Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Review! Today we give you an abridged review of the new Blackberry Playbook! The Playbook is the first tablet issued from Canadian based Research in Motion! The Blackberry Playbook has a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen with gesture support. There are no physical buttons on the unit other than the power and volume buttons. This means … [Read more...] about Video Review of the Blackberry Playbook
Archives for April 2011
XinXii Faces Healthy Competition From Amazon and Kobo
Since 2008, German digital publishing site XinXii has enabled writers and document creators to electronically publish manuscripts and papers through its site to sixteen different e-reader formats. The beauty of XinXii’s publishing model is its simplicity; the author chooses the format, sets the price, retains the rights to the work, and receives a 70% royalty for the real-time … [Read more...] about XinXii Faces Healthy Competition From Amazon and Kobo
Blackberry Playbook Available now at Chapters
Available now at Chapters and Indigo bookstores is the most unlikely of devices, the Blackberry Playbook. For the longest time Chapters and Kobo have had a great relationship and Indigo books even owns a controlling interest in the company. Over the course of the last year and a half, the only digital device to be purchased at Chapters/Indigo locations was the Kobo e-Reader. … [Read more...] about Blackberry Playbook Available now at Chapters
Welcome to the Good e-Reader Indie Author Initiative!
Everything evolves in order to compete for survival and the publishing world is no different. From the days when authors had their works transcribed by hand, to authors publishing their works serially in periodicals, to the current traditional model of finding a literary agent who would in turn market the book to editors and publishers, the concept of writing and publishing a … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Good e-Reader Indie Author Initiative!
Sony Honeycomb Tablets S1 and S2 Will Be Launched This Fall
We have already had official confirmation from Sony about their tablet ambitions. Also, from the few bits and pieces of information that have filtered into the open, it seems Sony will not follow convention as far as the tablets' form or functionality is concerned. The company today unveiled the two tablets in front of journalists at a press event held in Tokyo. Named S1 and … [Read more...] about Sony Honeycomb Tablets S1 and S2 Will Be Launched This Fall
Leading Digital Publishers Bring Different Services to the Table
Thanks to new, easier to use platforms and software, digital publishing is even more widely available than ever. While some relatively new companies are providing full-complement publishing capabilities to authors, some well-established sites are reaching out to unpublished writers as well. Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, longtime book sellers, have offered writers the … [Read more...] about Leading Digital Publishers Bring Different Services to the Table
Amazon’s plans for Europeon Domination
Amazon.com, the world’s largest online book retailer, has expanded its e-book market to its first non-English speaking country, launching Amazon.de’s Kindle store to Germany on April 23rd and releasing over 650,000 Kindle titles, many in German, as well as popular newspaper and magazine subscriptions Even more newsworthy than the availability of Kindle titles to the German … [Read more...] about Amazon’s plans for Europeon Domination
Nook Color owners can get eBooks autographed
Barnes and Noble will be employing the Autography software we wrote about a few weeks ago, to allow authors to digitally sign ebooks! Autography is a software based touchscreen solution that allows authors to autograph ebooks. It is a positive step in the right direction allowing eBooks to bear the once in a lifetime signing that makes tangible books so attractive. Often … [Read more...] about Nook Color owners can get eBooks autographed
Dell to sell Streak 7 Wi-Fi for $400 plus more news
The Streak 7 tablet has been stripped off the 'coming soon' tag at Dell's own website. Instead, one can now place orders at the Dell site for the Streak 7 tablet though the price being mentioned - $399.99 is still $20 more than the $379.99 that Amazon is selling the same piece of hardware for. Dell is also behind Amazon as far as shipping date is concerned as the earliest the … [Read more...] about Dell to sell Streak 7 Wi-Fi for $400 plus more news