A few days ago we reported from the Book Expo America conference in New York where we spoke with Ectaco. They showed off their new K12 and K12 Color e-readers designed for the educational system. We have word today that the Ectaco K12 Color will hit the USA market for the back to school year in September 2011.Both the Jetbook K12 and the K12 color were designed exclusively … [Read more...] about Jetbook K12 Color to Hit USA 2012
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Hewlett Packard Brings New Life to Old Books through POD
Hewlett Packard, a long-time industry leader in printing, introduced two new business models at this year’s BookExpo. The first was very similar to OnDemand Books’ Espresso Business Machine, in which individual titles of books can be printed, bound, and covered on-site in any location that it services with the HP product. While this model may not be ideal for every retail … [Read more...] about Hewlett Packard Brings New Life to Old Books through POD
Barnes and Noble Hypes Battery Life on Nook 2
Barnes and Noble only just unveiled the Nook 2, aka The Simple Touch Reader, yesterday at Union Square. We were on-hand for the event and got some exclusive hands on video with the new e-reader.It seems they really want to build some separation from the Kindle line of e-readers. They mentioned this on the stage during the product release by saying their e-reader only had 1 … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Hypes Battery Life on Nook 2
Kobo Launches “Read on” Program – Offering $10 Million in Community Funds
Kobo has been making waves lately with their new Kobo Touch e-Reader, launched at Book Expo 2011. We also caught up with the CEO of Kobo Michael Serbinis yesterday in an exclusive interview on the future of the company. Today Kobo announced that they were taking part in a $10 million dollar program offering people who love to read the chance to have money donated to schools and … [Read more...] about Kobo Launches “Read on” Program – Offering $10 Million in Community Funds
Ectaco Shows off the Jetbook K12 and K12 Color at Book Expo
During Book Expo America 2011 we managed to get a brief look at the new Jetbook K12 and K12 Color from Ectaco. The Jetbook K12 is billed as an educational e-reader with tons more functionality than previous models released by Ectaco. They were also showing off the massively interesting K12 Color. Sadly, right now it is only available in Russia and the Ukraine.The Jetbook … [Read more...] about Ectaco Shows off the Jetbook K12 and K12 Color at Book Expo
Amazon Releases Amazon Kindle 3G Special Offers
Amazon recently released a new Kindle WI-FI special offers edition. This is the same e-reader as the latest generation Kindle 3 but offsets some of the cost of investing in a new e-reader by displaying advertisements via the screen-saver and main menu. Instead of paying the normal price of the Kindle WIFI, which is $139, you can get it for $114. Amazon just announced today that … [Read more...] about Amazon Releases Amazon Kindle 3G Special Offers
Exclusive Interview with Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis at BEA2011
During the last few days one of the largest publishing and digital publishing events in the world, Book Expo America, introduced a number of different products to the public. During this event both Barnes & Noble and Kobo debuted touchscreen e-readers.We are very happy to bring to you an exclusive interview with the Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis. He sat down today with us … [Read more...] about Exclusive Interview with Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis at BEA2011
Barnes and Noble Reveals Nook 2 e-Reader
This morning in a Union Square store B&N press conference, the team behind the Nook introduced their latest market-changing product in a bookstore-turned-techno-rave. Dozens of B&N employees lined the walls, serving as bouncers/product demo specialists, while New York city policeman provided in-store security.Barnes and Noble CEO William Lynch took the stage today … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Reveals Nook 2 e-Reader
Toshiba Cancels Windows 7 Based Tablet, but Their Thrive Honeycomb Tablet Is up for Pre-Order
When we were at CES earlier this year in Las Vegas, Toshiba had a few tablets that caught our interest. One was the Honeycomb Tablet PC that is coming out this June and is already available for pre-order. It is dubbed the Toshiba Thrive, but was unnamed when we saw it at CES. There was another tablet the company was showing off with the Windows 7 OS, but it looks like Toshiba … [Read more...] about Toshiba Cancels Windows 7 Based Tablet, but Their Thrive Honeycomb Tablet Is up for Pre-Order
Are Dual-Screen Tablets Cursed? A Case Study of Entourage and Kno
The education market is huge and many technology start ups seek to capture fame and fortune aiming devices exclusively at high-schools and higher learning institutions. We have seen many companies such as Entourage and KNO fail to successfully penetrate not only schools, but the consumer market in general. So we have to ask the question, are Dual-Screen tablets cursed?I am … [Read more...] about Are Dual-Screen Tablets Cursed? A Case Study of Entourage and Kno
Entourage Closes Android App Store – The Final Nail in the Coffin
We reported earlier on in the month with the exclusive news that Entourage had discontinued its Entourage Pocket Edge e-reader and it seems the eliminations did not stop there. Entourage has officially announced today that its own proprietary App Store has also closed.The company is letting all of its customers know that the store is now gone, and that you will have to get … [Read more...] about Entourage Closes Android App Store – The Final Nail in the Coffin
Kobo Touch Screen Trilogy e-Reader Review
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
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