Just weeks after lowering the price of the Kindle e-book reader from $259 to $189, Amazon unveiled a fully revamped Kindle on Wednesday. It’s sleeker, better looking, easier on the eyes — and starts at $139.
This new Kindle, Amazon’s third generation, is smaller by 21 percent, and 15 percent lighter too. It has much improved contrast, 50 percent better than before, answering a significant complaint among dead-tree purists who compared the device’s e-ink screen unfavorably to real paper. It’s available in two colors: graphite and white.
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The NYT (22.07.10) reports that the literary agent Andrew Wylie is opening Odyssey Editions. His company will produce, exclusively for the Amazon Kindle store, e-versions of books that were marketed before the concept of digital rights existed. (While the copyrights for print are owned by traditional publishing houses, there is an ongoing controversy over electronic rights.) Amazon will sell these books for $9.99. The first twenty titles include R. Ellison’s “Invisible Man”, V. Nabokov’s “Lolita”, and S. Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”
The NYT announced on July 20th that Amazon.com revealed that they now sell more e-books than hardcovers, at a ratio of about 3:2 (& rising). This has happened in the under three years that Amazon has been in the e-book business.
Amazon is aided in this by the ability of owners of other ‘readability’ devices,ie Smart Phones and Apple’s iPads, to read Kindle-sold books on these platforms, but not vice versa. Also, after the initial iPad buzz & buying frenzy, many of the reading public prefer the Kindle for reading, reserving the ‘iPod Touch-on-steroids’ for its other uses. The falling prices of e-readers as a class also contributed to this milestone in the history of the written word.
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Kindle vs. Nook vs. iPad: Which e-book reader should you buy?
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If you’re in the market for an e-book reader, the past couple of weeks have considerably changed your options, and for the better. Barnes & Noble’s and Amazon’s new products and price drops have made their e-book reader hardware considerably more affordable, and you now have excellent options available in the $149 to $199 price range. Also, a flood of new reading-centric apps continues to solidify the Apple iPad’s position as the premium media tablet of choice.
Cnet posted 5 questions to ask yourself to help you decide which one to buy:
How much are you willing to spend?
How large of a screen (and weight) do you want?
What’s your screen preference: e-ink or backlit LCD?
Do you need always-on wireless data?
Do you need access to your e-books on additional devices?
Final thoughts: Currently, the Nook, Kindle, and iPad are our top e-book reader picks; however, this isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer. Depending what features are important to you–color versus black and white screen, backlight versus readability in the sun, touch screen versus not, cheap versus expensive, lightweight versus heavy–the device you prefer may be different from ours. However, there’s no arguing that the range of choices for e-book readers is better now than it ever has been.
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Today Amazon.com announced their new Kindle DX e-book reader. On the front page of their website, Amazon has begun to take pre-orders for their update to the current Kindle DX. The Kindle DX was a larger version of the Kindle II reader which has been very successful.
The new Kindle DX will have a 9.7 inch screen, a miniature keyboard, and wireless access. Not only will it run Kindle e-books from Amazon.com but also third party files including pdf documents. Some of the new features include greater screen contrast, better pdf zooming functions, better font displays, and even social network features.
Read the full story on The Examiner
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B Stone reports in today’s NYT that the E-reader market battles have just heated up by several degrees:
—Barnes & Noble lowered the price for the Nook from $259 to $199, & has introduced a new $149 model
—Amazon has countered by re-pricing the Kindle at $189, undercutting B&N
—Lesser players-IRex, Skiff, and Plastic Logis (the Que)-are either seeking bankrupcy protection or are delaying the launching of their products. Sony, too, faces the need for probable price cuts for its three models now on sale.
The recent introduction of the Apple iPad, and its general popularity (2,000,000 sold in its first two months, with 5,000,000 ebooks downloads already[!]) is the main driver of these developments, augmented by an increase in price=>some profit margins on e-book sales themselves,made by the industry’s acceptance of the “agency sales model” earlier this spring.
¿The future?: Analysts speculate that i)the market will winnow down to only two or three single purpose dedicated e-reader companies; and ii) within a year ther may be a very serviceable device priced at less than $100.
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Barnes & Noble offers free coffee to promote in-store Nook and other e-reading
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Free coffee is Barnes & Noble’s latest means of inducing customers to use its BN e-reader software in various devices, including the retailer’s own Nook, while inside its stores.
During the limited promotion period, customers who show a Barnes & Noble cafe server an open e-book on any device running the BN software can get one free tall cup of coffee. The eligible devices include the Nook along with iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, BlackBerries or HTC HD2 devices and portable Mac or Windows computers.
Source: Computer World
The NYT reported today on the unveiling of the KNO. This hybrid tablet-ereader is designed to eliminate the need to schlep heavy college backpacks to class with a 5 1/2 lb device. Besides having two facing 14″ screens, to simulate an open textbook, it includes a Web browser, Flash support, and note-taking (via stylus) capability.
At an est. price of <1000 usd, it does have some heft of its own. It should be available on campus before this year’s end.
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Target announced it will begin selling online retail giant Amazon.com’s Kindle ereader across all of its 1,740 U.S. retail locations. In late April, Target introduced the Kindle–previously available exclusively via the Amazon digital storefront–to shoppers at its flagship Minneapolis location as well as 102 stores in the south Florida market; the device goes on sale nationwide on June 6, and will retail for $259.
Read more: Target expands Kindle ereader sales nationwide – FierceMobileContent
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