eBook Readers
Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
Nook Color Steps Up Its Tablet Game
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Per Paul Demery of Internet Retailer: Is it an e-reader or a tablet? At less than half the price of an iPad 2 and small enough to fit in a handbag, the latest version of Barnes & Noble Inc.42BarnesandNoble.com Inc. Books / Music / VideosOnline Sales:$493,000,000 (IR estimate)Growth:5.8%See More. ’s Nook Color is chockfull of [...]
iCrossings: The Future of eReaders
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011According to David Deal, of the Content Lab: eBooks will extinguish the Kindle. That’s what Forrester Research CEO George Colony believes. But if so, the Kindle isn’t going down without a fight. Advertising Age reports that Amazon has introduced a cheaper Kindle, an obvious attempt to increase adoption. The following infographic from Stan Pugsley and [...]
CES: Mirasol e-readers still several months away
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011The e-reader may have been one of the hottest holiday gifts, with Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and others selling millions of devices, but it was decidedly absent at this year’s CES–unless, of course, you count all the Android tablets floating around. The company a lot of people were watching was Qualcomm-backed Mirasol, which made [...]
Sagem reveals Binder white label e-reader, SFR’s version comes with free 3G
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Heard of the FnacBook, Telecom Italia eBook or Thalia Oyo? It’s looking like they’re all one and the same — a Sagem product called the Binder with a six-inch SiPix capacitive e-paper touchscreen. It’s also got the standard accelerometer, 2GB of internal flash, a microSD card slot and support for ePub and PDF, but there’s [...]
Nook Color Hands-On
Saturday, October 30th, 2010Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor, the first full color ebook reader, presents a series of dilemmas for interested buyers. B&N referred to it as a tablet, but NOOKcolor is really more like half a tablet. It literally is a read-only device. It displays text, PDF and Microsoft Office files, plays any MPEG-4 video (no Flash), plays [...]
Pandigital introduces second Novel e-reader
Friday, October 22nd, 2010After getting off to a shaky start with its first e-reader, a color reading device called the Novel, Pandigital is taking a second stab with a monochrome e-ink model that has built-in Wi-Fi, a touch-screen interface, and a direct link to the Barnes & Noble eBookstore. The Novel 6-inch Personal eReader carries a list price [...]
PocketBook 701 eBook reader hits the FCC
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010The PocketBook 701 eBook reader made its way through the FCC, packing 802.11 b/g/n WiFi capabilities. FCC documents do not reveal much about the device, but we do get a good look at the PocketBook 701’s formfactor from the label pic above. There are currently three versions of PocketBook eBook readers available, the 301+, the [...]
Hands-on with Sharper Image’s Literati eReader
Friday, September 17th, 2010The Literati, a Sharper-Image-branded color e-reader, was officially announced a few weeks ago, but I spotted one out in the wild last night at a tech event in New York. Due to hit stores in October, the Wi-Fi-enabled Literati has a 7-inch LCD screen, an affordable $159 price tag that’s expected to drop with special [...]
Amazon unveils new generation of Kindles
Friday, August 20th, 2010Yes, the rumors are true. Amazon officially unveiled a next-generation Kindle that is what many tech pundits thought it would be: smaller and lighter, with a better screen and some Wi-Fi thrown into the mix. The new e-reader comes in a couple of flavors, one with both Wi-Fi and 3G wireless for $189, and a [...]