Live on the scene at the New York Book Fair Michael Tamblyn of Kobo has given us the news that the company plans to launch a touchscreen e-reader later on today! This new e-reader will be launched around Fathers Day and have a price-tag of $140 and include a $10.00 gift-card for the Kobo ebook store.The new Kobo e-reader comes one year after the company initially launched … [Read more...] about Kobo Touch Screen Trilogy e-Reader Review
Technology
Asus lowers price on EEE Transformer Tablet
Asus has adopted a new plan to get people to invest in their tablet computers: lower prices.Asus has plans to aggressively lower the prices on its entry level tablet offering the EEE Transformer Tablet 16GB Wi-Fi only model priced at US$399.99. The Transformer is a new kind of tablet from Asus it is around 10.1 inches and has a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor. It has … [Read more...] about Asus lowers price on EEE Transformer Tablet
How to Load eBooks on the Pocketbook 360 Plus
Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Tutorial! Today we show you how to load ePub ebooks onto your new Pocketbook 360 Plus.Many people download books from the internet or purchase them from other ebook stores. The trick is learning how to copy them to your device. The purpose of this tutorial is to show you many different popular methods to manage content on your … [Read more...] about How to Load eBooks on the Pocketbook 360 Plus
Bookeen Shows off Real Time Internet Browsing
Bookeen has been tempting us recently with some videos demonstrating their breakthroughs in e-ink technology. The last one we saw showed some cute animated bunny rabbits. Their latest video is much more provocative. Today we have real time web browsing on a Pearl e-ink display.Many e-reader companies that provide a truly e-ink experience such as the Amazon Kindle, Barnes … [Read more...] about Bookeen Shows off Real Time Internet Browsing
Aptara Brings Experience and EPUB 3 to BookExpo America
There’s been a lot of recent buzz about EPUB 3 and what it will mean for digital publishing and file formatting, despite the webinars and speaker panels that have been bringing the expected changes to light since early 2011. Aptara, a twenty-two year veteran of working with print publishers and one of the companies that was originally at the forefront of e-book formatting, … [Read more...] about Aptara Brings Experience and EPUB 3 to BookExpo America
Barnes & Noble and Amazon Have Something up Their E-Reader Sleeves
This week, news appeared that Barnes & Noble’s Buzz Score—the word-of-mouth measurement of consumers’ reactions to advertising, a way to discern what the general public is hearing about a specific brand name, as measured by YouGov Brand Index—is quickly closing the gap between its name and Amazon’s with the adult 18 and over market. This spike in its score, rising from 16.4 … [Read more...] about Barnes & Noble and Amazon Have Something up Their E-Reader Sleeves
Barnes and Noble Unveils PubIt PRO
Barnes and Noble recently trademarked the phrase PubIt PRO and since then many baseless rumors inundated the internet. Today Barnes and Noble rolled out their new PubIt Pro program, which invited successful PubIt Professionals to share their self-publishing adventures.PubIt Pro is in essence a new program that features authors sharing their stories on how they managed to … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Unveils PubIt PRO
Fujitsu developing 7 inch Android 3.1 Tablet
Fujitsu has just put out an enterprise level tablet PC aimed at businesses in that of the 10.1 inch Lifebook TH40/D running Windows 7. The price point was really too expensive for most people to pick up $1700.00. So the company decided to go the pure consumer route and is going to release a 7 inch Google Android 3.1 Tablet in the 3rd Quarter of 2011 for around $350 - $600. No … [Read more...] about Fujitsu developing 7 inch Android 3.1 Tablet
Amazon to Allow ePub eBooks on the Kindle e-Reader
We have some rather breaking news with online giant Amazon and their highly successful line of Kindle e-readers. It seems many publishers have been told by the company that in the near-future, they should be submitting their books to Amazon in EPUB format and not exclusively MOBI. They also went on to let us know that Amazon was indeed planning something BIG and that soon the … [Read more...] about Amazon to Allow ePub eBooks on the Kindle e-Reader
Hanvon develops Dual-Touch ERT Technology
Havon the leading Chinese company best known for its popular line of e-Readers has just unveiled at SID (Society for Information Display) a brand new technology! It is called ERT Touch and the essence of the new technology is a new method of touch screen tech that is flexible, highly accurate, low cost and outperforms captive, resistive touchscreens. For the first time Hanvon … [Read more...] about Hanvon develops Dual-Touch ERT Technology
Report – Canadians use Tablets and e-Readers at the same ratio
Canadians seem to get the short end of the stick in the e-Reader and Tablet arena compared to our southern neighbors. It is near impossible to buy a Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble Nook in a retail setting. Canadians are limited to Sony, Kobo or Aluratek e-readers in most electronics shops, but enjoy a wider selection of tablets.Tablet PC's such as the the Apple iPad and … [Read more...] about Report – Canadians use Tablets and e-Readers at the same ratio
Nook Color app store reach 1 million downloads
It has been only one week since the launch of the new Barnes and Noble App store developed for the Nook Color has been implemented via the most recent firmware update. Since the launch of the app store over 1 million apps have already been downloaded.The top five paid NOOK Apps brought to you by the latest 1.2 Nook Color update are; Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Solitaire, Aces … [Read more...] about Nook Color app store reach 1 million downloads
New Pandigital Planet Android 2.2 e-Reader Arrives at the FCC
Pandigital has released a number of tablets billed as e-readers and they enjoy strong sales. However, many reports indicate that most people have a rather lackluster experience with them. We did enjoy to a small degree the new Pandigital 9 inch novel a few months ago and it looks like Pandigital is at it again! They have developed a new 7 inch model that will replace their … [Read more...] about New Pandigital Planet Android 2.2 e-Reader Arrives at the FCC
The Good e-Reader Newsletter Issue 3
We are sending out the most recent edition of our Good e-Reader Newsletter today! This is our 3rd issue and we'd like to thank everyone who has signed up thus far to receive it! Signing up is totally free and the Good e-Reader Newsletter is perfect for people who want to get the most essential stories of the week.The Good e-Reader Newsletter gives you 6 of the top stories … [Read more...] about The Good e-Reader Newsletter Issue 3