While Amazon’s popular Kindle e-reader may not have passed muster in university settings, that doesn’t seem to be stopping at least one Florida high school from thinking that the device will be just fine for replacing its textbooks. Clearwater High School in Clearwater, FL has decided the time is right to get rid of its printed textbooks and to get their students working off of Kindle...
The Connecticut Attorney General seems to be on the warpath against technology, and it is sure to be pure coincidence he is currently running for a Senate seat. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal seems to be making a career out of going after technology sites and tools. As Digital Daily points out that he has thus far gone after Craigslist, Google and Topix, and now it...
About two weeks ago Amazon announced that it had signed an exclusive deal with a literary agent for 20 classic novels such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (one of my personal all time favorite novels), Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man amongst others. While this has set off a firestorm of arguments in the publishing...
There is apparently no end to the e-reader price war, and now you have to wonder how far away we are from the devices being given away with a two year contract ala subsidized cell phones. In the wake of the Kindle 3 being announced this week with a new lower price of $139, a totally new e-reader platform has been announced that will be making its way to multiple operating systems as...
While many have speculated and tried looking into crystal balls to see if e-readers would ever find their niche, it seems that the actual sales of the devices and their resulting e-book content have been climbing to a point that seems to imply they already have. Amazon announced yesterday that sales of Kindle edition books has been skyrocketing compared to hardcover books. Of course,...
While the general public still waffles on the future of e-readers, it seems that manufacturers and book sellers are still convinced the market is going to take off in a huge way at some point and keep pumping money into it. New ebook stores, cut prices, e-reader model updates, July has been a busy month thus far in the e-reader wars. Lets take a look by company at what’s been...
Where’s my free Kindle? I know it’s going to happen, I just want to know when so I can plan accordingly. I remember talking with some other technology writers right after the Kindle originally launched, and one of the first things we wondered about was when we would see a “free” Kindle coming out. No, I’m not crazy, but I’ll explain my thought process anyway so it makes sense. There...
It seems you can’t get on the Internet any more without seeing an announcement about another e-reader being released. The Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, the iPad and on and on and on. This is of course not to mention all of the applications that are showing up on smartphones, desktops and more. E-readers and e-books are clearly the the most talked about...
Amazon has been testing out the possibility of its Kindle e-reader being used on college campuses in pilot programs at three universities, and at least one of them overwhelmingly said, “No thanks.” Since last fall, Amazon has been having students at the University of Virginia, Princeton University and Portland-based Reed College try out the $489 Kindle DX as a possible replacement for...
One of the things Apple is touting in its commercials is how the iPad can carry more books than you could ever read. While they are obviously referring to their own iBooks application, there are a ton of ways to read books and comics on the device. How do you know which one to choose? Once you pick one, you’re locked into their format so if you want to change devices you are making a...