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Kindle Vs Nook Vs Sony Reader
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 [...]
What eReader should I buy? Nook Color vs. Kindle 3
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 [...]
Should Amazon change how Kindle pages are numbered?
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 [...]
Kindle Books Now Outselling Paperbacks at Amazon
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.
Product Review: Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350
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. [...]
Amazon Kindle: Partially Responsible for $1 Billion E-book Sales
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 [...]
New Kindle – Buying Limited Due to Strong Demand
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 [...]
Is The Nook Color Better Than The Kindle?
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 introduces Nook Color
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 will soon sell Kindles
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 [...]
