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  • Free coffee at Barnes and Noble

    Free coffee at Barnes and Noble

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Let's face facts: today's all about the iPhone. (Yes, we're already there, waiting in line.) Non-iPhone stories will be few and far between. Even the following story has an iPhone connection—it's madness! Right then. Barnes and Noble has a begun a clever little promotion to get you into their stores (and hopefully buying their books): free coffee. Who doesn't like coffee, and free coffee at that?

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  • Sony Reader spreads its wings, will be available internationally later this year

    Sony Reader spreads its wings, will be available internationally later this year

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The Sony Reader, going international. The electronic book reader, which is only available here and there, will spread to Japan, China, Australia, Italy, and Spain before the end of the year. Shocked.

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  • Sony: E-books are here to stay (so get used to it)

    Sony: E-books are here to stay (so get used to it)

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony says there will be more digital book content than physical book content within five years. Or, in English, e-books will overtake "regular" books by 2015. This is terrible news for people like Devin and John, people who appreciate books not merely for the words they contain but for the form they take. It's less of an issue for people like me, people who are, in fact, merely interested in reading the words, whether they're on paper or papyrus or on an e-ink screen.

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  • Go to Barnes & Noble, get a free e-book

    Go to Barnes & Noble, get a free e-book

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you have a nook or the less elegantly named iRex DR800SG? If so, get thee to a Barnes & Noble store to participate in the new Fun and Free e-books promotion. It's a pretty simple concept: you waltz into a Barnes & Noble store, get an access code, then download a free e-book. Done and done.

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  • Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they've bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you've bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don't tell Devin!) Those books are only "supposed" to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.

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  • The ‘Alex’ E-book Reader: Electronic ink, secondary color Android touchscreen

    The ‘Alex’ E-book Reader: Electronic ink, secondary color Android touchscreen

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Announced today, the Alex E-book Reader is an interesting take on electronic books. The upper third of the device features a standard 6-inch electronic ink screen similar to Amazon’s Kindle and then the bottom part sports a 3.5-inch color touchscreen running Android (1.6). The two screens can be harmonized by taking a web page you’ve [...]

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  • Hands-on with the US-bound iRiver Story

    Hands-on with the US-bound iRiver Story

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Guys! E-Book readers are everywhere at CES 2010. You should see it here. Anyone with a Chinese manufactuering contract seems to have one. (More to come, get excited) But there are only a few that are worth your time and ours. The iRiver Story is one of these and the good news is that you'll be able to buy one real soon.

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  • Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

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  • Sony Reader Daily Edition adds The New York Times, other newspapers to its back pocket

    Sony Reader Daily Edition adds The New York Times, other newspapers to its back pocket

    Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Should Santa leave a Sony Reader Daily Edition e-reader under your Christmas tree (or maybe you just like to buy fancy things on your own), you'll be pleased to know that you'll have a few more sources of content to choose from. Sony has agreed to deals bringing The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Baltimore Sun (among others) to the device. And there was much rejoicing. Presumably.

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  • KLM considering handing out e-book readers to passengers (bad idea)

    KLM considering handing out e-book readers to passengers (bad idea)

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    In-flight movies might not be the only form of airline-provided entertainment on KLM flights. The airline is considering handing out e-book readers after the idea won a contest offered up by the airline. The idea beat out Online Tax-Free Shopping and placing wind turbines under the runways. (yeah, I don't get that either) But as fun and exciting as free e-books seem, it would be a technical nightmare. Your mom barely knows how to use her cell phone, let alone a newfangled e-book reader. KLM might as well hire a Geek Squad agent for every flight.

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  • What are the odds the Sony Daily e-book reader will be available before Christmas?

    What are the odds the Sony Daily e-book reader will be available before Christmas?

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm in charge of writing the e-book gift guide, but it's sorta hard to recommend items that haven't been released yet. That IREX reader, the nook, and the Sony Daily Edition Reader are all missing in action. Thanks, guys. Today we take a minute to ask, “Where's the Sony Daily?”

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  • Tire maker Bridgestone shows world’s first flexible e-book reader

    Tire maker Bridgestone shows world’s first flexible e-book reader

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Tire maker Bridgestone isn't the first company that comes to mind when thinking about electronic paper, but the company has been experimenting in this field for quite some time now. Today, Bridgestone claimed that it has developed the world's first flexible e-book reader [JP]. The device, which is pictured above, uses electronic paper (instead of, say, an LCD) and will display the content on the screen even after you turn it off.

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  • American Booksellers Association concerned that rapidly falling book prices will be bad for consumers. Yes, you read that right. Low prices = bad.

    American Booksellers Association concerned that rapidly falling book prices will be bad for consumers. Yes, you read that right. Low prices = bad.

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Books, books, books! The American Booksellers Association, a trade group that represents small bookstores (not Barnes and Noble and the other big guys), has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether or not Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target have “[devalued] the very concept of the book” with their ongoing price war. Well, they're actually asking for an investigation into their selling practices. That is, because Amazon wants to outsell Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart wants to outsell Amazon, they both sell the latest book (think Stephen King, Dan Brown, etc.) for some really low price, like $10. When you consider that the average hardcover “should” cost something like $20-$30, just based on the wildly outdated economics of book-selling, then you understand why the ABA is so upset.

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  • Almost live from Barnes and Noble’s Nook event

    Almost live from Barnes and Noble’s Nook event

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Not that every media outlet on Planet Earth doesn’t already have all of the details, but Team CrunchGear (Jimin and I… we’re right up there with The Mega Powers) is here at Barnes and Noble’s big reveal here in New York. Technically, we’re at Pier 60 right along the Hudson River. Not that you care. Update: [...]

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  • Plastic Logic’s Que e-reader: One for the businesspeople in the audience (apparently)

    Plastic Logic’s Que e-reader: One for the businesspeople in the audience (apparently)

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Another day, another e-reader. Toady's is the Plastic Logic Que, which is pronounced like the letter that falls between P and R. I, however, will henceforth pronounce it like the Portuguese word for “what,” and the European Portuguese pronunciation at that. (Sorta sounds like “quh.” It's a movement!) Plastic Logic seems to be aiming it at the business market, which I don't think we've really seen before.

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