6″ e-reader will be shipping tomorrow, and when amazon announced that today it reminded me of something. Right before the Kindle Fire launch event I was handed a tip on some FCC paperwork for 3 devices that turned out to be the new Kindles. At the time, all the interesting stuff was hidden [...]
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Eason Now Has an E-Reader Dept in 25 Bookstores
November 14th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
The Ireland based bookseller Eason and Son has just opened their 25th Estore, a new in-store department where they sell ebooks and e-readers. This chain of 40 corporate and franchise stores currently carry 4 e-readers, including the new Sony Reader Wifi, iriver Story HD, iriver Cover Story, and Elonex 621EB. Prices range from €99 for [...]
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Kindle Fire Review Roundup
November 14th, 2011 · 19 Comments · hardware reviews, Round up
So the Kindle Fire is shipping today. All the major tech blogs who were lucky enough to get an early review unit are now posting their reviews. I’m not one of those blogs, unfortunately, so all i can do today is gather other blogger’s reviews and be extremely jealous. The reviews were generally good, but [...]
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My Kindle Fire is Shipping Today
November 14th, 2011 · 16 Comments · hardware news
I’m sure you heard the news that Amazon are shipping the Kindle Fire today. Amazon have been sending emails to buyers with the good news, and they also put out a press release. I got a confirmation this morning and my unit will be arriving tomorrow. I’m planning to post a first impressions tomorrow evening [...]
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How to Save $30/$40 on the Kindle (& Not See the Ads)
November 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Kindle, tips and tricks
Amazon just started telling everyone that they’re shipping the Kindle Touch a week early, and since my unit is due to arrive in 3 days or so I thought now would be a good time to share a trick I came across a few weeks back. I was the first to post about how to [...]
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Kobo Touch Gets a Price Bump
November 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Kobo quietly launched their new ad-supported Kobo Touch on Friday, but that wasn’t the only surprise that day. I’m not sure when it happened, but Kobo also raised the price of the Kobo Touch. It’s now $139 here in the US, but when it launched on originally cost $129. – Update: Nope, it didn’t get [...]
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Weekly Roundup 13 November 2011
November 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
Here are a few of the most popular posts over the past week. PDFs on Android continues to hold its place, with the new Sony Reader hack, various e-reader and tablet reviews, and news from the past week filling out the list.
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Sony Reader x50 w\ Hacked Firmware: Review & How-To
November 12th, 2011 · 8 Comments · tips and tricks
Earlier this week eBook Applications, the indie e-reader developer, released their latest alternative firmware for Sony’s PRS-x50 ebook reader. These 3 models were released last fall and they have since been replaced by the new Sony Reader Wifi. But they are still quite common and still quite functional, so I was pleased to see that [...]
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How to Save $170,000 on Textbooks
November 12th, 2011 · 5 Comments · digital textbooks
One Minnesota school district balked at paying $200 grand for a new set of statistics textbooks, so a group of teachers came up with an alternative. They wrote their own. Michael Engelhaupt, a 31 year old math teacher, was one of 3 teachers for the Anoka-Hennepin School District who spent their summer developing this new [...]
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