D Pogue pens in today’s NYT (“Moving Forward in E-Readers”) that the technology has leapt forward this week with B&N’s new “All-New Nook” and the Kobo “Touch” additions to the e-reader marketplace. Both use EInk, as does the newest Kindle, but they best Kindle physically by eliminating the space and weight of the keybard by [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The new e-book pricing level of $12.99-$14.99 agreed to by Amazon recently in a major concession to the power of the big publishing houses is under a grass roots attack by the e-reading public, per “E-Book’s Cost Is Going Up” (NYT 11 Feb 2010). Many committed e-book buyers are balking at this raise from the [...]
Sony believes it can beat the Amazon Kindle to become the dominant ebook reader US users of Sony’s Reader range of ebook readers will soon be able to download the latest news from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post to their device, Sony has confirmed. The Japanese electronics giant has signed an [...]
Inventor Spot has a special holiday comparison between the Kindle, Nook, and Sony e-Reader. Here are the highlights of Kindle vs Nook vs Sony: Sony: While Sony will link its products to its vast library of digital content, the biggest difference with Amazon and Barnes & Noble is that in addition to selling product, according [...]
A holiday shopping guide, with head-to-head comparisons of six (yes, Virginia, six and counting) dedicated e-readers now on the market appears in the Thursday Dec 3 2009 New York Times. Ranging in price from the QVC Cool-er at $249 to the Kindle DX at $489, like lap top computers in retail competition, they mix and [...]
