E Books Archive

  • FYI: The iriver Story e-book reader is available for pre-order now (in Asia)

    FYI: The iriver Story e-book reader is available for pre-order now (in Asia)

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Do you remember the iriver Story, the company's first stab at an e-book reader? Of course you don't, especially since it's still only slated for release in Asia. Be that as it may, it's now available for pre-order for a hot $281, or thereabouts, fiat currencies being what they are.

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  • Hands-on: I have held the IREX DR 800SG, and it’s not half bad at all

    Hands-on: I have held the IREX DR 800SG, and it’s not half bad at all

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    For the thousandth time: perhaps the last bit of tech that genuinely interests me these days (besides video games, but that's a slightly different category) is the electronic book. For someone with no real business reading book after book about, say, how bankers have ruined the world, or what makes a person violent, or what really brought down WCW, well, I do, and quite often. These books can be damn expensive, too, which is why I like the electronic book. I can hold so many books inside a book-sized device, and the books are often bought cheaper than what have paid for the “real” version. I save space and money. WINNAR.

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  • Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the first e-book to outsell its hardcover counterpart?

    Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the first e-book to outsell its hardcover counterpart?

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    What's the one area of technology that I'm still relatively keen on? That's right: e-books, but that's because I like the idea of having several books on my person at all times in a device that fits inside my trousers. (The latest: The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. Not an e-book, by the way, since I'm not made of money.) Devin, on the other hand, who also reads his share of books, is not as big a fan of the tech. We're like The Odd Couple! Anyway, I bring this up because it looks like Dan Brown's latest novel, The Lost Symbol, is the first book on record that is selling better on the Amazon Kindle than its hardcover counterpart. (Blah, blah, the death of books...)

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  • Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store

    Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Don't expect to see an Apple e-book store anytime soon. No, not because the recently-turned-heel company hates books (or you) or anything, but because, well, running an e-book store is hard.

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  • No it’s not fancy, but the Barnes and Noble e-book reader works a-okay

    No it’s not fancy, but the Barnes and Noble e-book reader works a-okay

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    So I just bought House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, by William D. Cohen, from the just-launched Barnes and Noble e-book store. Long story short, it works pretty well, but there sure as heck isn't a hint of polish on this thing.

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  • New Barnes & Noble E-book Store to Power Plastic Logic Reader

    New Barnes & Noble E-book Store to Power Plastic Logic Reader

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Barnes & Noble is getting into the e-books business, all guns blazing, as it announced a new expanded e-book store that will be available across different devices such iPhone, BlackBerry and the yet-to-be released Plastic Logic e-reader. The company’s e-book store will have more than 700,000 titles, compared to the 300,000 or so that its closest [...]

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  • Barnes & Noble launches its own e-book store, and you can read ‘em on your iPhone or PC

    Barnes & Noble launches its own e-book store, and you can read ‘em on your iPhone or PC

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Well look at that, Barnes & Noble is getting into the e-book game. Right now, there's no stand-alone reader to go along with the company's just-launched e-book store, but it's not big deal; odds are you already have the reader. (A reader, created by Plastic Logic, is scheduled to go on sale early next year.) The store, which has “700,000 titles” on its servers, goes live alongside an iPhone (and iPod touch) and Mac/PC reader software. That is, as you fire up, I don't know, iPhoto or Notepad, you could be reading The Beckham Experiment.

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