The Onyx Boox Note and Sony Digital Paper DPT-CP1 are two of the best 10.3 inch digital note taking devices on the market. Their key selling point is that they have an e-paper display and come with a stylus to edit PDF files and to freehand draw.The DPT-Cp1 features an E-Ink Carta display with a resolution of … [Read more...]
German ebook sales increase by 16% in the first 6 months of 2018
Boersenverein and GFK have just given us an indication on the overall health of the German ebook market. They have found that in the first six months of 2018, ebook sales have risen by 16.4% and 16.7 million units have been sold. The number of customers who purchased at least one ebook increased by 6.1% to 2.7 million … [Read more...]
The Rise and Fall of Qualcomm Mirasol e-Readers
Mirasol e-paper technology was conceptualized by electrical engineer Mark Miles, inspired by Blue Morpho butterflies, which reflect light using nanoscale structures on their wings that cause incoming light waves to interfere with one another, reflecting only specific wavelengths, resulting in the appearance of an … [Read more...]
E-Reader companies should be adopting Android GO 9 Pie Edition
E-Reader companies have been using Android 4.04 and 4.4 for a number of years and the vast majority of devices on the market run it. Android Go launched last year with Oreo support and it is optimized for devices that have between 512MB and 1GB of RAM and a 1 GHZ single core processor. This makes the open source OS … [Read more...]
The First Harry Potter eBook will have unlimited loans from your local library
Harry Potter is celebrating the 20 year anniversary of the Sorcerer’s Stone. The title is being added at no cost to all of the libraries that currently do business with Overdrive and it will have an unlimited number of loans to local patrons from August 27th to September 10th 2018.A new generation of readers is … [Read more...]
Amazon sold several million Kindle e-readers in China
Amazon Kindle e-book sales have jumped 12% last year in China and the company now has a library of over 700,000 titles that are available. Amazon also announced that it has sold several million Kindle e-readers since it first launched in China in 2012 and China has become the world’s biggest regional market for Kindle … [Read more...]
Pocketbook Annonces Touch Lux 4 and Basic Lux 2
Pocketbook has just announced two new e-readers that will be available sometime in the next month or two. The Pocketbook Touch Lux 4 is one of their flagship e-readers and has a new front-lit display that is better than previous models. The Basic Lux 2 is similar to the entry level Amazon Kindle Basic.The … [Read more...]
Sony Digital Paper DPT-RP1 vs Sony Digital Paper DPT-CP1
The Sony Digital Paper has two different variants, one screen is 13.3 inches and the other is 10.3 inches. These two devices basically have the same hardware specs, but some people like the portability factor of the smaller one. Today, we are going to have a head to head video comparison of these two devices, to give … [Read more...]
Sony is running a sale on the Digital Paper DPT-RP1
Sony has just discounted the Digital Paper DPT-RP1 by $100 on Amazon Prime members and B&H. This is the first time they have ever run a promotion on this particular model. It is now the same price as the 9.7 inch Digital Paper DPT-CP1, that came out few months ago. Good e-Reader has also discounted the DPT-RP1 for … [Read more...]
Android Lite apps are breathing a second life into e-readers
Major companies are releasing a series of Lite and Go apps that are optimized for lower end smartphones and countries with poor internet connection. Amazon released Kindle Lite for this very purpose, and there are Lite versions of Facebook, Spotify, Instagram. There is also a myriad of communication apps such as Skype … [Read more...]
Publishers are raising concerns about Barnes and Noble management
Major publishers have attended meetings with the founder of Barnes and Noble and have voiced their displeasure that the booksellers management team is in a constant state of disarray. They indicated that they have a strong interest in Barnes & Noble running a healthy and stable business, to counteract the clout of … [Read more...]
Apple should release iBooks on Android
Apple iBooks is the second largest retailer in the United States. In 2016 Apple sold 44 million ebooks in the US, 7 million in the UK, 3.7 million in Canada, 6 million in Australia and a paltry 831 thousand in New Zealand. Apple sells more ebooks in the US than Barnes and Noble and Kobo combined. Apple would generate … [Read more...]