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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Barnes and Noble Nook Color just came out to mixed reactions. It looks like a battle of book store against book store, but not e-reader against e-reader. Read on to discover the features of the new Nook Color. The Nook Color has something that the Amazon Kindle does not have; color! The Kindle is [...]
Barnes & Noble has introduced the new Nook Color e-reader this week, hoping to gain an advantage over the rival Amazon Kindle in the quickly growing e-reader market. The Nook Color will use an IPS LCD screen, the same type of display used by the Apple iPad. Read the full story on After Dawn. Related [...]
Best Buy announced last week it would begin selling Amazon Kindles at Best Buy stores this Fall. This is a big step for Amazon.com, which up until now had sold the Kindle exclusively on the Amazon website. With the new, lower-priced Kindles selling like hot cakes, this could help stimulate holiday sales even more. But [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Image via CrunchBase 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 [...]