Competition Helps Brew a PC Application for Kindle Books
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009It looks like we’re already starting to see some benefits from Barnes and Noble’s entry into the ebook arena. Something long lacking from the Kindle ecosphere (and already available for B&N ebooks) is a PC-based reader application. This is such an obvious attribute of a fully-realized ereading system, that it’s hard to believe it’s taken [...]
Barnes & Noble’s nook Brings Lending and a Splash of Color
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The long-awaited Barnes & Noble-backed e-reader got its official rollout today. Called “nook”, it shows what can be done when a company isn’t trying to be first to market, but isn’t waiting to go fully color, either. It’s being positioned as direct competition to Amazon’s Kindle, and the device’s web site has a lengthy comparison [...]
Will the Kindle Book Bought Yesterday Still Be Yours Tomorrow?
Saturday, July 18th, 2009Yesterday, Amazon learned a lesson they really should have down by this point. Secrets don’t keep well on the web, and a company doing something suspicious to more than one or two people gets around really fast and looks really bad without proper explanation.
The problem occurred when purchasers of a certain Kindle edition of “1984″ [...]
Kindle DX and Kindle 2 – Side by Side
Friday, June 12th, 2009Amazon shipped their newest eReader, the up-sized Kindle DX, on Wednesday, and mine arrived yesterday. I’ve been giving it a workout and comparing features with the recently released Kindle 2. (I should point out, Amazon calls their standard sized device simply “Kindle”. I’m calling it the Kindle 2 to distinguish it from the model released [...]
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