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Southern Telecom to carry new Slick e-readers

January 9th, 2011 · 6 Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

I made a hole in  my schedule today so I could visit the Southern Telecom booth. They’re the company who sell the Slick e-reader I showed you a couple months ago, and at CES I discovered that they plan to add several new e-readers and Android tablets to their line up. I only managed to [...]

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Ritz Camera to carry the Quantaray Android tablet

December 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Now this is a weird one. The lens manufacturer  Quantaray have decided to start carrying an Android tablet. It runs v2.1 and is based on a 7″ resistive touchscreen with a 720MHz CPU, 2GB Flash, a miniSD card slot, Wifi, camera, USB Host, speaker, microphone, and 3 hours battery life. You can buy it from [...]

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John Lewis to carry the Amazon Kindle

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

The British retailer John Lewis have announced that they will carry the K3 starting on 1 November. The retail price will be the same as Amazon’s. “We are excited that such a well-respected company as John Lewis will be offering the newest Kindle and Kindle 3G to its customers”, said Gordon Willoughby, director of Kindle [...]

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Books-A-Million to carry the Nook exclusively

October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release

This little bit of news is probably going to be overlooked, and I suspect most don’t realize how important it is. Books-A-Million won’t be carrying any e-reader other than the Nook. This means that B&N just removed what could have been a serious competitor in the hardware market and B&N extended their brand presence into [...]

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CreateSpace to carry 50k titles from the Library of Congress

October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) group of companies, today announced an agreement with The Library of Congress to make at least 50,000 public books available through www.amazon.com. The Library of Congress also reached an agreement with Amazon Europe to make tens of thousands of books in the public domain [...]

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Best Buy to carry the Amazon Kindle

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Best Buy Co. Inc., the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer, today announced that it will expand its in-store e-reader selection this fall with addition of the Amazon Kindle, the recommended e-reader of the country’s leading consumer reporting organization and numerous news organizations. Beginning this fall, Best Buy will make it even [...]

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Borders to carry Build-a-Bear in stores

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Bloomberg have the scoop: Borders Group Inc., the second- largest U.S. bookstore chain, will start selling items from Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc., relying less on books for sales as more people use electronic reading devices.Most of Borders’ more than 500 stores will create sections next month dedicated to Build-a-Bear, the maker of kits kids can use [...]

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CVS to carry new e-reader – Look Book

August 19th, 2010 · 10 Comments · hardware news

Someone sent Engadget the CVS internal planning docs for a new e-reader. They’re reporting that it will sell for $179. It’s a Kindle clone with a 7″ LCD screen, Wifi, and it supports the Kobo Bookstore. It’ll be in stores on 9/19. Is it just me, or does the Look Book have a lot in [...]

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Taiwan cell carrier FET to carry Acer tablet, e-reader

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Digitimes have the story: Far Eastone Telecommunications (FET) looks to be tightening its relationship with Acer by publicly stating during a recent press event that it will distribute a tablet PC and six-inch e-book reader by the notebook vendor before the end of the year. Digitimes didn’t say which device FET will be carrying, but [...]

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Dell Aero to get Kindle for Android app?

March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news

MobileCrunch is reporitng that AT&T will soon offer a new Android smartphone called the Dell Aero. Here is what AT&T said: AT&T also will soon unveil an Android-based smartphone the Dell Aero. This will be Dell’s first smartphone available in the U.S., and will feature a new, beautiful custom user interface developed by Dell and [...]

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