Sep 18 2011
Why buy a Nook Color at $249 or a Kindle Tablet at $250 when you could buy a Lenovo IdeaPad running Android for $199? Lenovo has announced that it will sell at an Android tablet for $199. It has a 7″, 1024×600, capacitive touchscreen and runs on a single-core processor. There is 8 GB of(…)
Sep 11 2011
So two weeks ago, I was complaining about things I felt the Kindle software could do but isn’t doing. No. 2 was synchronized collections. Today I opened up Kindle 4 Mac and it updated to version 1.7 and with version 1.7 was a new look to the home screen. More importantly, there was a new(…)
Sep 11 2011
A couple of days ago, I received an email with a press release announcing a joint venture of sorts to bring a Publishing Seal of Approval to digital books. The seal will be called QED and it is owned by Digital Book World, a division of F&W Media. Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Kobo(…)
Sep 4 2011
On June 21, 2011, BN happily announced $7 billion in sales due, in part, to a 50% increase in sales at BN.com. The WSJ’s lead in the July 20, 2011, article is “Meet Barnes & Noble Inc., software company.” The original nook was announced in October 2009 and released in November of 2009. At that time, it(…)
Aug 28 2011
Amazon is supposedly the leader in ereading technology but from the Kindle devices to the web app to the desktop software, the reading experience is inconsistent and even crude. If not for the one click buy which Amazon had patented in September 1999, Amazon’s apathetic attitude toward the software and user reading experience may have(…)
Aug 21 2011
The 99 cent book is becoming a mainstay of the publishing landscape. Pioneered by self published authors, the 99 cent price may be reshaping customer expectations. John Locke, the eighth author to achieve Kindle Millionaire status, once famously told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that at $.99, the other authors have to be(…)
Aug 14 2011
Jaclyn emailed the DA reviewer group the other day with the following question: I got into an argument on Twitter with another publisher about buying ebooks and now I want to know what other readers do… With print books most of us have towering TBRs. Books we’ve bought and never read. Is the same true(…)
Aug 7 2011
There are a lot of reading apps out there for Android and everybody has their favorite one be it Moon +, Cool Reader, one of the many store apps (Kindle, Nook, etc.) or the well known Aldiko. A new app, called Mantano, has jumped into the fray with both feet and quickly become popular among(…)
Jul 31 2011
As of today, all of the book apps that work on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch = iThings) have been stripped of the their in app catalogs and buy links. The apps are not to mention why the catalogs or buy links have been removed and the apps cannot mention how to create an account(…)
Jul 24 2011
This post has been updated as of October 16, 2011. ***** Apple appears to have pushed Google out of the ebookstore. Kobo released an updated app with no buy link. Google is randomly deleting Google Plus accounts. Yet another ebook format has been announced. I’m getting pretty fed up with the powers that be(…)
Jul 17 2011
Updated: April 12, 2012 Mac Rumors has an awesome site that collects rumors around the internet to help people decide whether should buy a Mac product or when they should Wait. I figured we needed one for ebook readers. The following is a list of the most popular ebook readers on the market with my(…)
Jun 26 2011
Since its release on April 26th of this year the Asus Transformer has been one of the most popular Android tablets on the market. It’s price ($399 for the 16GB version) combined with a very nice IPS screen and a fairly unique keyboard dock have ensured that this tablet sells out almost as soon as(…)
Jun 19 2011
Dear Jane is a column wherein you write in questions about ebooks and I try to find an answer. If you have a question, send it to jane at dearauthor dot com. Dear Jane: I’m a fairly new e-book convert. I first bought my Kindle to use when I travel, but now I find myself(…)
Jun 12 2011
The New Nook Simple Touch Reader: Awesome for Reading and Buying Books. Everything else? Meh. When I told my husband why I needed—needed!—the new Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader to replace my 2.5 year old Sony PRS 700, I tried to impress with tech specs. I mentioned the 6.5” super crisp Pearl E-Ink(…)
Jun 5 2011
I know a number of people received the iPad for gifts this year, either for Christmas or some other event. I’ve got a list of my favorite apps that I think no iPad should be without. Most of them are free. 1-3. Reading Apps (all Free) Nook App – download this ONLY if you are(…)
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