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Apple’s new App Store rules affect Amazon’s Kindle
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 [...]
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 [...]
Barnes & Noble offers free coffee to promote in-store Nook and other e-reading
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 [...]
B&N launches a Nook iPad app
If you’ve been waiting to get the Nook experience on your iPad, your wait is over. Barnes&Noble just announced the availability of their Nook app, available free from the App Store. Source: Techcrunch Barnes & Noble Introduces BN eReader for iPad™, The Most Easy-to-Use, Customizable iPad App for Reading and Buying eBooks and Periodicals Free [...]
Romur: Android Amazon Kindle ereader app on its way?
It looks like an Android version of the Amazon Kindle reader tool is on its way. According to Dell Mini 5 promotional materials that Engadget published, the Kindle ereader application will launch along with a mobile version of Amazon’s Video on Demand service. It looks like the app could launch along with the Dell Mini [...]
Barnes & Noble to Launch iPad eBook Reader App
Image via CrunchBase Barnes & Noble announced plans to release and e-reader application for the iPad, which will most likely compete with Apple’s iBookstore app. The bookseller already has an iPhone application, released last July, and now offers more than 1 million books. They are planning to launch an iPad version app when the device [...]
Kindle, Now on your BlackBerry for Free
Amazon.com has announced “Kindle for BlackBerry”, an app for select BlackBerrys. The app will enable users to access over 400,000 Kindle books on their phones. This app can be downloaded for free from Amazon. Just like its online version, this mobile app automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. You [...]
Nook E-Reader Gets Hacked to Run Apps, Browser
Listening to music as you read a book is just perfect. Now picture doing that on your Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader. A few Nook device owners have hacked it to run the Pandora music application in the background. “It wasn’t that hard,” says Robbie Trencheny, a 18-year-old student who is also the team [...]
The Nook: EW’s hands-on review of the new e-reader
Is Barnes and Noble’s Nook this year’s Kindle killer? Nearly: The sleek e-reader offers some notable improvements, but it’s still plagued by problems common to the Kindle and similar devices. Perhaps that’s not a ringing endorsement, but don’t close the book on the Nook just yet. Look and feel: At just under 12 oz., the Nook weighs about [...]
My Nook tryout at the local B&N: A sluggish e-reader with confusing navigation
Teleread’s Jean Kaplansky has a review of the Nook. Jean is an XML pro and violin-lover who lives in upstate New York with her husband, three dogs and five cats. “I’ve been doing the e-book thing,” Jeans writes, “since the emergence of Peanut Reader for the Palm way back in the ‘90s.” Why not visit [...]
