It’s out of stock, due to miscalculation. Wow. When Barnes & Noble announced its e-reader Nook, we were led to believe that it was going to rival the Amazon Kindle. Well, it was certainly a success in its first outing, but then B & N dropped the ball and couldn’t produce enough Nooks for everyone [...]
Continue reading...17. November 2009
Back in October, the Kindle was launched for international customers in 100 countries, but ironically, one of their closest neighbors, Canada, was left out. Well, today that’s finally changed. The Amazon Kindle is now also available for Canadians and will feature some local content such as The Globe and Mail and The National Post apart [...]
Continue reading...6. November 2009
The 7-inch touchscreen Cyberus ID700WTA is, practically speaking, a PMP but it does support eBooks, which the company is touting as an alternative to the E-Ink readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook. It also has WiFi connectivity and a user-interface that resembles the iPhone UI. Movie support is a big [...]
Continue reading...2. November 2009
Singaporean manufacturer Creative has leaked its own eBook Reader–the Zii MediaBook eReader. Surprisingly, the Zii Plaszma will throw its own set of unique features on an eBook reader. One more surprise: the Zii MediaBook will not have an e-ink display. Rather, what potential users will get is a touchscreen of unspecified size. It will be [...]
Continue reading...22. October 2009
Two days after Barnes and Noble announced a similarly priced but better featured Nook e-ink reader, Amazon gifts customers with an unannounced $20 rebate for the Kindle. Amazon is calling it a “consolidation.” The rebate, according to them, was due to the popularity of the Amazon Kindle (doesn’t it go the other way around? Popularity [...]
Continue reading...20. October 2009
It’s also $259! Priced on the same level as the Kindle but offering more features. We all know this is coming, a Barnes and Noble ebook reader, officially Nook, but we didn’t know they’re going to make it a color reader. Just imagine the potential: e-books, e-newspapers and now e-magazines. The B&N Nook boasts two [...]
Continue reading...16. October 2009
Shanzai products are becoming cooler and cooler every time we post about them. boeye, a totally unknown manufacturer to us, has an e-Book dubbed E510. This is the cutest e-Book we’ve seen so far. The Boeye E510 supports a totally legit 16 grayscale level for an e-Book. It has a 5.0-inch 800×600 E-ink display, which [...]
Continue reading...9. October 2009
Want to own a Kindle, but don’t live in the US? Well, here’s some good news for you. Amazon has announced that they will now be making the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX available in 100 countries en route to world domination. Interested buyers can now start pre-ordering the Kindle with US & International Wireless [...]
Continue reading...9. September 2009
I wouldn’t call it a Kindle clone just yet, pending official price announcements. there are differences to the keyboard. The iRiver Story supports txt, PDF and EPUB files as well as DOC, Excel and PowerPoint. It also features a Comic Viewer with Zip file support. It can view in JPG, GIF and BMP. It plays [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2009
It’s a mouthful but I’m sure Asus will think of a better name than Asus Eee E-Book. The EeeBook perhaps? This time around, the Taiwanese giant will not have the advantage of being the first. So what’s going to be Asustek’s e-Book strategy? Cheaper? more portable? An optional back light? WiFi? [via digitimes]
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21. November 2009
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