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E-book reader news and releases round-up

The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry and probably pretty frightening for Amazon. Here's a quick round-up of what's been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season: 1. Barnes & Noble Nook:...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., E-books, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-10-28

The new Sony Reader Daily Edition may replace my Kindle and Reader 505

I own both a Sony Reader PRS-505 and Amazon Kindle 2 and have experiences with older models as well. While the Kindle 2 is much improved over the original Kindle see my latest article I still find the Sony Reader to be a slicker piece of hardware and just miss...

Tags: Sony Corp., Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, E-books, Wi-Fi, Personal Technology, Wireless And Mobility, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Stanza 1.0.0b17 (Mac)

Lexcycle Stanza is a program for reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports the eBook formats epub, MS LIT, Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc, as well as general document formats HTML, PDF, MS Word, and Rich Text Format. Stanza features a variety of text layout views,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Lexcycle LLC, Lexcycle Stanza, Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-19

Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon

Don't like DRM and Amazon's ability to access your Kindle? The solution is easy: Don't buy a bloody Kindle! The blogosphere and regular news outlets are buzzing again with a rekindled pun definitely intended story of the young man who lost summer work when Amazon deleted his...

Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Justin Gawronski, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Stanza 1.9 (Mobile)

Stanza is a program for reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports the eBook formats epub, MS LIT, Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc, as well as general document formats HTML, PDF, MS Word, and Rich Text Format. Stanza features a variety of text layout views, such...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Lexcycle LLC, Stanza, E-books, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-24

Dead Finger Tech: Amazon Kindle ebook reader

You may have heard the term Dead Finger Tech before and if not, it relates to that piece of technology that you find essential or important enough to you that someone will have to pry it from your cold, dead fingers. The ZDNet technical bloggers are posting their DFT posts...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle

Updated: Barnes & Noble has outlined its answer for Amazon's Kindle: A partnership with Plastic Logic, which will launch an eReader in early 2010, and plans to open its e-book sales to multiple platforms. In a statement Monday, Barnes & Noble said its e-book store will allow...

Tags: Plastic Logic, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Chances, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Business intelligence comes to Kindle. Will companies care?

Business Intelligence provider MicroStrategy said today that it will make its business reports and dashboards accessible through Amazon's Kindle DX reader, bringing one of the first business tools to a device that's been mostly defined by its ability to display electronic books. The company already has an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Pricing, Smart Phones, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Amazon Kindle 2

The Kindle 2 is Amazon's second take on the ebook reader concept. by CNET News.com

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2, E-books, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-30

Cool-er e-book reader has value, barebones appeal

The Interead Cool-er e-book reader is just $250, cheaper than Sony's PRS e-reader and Amazon's Kindle. But is it worth the price? Here's a quick visual tour around the device. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: E-book Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, product photos, e-book, e-reader, Amazon Kindle, Cool-er, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-06-10

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Google reads my blogs again, uses my e-book model

OK, so the great and powerful GOOG probably didn't give a lot of thought to my model of electronically distributing textbooks for use on commodity netbooks when they announced their upcoming e-book initiative. However, even if they can't crush Amazon in the consumer space, where the Oprah-loved Kindle makes...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Personal Technology, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Amazon Kindle DX shipping date confirmed

Amazon's large-format e-book reader, the Kindle DX, will begin shipping to customers on June 10, 2009, according to the company. The Kindle DX, which was announced May 6, is currently available for pre-order and all orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis. It carries...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Roi/Tco, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Wireless And Mobility, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Can Cool-er e-reader undercut Amazon Kindle sales?

Interead's CEO and founder Neil Jones has been moving and shaking the past few months, preparing his upstart U.K.-based company to launch a new lightweight e-book reader, the woefully-hyphenated Cool-er, that would sharply undercut the $359 price of Amazon's Kindle 2 with a $250 price tag....

Tags: Headphone, Battery, Amazon.com Inc., Sales, Amazon Kindle, Interead, Jones, Engineering, E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Will the new Kindle DX complicate plagiarism prevention?

I am big ebook reader fan and am very pleased with my Amazon Kindle 2 see my review that I upgraded to after selling my original Kindle. ZDNet bloggers have made several posts on the new Kindle DX and one aspect of the new Kindle that I haven't seen touched...

Tags: Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Amazon Kindle DX

The Kindle DX is the third iteration of Amazon's ebook reader. Similar to the Kindle 2, the DX model's larger 9.7-inch screen is designed to better accommodate newspaper and magazine reading. by CNET News.com

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, E-books, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Amazon Kindle's $489 price tag makes iPod Touch a better buy

Four hundred and eighty-nine dollars?!?! For an e-reader...  That's not even in color. And doesn't come with Wi-Fi or games or apps or music playback or... Tell me again why I would buy one of these new Amazon Kindle-DX devices. Because I have a cool $500 burning...

Tags: Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Netbook, Amazon Kindle, Wireless LANs, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Tablets, Digital Music, Wi-Fi, Digital Media, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Amazon's Kindle DX

Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos says his company's new and bigger Kindle DX ebook reader will make significant savings on paper; distance us from "evil" ink cartridges; provide cheaper, easier-to-use textbooks for students; and help the newspaper industry.

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology

Articles 2009-05-05

Amazon changes Kindle personal documents fee structure

I just read on Gear Diary that Amazon is changing the fee structure for sending personal documents to your Kindle device. As clearly stated on the Amazon Kindle blog the old fee of 10 cents per document is now changed to 15 cents per megabyte. This actually may result in...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-30