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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. [...]
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 [...]
Tension grows as publishers target Amazon Kindle pricing
Amazon(AMZN) dropped the price of its Kindle — which dominates the market — by about $40 to $260 as competitors introduced comparably priced alternatives. There also are Barnes & Noble’s Nook, an expanded line of Sony Reader models and others from companies including Irex, Spring Design, Netronix and iRiver. Sales are expected to soar for [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming electronic textbooks
Image by Yupa1 via Flickr Today’s New York Times has two articles of interest re the e book buying community. The first is Deborah Solomon’s “Questions” column, with a short Q & A with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com. The second, “Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text” in the business section highlights an anticipate hybrid [...]
