We all know it's bad to spend too much time staring at screens, but a new study from the Harvard Medical School reveals just how dangerous it can be. It turns out that reading from a tablet or any light-emitting display before bed can wreak havoc on your sleep cycle and worse. The study involved locking 12 test subjects in a lab for two weeks. For the first five days they read paper...
I suppose this is just a bit of housekeeping for our readers out there who want to make sure they're referring to products accurately, but just an FYI: Amazon has decided to drop the Kindle moniker from the full names of its Android-powered tablets. The new tablets are officially dubbed the Fire HD and Fire HDX, CNET noticed recently, instead of "Kindle Fire HD" and "Kindle Fire HDX."...
Amazon is apparently planning to launch a subscription-based unlimited book service, according to screenshots that were first published on the company’s site and quickly pulled. The firm’s service is called “Kindle Unlimited” and sounds similar to Oyster Books which, for $9.95 a month, allows you to read as many books as you want. “Enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and...
Are you looking for free Kindle Books to fill up that brand new Kindle you received this holiday? What many Kindle owners may not realize is just how many books for Kindle are available for free. A TON. The ones you have to pay for can be really inexpensive too. Plenty of daily deals starting at $2 and most costing around just $4, there shouldn’t be any excuse for not reading more...
The gifting season is upon us and if you haven't already started on your list you best get started. As for myself, I've put together a collection of things I know I would never receive as a gift (Tesla Model X) to some of my favorite inexpensive gadgets of the year (Dropcam and Chromecast). [ad id="btf-second-box"] Money is No Object Tesla Model X $60,000 to $100,000 While...
Sometimes it's nice to own a physical copy of a book. I still buy both print and eBook copies of a lot of novels, mostly because I like real books at home but don't want to lug them around during my travels. Amazon is making this even easier now, with the introduction of "MatchBook," which lets you buy the eBook copy of the books you purchase in print at a discount. The price varies...
Amazon has announced that best selling author Stephen King has chosen its Kindle Single platform to enter the world of self-publishing. When you're as prolific a writer as Stephen King, you have a lot to say. Sometimes you want to get those words out to the public as quickly as possible, and traditional publishing isn't exactly built to handle that situation. Enter Amazon and its...
Danger, Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook: Things are looking pretty grim for your product category. After a meteoric rise, sales of e-readers seem to be spiraling downward, thanks to iPads, Kindle Fires, Surfaces and Galaxy Tabs. Tablets are absolutely killing demand, says an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics Special Report. By the end of 2012, just 14.9 million e-readers are...
DC Comics is aiming to make sure that you can find its comics pretty much anywhere you look for them on an e-reader. If you've wanted to pick up some DC Comics, but didn't want to download the Comixology or DC apps, you have been limited to just the collected graphic novels offered in various e-bookstores. All of that is about to change, however, and you will now be able to pick up...
Amazon announced its new "Whispercast for Kindle" feature on Wednesday that it hopes will help push adoption of its eReader and Kindle Fire devices in school systems and in the enterprise. "ispercast provides a single access point to easily purchase and distribute Kindle books and documents for educational, marketing and employee incentive programs across Kindle devices and free Kindle...