By Adriana Lee |
Amazon has announced a new tidbit that’s sure to thrill ebook lovers: Users with a Kindle and a premium Amazon Prime membership will be allowed to borrow one ebook title per month, absolutely free. Everyone I know who has Amazon Prime already raves about it,…
By Jon Rettinger |
Up until September’s Amazon event, the Kindle was the company’s defining product. But with the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire soon hitting the scene, the immensely popular e-Reader, now in its fourth generation, has seen changes, some good, some not so good. With Amazon’s current Kindle…
By Noah Kravitz |
Barnes and Noble just sent out media invites to a Nook-themed event they’re hosting next Monday morning, November 7th, in New York City. While the invitation offers little in the way of product details beyond the telltale green Nook logo, smart money’s on the unveiling…
By Sage Lane |
Like many, I firmly believe that the future of education lies with the tablet. These days it seems to be the conventional wisdom that tablets will become ubiquitous in the classroom and will eventually supplant the book as the essential tool of aspiring students everywhere.…
By Mike Perlman |
Various rumors have been circulating about a new Nook from Barnes and Noble, but it wasn’t until recently that the conjecture began to amalgamate into plausible certainty. According to The Digital Reader, a few Barnes and Noble inside sources have provided fairly compelling accounts on…
By Sean P. Aune |
Steve Jobs, the highly anticipated biography of the Apple co-founder and long-time CEO by Walter Isaacson, hits bookshelves and digital formats today. Originally scheduled for release in 2012, the biography of the notoriously private Steve Jobs was moved up significantly, originally for reasons unknown. As…
By Killian Bell |
British retailer WH Smith has struck a deal with the Canadian company Kobo to bring the famous Kobo eReader to the U.K. — providing access to more than 2.2 million ebooks. Two models of the Kobo device have been launched in the U.K. market, including…
By Dave Cryer |
Amazon may have pulled the wool over many users eyes with the launch of the new cheaper Kindle & Kindle Touch, but does the new super full colour Fire really deliver enough to make it worthwhile? Let me touch (pardon the pun) on the monochrome…
By Jon Rettinger |
Before I go into Amazon’s latest base-model Kindle, let’s get some perspective first: The original Kindle was arguably THE e-reading device that defined this category, and when it debuted, it cost $400. Fast forward to the present, and Amazon has now unveiled a budget offering…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon went nuts this morning with the announcements of new additions to its Kindle family of e-readers that has also now grown to encompass tablets. With all of the new additions to the most popular line of e-readers on the market, we are of course curious as…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon introduced a new $79 version of the Kindle e-reader today that builds upon the success of their Special Offers Kindle announced earlier this year. The new version takes the concept of ads from big companies and special deals on Amazon itself to a new…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon introduced a new member to its popular Kindle e-reader series today: the Kindle Touch. The new Kindle Touch keeps the e-ink display that has made the entire Kindle line such a success, but as opposed to the traditional system of having a keyboard and…
By Noah Kravitz |
Amazon’s not the only online bookseller making gadget news today. Like they’re “just” a bookseller these days, but I digress. Barnes and Noble is prepping two new additions to their Nook line of e-readers as part of their fourth quarter plans, according to documents obtained…
By Damon Brown |
There is a certain peace of mind books create that you won’t get from watching television or playing video games. The sound effects, the acting and the scenery is all in your head. Your inner movie screen can make things as vivid as it wants.…
By Adriana Lee |
Back in school, I used to schlep my textbooks all over campus. I didn’t have a laptop or tablet to add to the load then, and I still found it back-breaking, just trying to move my voluminous haul over to my classes. It was also…
By Noah Kravitz |
Tablets are hot. Laptops are versatile. eReaders are inexpensive. So which is the best fit for your back to school bag? At the end of the day you may well go with the gear that sings to your heart. Let’s face it, a lot of…
By Emily Price |
Over the past few years e-books have started to pick up steam. E-books can be read on your tablet, on e-readers, your home computer and even your mobile phone. You can write digital notes in the margins of books to read later, and bookmark a…
By Emily Price |
This morning Amazon launched Kindle Cloud Reader, a service that gives you access to your Kindle library with no download required. The service can be used in both Chrome and Safari on both PCs and Macs, as well as Chromebooks and iPads. Apple‘s in-app purchasing…
By Emily Price |
If you were thinking about picking up a Nook for school this year, Barnes & Noble is offering some free books for your device to sweeten the deal. If you purchase a Nook and register it before October 31 of this year, the bookseller will…
By Emily Price |
While Borders stores are shutting their doors, the Kobo e-reader will live on. Borders went to bankruptcy court earlier this week with a proposal for the chain to be purchased by the Hilco and Gordon Brothers liquidation company. In an official announcement, Borders Group President Mike…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s official, eReaders have claimed their first big name casualty of war. The Borders chain will go before the bankruptcy court tomorrow to submit a proposal that will see them bought out by the Hilco and Gordon Brothers liquidation company. “Following the best efforts of all…
By Sean P. Aune |
For those of you who picked up the TouchPad, you may have been annoyed by the fact that the Amazon Kindle app was there … but not there. As our own Jon Rettinger pointed out in his video review earlier this month, the app was…
By Damon Brown |
I’m moving. Again. I’ve never been one to turn down a newer, more interesting city, whether it be New Orleans, which I experienced and got swept out by Katrina, or Chicago, which always will feel like a second home. As I get older, though, my…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Amazon tablet rumors just keep rolling in, but now we’re finally hearing a possible release date: Oct. According to The Wall Street Journal, and the always reliable “people familiar with the matter,” at least one tablet and two new Kindle e-readers will appear in…
