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You may remember we reported before about a special announcement via invitation, that was put out to various groups in which Barnes & Noble were to be showing off a new device. We suspected that it would be an updated version of their Nook tablet e-Reader and we were not wrong. … [Read more...]
Even though Amazon is launching a tablet to take on the iPad and the other range of Android tablets on the market, they still have not forgotten their bread and butter, the eReader. You will be glad to hear that they are still making improvements to these all the time, and the news that the Kindle 3 … [Read more...]
As we enter a new chapter in tablet devices, Amazon, designers of the Kindle are on the brink of revealing their latest e-reader to compete against the other tablet big wigs. Originally rumored to break cover sometime in November, the Kindle Fire is now expected tomorrow. This early release has not … [Read more...]
As with tablets and smartphones, the list of eReaders is continually growing. Firstly we were given the Amazon Kindle to play with, then the Barnes & Noble Nook, just last week a new ViewSonic ViewBook 730 got announced and today feast your eyes on a new device from Kobo. … [Read more...]
The world of the eReader is certainly heating up and becoming more competitive, only yesterday we reported that Barnes & Noble are releasing their newly updated e-ink device in June with a very respectable price tag that was looking to wipe the floor with Amazon. That would have been first blow … [Read more...]
With the increasingly rapid switch from paper books to electric amongst readers, libraries may be in fear of losing out on some business. Well maybe not, as in the US 11,000 libraries has announced they will be offering eBook lending courtesy of Amazon later on this year. … [Read more...]
Amazon's Kindle just got a little cheaper as it is being offered in a special deal which sees it being partly funded by advertising. … [Read more...]
Here at OSM we’ve often reported on the rise of the eReader and particularly that of the Amazon Kindle, and just after Christmas we reported that it topped Amazon’s online sales. Now we have news of a survey that has concluded that the Amazon Kindle is indeed the most popular eReader. … [Read more...]
If you’re an avid fan of reading than you will probably already be familiar with the Amazon Kindle, after having a brief software update the Kindle is now bigger and better than ever before and has just arrived at a Carphone warehouse or Best Buy UK store near you. … [Read more...]
The Amazon Kindle eReader was one of the smash hit products for the online giant over the Christmas shopping period and shortly after that Amazon offered free Kindle apps for both Android and Windows tablets. Now we have heard that very shortly AT&T retail outlets across the US will also be offering … [Read more...]
Many of you out there are no doubt avid readers, most of you will also probably own an Amazon kindle. Well the latest news from Amazon is that there is going some software changes, giving the Kindle an update to version 3.1, which means people with this latest model of this all so popular e-book … [Read more...]
For the first time, online retail giant Amazon has announced that it has sold more e-books for its Kindle, than paperback books. The e-book surge came in the last quarter of 2010 in the US. … [Read more...]
Amazon's e-book reader the Kindle has proved to be a smash hit since its debut just before Christmas. Offering the user the accessibility to shop for, browse and then download a whole host of book titles, magazines, newspapers and so on, the user will then be able to read the content on the light … [Read more...]
We’ve been bringing you news on the Amazon Kindle, the smash hit product over the holiday season, and just recently told how some refunds were being given for problems caused by the leather covers on these e-readers. We also told you back in December about the Kindle web app which had become … [Read more...]
E-reading was launched today by Google as a part of it's e-bookstore platform. To combat this, Amazon has added to it's collection of free mobile and PC device apps, with the introduction of a new version web app for it's popular Kindle. … [Read more...]
I have memories from when I was younger every Saturday morning being taken into town so that my mother could change her library book. Without fail we would be in there, myself sat in the children’s section pouring over the works of Roald Dahl while my mother sourced her next murder mystery. … [Read more...]
If you were spending your Black Friday trying to snag yourself a cheap Amazon Kindle then you were most probably disappointed. In fact the 2000 units were shifted so fast that some are arguing whether they even went on sale at all! … [Read more...]
Are you thinking of buying an ebook? Why not have a look at some of the specs of the Nook and Kindle models including the new Nook Color. As you all know ebooks are quickly taking off and are becoming more and more popular.Amazon got the drop on Barnes and Noble but now it looks like the tables … [Read more...]
Since Amazon launched its app store for the "Kindle" e-reader device, we can now forward to the release of the first paid app, “Scrabble”. Nowadays, the good old-fashioned board games are making their way onto the latest technological gadgets, Scrabble being no exception. So, will this latest … [Read more...]
The “Amazon Kindle” which has been recently released by Amazon.com will give its users the accessibility to purchase and store thousands of book content. Following on from a recent update today, Amazon have now added voice search as well as a Wikipedia dictionary. … [Read more...]
Oh its on! Amazon have released a very cheeky new TV ad to promote their new device, The Kindle 3. In the TV ad as you will see, we have a direct comparison between the Kindle and iPad in 3 different departments. Just follow the link to Mashable to watch the video now.The Kindle seems to make … [Read more...]
For those of you who are unaware of the new Amazon Kindle 2010, it is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com. It enables accessibility for the e-book, digital media and gives features such as second English dictionary. Collectively Kindle has been available on software … [Read more...]
Many of you probably own an e-reader of some sort. It’s a device which is used to read books electronically, using a technology called e-ink. Using the e-ink display, you can get a device which can hold thousands of books and which has a low power display which looks just like ink on paper. Amazon … [Read more...]
Apple and Amazon would have you believe that reading books in eBook form is considered the future, but would you still go along with that thought if you knew that reading an electronic book on the iPad or Kindle takes much longer than print form. … [Read more...]
It’s not secret that Apple has rocked the tablet and electric-book reader market after releasing the iPad, and part of this shake up has created a cheaper Kindle DX. Amazon unveiled a new Kindle DX that features a lower price, which they said was due to “competition”. … [Read more...]
