Post Tagged with: "e-book"

How Apple Screwed Amazon: eBooks Pricing More Expensive Than Hardcovers

I can live with the fact that Amazon offered up the Kindle Fire at a bargain price of $199 because they knew they would make it back in sales. What i can’t live with is the fact that virtual Books or the Kindle edition is…

Flex Lighting LED Film Lets You Use Your eReader in the Dark

Flex Lighting has developed a new front light LED film that is part of a new lighting system that promises to bring nighttime reading to E Ink displays everywhere. Flex Lighting’s setup is rather simple, consisting of nothing more than a single LED and a…

Charlie Brown Christmas App Now Available on iOS and Android [video]

The holidays are fast approaching, with Thanksgiving in the US coming up next week, and Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus all coming sooner than we realize. This also means that soon the Charlie Brown Christmas special will be airing as part of the Christmas tradition…

B&N Nook Tablet Only Allows for 1GB of Personal Storage

In the $200 tablet battle on the main attractions to the B&N Nook Tablet ($249) kills the Kindle Fire in storage.  The Nook Tablet has 16GB of internal storage to the 8GB on the Fire, in addition the Nook Tablet comes with an SD card…

Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Unboxing Video

The Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet has appeared for unboxing and hands on and the initially impression from Engadget appears to be “On the whole, the Nook Tablet feels far more like an upgrade than a full product refresh, and for that reason, it’s hard…

Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Hands on Video

The Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet was announced today and TheVerge went hands on with the 7 inch tablet. The Nook Tablet is similar in appearance to the Nook Color, but will be .02-inches thinner and .9-ounces lighter. It will be powered by a dual-core…

‘Developing Apps for the Nook Tablet’ eBook Available for Download

The Live blog of the Barnes & Noble Event is still going and the pre-order page for the Nook Tablet is still not live, but you are able to download a handbook for developing apps for the tablet that is looking to out sell the…

B&N Nook Tablet Announced Looks to Take Down the Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble announced the Nook Tablet which is designed to replace the Nook Color and compete head on with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Nook Tablet is similar in appearance to the Nook Color, but will be .02-inches thinner and .9-ounces lighter. It will be…

Amazon Kindle Tablet To Be Unveiled in NYC next week

We’ve all been waiting patiently for Amazon to release their tablet this fall, rumors have been heavy that they would release the 10″ Hollywood tablet in September. Now Amazon has sent out invitations to a press conference on September 28. The New York City event…

Amazon Daily Deals Now Extend to Kindle E-Books

Amazon offers great deals on all sorts of goods, both physical and digital. Now their daily deals have spread to the Kindle store. For 24 hours, starting at approximately 12:00 AM, Pacific time, you can get a featured Kindle book at a special reduced price.…

Credit Card With EInk Display Keep You Safe While Online Shopping

Think that ePaper is for eReaders only? EInk wants you to think otherwise with a display that they’ve put together showing several other applications that ePaper would be great for. This transition towards other uses is a necessary step since the price of eReaders is…

Tablet Demand Might Push Notebook Panel Prices Up 2Q11

It might not seem logical since our tablet buddies are usually 7-10inches but mainstream notebook panel sizes like 14 & 15-inch might go up in price because of tablet demand. Digitimes says we might see the prices rise in Q2 2011 by a whopping 10%.…

Nookcolor Gets Automated Root Installer

The NOOKcolor 7 inch eReader has been a pretty popular device for rooting but up until recently you had to know your way around a command line to make that magic happen. It seems that a member of the xda-developers community has released a tool…

ASUS Eee Tablet Gets a New Name & Hits the Streets Early Q1 2011

ASUS is coming out with a bevy of Tablets end of this year right on through 2011. We saw 3 tablets at Computex 2010, among them was the ASUS Eee Tablet, it was the one that was every student wanted to get their hands on…

Hanvon 10″ Color E Ink Reader with Touch Screen in March 2011 (Update: E-Ink Primer Video)

Update: E Ink has a video explaining their next generation E Ink color ePaper – Triton imaging film. In either case, we’ll see some hands on starting tomorrow at FPD 2010 here in Japan.
Hanvon came to market earlier this year with a Windows 7…