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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 [...]
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 [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Reader Breaks Monthly Sales Record
U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader market heats up. Without giving figures or comparisons and barely halfway through the month, the online retailer said that the Kindle was the most [...]
Sony adds newspaper subscriptions to ebook reader
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 [...]
Kindle vs Nook vs Sony e-Reader For The Holidays
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 [...]
Amazon Signs Exclusive Deal with Top Author for Kindle
The traditional publishing industry was dealt another blow by the digital winds of change this week when top business author Stephen R. Covey signed an exclusive deal with e-book retailer Amazon. The fear among traditional book publishers is that they will grow irrelevant as top authors ink deals with e-book retailers, bypassing them altogether. The [...]
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 [...]
Kindle Vs. Nook? Kindle Wins (for now)
Kindle Vs. Nook? at least today the Kindle wins, with the initial reviews of the Nook not flattering. On ZDnet “Pogue just killed B&N’s Nook“: I have to agree with Pogue’s verdict on the Nook. What we have here is a device that exists as a knee-jerk reaction to Amazon’s Kindle, and the shortfalls show [...]
