Laser bring new 5″ e-reader to Australia
The Laser EB-101 is based on a 5″ LCD screen, and it has 2GB Flash and a microSDHC card slot. It’s available now for $149.95 AUD....Continue reading
Kindle UK Store now lets authors, publishers upload ebooks directly
At first I was a little puzzled as to why they did this, but it makes some sense. If you were a British author wouldn’t you...Continue reading
E-Book Forecast: Cloudy
I found a must-read article on Wired .com today. Here’s an excerpt: Instead of lugging heavy textbooks to class, students can download individual chapters or entire...Continue reading
iPad, Kindle, Nook war WON’T kill Google Editions
There was a rather uninformed article posted yesterday on eWeek.com. The author argues that the iPad is competing with the Kindle, Nook for the reading market:...Continue reading
Is Rupert Murdoch really going to launch a tablet news unit?
There’s a story in today’s LATimes that says just that. But I have a problem. A close reading of the LATimes article does not indicate that...Continue reading
Asus 8″ eeeTablet now $300, not $599
It looks like the Digitmes story I brought you a few days ago might be wrong. PCWorld are reporting that the Asus eeeTablet will be out...Continue reading
Smartbook Surfer really is the Augen Gentouch 78
You might recall from when I announced the Smartbook Surfer (a 7″ Android tablet) that I thought the Surfer looked a lot like the Augen Gentouch78...Continue reading
Huawei T62W e-reader clears FCC – touchscreen, Wifi, 3G
This beauty just popped up in the FCC database today. This is the first Huawei ereader that I’ve seen. I can’t find a spec sheet, but...Continue reading
Shanda: 500 yuan reasonable price for ebooks – WTF?
Trading Markets are reporting: E-books will become a major reading mode and the reasonable price should be about CNY 500 each, said Zhou Hongli, the chief...Continue reading
Sony, Sony — Wherefore Art Thou?
The “big” news ebook reading devices recently has been Amazon’s new Kindles with their Pearl screen. OK, ebookers got the point: Amazon is moving right along in its...Continue reading
Qualcomm: Mirasol screen really isn’t in production
Slashgear followed up on the Mirasol story that I reported on earlier yesterday. Here’s what Chris reported being told by Jim Cathey, VP of business development...Continue reading
Epub is going to lose
So there’s another Epub activism session going on right now on Twitter, and it inspired this rant. I have a number of points about format, Kindle...Continue reading
Amazon working on the unKindle?
The NYTimes are speculating on why Amazon have announced job opening for things like: Supply Chain Project Program Manager, Hardware Engineer and RF Systems Engineer. Some...Continue reading
OverDrive add Gutenberg, other 3rd party sources to their library platform
From the Overdrive blog: On Friday, Boston Public Library became the first OverDrive library partner to add more than 15,000 public domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg...Continue reading
There’s No Joy in eBookville Today
Probably the biggest news of the past week in eBookville (and pBookville, or just plain ol’ Bookville to cover the universe of books and readers) is that...Continue reading