Many new Applications have been hitting the Apple App Store lately! Today Boarders Books announced a new App that allowed iPad E-Reader users to connect up to the Boarders Bookstore to buy and read eBooks.Today Apple put out version 1.1 of its iBooks app, which is now available for the iPhone and iPod, and is not exclusive to the Apple iPad.The iBooks app now allows PDF … [Read more...] about Apple releases iBooks App for iPhone
Archives for June 2010
Boarders eBooks now available on Apple iPad
If you are getting tired of the limited eBook selection on your Apple iPad you are in luck! Boarders has released a new free App available on the market place entitled "Boarders eBooks"The Books are available in EPUB format and the application itself is derived from the existing Kobo App that allows you to purchase ebooks on the Ipad from the Kobo Bookstore.The Apple … [Read more...] about Boarders eBooks now available on Apple iPad
E-Reader Wars: Barnes and Noble and Kindle 2 Price Slash
Just as Barnes and Noble today are offering a new WI-FI only version of the Nook for 149.99, and today is now offering their original Nook from $249.00 to $199.00. Amazon struck back today and offered yet another price reduction on its Kindle 2 E-Reader to $189.00Amazons price reductions marks the 3rd time within one calender year that Amazon has reduced the price on the … [Read more...] about E-Reader Wars: Barnes and Noble and Kindle 2 Price Slash
The Amazon Kindle 2 – A Review
The Kindle 2 from Amazon is an amazing device that until some time ago had been the pick among the tech freaks who also gorge on books. It marked a quantum shift in the way we read books so that reading books is not the same any more. The Kindle 2 carries on with all the good things that came with the original Kindle and added some of its own so that what we have with the … [Read more...] about The Amazon Kindle 2 – A Review
New Barnes and Noble Nook Lite WI-FI on sale soon
We reported last month that Barnes and Noble was developing the Nook Lite and Nook 2, it looks like the Nook Lite will be for sale sometime in the next few days.The Nook Lite will have the same functionality as the Barnes and Noble Nook but will have WI-FI only. It will still be the Android driven device and same Operating system and will be able to connect to the Barnes … [Read more...] about New Barnes and Noble Nook Lite WI-FI on sale soon
Good E-Reader Week in Review June 13 to June 20 2010
Welcome to another edition of the Good E-Reader week in review, where we cover the most important news on E-Reader, Slate and Tablet PC’s! This week was a very newsworthy week with some new product announcements, some mergers and acquisitions and more exciting news!At Good E-Reader we know some days you just do not have time to read all of the articles we post on a daily … [Read more...] about Good E-Reader Week in Review June 13 to June 20 2010
Kobo Releases eBook Reader for Android
As per the latest e-reader news, the international e-reading service Kobo today announced the availability of their new Kobo App at the Android Market. Called eBooks, this service made specifically for Android is devised to give consumers across the world an amazing e-reading experience and is in line with Kobo’s aim of being able to provide e-books to anyone anywhere in the … [Read more...] about Kobo Releases eBook Reader for Android
April E-Book sales up 127% Quarterly Projections look Good
A new report came in today from the Association of American Publishers that in the month of April E-Books saw a spike of 127.9% increase from this time last year. The Total profit saw in the month of April totalled to around 27.4 Million Dollars.Now to be fair, only 13 publishers supply data to the AAP, so total E-Book sales are likely 35 million dollars.Although in … [Read more...] about April E-Book sales up 127% Quarterly Projections look Good
How to Fix Font Size Issue with the Kobo E-Reader
The Kobo E-Reader in the small time it has been out has a notorious reputation of having tremendous difficulty with EPUB E-Books that you have downloaded from other Stores.Normally when you copy an EPUB E-Book you have bought or downloaded from another website, the font will be so small, that it is basically unreadable!There is now a solution for this, in the form of … [Read more...] about How to Fix Font Size Issue with the Kobo E-Reader
NEC to launch LifeTouch Tablet PC
The Apple’s iPad is selling as well in Japan as it is anywhere else. But that hasn’t deterred the domestic electronics industry to come up with their own tablet devices. Like electronics giant NEC who are propping a tablet they have named LifeTouch and is likely to hit markets during October of this year.The first thing that hits you with the LifeTouch is that it break away … [Read more...] about NEC to launch LifeTouch Tablet PC
Tablets to wipe out Desktop PCs?
It’s just the beginning of what can be termed as a new era of computing. An era that will witness the rise of the tablet PCs in a manner that could soon eclipse the netbooks or the traditional desktop PCs, a fact that is also bourn out in the findings of Forrester Research that is predicting sales of tablets to zoom past netbooks as early as by 2012 itself. And as far as … [Read more...] about Tablets to wipe out Desktop PCs?
HP Windows 7 Slate looks to be Dead in the Water
Harry McCracken of the Technologizer was recently at the Big Money Untethered conference yesterday where HP CEO Phil McKinney was talking about the pros and cons of using existing operating systems on new types of devices.This is very ironic because HP at the beginning of the year touted their HP slate running Windows 7, which now looks to be dead in the water, and the … [Read more...] about HP Windows 7 Slate looks to be Dead in the Water
Pandigital to release firmware update for its Novel
When Pandigital introduced the Novel e-reader sometime ago, it was touted as a dream e-reader coming in at a dream price. But unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Pandigital as the Novel e-reader started off on a bit of a nightmarish note. Not everyone who have bought the e-reader is particularly happy or pleased with the way Novel has fared till now though the good thing … [Read more...] about Pandigital to release firmware update for its Novel
Amazon to have Games on their Kindle E-Readers?
According to a recent job posting on the Amazon Jobs Website and CareerBuilder.com, Amazon is looking to hire key personal for a “Stealth Project” to make video games. One of the first posts was for a Senior Product Manager of Digital Video Games, who would be responsible for overseeing the entire project and then recommend key staff positions, such as various project leads. … [Read more...] about Amazon to have Games on their Kindle E-Readers?