Amazon is stepping up its game, releasing new models of the already-popular Kindle and dropping the price in a big way. Are they poised to dominate this holiday season, or can Barnes & Noble, or the iPad, or even the Sony Reader, give them a run for their money? [...]
From Tonic.com, this list of five places to download free e-books. [...]
I can’t help but feel that publishing companies are going to have to come to grips with the new digital model whether they want to or not. [...]
Maybe it’s an addiction. But those people in Barnes & Noble with me, even the ones with their lattes and their laptops, they’re there for books. How great is that? [...]
For anyone considering an e-reader purchase this holiday season, the New York Times has a roundup of current and soon-to-be-available devices. [...]
Deals at Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, on Black Friday. [...]
Taking your library with you everywhere — it sounds exciting. But it also sounds like yet another thing to try to cram into my purse. I don’t want a whole different unit just for reading books. My mind doesn’t go in that direction anymore, not since I got an iPhone. [...]
It’s been in the news for the past week or so: major retailers are in a book-price war. Will that war have a negative impact on publishing? [...]
While the Google Books settlement meanders on in one courtroom after another, Google also announced this week that they will be opening an e-book store of their own in 2010. Google Editions will compete with Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s e-book offerings. That puts the big three all in play — all [...]
I’m not entirely convinced about this whole ebook thing anyhow. I have, though, been playing around with Stanza on my iPhone. It’s a free app from Lexcycle (terrible name choice, for an IT company; it makes me think about exercising, not computers), and you can also download Stanza Desktop, and convert files on your [...]
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