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  • The Kindle won

    The Kindle won

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve been thinking this for a long while: Amazon won the ereader war. They were first to market – not officially, but in terms of mindshare, they offer a software package that is compelling on almost every mobile and desktop platform, and they have an entrenched user base already invested in their product. Nothing else [...]

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  • Authentic Moleskine Notebook for the Kindle, it’s so edgy

    Authentic Moleskine Notebook for the Kindle, it’s so edgy

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    The sense of style for a Mission District hipster can often times be too edgy for the “culturally sheltered mainstream consumer”. As a hipster you will undoubtedly rock a Moleskine notebook in the city, because let’s face it, you’ve got something intelligent to write. Let us take that one step further, and throw a Kindle inside the cover. Can you feel that edginess? It’s an analog-digital hybrid – man that’s so edgy.

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  • The Guardian case from M-Edge is a life jacket for the Kindle

    The Guardian case from M-Edge is a life jacket for the Kindle

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Whenever I head to the community pool, I usually take a book to read. It works well to hide my wondering eyes, but also gives me something to look at when I would otherwise be ‘distracted’. Recently I have seen a few Kindles floating around at the pool, great idea, but I couldn’t see taking that expensive device any further than my front porch.

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  • Buy a Nook, get a $50 B&N gift card

    Buy a Nook, get a $50 B&N gift card

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Considering an ebook reader, are ya? Well, Barnes and Noble is starting a new promo that might just cause you to lean towards the Nook. Starting today and running to the end of June, buy a Nook and B&N will give you a $50 gift card to spend in its ebook store. It doesn't matter if you order a Nook off the web, or pick one up at a Barnes and Noble store or Best Buy location. All of them qualify for the $50 gift card.

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  • The Kindle will soon be available at Target locations nationwide

    The Kindle will soon be available at Target locations nationwide

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    This has been a long time coming. The Kindle has slowly been creeping into Target retail outlets but the company just issued a presser stating that the most popular ebook reader on the planet will be available nationwide on June 6th. This officially makes Target Amazon's first brick and mortar retail partner, although Target isn't new to the ebook game.

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  • B&N launches a Nook iPad app

    B&N launches a Nook iPad app

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’ve been waiting to get the Nook experience on your iPad, your wait is over. Barnes&Noble just announced the availability of their Nook app, available free from the App Store. Nook is behind in the race to ereader hegemony so they’ve decided to add a few iPad specific including eight different fonts, customizable line spacing [...]

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  • Kindle 2.5 update coming down the pike right now

    Kindle 2.5 update coming down the pike right now

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks like Kindle firmware 2.5 is trickling out to certain Kindle DX owners right this very second. This ought to mean that the update will hit a Kindle near you rather shortly.

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  • Kindle application pre-installed on Asus laptops and netbooks

    Kindle application pre-installed on Asus laptops and netbooks

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Notebook and netbook maker Asus is pre-installing the Amazon Kindle for PC application, allowing Asus owners to access Amazon's selection of e-books without having to suffer through the pain of software installation on their own time. Not much more to say about this, except that it further cements Amazon's hegemony in the e-book market. How will Barnes and Noble respond, I wonder?

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  • Kindle for Android coming this summer

    Kindle for Android coming this summer

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    What was hinted at in those leaked Dell Streak flyers is now official: Kindle for Android. Unfortunately, it's not quite ready to download. Amazon's free Kindle ebook reader -- already out for Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and iDevices -- won't launch until later this summer. When it does, users of Android 1.6 and above (with SD card) will have the ability to search, browse, and purchase (without exiting the app) any of the half million books in the Kindle Store. Like the other apps, Kindle for Android features Whispersync to keep your bookmarks, last page read, notes, and highlights synchronized across all your Kindle-enabled devices. Expect to see this demonstrated at Google I/O starting tomorrow.

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  • Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    According to Ars Technica, Darden Business School students are unhappy with the Amazon Kindle DX in terms of academic usefulness. That's not to say that they're down on the DX in general: there's pretty high support amongst Darden students for the DX as a personal e-reader. It's just not quite the classroom supplement that Darden administration had hoped it would be.

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  • Borders launches the Kobo eReader and eBook store

    Borders launches the Kobo eReader and eBook store

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Borders just announced that they’re selling the Kobo eReader, an $149 ebook touted, by Wired, no less, as a Kindle killer. This device isn’t formally Border’s only ebook reader. Instead, they will sell multiple readers online and in stores and the real news is that they’re creating an ebook store that will act as their [...]

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  • Kindle update adds Facebook and Twitter interaction, password protection, and better PDF control

    Kindle update adds Facebook and Twitter interaction, password protection, and better PDF control

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Not to be outdone by Nook, Amazon has released the Kindle 2.5 firmware. The new software adds a number of interesting features including the ability to share passages of books with your Facebook and Twitter friends providing that, unlike mine, yours are literate (don't worry, they won't be able to read this). The firmware will launch later next month and includes the following features:
    The 2.5 software update for Kindle and Kindle DX is coming soon. We are rolling out the new software update to a limited group of Kindle users and plan a broad release in late May 2010. Check back here for updates on the release schedule. Here's a list of the coming enhancements: Collections: Organize your books and documents into one or more collections. PDF Pan and Zoom: Zoom into PDFs and pan around to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics.

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  • Nook passes Kindle sales in March

    Nook passes Kindle sales in March

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Well look at this: new kid on the book, Barnes & Noble's Nook ereader, just surpassed Amazon Kindle sales in March. Obviously the Nook is a bit newer than the Kindle and those who were going to buy a Kindle probably have already, but it also looks like B&N's retail network is also driving sales. Digitimes reports that 53% of e-book readers shipped were Nooks while 1.43 million ereaders were sold in Q1 2010. They're estimating that total ereader sales will reach 11 million by year's end.

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  • Video: Japanese company shows Super Mario Bros. on Kindle emulator

    Video: Japanese company shows Super Mario Bros. on Kindle emulator

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    We've shown you an N64 emulator running on a hacked iPad just a few days ago, and now it's time to see how Super Mario Bros. would look like on a Kindle. And the short answer is that the 1985 NES game would look awful: it's slow, it's in black and white only, it has no sound, it's buggy (since when can Mario kill Goombas by bumping into them?), and apparently, you can't even control Mario properly. Not that this is surprising.

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  • Barnes & Noble launches Affiliate Program, will pay 6% commission on nook sales

    Barnes & Noble launches Affiliate Program, will pay 6% commission on nook sales

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    According to Best-eReaders.com, Barnes & Noble just sent out an email to its business partners, announcing that will start paying a 6% commission fee on sales of nook devices, ebooks, warranties and accessories. Commissions will be paid on shipped orders only.

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