Tag: EREADER

Further cementing e-books' relevance to mainstream culture, the New York Times announced Wednesday that it will include e-book bestseller lists for fiction and non-fiction titles in its Sunday Book Review, beginning early next year. The Times, with help from data-tracking company RoyaltyShare, will cull sales numbers from publishing houses, big-box bookstores, indie bookstores, online retailers ...

Share With Amazon's recent announcement that digital e-books outsold hardcover books for the first time, and paperbacks destined to a similar fate in the near future, we can safely say the e-book revolution is upon us. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that the devices upon which we read those books -- digital e-readers, tablet computers, smartphones -- are anywhere near their final form. ...

Earlier this summer, Barnes & Noble slashed the price of its e-reader, and last month announced a Nook desktop app geared toward students. Now the big-box bookseller is re-branding and revamping the iPhone, iPad and PC versions of its Nook apps as part of the continuing e-reader war. According to Engadget, the formerly titled Barnes & Noble e-reader products now sport the 'Nook' brand ...

Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, like Prince, thinks the Web is dead. Unlike Prince, though, Anderson actually has some facts to back up his claim. In the cover story of the September issue of Wired, both Anderson and Michael Wolff use Internet traffic trends to support the argument that smartphone apps and e-readers have gradually begun to overtake the Web browser as our primary ...

It appears that color E Ink readers aren't as far from being commercially available as most have thought. E Ink Holdings (formally PVI), the group responsible for the screens housed in Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Readers, is leading the way by offering samples of its color panels to manufacturers. In addition to creating color-capable displays, the new screens are capacitive, meaning all their ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Your writer has faithfully reinforced his shark phobia over the past few weeks, and has also chronicled the tech that can help us to learn more about these formidable ...

Last week, we reported that Amazon had been selling more Kindle books than hardcover books. This week, the online marketplace has reached yet another milestone. According to Crunch Gear, deceased Swedish author Stieg Larsson has become the first author to sell one million copies of his books in the Kindle store. This makes Larsson, whose best-selling 'Millenium Trilogy' is known the world over, ...

Do people read e-books more slowly than printed ones? A small survey by Nielsen Norman Group alleges that we may process digital words at a lazier pace than we do those on the page, but, when further analyzed, the results of the survey raise questions about the participants themselves. A group of 24 volunteers "who like reading and frequently read books" were asked to read Hemingway short ...

When the Nook and Kindle got a price cut a week or so ago, we were more than a little disappointed to see the larger Kindle DX keep its absurdly high price tag. But all that changed today when Amazon announced a slashed price of $379 for the 9.7-inch e-reader. The $110 discount would have been enough for us, but Amazon took it a step further by giving the DX a sexy new paint job, and upping the ...

As companies wage the e-reader war, there's a segment of the population that's being left out: kids. But learning company VTech is reaching out to youngsters with an e-reader specifically designed for little eyes and grubby hands. According to The New York Times, the V.Reader is a touchscreen tablet/e-reader targeted to kids aged 3- to 7-years-old. So, while Mommy or Daddy read the latest ...

This morning, we got official word that Barnes and Noble would be releasing a new model of the Nook that ditches its 3G radio and relies entirely on Wi-Fi for its connectivity. The newest member of the Nook family of e-readers hit shelves at the bargain price of $149.99, making most other e-readers on the market look ridiculously over-priced. To make matters worse for the competition, Barnes and ...

Do you love coffee and e-books? If so, Barnes & Noble has a deal for you. According to PC World, customers who show a B&N barista an open e-book running B&N's app will receive a free tall cup of coffee. It's a limited-time offer, so hurry down to your local book megastore before it ends (though, they haven't announced when that will be). Barnes & Noble hopes this promotion will ...

Verizon Wireless has apparently decided to get in the tablet game, with a little help from Google. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam confirmed that his company was collaborating on a new tablet with Google, though he was noticeably light on the deets. McAdam simply told the Journal,"We're looking at all the things Google has in its archives that ...

Reports from a publishing industry event held Tuesday afternoon suggest Google will launch the Google Editions e-book store this summer. The service, which first started popping up on our radar back in 2008, will allow Google to sell some of the books it has scanned through deals struck with publishers. At first, the store will be limited to in-print books, as is the case with the Amazon, Barnes ...

Arriving late to the party, Amazon will soon release a software update for Kindle that will allow users to browse Facebook and Twitter on their e-readers. According to Gizmodo, the Kindle 2.5 software update, which will see a limited release soon and a wide release in late May, will also include password protection, pan and zoom functions for PDFs, larger font sizes and an option to sort your ...