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Apple’s new App Store rules affect Amazon’s Kindle

February 15, 2011

Apple today unveiled the details of its App Store subscription plan, and confirmed that it will demand its usual 30% from publishers who sell content within their apps. To meet Apple’s guidelines, Amazon must remove its “Shop in Kindle Store” link from its Kindle application. That link, which opens the iOS browser and displays Amazon’s Web-based [...]

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Kindle Vs Nook Vs Sony Reader

February 11, 2011

Kindle • Cost: starts at $139 • Pros: The best e-reader if your top priority is reading purchased books and newspapers. The Pearl E Ink quality is exquisite, and the battery lasts a full month. It’s also well-priced, light, thin and easy to hold for a long time. The keyboard is delightful for those of [...]

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What eReader should I buy? Nook Color vs. Kindle 3

February 7, 2011

The Nook Color trumps the Kindle 3 when it comes to display technology and file support. The Kindle 3, on the other hand, wins out in the price and portability stakes. If you’re looking for a gadget that can do a variety of multimedia tasks, plump for the NookColor. If you just want an affordable [...]

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Kindle vs Nook vs iPad Study

February 4, 2011

It’s gotten to the point where everybody and their grandmother, quite literally in most cases, has their own page on the Facebook, Twitter feed, or something similar these days.  You might even post to them from your Kindle from time to time.  Whole network news stories have formed based off of memes and rumors spreading across [...]

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Should Amazon change how Kindle pages are numbered?

January 31, 2011

People are passionate about page numbers. Just ask the hundreds of posters in Amazon’s Kindle forums who’ve debated the issue of how Amazon numbers its pages with “locations” on the Kindle and in its Kindle e-book-reading apps. And just ask the readers who’ve e-mailed me over the years complaining about Amazon’s numbering scheme. “I got [...]

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Kindle Books Now Outselling Paperbacks at Amazon

January 27, 2011

Image via Wikipedia It’s official: electronic Kindle books are now outselling paperbacks on Amazon, marking a historically significant milestone in the publishing industry. Read the full story on Mashable.

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Product Review: Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350

January 11, 2011

Image by Book Thingo via Flickr It’s not often that a company reaches its user-base and gives them what they want; however, Sony has done this with its latest e-reader: the Pocket Edition PRS-350. It had seemed that Sony was failing hard with its e-reader line until the newest edition hit the market in 2010. [...]

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Amazon Kindle: Partially Responsible for $1 Billion E-book Sales

November 11, 2010

Market research firm Forrester has estimated e-book sales to touch the 1 billion mark by end 2010 in US and to treble by 2015! Although only 7% of the 4000 people surveyed by Forrester actually read e-books these few are probably the most important ones reading 41% of their books in the digital form and [...]

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New Kindle – Buying Limited Due to Strong Demand

November 8, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Due to incredible demand, Amazon is forced to limit Kindle sales to 5 units per household. The Kindle has been Amazon.com’s best selling item for two years in a row. The Kindle e-reader had topped all of Amazon’s lists: most-wished-for, most-gifted and has garnered the more 5-star reviews than any product on [...]

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