With Kindle's massive library and now the benefits of Barnes & Noble's brick-and-mortar retail stores both on the iPad, we're left to wonder: can the iBookstore survive on its own platform?READ»
Amazon recently announced its new Kindle app for the iPad. Many critics are asking, could Amazon’s shift to a robust e-reader, such as the iPad, make the Kindle obsolete? Wired notes, the iPad “makes the Kindle itself look...READ»
Barnes and Noble just revealed that it's upcoming e-reader is the one from Plastic Logic that we've long heard about. Which means the Kindle may have a decent competitor on the scene.After all, Plastic Logic's e-reader is the most ...READ»
Plastic Logic was in the news just yesterday for its partnership with Barnes and Noble, but today it's also revealed a tie-up with AT&T that directly pitches it against Amazon's Kindle. And, just possibly, for much more than ...READ»
Amazon's just revealed its iPad Kindle reader version. The app will be available on other tablet PCs too, but the iPad is the hottest kid on the block, and it'll likely sell by the ton. Knowing this, we wonder: Did Amazon just kill ...READ»
Amazon is slowly stirring itself into action by improving its Kindle e-reader, just as I suggested it ought to if it's going to compete with the iPad and other tablet PCs. The first move: Improving the shoddy Web-browsing experience ...READ»
Leaked service manuals for Sony's upcoming PRS-300 and PRS-600 e-reader devices have revealed the specs of the anticipated successors to the Sony PRS-700. Unfortunately, no pricing or release date information was included, but the ...READ»
We've been pondering how Amazon could turn the next Kindle into a great machine, but the company has just gone and done something that's probably much more important: It's released a Kindle e-reader app for RIM's ...READ»
It's beginning to look like e-publishing may be changing attitudes to pricing within the industry, as an analysis of Amazon practices shows up an interesting trend: If you want to sell e-books, then giving some away for free is the ...READ»
E-reader manufacturer Bookeen recently revealed details on its newest hand-held device. Unlike Amazon, which recently super-sized the Kindle 2 into the larger DX, Bokeen's innovation goes in the other direction: the Cybook Opus ...READ»
How will Amazon's Kindle compete with Apple's iPad? Let's dive into the vagaries of Amazon's job listings, water as opaque as America's finest urban lakes and rivers, and see what's still swimming. What's that? A shadowy outline of a new Kindle?READ»
This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced this morning his intention to make Kindle books available on mobile devices other than Amazon's own Kindle e-reader and the iPhone. Speaking at Wired magazine's Disruptive by Design Conference ...READ»
Barnes & Noble's e-reader, the Nook, has busted the Kindle, according to figures released by DigiTimes research today. It accounted for 53% of all e-reader sales in March, although this can be put down in part to consumers' ...READ»
Amazon and Microsoft both announced quarterly earnings today, with encouraging results for two of their most important products: the Kindle and Windows 7.READ»
Both the Kindle and Nook, the two most prominent e-ink e-book readers, will be going on sale at Target and Best Buy. But is that enough to save them from becoming obsolete?READ»
Amazon's Kindle 2 just got a pleasant $60 price cut, so it's now just $299. Admittedly that's still expensive, but it'll likely boost sales of the e-reader a little in the flat economy. There's a little more to it than that, ...READ»
