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Kindle vs Nook vs iPad Study
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Why the Kindle, not the iPad, is the booklover’s choice
Any booklover would recognise this dilemma. I spent the rest of the holiday (and huge amounts of Euros) seeking out shops selling English language books. The choice was limited, so I was forced to try out writers which I wouldn’t normally (the John Grishams were fab, thanks for asking, but the Victoria Hislop less so). [...]
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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 [...]
Kindle vs. iPad: Far from over
In the matchup between the iPad and the Kindle, some say it’s game over for Amazon’s e-Reader. But according to industry watchers, it’s still only the first quarter. In Amazon’s earnings release, Bezos threw a spotlight on the “millions of people” who own the e-Reader, adding, “When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle [...]
Nook Versus Kindle, Which is the Better E-Reader
After months of anticipation Barnes and Noble’s Nook has finally arrived. Though touted as the Kindle slayer it ends up being much more like its competition from Amazon. Both electronic book readers, the Kindle and the Nook are very similar in their looks. However, the Nook has a few features that the Kindle does not. [...]
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 [...]
